70's Sid Krofft Shows (and other 70's items)

[Scott]

Well.....I grew up in the 70's watching Saturday Morning network TV and these Sid Krofft Shows are the ones I use to watch. Check out these groovy tunes. They don't make TV like this anymore.

KROFFT SUPERSHOW

DR. SHRINKER

THE BUGALOOS

H. R. PUFFINSTUFF

LAND OF THE LOST

SHAZAM

BIGFOOT AND WILDBOY

SIGMUND AND THE SEAMONSTERS

ISIS

From the GONG SHOW

THE GONG SHOW

The Unknown Comic

Juggler

The Burper

Gene Gene The Dancing Machine

More of Gene Gene The Dancing Machine

Chuck Barris

A Few More from the 70's

Space 1999

ABBA

KISS

Superstar Billy Graham

[The Burgomaster]

Ah, yes . . . special effects, acting, and theme songs don't get any worse.  I remember these Saturday morning shows very well!  (Life was much simpler in those days).

[trekgeezer]

Sid and Marty Krofft must have been using LSD trips as inspiration for some of their stuff (especially H. R. Pufnstuf).

I loved the Gong Show. My favorite act was a girl in a bikini laying on a surf board with her boyfriend playing her butt cheeks like bongos to that old surfer sone Wipeout.

I was just out of the Navy and taking Indrustrial Electronics at the local vo-tech school and I used to got home for lunch everyday and watch the Gong Show with my mom.

[RCMerchant]

Dam! Flashback city,man! Remember the BANANA SPLITS? "1 banana, two bananas, 3 bananas,four...!" Another 70's flashback;the Freedom Train, during the bi-centienial. Me and the neighbor girl went on a tour of it when it went through in Kalamazoo,Mich. The thing I remember the most was Charlie Chaplins hat and cane and the neighbor girls big boobs.

[LH-C]

Despite being born quite late into the '70s (January '76 to be exact), I remember a ton of late '70s stuff. Especially TV shows. Speaking of the Krofft brothers, remember when Krofft Super Show morphed into The Bay City Rollers Show? Because of that Bay City Rollers were the first music group I was into.

[Gerry]

> H. R. PUFFINSTUFF

This one scared me silly. I'd bawl everytime my siblings tried to watch it.  (I was born in 1970.)

> LAND OF THE LOST
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> SHAZAM
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> ISIS

I was especially fond of these three.  I have the complete LAND OF THE LOST on DVD now, but I haven't seen SHAZAM or ISIS since the 70s.  It was fun nostalgia to revisit those intros.  I'd spring for either series if it came out on DVD.

[The Burgomaster]

Of course, H.R. Puf'n'stuf was a big hit with the hippie / drug crowd in those days.  Talking mushrooms, smoking trees, psychedelic colors, a magic flute, etc.  Great stuff to watch on a Saturday morning after a big Friday night of drug abuse.  And many scholars of Sid & Marty Krofft lore claim that the name "Puf'n'stuf" itself is derived from "Puffing Stuff" or smoking marijuana and other controlled substances.  And you all thought it was just a dumb kid's show . . .

[Scott]

Ah, remember THE BAY CITY ROLLERS. Didn't know they did a TV show.

When I watched H.R. Puffnstuf I was about 5 or 6 and never even heard of drugs till I was about 13 or 14, so watching the show the connection was fortunately never there.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I'm with Scott.   It was just vaguely-scary TV shows.  I really like Land of the Lost, the sleestaks were just scary, but strangely enough, not as scary as the proto humans.  

I don't recall much of the Puffnstff and Sigmund shows.  I did get up really early to catch the Banana Splits re-runs.
-Ed

[RCMerchant]

I read somewhere that the Ramones started they're HEY-HO LETS GO - because they wanted to be like the next BCR cuz they had S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y  thing going. More  70's memories: Bubs Daddy Gum-big ass ropes of gum...if you stuck enuff in yer mouth you would end up with psychadelic slobber rolling down yer chin. Castle of Frankenstien mag- Hippie/monsster mag. Circus and  CREEM..I could read up on  my favorite bands...like Led ZEP and Alice Cooper and Ted Nugent (I'M from Michigan)....Strech Armstrong....Remco Planet of the Apes toys....FM, Creepy, and the real weird Voodo Tales...gee I could go on forever.

[BoyScoutKevin]

Scott, Scott, Scott. Didn't anybody warn you, that watching all that S & M Krofft, when you were a kid would burn out most of your brain synapses, so that when you became an adult,  you would find  a job as a messageboard moderator. And a fine one you are, too.

[Scott]

The only cartoons that I would watch on Saturday Mornings were SCOOBY DOO and JOSIE AND THE p***yCATS. Never liked cartoons really, but I did enjoy Sid Krofft productions.

By the way has anyone else had KROFFT SUPERSHOW theme song stuck in their heads for the last week.

And about the theme song to DR. SHRINKER....it kind of songs like a pre-Ozzy Osbourne tune. I think he borrowed it from Krofft. : )