Juding by the extremely weird shows (supposedly for kids!) he was
involved in making, he must have been high on wacky-baccy and magic
mushrooms from pretty much the entire 1960s and 1970s. :-\
Sid Krofft, Co-Creator of 'H.R. Pufnstuf'
and 'Land of the Lost,' Dead at 96
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Sid Krofft, who alongside his brother Marty created popular
children's TV shows like 'Land of the Lost' and 'H.R. Pufnstuf,'
has died at the age of 96.
Sid Krofft, who, alongside his late brother Marty Krofft,
created popular children's TV shows like?Land of the Lost?and?
H.R. Pufnstuf, has died at the age of 96.
Krofft died Friday, April 10, of natural causes at the home of
his friend and business partner, Kelly Killian,?the Hollywood
Reporter?writes. Krofft's publicist Adam Fenton added in a
statement, "Sid Krofft was an icon who did what he loved most
until the very end - being out in public with his legions of
fans. Sid never slowed down, attending his final show where it
all began just last November in his home state of Rhode Island.
Sid was a beacon of light and will be greatly missed."
Born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Rhode Island, Sid
Krofft worked as a puppeteer in vaudeville and Ringling Bros.
circus before he and his older brother Marty set their sights
on television.
After a stint working for Hanna-Barbera's The Banana Splits, the
Kroffts created and produced H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969, a children's
TV series featuring puppets that was very attuned with the
psychedelia of the era. Though the show was short-lived, lasting
only one season of 17 episodes, H.R. Pufnstuf would later become
a cult series and became a launchpad for similar Krofft
productions.
In the Seventies, the Kroffts produced The Bugaloos, Lidsville,
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and Land of the Lost, with the
latter series - about a time-warped family sent back to an era of
stop-motion dinosaurs - adapted into a Will Ferrell-starring big
screen film in 2009.
The brothers also headlined their own Krofft Supershow in the
mid-1970s, while their puppeteering featured on variety shows
ranging from The Brady Bunch Hour and Raquel Welch's Really Raquel
to Richard Pryor's Pryor's Place and Donny & Marie.
The Kroffts would later receive a Lifetime Achievement award from
the Daytime Emmys as well as a joint star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame. Marty, who was eight years younger than Sid, died in 2023 at
age 86.
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