Help I.D. this 70's era PBS show, featuring creepy puppets, a sailboat.

I have only a vague recolection of this show, as the only time I saw it was a week home sick with the Chicken Pox (I’m willing to accept that it might have been a fever-dream as well).

It was a serial adventure featuring creepy puppet kids on a sailboat. And not cute puppet kids either, scary articulated ventriloquist dummy-type puppets with those mouths that unhinge when they talk, like a snake preparing to swallow an egg. I was under the impression it was called “The Voyage of the Mimi”, but this rules that out.

Anybody got a clue?

H.R. Puffnstuff?

No, 'twern’t Puffinstuff nor Sigmond the Sea Monster. It was like a cross between “The Old Man and the Sea” and “Magic” with Anthony Hopkins.

Stingray?

Triumph!!

The creepy puppets were just one part of a show called “**Vegetable Soup**” that ran in the late 70’s. Check out that little picture of the afformentioned puppets and wonder why I thought it was the fever talking.

Looks at the picture

Hey, is that Austin Powers?

OMG! *PUPPET HORROR*!!

Jeepers, they look like CPR manniquens outfitted as puppets.

I just found out that I have valuable braincells that are apparently dedicated to storing the theme song to “Vegetable Soup.”