Best Obscure 70's Saturday Morning Show!

[Delano]

Best Obscure 70's Saturday Morning Show!

[tridim]

1. H.R. Puff'n Stuff

Hands down. What a trip.. Long live Sid and Marty Krofft!

[Delano]

3. Added - don't know how I missed that one

Not all that obscure, but neither is the Land of the Lost.

Groovie Ghoulies was pretty weak after all...

[sniffa]

28. who's your friend when things get rough?

i Love puffinstuff. :smoke:

[skooooo]

38. PufNstuff for sure...

Freddy the Flute
Witchiepoo
Kling and Klang
Polkadot Horse
Jimmy

That show rocked.

[bigmonkey]

2. Cartoon version of Star Trek

Actually melded the Star Trek universe and the classic science-fiction of Larry Niven. I was most surprised it was so good (for a cartoon).

[Archae]

16. I loved the Trek cartoon.

Crappy animation, but original cast doing the voices, writers that were simply great, and M'Ress, M'rrroowww! :-)

[CrownPrinceBandar]

4. Wasn't there one called "Captain Cool and the...."

something. They were like a disco band.

[imax2268]

9. This one...?

Kaptain Kool

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/krofft.htm

[CrownPrinceBandar]

10. Thats the one...

Suddenly, I feel very old.

[OneBlueSky]

5. Winky Dink . . . anyone remember? . . . n/t

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[Gildor Inglorion]

25. Oh, yes! But our AGE is showing...

Winky Dink was a 1950's show. He was a little star-shaped creature, and you sent off for a plastic sheet to put over your TV screen. You could then draw in things to carry the story forward, like bridges, etc. I had one, but I thought it was much cooler to watch him get along without any help.

[SOteric]

6. The Banana Splits

[minkyboodle]

15. Love that one

Cartoon Network used to show Banana Splits at like 2:30 AM after Space Ghost on Friday and Saturday nights.... hmmmm wonder who those eps were for.... Stoners!!!! And let me tell you me and my friends really loved em!!! :)
Scott

[Zomby Woof]

18. my first trick or treating costume was one of them!

Couldn't recall the name, and too lazy to Google, but it was the one with the big teeth. 1970, it was. :-)

[Canuckistanian]

40. Yeah! That's it!

With that guy who does the voice for Tigger.

[cprise]

7. Bigfoot and Wildboy

Jason of Star Command

Big John, Little John

LOL!

A whole BUNCH of these shows are detailed here:
http://www.70slivekidvid.com/

[imax2268]

8. Space Nuts...

don't ask me why...but I never missed an episode...

[Gothic Sponge]

11. Here's obscure

Anyone remember a CBS show called Patchwork Family?

[CrownPrinceBandar]

12. Oh yeah!!!!

Space Nuts were great! Bob Denver's best role since....Gilligan! :P

[LDS Jock]

13. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl

I barely remember it but I do remember my young, gay self pretending to be Dyna Girl, punching my arm pretending I had an electracomp on. OK, now I'm embarrassed. I'd never tell this stuff to anyone I knew in person.

[imax2268]

19. I had a crush on Dyna Girl

[Deja Q]

45. The female version of Batman!

And a lot more entertaining too!

The days of innocense.

[BattyDem]

54. Does anyone else remember that ...

Deidre Hall from Days of Our Lives played Electra Woman? :D

[alittlelark]

14. The Bugaloos !!!

Loved that show !

[mykpart]

17. Was that the show where Martha Raye

played Benita Bizarre?

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

22. Benita Bizarre! What a trip

...I think that was one wierd show. Sid & Marty Croft.

I think they had another called "Lidsville".

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. Sid & Marty Croft MUST have been doing acid at that time.

I mean, can anybody offer a better explanation?

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. Me too!

I liked the black dude (Harmony, maybe?) who used all the Cockney slang.

[tjwash]

20. HR Pufenstuf was definitely some psychedelic shit...

Even the name..."puffin' stuff"

[moez]

21. Lancelot Link!

It was a foreshadowing of what was to come!

[Misinformed01]

26. Secret Chimp!

How funny is that???

Who would be Matahari? I can't see Laura in that role.....maybe Karen Hughes?

[reformed_military]

23. Run Joe Run?

[BattyDem]

55. I thought I was the only person ...

who remembered that show! None of my friends do. :)

[LynneSin]

24. Who were those twins that formed other shapes

I loved that cartoon

[Malikshah]

27. Superfriends

Wonder twin powers---Activate!

Zax and Jayna?

[Shrek]

29. What, I'm the only one who liked Ark II?

That show was cool!

[BigMcLargehuge]

30. all I realy remember from Ark II was the jetpack

but I thought that was cool.

[Ricdude]

31. Uncle Croc's Block, Banana Splits, Electra-Woman

A variety show with Charles Nelson Reilly in a crocodile suit. Some cartoons, some live action stuff. Average trippy 70's kids show.

I would go with the Banana Splits (one of my favourites), but since they started rerunning them on Cartoon Network, I don't think they qualify as obscure anymore. =) I even saw Shazam on TV land or something a while ago. It's frightening what they'll resurrect.

Electrawoman and Dynagirl was another favourite, and I believe the basis for my generation's fascination with spandex...

[noonwitch]

32. What drugs were Sid and Marty Kroft taking?

I loved Pufinstuf, Lidsville, Bugaloos (I wish I still had my lunchbox), but they were defintely acidic.

[SarahB]

33. Land of the Lost!

:bounce:

[qb]

35. The Land of the Lost & HR Pufnstuf are obscure?

They were the center of my universe!

[Aristus]

36. Hey Imax2268, I believe you are referring to Kaptain Kool and the Kongs.

I loved them. They introduced me to glitter rock. I thought that was really cool. (Hell, I was eight years old!) Superchick was Super hot!

My favorite late 70's Saturday morning show was called 'Hot Hero Sandwich.' It was a live action variety show with skits, musical acts, celebrity interviews, and music videos. (this, three or four years before the advent of MTV.) It was so good, so intelligent, and so well written that my parents used to watch it with me.

[BattyDem]

58. I loved them too!

That was The Krofft Supershow. They were great! (Give me a break ... I was around 10) They actually recorded a few albums, LOL!

I had to do a Google and find a picture :)

[ironflange]

37. Ralph Bakshi's Mighty Mouse

Hoo boy, that show was WAAAAYYYYY out there!

Edit: Sorry, I think it was an 80's show.

[camero]

39. Professer Kool's Fun School

I think only Marylanders remember that one and Stu Kerr.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

41. Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future

Great show. The first "interactive" TV series-- don't quite recall what that was all about, other than strobing lights at odd moments that apparently sent more than a few kids into seizures...

Otherwise, a great storyline. It ended at exactly the wrong time, just when the plot was developing. Bummed me out for months.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-308/

On edit: looks like this one ran in the late '80s, not the '70s. Looks like those strobing lights got yet another victim... :nuke:

[Tripper11]

42. Easily H.R. Pufnstuff

TV Land has a Sid & Marty Kroft night every Saturday night. Lidsville and other gems.

Watching them now I sure know that thos cats had some preeety interesting meetings :smoke: to be sure!

[BattyDem]

43. I watched them all

but Land of the lost was the best! The special effects were awesome! I know they look cheesy now, but it was 1974. Star Wars hadn't come out yet so we had nothing to compare them to. :hippie:

Remember those hissing, lizard people, the Sleestak? They moved so slow! A 90 year old could out run them, LOL! (I believe it was UCLA basketball players inside those costumes.) Anyway, they were really cool!


Sid and Marty Krofft ruled! I also loved Sigmund & The Sea Monsters, The Bugaloos (a British, teen rock band with wings and antenne - like bugs), and The Lost Saucer! :headbang:

My favorite cartoon was The Superfriends! Where else could you find Superman, Batman & Robin, Aquaman, Wonderwoman, Green Lantern and The Wonder Twins(don't ask), all in one show? :bounce:

[gemlake]

51. thanks for the pic

I loved Land of the Lost! That cheesy cave, the lizard people . . . what a great show.

[truthseeker1]

46. Land of the Lost was so awesome

I've thought of it a lot in the last year...everytime I saw Gephardt, I thought "Sleestack!"

[BattyDem]

49. OMG! You're right!

Gephardt does look like a Sleestak!

[bigwillq]

47. I never heard of any of these shows

When were they on?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

48. Johnny Quest.

I did not think HR Puffnstuff was on in the 70's? Maybe late, late 70's, but I thought it was the 80's.

[BattyDem]

50. Believe it or not ...

HR Pufnstuf ran on NBC from 1969-1971! Reruns aired later on ABC ... that's probably why you thought it wasn't a 70s show. :)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

57. Yeah, cause I was already in VietNam then

I guess AFARTS did not carry it there.

[TOhioLiberal]

52. Trek...

Of course. If I said anything else, I'd be drummed out of the International Trekker's Union or something...;-) B-)

[MisterP]

53. *ahem*

http://www.theonion.com/onion3608/lidsville_nightmare.html

[BattyDem]

56. ROFLMAO!

I forgot about Lidsville. Giant talking hats. Sid & Marty Krofft must have had the best drugs ...