[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: A fum little e-mail

[silverdragon at ezweb.com.au]

> Yeah... I recently thought of it because VH1 has been showing "I Love the
> 70's" series sets... They mentioned the show and commented (among other
> things) on how high Sid and Marty Croft had to be to come up with a bunch
of
> their old shows.  I remember "Space Nuts", "The Isis and Shazam Hour" (or
> something like that) "Super Buggy" , "Banana Splits", "H. R. Puffinstuff"
> and a bunch of those other semi-psychedelic, live-action "kids shows" from
> the early and mid 70's.  (I grew up on those things, being born in 1970
> m'self.)

Me too! '71 here. And don't forget Sigmund the Seamonster... And 'Electra
Woman and Dyna Girl'... Actually I have in my possession possibly the
*worst* video in the history of television. I'm serious! It is - wait for
it - HR Puff'n'Stuff Live on stage with (drumroll please) the Brady Bunch
Kids. I know, I know. Kill me now... in this video the guy who played Jimmy
is about 19, six feet tall, still wearing the 'Jimmy' outfit, and still with
the speech impediment... I wonder what he's up to now, if he didn't die or
something. Was it Jack Wild or something like that?



> I also remember a number of cartoon and cartoon/live-action mixed shows
that
> I wish I knew the names of.  (Like the 3 teens who could change into the
> Wolfman, Dracula, and Frankenstein's monster... or the one with the cat
who
> used to daydream about being a super hero, or spaceman, and such...)

Ooh! I *loved* the Wolfman, Dracula etc one, but I can't think of what it
was called either. One of our networks is going into retro mode and showing
Batfink each night before the very first series of Doctor Who is shown. Just
waiting for them to drag out Hong Kong Foey - remember, he slept in the
filing cabinet and had a striped cat called Spot? Oh and the Blue Falcon...




> (Speaking of cartoons, who else here thinks that Scrappy Doo deserved the
> "Bullet In Their Brain" award as the most annoying "add on" character in
> cartoon history?  Man, I could handle the Smurfs better than I could deal
> with him.  At least with the Smurfs, the whole show was bad... With
Scrappy,
> it was a single character in an otherwise cool show...  I comment on this
> because my toddler daughter just fell asleep watching the live-action
Scooby
> Doo movie...)

YES! I loved Scooby Doo until they introduced Scrappy (we called him Crappy,
too).

Nox (thinking its *so cool* that there are others who admit to remembering
these shows...)