Psychedelic Saturday Morning SID & MARTY KROFFT "Cartoons" | COMPLETE 1970s & 80s KROFFT TV History
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- Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday Morning "Cartoons" ruled 1970s TV. 70s Saturday Morning Cartoons were full of Psychedelic Sid and Marty Krofft Live Action television shows like The Bugaloos, HR Pufnstuff, Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and so much more. Learn the Complete 70s AND 1980s TV History of Sid & Marty Krofft Psychedelic TV Series.
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There was something special about sitting on the floor with a bowl of sugary cereal, often with another tablespoon of sugar added, watching the psychdelic fever dreams that were Sid and Marty Krofft shows. I'm a litte shocked that The Paul Lynde Halloween special was not your cup of cheese. The bad jokes, nonsensical plot and 70s centric guest stars makes it a perfect time capsule of the era.
lol...I can watch it, but just barely. In segments. I love variety shows, but that one just doesn't do it for me. YOu are right, it should, lol. Thanks for the comment.
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special introduced me to KISS. Been KISS Army ever since.
I can't believe I ADDED sugar to my sugary cereal too!
I liked Lidsville. Charles Nelson Riley was great.
No one could compete with Sid and Marty on Saturday mornings.
No way. They were on top, top form, knew what they were doing!
Umm let's be honest, there wasn't anything else on.
@@jc4388not true. There were three networks, all with different programming but if I saw a Krofft program was on, I watched it.
Merrie melodies was better
But hanna barbera, filmation, Warner, and even Kirchner were no slouch either
When I tell the whippersnappers I work with that back in the day, we'd get up for 6am to watch Saturday morning cartoons they don't believe me. One element that I loved was the 30 minute show in the fall from each one of the 3 networks that showcased their upcoming cartoon line-up. All of the Saturday morning programming now seems to be for pre-k. So sad. I think the world could use some Krofft right now.
I never thought how they might think that was weird to get up early to watch the cartoons. I don't think those youngins ever get up early today, lol.
and we used tv guide to plan out the entire morning of our favorites . sometimes it was hard to choose
I visited the park when it opened, I was four years old and still remember the pinball machine ride and the anamorphic talking characters.
Alright! It was open for less than a year, but you are one of a handful that remember going. What a little piece of history.
I was lucky enough to visit the park several times. I never got to ride the Crystal Carousel because they were always having problems with it, but, yeah, the Pinball Machine ride was killer! And the star-shaped international foods bar.
the hard part is when you quote this stuff, only people my age "get it" and ;laugh....but we are old now
Oh, so true. Hopefully you surround yourself with people that get it, lol.
@@GENXPERIENCE i'm a hermit. So, that's not happening.
I collect this stuff as part of my movie and TV collection [a 45,000 title library].
I get it, and what i REALLY enjoy is exposing younger people to it.
When you get them away from CGI, they get it too.
OMG!!! THANK YOU! This video just helped me realize that some of the weird images I've had floating around in my head weren't some made up fever dream! MR. MUNCHIE! I've had a memory of him for years but could never place where it came from. Mystery solved!
This is what I love to hear. Glad I could help rekindle some memories and place some images for you. No, we are not crazy, even I was reminded of things long forgotten. Thank you, sir.
From the Onion
"It happened again last night," Meijer said. "I dreamed I was driving to work, in my father's car for some reason, and the sky started getting darker and darker. Then, from out of nowhere, the giant cowboy hat that talked like John Wayne jumped in front of my windshield and started peering into the car with a look of murderous hate."
"That was when I woke up with a jolt," Meijer continued. "I never got back to sleep."
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"From about 1972 to 1978, I had Lidsville nightmares pretty much every night," Meijer said. "In one of the more frequent ones, I'd go downstairs for breakfast, but my mother wouldn't be in the kitchen. Instead, that cone-shaped party hat with the giggly voice would be there, as though she had replaced my mother. I also had a lot of dreams where the football helmet locks me in a cage and pushes it into the ocean. And, needless to say, I often dreamed I was falling into the giant hat in the opening credits."
I grew up watching most of the Saturday morning Sid and Marty shows.
The 70's and 80's had the best shows EVER with music and clothes as well.
Those were the good old days of my childhood and teen years.
It's just not like it use to be now.
I realize nothing ever is, but the leaps and bounds youth has taken away from, well...youth, is staggering.
I loved a lot of that stuff when I was a kid. But, let’s face it, the best shows from then aren’t nearly as good as the best shows now.
H.R. Pufnstuf was my first favorite, especially the Banana Splits. Land of the Lost had a character named Holly and won my loyalty because there were NO Hollys around back then. Sleetacks haunted my dreams, too!!
Yes, I can imagine Holly being a character you could connect with. They did some fun ass ****, lol. I couldn't get enough of LOTL, even if Sleestaks were just frightening.
I watched an interview with Charles Nelson Riley. He talked about how they produced Lidsville. He said everyone was covered in latex, half the cast couldn't even see where they were going. Worst still the lights were so hot the temperature would quickly climb to dangerous levels. When they cut the lights went out and industrial air conditioning kicked on. They filmed a 1/2 season in one day.
He also said that some years later, he was eating at the bar in a restaurant. A teenage girl came up to him.. He guessed she was about 17 or so. She introduced herself to him and said she grew up watching Lidsville. Then she suprised him by hunging him and saying, "I love you Hoodoo."
He said that made it all worthwhile.
What an amazing story and thank you for retelling it here. These are comments I love to read and get to know. So much other content to share out there on these topics. Thank you thank you. What a great on set story, and for CNR, what a great pay off. Thank you
Reilly later played Uncle Croc, the cynical, sharp-tongued, and *deliberately* terrible host of a kids’ TV cartoon show (“Uncle Croc’s Block”) whose crazy characters and industry in-jokes poked fun at the whole Krofft experience and the tropes the brothers had introduced.
Magnificent and Awesome look at the 1970's when I was a kid
this is totally awesome it brings back the memories.🎆🎇🎇🎆
The theme songs alone were making me long for a good ol fashion Saturday Morning. THank you for watching.
Land of the Lost was my favorite by far.
COuldn't get enough of it...even with Sleestaks, lol
Born in 1964.. so i am a boomer, but watched all this stuff and grew up with all of it . Only could be created at that time...😊
There is certainly overlap during those transition years between generations, but you are right...it was only then that these could have been made.
Sid & Marty were definitely puffin' stuff.
Couldn't have been any other way, lol.
SIgmund the Seamonsters and Land of the Lost were the 2 shows from them I remember best. I have vague memories of Dr. Shrinker but thats about it!
There were so many, I barely remember a couple...but for the most part, I had seen them all in one way or another. Some very limited though. THank you for watching.
Three Kroft Brothers shows were my favorites. Sigmund and The Seamonsters, Land Of The Lost and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
Those are choice ones. Thanks for sharing, kids don't know what they are missing out on for TV these days.
loved this, I remember most of these, in my 50's , god I feel old now but still love the 70's as a kid
50s are far from old these days...which is awesome, because we can share the incredible amazement that was our youth. Thanks for watching.
@@GENXPERIENCE I will always watch your content, thank you
I was one of the ‘fortunate’ few that visited the Omni Center during my bored summer of ‘76 and went to the Kroft Amusement Park. My memories are sketchy, but what I remember most was that the pinball ride was surprisingly slow, and watching a typical Kroftian-costumed giant gator thing doing a combination magic show and sword swallowing act. As he swallowed a sword, he pulled it out and attached at the end of the blade was some sort of internal organ, like a stomach or liver. Classic.
Okay, wow...thank you for answering. I never imagined it would be all that exciting, but a little diversion for Atlantians. However, the organ at the end of the sword...AWESOME.
I fondly remember the park, and though it was not there for long, I went five or six times. I loved the pinball ride and would ride it again and again. The puffnstuff ride in the bottom was fun, but was not as fun as the pinball ride. I was nine and loved pinball machines. One thing that fascinated me were these Rube Goldberg machines made out of cardboard. I watched one being built, and then watched as the ball was placed at the top and went around the track releasing different banners. I only rode the crystal carousel once as it was broken on all my other trips. I don't have a strong memory of the ride.
I heard that carousel did not work a lot, lol. Thank you for sharing. I have a thing for extinct theme parks. This is great stuff, even the Rube Goldberg details. Thank you
Now I realize where my warped sense of humor came from. Where's the 12 step program for people recovering from Sid & Marty Croft programming... I need a meeting!
Ha! It is easy to see how we could all become hot messes
I remember all of these shows! Great memories! I did go to the Krofft amusement park in Atlanta. The escalator ride was cool, but I remember being disappointed because one of the main rides was broken.
SOunds like that was the usual. You loved the Escalator ride, lol. With only 3 other rides, and one broken, I guess I would too. Thanks for commenting, man.
I got to attend the first ever Krofft Kon in 2022 when it was held in Orinda California. I briefly met both Sid and Marty Krofft and they were very nice men! They signed some photos for me and I briefly chatted with both of them. I’m a huge fan of The Bugaloos and other Krofft shows and am probably one of their younger fans, (I got into their shows growing up in the 2000’s, thanks to the DVD releases) they really are a trip!
This is a great story. Thank you for sharing it as what a remarkable opportunity you had. Love that you enjoy the stuff of old. Thanks for watching.
Funny thing about land before time, I saw the original as a rerun on Saturday morning in the early 90s, the week after, the remake was released and I was watching that. I enjoyed it.
You saw the 91 reboot right after seeing the original Land of the Lost? Yeah, I would probably love the 90s version, too.
The 70’s and 80’s were a magical time to grow up for entertainment media. That’s the era of the original Star Wars, tragic real life wars that inspired amazing music, hair bands, and some of the weirdest shows. Love Boat, anyone? I watched most of Sid and Marty’s work growing up, and still love watching them today. Very nice representation of their work.
Thank you. Couldn't agree more. I was a young kid loving life then. So much beauty while tumultuous, as well. Thanks for watching.
Great memories of being a kid in the 70s on Saturday mornings. Getting up early eating pop-tarts and HoneyComb cereal with my blanket next to the wall heater and my momma sipping coffee looking at the TV Guide right next to me, were great times. Those special memories that touch your soul and stay with you forever.
You described it so perfectly...even mom and coffee. Sure miss it sometimes. Thank you
Growing up in a small market in the Bible Belt the only show that came on Saturday mornings was Land of the Lost. I had never heard of any of the others, H. R. Pufnstuf, re-branded with a different name (don't remember it), did begin to play during weekday mornings before school but I never got into it as it came on right about the time I had to leave for the bus stop.
Interesting that HR had another name, I had no idea. But totally get that it was on at a bad time...plus it had probably run its course.
@@GENXPERIENCE The area that I grew up in, and still live, was one of those where if there was ever a 'controversial' show on TV our networks were those that refused to air them, so it doesn't surprise me that they wouldn't run a program with an obvious drug reference for a name. I never even saw or heard of Monty Python's Flying Circus until high school, it wouldn't air in my local market because it had nudity (the animations done with those old photographs) though oddly by 10 years old I could quote lines from Benny Hill.
Sleestak trivia time - Bill Laimbeer NBA legend and center for the Detroit Pistons ,, was a Sleestak !
Loved Land of the Lost , HR Puffinstuff. At one point in the mid 80s the Monkees did a tour with a couple of other bands we saw them live , it was awesome. Never got into Bugaloos but Lost Saucer I sure did. Fantastic as always my friend , you bring back the greatest memories. Thank you.
Morning, and thanks for watching. THAT IS CRAZY about Bill Laimbeer, but very cool thank you. So many great shows...oh, and I saw the Monkees in 1989 during their Pool It tour, lol...so we like some of the same stuff. Thank you for watching.
@@GENXPERIENCE Laimbeer was in high school then, and the show advertised for tall athletes to play the Sleestaks. A few years ago, Kathy Coleman and Wesley Eure were in Vegas for a convention, and they stopped at a Las Vegas Aces practice to surprise him.
Fun fact about Lam: he was born in Boston, and grew up outside both Chicago and LA--all three fan bases that would despise him even to this day!
I loved HR Pufnstuff as a kid!!
What an adventure, am I right?
Loved the Bugaloos!!!
Yes! Me too. Thanks for watching
They came on before cartoons at like 6am on Saturday mornings where I live. I’m 44 so this was early to mid 80’s. It really was a fine line between fun and horrifying. Land of the lost especially
Fun and Horrifying, so true. Sounds funny, but that is exactly the genre.
My whole kitchen is decorated in nothing but Sid and Marty krofft !!!!!!
That must be a trip.
Bigfoot and Wildboy was my fave, played it out all the time outside. Dr. Shrinker and Land of the Lost were probably next.
Hearing you say "played it out all the time outside" makes me reminisce with melancholy. I mean those were great memories, I played out favorite shows and movie outside and at recess all the time. Imagination like that, and gong outside to play is certainly a thing of the past. What memories we had.
Joy from the bugaloos was my first self-pleasuring fantasy at the young age of 6 years old.
Just shows how memory works: I still remember half of these shows, and some of them seem familiar. Even though I watched them "live" and they were never rerun in my lifetime. Yet I can still remember Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Wonderbug, Bigfoot and Wildboy, and the Bugaloos. I think I was three when HR Pufnstuff was on, but I remember the witch was terrifying (along with that flute). Thanks for the trip to the seventies, this was a magical time to be a child.
I'm lucky to have been a kid in both 70s and 80s. Feel like surrounded by magical things. Thank you for the great comments
They scared the shit out of me on Land of the lost. Especially when waking up from a hibernation sleep.😂 Great show!!!
Yes, waking up, yes. Totally forgot the tension as they slept
Thank you for this look back to my 70s childhood, My most beloved shows were The Bugaloos (Joy being my first love) Pufnstuff, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and most of all Land of the Lost.
I bet Joy was favorite of many, but I totally understand. Glad you enjoyed and thanks for the comment and watch.
Congratulations on a retrospective well-done indeed.
As I type this, it's Saturday morning, and I'm a fellow in his mid-50s lying in a comfy bed with tellevision nearby (Music Choice, Light Classical) and remembering...how intensely fond I was half a century ago of the programming then, and how I sometimes tried (and always gave up) to imagine what life as a grown-up would be like without it. Well, it's bearable - the new generation of celephones helps a great deal - but I could wish the 70's had never ended...and in point of fact, I do. _Quite_ often. (It's only the memories of grade school that keep me from wishing as hard as I might.)
Well, Sir Victor, and what next? Hopefully, a similarly outstanding retrospective on the history of the Filmation studios - but I'd gladly settle for one about Hanna-Barbera or DePatie-Freleng as well. And here is a "Like" - and a subscription - to give you incentive!
Happy Saturdays to you, sir, now and always. 📺 😊
Wow, this is the kind of comment I LIVE FOR; seriously. Thank you. They are mostly retrospectives of various memories of the GEN Xpeience. I am not far behind you in age (at all), and feel similarly about the whole damn thing.
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Glad to oblige. Recognizing a kindred social observer is always a welcome experience! 😁
Filmation Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (along with Ron Ely live action reruns) and decades old Looney Tunes were my 70s TV staples followed by the Dukes of Hazzard at the end of the decade (Daisy Duke was my first huge crush).
I really enjoyed that look at all of those crazy characters. Mr. Munchy is a bit scary, though!
Mr Munchie looks like he is eating an animal in that picture.
They are just as great on Sunday morning!!
Can't argue there.
Its so difficult to describe the beeping sound effect used whenever Witchiepoo's VroomBroom would begin to fail and crash to anyone who never saw the Puff n Stuff show. That was our family's joke sound whenever anything stopped working or was about konk out.
And my sisters and I loved DC Follies. I loved how they characterized the Presidents and the running gag of Ford being such a klutz.
Okay, so I though DC Follies was ingenius...one of the few, lol. And I love your story about how your family used that beeping noise, sounds like something we would do. An "in-house" joke taken from something that was so iconic. Thank you for sharing, that is awesome.
great videos they were sadly mostly before my time so l love to catch up historicly with your videos the narration is soothing.l listen to the sences of our world it increases my 42o sences in my world lol😊
Now this is a compliment/comment I can get behind. Well, thank you so much. As the GEN Xperience is different depending on if you were early, mid, or late in the period, some of these impact folks more than others. But I so enjoy hearing that you are catching up on some of these great things that made up the generation. I appreciate your kindness about my voice, too. That always feels good.
I loved this video. It brings back great memories of a simpler time. I remember getting up early every Saturday to watch these shows.
It was so nice. The carefree days of kids....when kids were still kids.
And if you really want to revisit a lot of the wonder and love of Sid and Mardi Croft, a good chunk of it is on Tubi right now
Thank you for the heads up. Everyone needs to know that.
Man I feel old as hell now, sure do miss these shows, the early stuff anyway, a lot of the later stuff I never saw
It got even crazy later, am I right. Thanks for watching.
Man I forgot about Bigfoot and Wild boy. Nice job my friend
Thank you. There were some that I reminded myself existed too, lol
Summer of 76 was awesome for a 7 year old. We had our country's Bicentennial and the opening of World of Sid & Marty Krofft at the Omni. The pinball ride was fun, especially by a 7 year old's standards. But what I unfortunately remember most vividly is the HR Pufnstuff Island Adventure being shut down, which made for a long sad journey back to Augusta.
This is great. Thank you for sharing a memory about that short lived place. Ideal time for a 7 year old. I couldn't find anything about the HR ride, sadly. Thank you for sharing.
The buggaloos were my fav !!!
Mine too. Thanks for watching.
@@GENXPERIENCE This is great! Some I don't remember but fun to learn about. Thank YOU !!!
@@GENXPERIENCE And some I forgot about too.☺
Dr. Shrinker was AWESOME !
Wasn't it, though? Creepy cool, awesome adventure
When I was maybe 4-6 years old I had a dune buggy that to me looked a lot like both Speed Buggy and Wonderbug and it was my favorite toy. It was probably 4x the size of a matchbox car. Land of the Lost was my favorite. Many of the rest Sid & Marty stuff I recognized as very weird, and loved that weirdness.
Their weirdness was infectious. Thanks for sharing the toy story, I feel like I would have been the same kind of kid with a toy car like that.
They weren't doing drugs? Not buying it. How else do you create a name like H.R. Pufnstuf without puffin' stuff.
Great list - kids today really miss out not having Saturday morning cartoons.
Exactly. Thank you for watching, you got it right about today's kids. Cartoons, Toys...nothing.
Plus, more original ideas were tried back then.
The Bugaloos!! Joy was a living dream….
I collect metal lunchboxes. I have over 150. I have H.R. Puffensutff, Bagaloos, and Sigmond and the Monsters! ❤ I just realized I also have a Lidsville and Krofft super show! I need land of the lost!
I loved finding all of them and putting them in the show, but never thought I would hear of someone owning like ALL of them. Good for you, sounds like a great collection.
@@GENXPERIENCE when we bought our new house, I used super strong magnets that were screwed into the wall to hold up the lunchboxes so they could be moved around and flipped to show the other side. The wall is a neutral gray, and the colors of the lunchbox is really pop. The TV is right in the middle. I wanted to have a good place to display them and this house was the perfect opportunity.🥰
Those bugaloos sucked
gen X , we ate out of rusty lunchboxes, helmetless on a jump-ramp we made ourselves, drinking from a garden hose, sunburned skin, buying cigarettes w/a note from mom becos she didnt want to miss Dark Shadows
...and now I have the Banana Splits theme stuck in my head
The way it should be, lol.
I can remember having a nightmare when I was four years old about a creature that looked like something out of a Sid and Marty Kroft show chasing me around wanting to eat me. This would have been back in 81, but a couple of Sid and Marty Kroft shows still came on in reruns. Namely, HR Puffnstuff, which the creature in the nightmare resembled.
Okay, you were deeply affected, my man. I can totally understand. Imagine some of these guys, as happy as they were, just slowly making their way toward you, with those faces stuck in a perpetual SUS position. UNNEVERVING.
I always liked the design for Sigmund. If it were made today with some facial mechanics, I think he'd still be a legend!
You know it. Those things were great...product of their time. They would be made even better today (one good thing about today)
I had totally forgotten about Wonderbug!
THere were so many more than I remembered, and yet I remembered almost all of them. The Kroffts were BUSY.
Wow the 70's was trippy
Right? So in a world of its own.
Despite being a sucker for all sorts of superhero media, I've never watched Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. Truth is, I don't think I ever heard of it until the 2001 reboot attempt with Markie Post. TBH I haven't seen that either, but that's what put the original on my radar.
Wow, I remember singing their theme song a lot as a kid, but I wasn't into it all that much. However, the fact Markie Post redid it is KILLING ME. Makes me want to watch both now.
Land of the Lost was my favorite. Uganza bisasa!
Wonderbug was awesome too!
You're a natural at the language, lol. Thanks for watching.
They got a real linguist to come up with the Pakuni language.
Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane! I cant wait to show this to my big sis! She was born in 67 and I was born in 68. She made fun of me for loving the Bay City Rollers! Bugaloos and Lidsville were my favorites!
Bay City Rollers rocked!
I was born in 1975, so it was mostly smurfs, Snorks, and Baby Pacman, thankfully. But I do have faint memories of all these creepy characters from when I was a baby.
lol. They played for so long in reruns, that I saw them as late as 80s, but I did not watch them all. Love that you have some faint memory, though. Thanks for watching.
8:08 Wait, was that...
(Rewind, pause)
Yep. Man, I remember that scene freaking me out.
lol. The horse head dog just suddenly made me think the Transporter Room accident in Star Trek...and the man headed dog, just had to make a subliminal appearance, lol. They were FREAKY.
@@GENXPERIENCE Dorse was okay but the freakiest to me as a kid was the heard but never seen chickenphent.
OK, a Kroft theme park was maybe a step too far, but OMG, I wanna ride that pinball machine.
My thoughts exactly. NOt sure how anyone thought that would be the next big thing...but yeah, why isn't there a pinball machine ride somewhere out there, NOW?
not one of these we watched was land of the lost...wouldn't mind watching it again
LOL is classic cheese.
At 15:15 ...I remember Pink lady when it aired....I loved it so much, I bought the DVD set with the unaired episode!!!!!
No way. NO way, you've got to be kidding? I mean I didn't even think they would put out on DVD, lol.
@@GENXPERIENCE pink Lady episodes here on youtube. ua-cam.com/video/kOYcQ2wO5f0/v-deo.html
Wow! I am familiar with SO many of these shows and characters, but only from a kid's perspective.
You showed the many links between the Krofft Brothers' creations and mainstream adult celebrities at the time. I had NO idea... (list is long)... I will have to watch this again and get back to you. Thanks!
Something to consider though. The "psychedelic" content, and some obvious glam rock and "hippie" imagery went right over my head as a child. It was just there, fun, and entertaining. I made no connection to mainstream culture at that time. My dad had sideburns and my mom wore bellbottoms, and I didn't notice or care.
Flash forward to many 1990s and 2000s children's shows, when everything had to somehow be "hip hop" and cringe rapper styles. In my teens/20s by then, I rolled my eyes and hated it, but all that says more about the adult creators of children's entertainment than it does about their target audience.
Remember the Poochy the Dog episode on The Simpsons? Sideways baseball cap, skateboard, horrible catchphrases? Ugh. Satire, or course, but still Ugh, remembering how real adult creators pander to what they think is cool at the time.
I love the 70s cheese though. Sorry, I don't want to seem like Debbie Downer. (But Debbie from Speedbuggy? Meow!) It's all perspective. I really enjoy your content.
P.S. I commented on one of your action figures videos not long ago. Did you check out the Women's Day Magazine toy homemade space station plans from the 70s? I tried to post a link. Let me know, I can try to post it again. 🙂
Hello there. Please never think that I am making fun of my own generation using Psychedelic or any other descriptor. They certainly do fit that term, but of course as children it was all just bright and shiny and exciting. They weren't bad because of it. Just an adjective that fits them...even if I didn't know what that meant as a kid, lol. Thank you for watching and I love the comment. OH, and please post that link again. Sorry I missed it and would love to take a look. Thank you so much.
@@GENXPERIENCE No, no! I didn't mean to suggest you were making fun of anything... I was just making an observation of how we probably didn't see these connections as kids... and later, when we did, it was hilarious!
Kind of like Alice Cooper on The Muppet Show.
I'll post that link again later. 🙂
Hi again! These plans to build a space station playset were in Woman's Day magazine in the late 70s. My grandmother cut out the article and saved it for me, and I enjoyed looking at the photos so much, although I never tried to build it.
(There was obviously at least one other set of plans posted, later, as I see some Empire Strikes Back content.)
I was very pleased to find (decades later) that I was not the only one who remembered this, and all the awesome photos were posted online. Here's a link. There are others, if you google Woman's Day Space Station, or some combination like this.
Enjoy! Can you identify all the figures? There are many Jawas...
2warpstoneptune.com/2013/02/26/womans-day-magazines-star-wars-playset-designs-1978-1980/
Here is another link, also found in the one above, at the bottom of the page.
theswca.com/images-speci/womansday/
Victor,
Thanks for a great ride down memory lane! Lidsville was my absolute favorite! I even owned the Lidsville lunchbox that you featured at the end of your video.
As I was watching your video, I was checking out all these shows on the IMdB, and I see many of them are available on Tubi TV. I may get my "Krofft" back on, and wham, it'll be 1971 all over again!
Get out of the way...I'm gonna get myself a bowl of Sir Grapefellow!
And to all you viewers: Like, Comment & especially Subscribe! It helps Victor out!
Best,
Paul
Paul, you are what every UA-camr wants...such enthusiasm and support. I appreciate it so sincerely, thank you. I had heard they are on TUBI, and doing this show made me miss some shows, and even the theme songs brought me back. Awesome about the lunchbox. I was so happy to be able to find and feature so many of them, as I loved that era of lunch pail. Thanks again for your support keep watching...and if you have any idea, I would love to hear them.
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Hey Victor...
Thanks for your kind words! Did you happen to see my idea that I posted on your last video that you uploaded May 17 featuring GenX female action figures?
Omg l miss these Saturday morning cartoons and kid shows.🥞🧇🥛🍳🍞📺
100%, it was the life!
I used to see Re-runs of the Banna Splits and HR Puff n Stuff on tv in the 90s as a kid. It honestly scared me with how bizarre the creature designs were. lol
lol, I can totally understand. They were all over the TV in the 70s and some 80s..but, glad you got to see some of it.
I wish the 90s reboot of Land of the Lost was available on DVD . Watched it with the kids and liked it as much as the original
Yeah, it had a 90s vibe, but great redo for modern audiences
Yep I remember Land of the Lost and all those great shows from the 70s
70s crazy good times
As a teenager, I had a SERIOUS crush on Wild Boy
Totally understandable. Young, Blonde, close to naked, lol.
Sid&Marty's shows always gave me the creeps😵💫
You know it!
This explains my familiarity with the Bay City Rollers. Their show slipped my memory. I can still sing so many of these theme songs but can't remember what I walked into a room for.
Ah, love this. Yeah, I can imagine this was many folks introduction to BCR. Thank you for sharing
Bert dude, I love this. I saw the exorcist when I was six, It's never creepy to see what your parents are watching. I guess it could have been a lot worse
I really don't know how come my phone thought. I said Bert dude.
Okay, that is hysterical...because I was sure you were replying to someone else, lol. Yeah, watching with parents can help. Sadly, I watched ALIEN at 8...without my parents. Needless to say, I watched it through my fingers, was terrified, and started a long love affair with that franchise. Thanks for watching man, and commenting. All my best, BERT (Victor)
I used to get so invested in the wonderbug. I still remember getting upset when wonderbug got hypnotized and turned bad. I was born in 72 so I grew up on all of this. Banana Splits, HR Puff n Stuff, Fat Albert and the Cosby kids. That whole Saturday morning lineup.
Being around the same age, I too got invested. Thank you for sharing, love that story of WB.
Clearly, you didn't look into Sid, who's freely admitted in recent years that he's a pothead (Sid dreamed up the shows, Marty brought them to life). And weird that The Brady Bunch Variety Hour wasn't mentioned. Otherwise, this is an excellent overview of the Krofft shows.
The B.B. Variety Bunch was mentioned.... I think. I'll have to check again.
Not surprised about Sid, but yes, the interview quotes were Marty's. Either way, they had to be dreamed up this way. I did mention Brady BUnch variety show toward the end with Donny & Marie. THank you for watching.
Land of the Lost was the best. Dinosaurs ruled Saturday morning. I also cherish Sigmund, Bigfoot and Wild Boy, and wished I had more rides on the Lost Saucer.
Dinosaurs were a BIG DEAL. Thanks for the view and the comment.
LOVE sleestak
Krofft bros #1
You said it!
@@GENXPERIENCE I slept with a crystal by my bed or a rock
@@GENXPERIENCE But I don't know why I think I thought they had a special power or something that would save me
I am the victim of a massive stroke which had mostly cognitive damage as the main effect, and I still vividly remember all the Kroft shows and find it really odd that so many people I talk to have no clue what these shows are!
Wow, it seems like those shows had a big impact on your psyche. It is nice that you can still remember them...and I have met folks too who are like, "HUH?"
I had a nightmare when I was five or so about being abducted by a horrifying pirate ship. Decades later, HR Puffenstuff came out on DVD. I always thought that was a Sid and Marty Kroft show I never saw (that, and the Bugaloos), as it went off the air shortly before I was really conscious. But there, in the opening credits was the ship that had abducted me in my childhood nightmares.
The child stealer from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the Gargoyles from a low budget Gargoyle movie from the 70s were the only other film/TV horrors that traumatized me.
Yeah, I think you were easily affected by these crazy images. From what you described you must have subconsciously been aware of or watched these (in your mother's woman), lol. Thanks for sharing. They are NIGHTMARES>
Yay! Posted 24 minutes ago? I am the ... second one to comment. I am really starting to look forward to your videos. Back in a bit! 🙂
I love this. Thank you so much. I appreciate your confidence and support. They come out late Thursday night/Friday morning (well where I am at least). I will look forward to your comments.
LOVED Land of the Lost, saw it in reruns I guess, born in 78
It was running beyond its years, so it is nice that you were still able to catch it.
My family lived in Kennesaw, GA in the early and mid-70's. My mom and grandmother took me to the Omni to the S&M Krofft park. I was quite young, 5 or 6 yrs, but remember the feeling of awe and fun - I can recall the HR Pufnstuff part of the show, as well as the pinball ride. Was there a giant automated calliope with the internal mechanisms exposed? Or am I confusing this with another experience at such a young age... I tried ice skating afterwards but ended up on my butt every time I tried to stand on my own. That was the extent of my ice skating hobby. Man, what a wave of memories this doc triggered:)
SOunds like you remember it pretty darn well. That is exciting. I love various amusement and theme parks, and this was so short lived, it is great to hear about. T hank you
Sigmond the sea monster and johnny and Scott are friends.
Yes, yes they are. ????
The Lost Saucer was always my fave; Fi and Fum were a hoot! 🛸
Really. That is cool, I would watch, but I even thought it was just not my style. But plenty of them were. Thanks for the comment and the view, of course.
@@GENXPERIENCE with the nutty androids and the funky Dorse, that was my fave; which one was yours?
Unlocked memory. Yay, more trauma.
Well, anything I can do to help, lol.
Land of the Lost was definitely a favorite. The Sleestak were definitely creepy, but I recall there was another sort of bad guy who had a humanoid form and could be injured by emotional speech.
Hmmm, you have me curious. That is slightly familiar. Must start reasearching that.
Everyone always talks about what a big hit this show was - but it only ran one season.
What are you talking about? LOTL has 3 seasons. Sheesh. During the last season the dad left and the uncle replaced him. So, no...you are wrong.
@@GENXPERIENCE I should have been more clear but I was talking about HR Puffenstuff. Even so in the 1970's - successful tv shows had 26 episodes a season and it was a "must" that it lasted 5 seasons in order to be termed "successful" so that producers made their money back. If a show ran for 5 seasons the producers would get back profits from re-run and syndication. A 3 year run was not considered a success.
This was my Saturday morning...kroft superstars...bugs bunny...😊
Sounds just perfect to me. Oh, to be young, and care free.
Our parents took my little brother & I to Sid & Marty Kroft World @ the Omni. Pretty cool. As I remember, all the rides worked. tavi.
It was opened such a short time, but awesome to hear people who went. THanks for sharing and watching...glad you liked the park, too.
In the Late 70s, they ran these on weekday afternoons in syndication. It was Far Out Space Nuts, Puff n Stuff, Lost Saucer, the Buggaloos and (I believe) Lidsville in rotation. It was under some sort of Kroftt banner and you did not know which show would pop up on any particular day.
Thank you for sharing. Those shows, no matter how they were broadcast, were always just a load of fun.
I liked Sigmund and the Seamonsters but Land of the Lost was my absolute favorite. It was very upsetting for me that the show ended and Will and Holly never got home. Especially since their dad did get home!
Yeah, maybe they needed a contract dispute, lol. I agree, I wish there was a final episode for those guys.
Having been born in 1971 my experience with the Kroft Brothers was more weekday afternoons when each of the "big" series had entered syndication and a different series was show each day. To me Saturday morning was the Kroft Supershow/Captain Kool and Kongs and so forth. Though not with the Bay City Rollers. I pretty much stuck to ABC Saturday Mornings and The Bay City Rollers incarnation was on NBC. As for a favorite I don't have one, but have preferences for Land of the Lost, Sigmund ... , Big Foot and Wild Boy and The Far Out Space Nuts.
I don't remember them on in my area in the afternoons. Maybe weekday mornings, but the reruns were everywhere I turned so my thinking could be off, lol. Thank you for watching and sharing.
@@GENXPERIENCE The more I think about it, it may have just been a local show in my area, northern New Jersey on WPIX channel 11, as I can't find any reference to a syndicated Kroft Brothers series where the productions would alternate each day. Channel 11 would also air The Far Out Space Nuts separately, maybe as a sort of thank you to Chuck McCann, who had hosted and been part of many local series in New York and on Channel 11. By memory I would like to say that Channel 11 kicked off its afternoon children's programing with the Far Out Space Nuts, but traditionally that spot was filled with the locally produced The Magic Garden. For those of you who grew up outside the New York area you can search UA-cam for the Magic Garden, there are many clips and full episodes available, if your curious.
Lolol! Yes!!! that is what I referred to the younger generation as. The Slee stacks.
Now that is PERFECT.
I have to say that NONE of these were my favorites but I did like the Land of the Lost theme song and the fact that Will was also Mike Horton on Days of Our Lives (I was a very young Soap fan thanks to my great aunt😃)! I also got a kick out of seeing Marlena as Electra Woman!
Good enough reasons for sure. The shows were cheesy as hell, I think we will all agree...but yes, the story song of LOTL was ideal. Thanks for sharing and watching.
You forgot one of their big successes in the variety format: Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters
Great catch. I must have missed that one for sure. I remember that show, but believe me I was shocked to find out they did any variety shows, lol.
I was grade school age and terrified of them all!
lol...there was a lot that made us go WHAT THE...
Another Kroft terror was the Skull tribe on the Danger Island serial aired as part of the banana Splits show.
Skull faced cannibal head hunters, Pretty creepy stuff.
I thought Danger Island was Hannah Barbara (who owned Banana Splits), who only got Krofft to do their puppet costumes.
@@GENXPERIENCE Ah, you're correct.
I mix them sometimes.
I loved this era of children's entertainment, mid 60's to mid 70's when the producers only focus was to entertain, and having scary villains was part of it. After that everything became "educational" any horror elements were blunted or watered down.
The Sleestaks were the first thing i remember being afaid of. I was 4.
Makes sense. I think they were my first fear, too.
HR Puff and Stuff had the best intro by far. In my opinion the their best shows were shot on film not cheesy video like the later ones. But if I had to choose my favorite of the video ones it would be "Land of the Lost".
Great observation about film...I do like the feeling it gives. LOTL is a legend!