Am I insane? No one that I have had extended contact with remembers The Bugaloos. Re: http://www.bugaloos.com/index.shtml
Not that I am obsessed with this, I just can’t believe that no one watched this show (I went through the same thing with Zoom for a while… alas it suddenly was revamped and I knew I wasn’t crazy). I know the theme song by heart. Am I the only soul on earth that watched this show as a child in the 70’s?
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Nope, you’re not the only one. They’re in the air and everywhere.
Oh, yeah - I loved the Bugaloos. Boomerang plays great stuff from my childhood. It would be awesome if they’d add The Bugaloos, H.R. Pufenstuff, Land of the Lost, etc.
Sheri
Ah, Sid and Marty Kroft.
What great memories. Memories of UTTER TERROR as my developing child mind tried to process the bizarre input that those two pumped into it. Nightmares of giant talking hats. Bastards.
Damn that Dr. Shrinker. Damn him to hell.
I loved Joy’s short skirt and English accent! 
And kids shows are too PC nowadays to have a comedic Nazi rat.
Yup, another Kroftite checking in. I actually liked those shows when I was a kid (except Land of the Lost). Kinda shudder now, but hey, I shudder at a lot of things nowadays.
Wish I could find old episodes of “The Old Curiosity Shop”, a very short-lived show, but quite entertaining (at least to my nostalgia-addled brain, right now).
It’s kind of sad (pathetic sad, not depressing sad) that I now realize how hot Joy was. Is that wrong?
I remember just about all those Sid&Marty shows, with the exception of “Lidsville.” I have a feeling I blocked it out of my memory.
The Curiosity Shop! Yeah, that rocked! I used to watch that on Sundays, followed by another great hippie kids show, “Make A Wish.” Good times…
The Bugaloos paid a visit to my local kiddie show (*Mr. Knozit on WIS-TV 10). One of the kids asked them to fly, but they responded, “We only have licenses to fly in [the forest, the name of which I don’t recall].”
*Hey, even William Shatner came to visit one time.
I used to wish I was old enough to know her. (Of course, I would never let my friends know I liked a girl! It wouldn’t do to hear “Johnny has a girlfriend! Johnny has a girlfriend!” Would that I could hear that taunt now!)
Caroline Ellis will be 52 on October 12th. According to IMDB she is divorced, and as of October 2000, working as a real estate agent in Spain with her daughter Sasha who was born in 1985.
“We only have licenses to fly in [the forest, the name of which I don’t recall].”
The Tranquility Forest
Didn’t they have a cartoon, too? Or maybe did a cameo on the Jetsons or something?
“Make a Wish”. I remember that one. As well as “Big Blue Marble”.
How about PBS’s offering: “InsideOut”, kids mini-dramas dealing with theft, prejudice, family pressures, money, and other moral issues, always left “open-ended” (no real ending) meant for the ckass to discuss the topic at hand. The opening title was kinda creepy: the tiny word “inside” rotating along an axis in the large “O” of the word “out”. (Hard to describe, but it was cool in a 70’s funky sort of way.
I’d love to see it again, if only for the music and the fashions of my 5th grade years.
Bugaloos cigar bands? Huh?
One of my earliest memories is dressing up as Joy for Halloween. I wish I had pictures because I’m sure I was stylin’ in that little boxed costume.
ABC had Schoolhouse Rock for its between-program fillers.
Does anybody remember CBS’ filler - Big Blue Marble?
Sheri
Read 3 posts before yours.
I was in love with Joy. Remember the Stereo Zapper? I really wanted one of those for the punks on my school bus.
:smack: Sorry about that.
Actually, thinking about it, maybe Big Blue Marble was an actual show, not a filler. I think I was remembering In the News which gave a kid’s eye view of current events, and was shown in between CBS cartoons.
Sheri
I’m not affiliated with or promoting amazon, they’re just easy to link to: This DVD set has one episode of just about every Krofft show, including The Bugaloos. Just about every one of those shows creeped me out, including The Bugaloos (but not quite as much as H.R. Pufnstuf himself ::shudder::). Martha Raye is (was?) a truly horrifying person.
(And buckgully – I was particularly happy to see that “Dr. Shrinker” was included in that DVD sampler; that was always my favorite, but your post above is literally the first time I have ever heard anybody else remember that show. I was starting to wonder if I’d made it up.)
The Big Blue Marble was definitely a full-length show. In Atlanta, it always ran at 5:00 AM on Sundays, and whenever I saw the planet and heard the theme song, it meant that I’d stayed up way too late and was going to be in trouble the next day (yes, I was a creepy 10-year-old kid with insomnia).
Brief Sid & Marty Krofft hijack: did anybody on the SDMB actually go to the amusement park/carnival thing they had? I never found out if it was a travelling thing or a permanent installation, but it lasted for around 2 years or so at the OMNI in Atlanta. My brother was always showing me pamphlets for it and it looked like the most fantastic place you could ever imagine.
Martha died on Wednesday October 19th, 1994.
http://findadeath.com/Decesed/r/Martha%20Raye/martha_raye.htm