A cache dedicated to the imaginations & creations of Sid & Marty Krofft whose show were Highlights of 1970's Saturday Mornings!
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About Sid & Marty Krofft's Saturday Mornings
Oh goodness, where to begin! Them thar yunguns with their Cartoons Networks, YerTubes, and streamin' Interwebs couldn't commence to imagin' what ye olden days were like fer us chillens of the 70's. It was a gold-plated age (both "Bold Gold (TM)" and genuine 14 karat) of tounge-in-cheek satire, recycled 60's pop culture, and campy serializations that felt like radio dramas with video overlays....and it all only happend ONCE A WEEK from the hours of 6am to Noon on Saturday mornings. The Networks (only three at the time ... imagine THAT you products of 1000s of channels, not even counting what's out there in the Cloud) would regularly take out competing full page COLOR ads in comic books (they were paper back then) and newspapers (they were paper back then, too ... and they actually had news rather than featuring the Top 10 90's Actors Who are Unrecognizable Today) to advertise their individual morning lineups to the eager minds of legions of pajama-clad tykes whose parents could count on them to provide up to 6 hours of continuious childcare once a week (cany you say. "adult time").
Among the greatest gems of that great epoc were the dozen or so live-action creations of Sid & Marty Krofft, which to the mind of a kid used to only seeing the fantastic and surreal in animated form were like confirmation that all grownups were dead wrong about what reality really was, that magic and fantasty were REAL, and that any child could escape their parents indefinitely in favor of a world of periilous adventure peppered with moral lessons and filled with sugary breakfast cereal ... likely laced with some sort of training-wheel psychodelics.
Explaining the wonder of the Krofft shows is like trying to fit the whole of Star Wars (Legends, EU, Cannon, etc.) into a teacup, but I'll do the best I can to give you a sampling comparable of a trip to Costco (also on Saturday morning). But for a much better job, you should visit the Sid & Marty Krofft website and view its section on its shows. Here is a quote from the men themselves to set the stage:
"We screwed with every kid’s mind," says Marty Krofft of the loopy shows — such as H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville and Land of the Lost — that he created with brother Sid in the early 1970s. "There’s an edge. Disney doesn’t have an edge."
‘The Banana Splits’ (1968 to 1970)
Created by animation legends William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, this was their first show to use live action wraparounds for the cartoons, featuring costumed characters as a bubblegum rock group. They consisted of a beagle named Fleegle, an ape named Bingo, a lion named Drooper and an elephant named Snorky. As Marty Krofft explained “Joseph Barbera came to see me, because he didn’t know how to do this idea yet. Oddly enough, this was our dress rehearsal for H.R. Pufnstuf, which we had introduced at the 1968 World’s Fair. But with The Banana Splits, it started with us creating and building the characters, refining them and making them all workable. Joe would come to our studio probably every week and he’d run everything by me.” Last year, The Banana Splits was turned into an R-rated horror movie — with the full blessing of the Kroffts.
H.R. Pufnstuf’ (1969)
British actor Jack Wild plays Jimmy, a boy lured to a living island by an enchanted boat, which is being manipulated by Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes), who is desperate to get her hands on a magic flute that is in Jimmy’s hands. Helping him once he gets to the island is the Mayor, H.R. Pufnstuf, a walking and talking dragon. He’s also helped by other members of the community. Like many of the Krofft shows, very surreal, driving home the real meaning behind the name of the show. In 1970, Universal Pictures released a big screen version.
‘The Bugaloos’ (1970 to 1972)
The title characters are a musical group consisting of four British teenagers — three guys and a girl — dressed in insect-like costumes who can not only sing, but fly as well. Their enemy on the show is Martha Raye’s Benita Bizarre. A good word for the show itself, which was certainly different from anything else on Saturday mornings.
‘Lidsville’ (1971 to 1973)
Butch Patrick (little Eddie Munster on the orignal 60's The Munsters) plays a kid named Mark, who falls into the hat of Merio the Magician (played by Charles Nelson Reilly) and finds himself in Lidsville, a land of living hats — who act the way that humans wearing them would and who are defending themselves agains the tyranny of Merio's evil inner-hat (literally and figuratively).
‘Sigmund and the Sea Monsters’ (1973 to 1975)
Johnny Whitaker and Scott Kolden play brothers Johnny and Scott Stuart, who come across a friendly sea monster named Sigmund (yes, the premise is that simple), who has been abandoned by others of his kind, because he refuses to scare people. They take him home and have to try to hide his existence from everyone.
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'Land of the Lost’ (1974 to 1976)
Actually one of the Krofft’s most inventive shows as the Marshall family, consisting of father Rick and his kids, Will and Holly, go over a waterfall and find themselves in a land inhabited by dinosaurs, primitive people known as the Pakuni and an intelligent — but dangerous — reptilian race known as the Sleestak. A two-season remake was launched in 1991, and a big screen parody version starring Will Ferrell was released in 2009.
‘Far Out Space Nuts’ (1975)
The set-up is that a couple of NASA maintenance workers accidentally launch themselves into space and start encountering various aliens that are out there. Bob Denver (Gilligan’s Island) plays Junior, while Chuck McCann is his partner, Barney. The alien guy in the middle of that photo above is Honk, played by Patty Maloney. This is basically a retread of 'Gilligan's Island' but on a changing landscape and focusing on only a Gilligan-esque and Skipper-like duo of castaways.
‘The Lost Saucer’ (1975 to 1976)
Jim Nabors and Ruth Buzzi (respectively coming off Gomer Pyle, USMC and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In) play a pair of friendly androids who travel from the future to the present and then take off from earth, inadvertently taking a boy named Jerry (played by Jarrod Johnson) and Alice (Alice Playten), his babysitter, with them. However, when their ship’s controls are damaged, they are unable to bring the two of them back to their exact time, so, instead, get involved in one wacky adventure in time after another. Basically it is Doctor Who where the character of The Doctor is split in two.
‘The Krofft Supershow’ (1976 to 1978)
More or less a variety show for Saturday mornings, it presented short scripted adventures in every episode. It featured intros and interludes by my fav disco glam band ever, Kaptain Kool and the Kongs. Now for goodness sake, consider pausing your reading here and visit YouTube to find the show's intro. Search for this phrase: The Krofft Supershow Opening Credits and Theme Song. You'll get the shows theme intro as well as the intros for each of the segments below. Also search up Sid And Marty Krofft Show Intros Montage. Of all the shows here, this and 'Lidsville' were my top favs.
Over the course of its run, it featured the following series:
Dr. Shrinker
Teenagers are shrunk by a mad scientist on an uncharted island and have to figure out how to survive. It made reuse of a lot of props from I Dream of Genie when the genie (named Genie) would shrink down in order to spy on other people's conversations.
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
A superhero show featuring a pre-soap opera Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis as the title characters, at a time when prime time was offering shows like The Bionic Woman and Wonder Woman), . Search for the intro to this show, as well. There is a version that has been remastered in HD and it is phenomenal.
Wonderbug
Teens discover when they attach a magic horn to their old dune buggy, it brings the vehicle to life with flying, speed, and other story-required superpowers.
Magic Mongo
The wacky adventures of three teens who find and release a squirrly and manic magic genie (dipping from the same well as Robin Williams). It is a cross between 'Bewitched' and the youth surf-culture Beach Blanked Bingo movies of Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello
Bigfoot and Wildboy
A kid abandoned in the forest is raised by Bigfoot — no, seriously). There are lots of adventures involving the boy, the beast, and a girl who is the daughter of a Forest Ranger as they try to stop criminals and national park/land facility abusers from carrying out a variety of nefarious plans.
‘The Krofft Superstar Hour’ (1978 to 1979)
Like its earlier incarnation, this is a Saturday morning variety show, only this one is hosted by the band The Bay City Rollers. It consisted of two series within the format (which was essentially recycling loads of characters of previous shows serving as MC's/side act intros for the main shows. To me, this marked the end of the Sid & Marty run.
Horror Hotel
A hotel being run by H.R. Pufnstuf‘s Witchiepoo
The Lost Island
Set in the Bermuda Triangle, it brought together different characters from Sid & Marty Krofft productions.
Your mission, Mr Phelps, should you decide to accept it: After finding this cache, watch at least one of these shows on YouTube ... likey along with a bottle (or two) of your fav. beverage. You can feel like a kid again ... or at least what I would feel like if I were a kid again.This cache description (along with the 1970's) will self distruct in 5 seconds.
Sid & Marty Krofft's 70's Saturday Morning Cache
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