Does anyone remember the episode when HR Pufnstuf guest starred and someone kidnapped him and he was put on a spit with an apple in his mouth? Did the other sea monsters kidnap him? I was only 5 when I saw the episode so can someone tell me what happened?
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I thought I was the only one who remembered this show! I'm just so happy to see I'm not! Only born in '74, but I always had a strong memory of this show! Now if only they'd bring it back!
shareI was about to tell you that you had the wrong name, that Pufnstuf was on another show and the sea monster here was Sigmund, but upon seeing Sheldon played a part, that then would be Rip Taylor, and I never watched Sigmund after Rip Taylor came on the show.
Plotwise, it sounds likely, as Billie Hayes did appear as Witchie Poo on an episode of Lidsville (tho Weenie the genie, also played by Hayes, was downplayed in that episode of Lidsville). Pufnstuf did appear at the end of that Lidsville episode, but it did not seem to be the same costume.
Billy Barty, of course, was all across the Krofft shows.
In the Bay City Rollers show, there was a Lost Island or Mysterious Island segment that included Hayes as Weenie the genie (from Lidsville), HR Pufnstuf, Sigmund the Sea Monster and the woman who played Nashville sans makeup from Kaptain Kool, and they were basically in the Land of the Lost with Jay Robinson (Dr. Shrinker) and Billy Barty as his sidekick.
I thought it was a great ensemble.
..."and they were basically in the Land of the Lost with Jay Robinson (Dr. Shrinker) and Billy Barty as his sidekick." Well....perhaps they used the sets, but I was a devoted LOTL fan and there was NO Dr. Shrinker with or without any sidekick. Perhaps in that "updated" version in the 80's or90's (I don't remember which) there may have been people like that. I caught 1 of those "newer" episodes and wondered 2 things....how would people on a RAFT have a land rover on it and how were they *keeping* it running? Dino poo? Banannas?
And btw, people I know still refer to phones jokingly as a "shellaphone" and occasionally answer it with "shello?"
-Ginger
Krofft did a show (after all their stalwarts had been cancelled) with the Bay City Rollers and had two series sandwiched by musical bits with the Rollers, called 'The Bay City Rollers Meet The Saturday Superstars', 1978.
One was Witchie Poo running a horror hotel, with all her haunted castle characters, but most notable was the addition of the Owl who was on the good side in the Pufnstuf program.
The other one was a vast merging of several Krofft characters, with "Nashville" from Kaptain Kool and the Kongs, out of her makeup, now as a normal leading woman, who was trapped in a 'supernatural realm' with Weenie the genie (Billie Hayes) from Lidsville, Sigmund and HR Pufnstuf; all basically "in" the Land of the Lost, as it was all the same shots of caves, lost cities and what-have-you, even the same cave sets, it seemed. I think even the sleestak appeared, as Enoch did turn up, and so did the Zarn, from season two of LotL.
Also along was Jay Robinson and Billy Barty who were both from Dr. Shrinker, but they were renamed Dr. Deathray here. Don't recall Barty's name in this show.
But in essence, all these characters were in the Land of the Lost, tho Weenie the genie made one attempt to refer to the dinosaurs as dragons.
THIS was probably where the OP saw Pufnstuf on a spit with Sigmund, not within Sigmund's own show, but I don't know.
As for the 90s remake attempt with Timothy Bottoms, they didn't reach the LotL in a raft, they drove in a cave, in the land rover, and there was an earthquake-cave in that sent them plunging down, still in the vehicle, so they then drove out into the LotL (used to look like a Ford-tough explorer commercial). The show wasn't a success, probably because of the number one gas problem, but the little girl got on my nerves. She wasn't Holly by any means.
Oh, and the show was 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' with low ratings, the Mysterious Island segment (or whatever it was called) was removed, and the Rollers and Witchie Poo took the show to Sunday mornings.
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