Does anybody remember The Letter People?
I don’t but Mrs. Z sure does and she frequently sings some of the songs and recently she bought a CD off Ebay of all the songs.
But she insists that some of the songs were changed.
Do you remember Miss O being obstinate or optimist?
Was Miss I an Inventor or was she itchy?
Also can you fill in the ‘story’? Mrs. Z says they all lived on a island but what was up with that?
Harry the Hat Man? or was that something else?
No no, H makes the same sound that starts “Horrible Hair” LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Apparently the Abrams Company has aquired the rights to the Letter People and changed them around some. A Google search turned up a few sites lamenting the changes, such as this.
I loved the Letter People – well into junior high I would watch it on afternoons when illness kept me out of school. I took a quick tour of the Abrams site – those characters are not nearly as cool as the original freaked-out Letter People.
Mrs. Cliffy never saw the show, but she knows about it because she’s frequently heard me humming to myself:
Come and meet the Letter People
Come and be with the family, etc. etc.
It was a show for early readers, so I don’t know that there was much of a story, as such; it was just this town (Letter People Land) where the Letter People lived and went about their day. Miss O, for instance, was obstinate; she also was an opera singer. Mr. N had a noisy nose, Mr. P was made up of Pointy Patches. One of the main activities in Letter People Land was the Catching Game; letter people would stand next to each other and blend their sounds together, making them “catch” and creating words. I remember one episode where Kicking Mr. K, Mr. S (of the Super Socks) and Mr. C (Cotton Candy) worked out when each would show up in certain words.
–Cliffy
I remember Tall Teeth because that’s what my IRL name starts with!
The rest is kinda fuzzy, since I was already reading by kindergarten, so I probably didn’t pay as much attention as I should have…
Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
Cliffy
Didn’t you find it weird that Mr Z wanted to show you his zipping zippers? When I heard that song I was a little creeped out by him.
Mrs. Z says all the boys liked Mr. R and his Ripping Rubber Bands.
I remember the Letter People, especially Mr. T (I pity the foo’!) with his Tall Teeth.
I remember a series of episodes with some kind of overarching storyline that I loved when I was a kid, something involving the silent Mr. Q, and his assistant who had a “real name,” not a letter name. He couldn’t make a sound without the help of the assistant, like how “Q” is silent without a vowel after it.