# Help I.D. this 70's era PBS show, featuring creepy puppets, a sailboat. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602 "2002-12-09T20:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/1 "2002-12-09T20:45:19Z")
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](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0124265) rules that out. Anybody got a clue? ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/2 "2002-12-09T20:48:40Z")
[H.R. Puffnstuff?](http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/memories/show_mem.php?ID=SA1095&page=5) ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/3 "2002-12-09T20:54:52Z")
No, 'twern’t Puffinstuff nor Sigmond the Sea Monster. It was like a cross between “The Old Man and the Sea” and “[Magic](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0077889)” with Anthony Hopkins. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/4 "2002-12-09T21:07:52Z")
[Stingray?](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0057786) ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/5 "2002-12-09T21:19:07Z")
Triumph!! The creepy puppets were just one part of a show called “[\*\*Vegetable Soup](http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/memories/show_mem.php?ID=SA1565)\*\*” 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. ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/6 "2002-12-09T21:23:36Z")
_Looks at the picture_ Hey, is that Austin Powers? ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/7 "2002-12-09T21:31:56Z")
OMG! \*[PUPPET HORROR\*](http://www.artstomp.com/osgallery.html)!! Jeepers, they look like CPR manniquens outfitted as puppets. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-i-d-this-70s-era-pbs-show-featuring-creepy-puppets-a-sailboat/141602/8 "2002-12-09T22:03:38Z")
I just found out that I have valuable braincells that are apparently dedicated to storing the theme song to “Vegetable Soup.”