Along with his brother Sid, Marty Krofft built a TV empire out of some of the weirdest children’s television programs ever put on the air. The producer — who passed away on Nov. 25, 2023 at the age of 86 — was best known for the surreal likes of H.R. Pufnsuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, featuring giant puppets cavorting in what often appeared to be a live-action Hieronymus Bosch painting. They were very weird and sometimes quite awful, but they were definitively different. Amid the low-end Hanna-Barbera clones of the 1970s, the Kroffts definitely made an impression.Gen Xers remember the Kroffts’ works fondly, if sometimes ironically, and Krofft’s passing feels like the loss of a unique voice in pop culture. The unquestioned high point of the brothers’ catalog is Land of the Lost, which mostly eschewed the puppets in favor of a surprisingly sophisticated sci-fi concept. It entails the adventures of Rick Marshall and his two teenage children trapped in an alternate dimension full of dinosaurs and lost alien civilizations. Thanks to a remarkable team of screenwriters and some competent execution, it became a cult classic to the point of producing an early 1990s remake and a sadly forgettable Will Ferrell movie in 2009. More impressively, it delivered fun stop-motion dinosaurs on a weekly basis in an era when the likes of the Jurassic Park movies were nowhere to be seen.The series is exactly as weird as it sounds, and while it only lasted a single season, the Kroffts quickly followed with other equally bombastic shows. That included the likes of Lidsville, The Bugaloos, The Lost Saucer, and Far-Out Space Nuts, as well as 1976’s The Krofft Supershow featuring a half-dozen rotating mini-series. It also entailed a slow transition away from puppets and towards cheaper live-action performances, as they developed variety shows such as the infamous Brady Bunch Hour and Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters featuring the country music star. Land of the Lost looked and felt like none of that. It first aired in 1974, with the Krofft aesthetic well in hand and the brothers more or less certain of their vision.
Along with his brother Sid, Marty Krofft built a TV empire out of some of the weirdest children’s television programs ever put on the air. The producer — who passed away on Nov. 25, 2023 at the age of 86 — was best known for the surreal likes of H.R. Pufnsuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, featuring giant puppets cavorting in what often appeared to be a live-action Hieronymus Bosch painting. They were very weird and sometimes quite awful, but they were definitively different. Amid the low-end Hanna-Barbera clones of the 1970s, the Kroffts definitely made an impression.
Gen Xers remember the Kroffts’ works fondly, if sometimes ironically, and Krofft’s passing feels like the loss of a unique voice in pop culture. The unquestioned high point of the brothers’ catalog is Land of the Lost, which mostly eschewed the puppets in favor of a surprisingly sophisticated sci-fi concept. It entails the adventures of Rick Marshall and his two teenage children trapped in an alternate dimension full of dinosaurs and lost alien civilizations. Thanks to a remarkable team of screenwriters and some competent execution, it became a cult classic to the point of producing an early 1990s remake and a sadly forgettable Will Ferrell movie in 2009. More impressively, it delivered fun stop-motion dinosaurs on a weekly basis in an era when the likes of the Jurassic Park movies were nowhere to be seen.
The series is exactly as weird as it sounds, and while it only lasted a single season, the Kroffts quickly followed with other equally bombastic shows. That included the likes of Lidsville, The Bugaloos, The Lost Saucer, and Far-Out Space Nuts, as well as 1976’s The Krofft Supershow featuring a half-dozen rotating mini-series. It also entailed a slow transition away from puppets and towards cheaper live-action performances, as they developed variety shows such as the infamous Brady Bunch Hour and Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters featuring the country music star. Land of the Lost looked and felt like none of that. It first aired in 1974, with the Krofft aesthetic well in hand and the brothers more or less certain of their vision.
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