Sid Krofft, Co-Creator of Mind-Blowing Kids TV Shows, Dies at 96
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Sid Krofft, the wildly imaginative puppeteer who teamed with his younger brother Marty to build an entertainment empire behind such trippy TV shows as The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, has died. He was 96.
Krofft, eight years older than Marty and the creative force of their business, died Friday in his sleep at the Los Angeles home of friend and business partner Kelly Killian. Marty died in November 2023 at age 86.
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The next year, NBC asked them to create a Saturday morning kids show, and they came up with H.R. Pufnstuf, about a shipwrecked boy (Jimmy, played by Jack Wild) who lands on a magical island. The title character, Pufnstuf, was a revamp of Luther, a friendly dragon that they had created for a show at the 1968 HemisFair in San Antonio.
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Pufnstuf‘s psychedelic sets and costumes were a big hit with college kids, and The Beatles asked for a full set of episode tapes to be sent to them in England. The look of the show prompted many whispers that the brothers took drugs (pot for sure, maybe LSD as well?), something Marty denied.
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RIP...and thank you for those brilliant kids shows.
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but otherwise it was -
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of "Sugar Sugar" fame (I actually found that 45 at a flea market) -
I told my niece that "K-Pop Demon Hunters" was nothing but a reboot of -
Obviously the formula works.
Wow.
RIP, Sid Krofft
PS, don't sleep on The Lost Saucer or Far Out Space Nuts, neither of which were mentioned in the article.
At first I thought it was a man cross-dressed, and then I thought it was Robert Preston ( 
). I love Martha Ray!
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horrible earworm of epic proportions.
The characters were too visually stimulating for me. We had a black and white TV. If I had watched that show in color, I probably would have developed life-long nervous tics. I had one or two nightmares with those characters as well. Thanks for the memories! 
