{"id":62492,"date":"2023-12-01T15:32:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=62492"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:32:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T20:32:30","slug":"marty-krofft-co-creator-of-h-r-pufnstuf-and-land-of-the-lost-dead-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/01\/marty-krofft-co-creator-of-h-r-pufnstuf-and-land-of-the-lost-dead-at-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Marty Krofft, Co-Creator of H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, Dead at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62429\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Marty-Krofft.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Marty-Krofft.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Marty-Krofft-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>Marty Krofft, who with his brother Sid helped revolutionize children&#8217;s programming in the 1970s, earning him the nickname &#8220;King of Saturday Mornings,&#8221; has died. According to his family, Krofft died in Los Angeles from kidney failure at age 86.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62428\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/krofft-holiday-card.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/krofft-holiday-card.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/krofft-holiday-card-300x222.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/>Known for their large-scale, vividly colorful puppets, Sid and Marty Krofft created iconic shows such as <em>H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, , Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos, Lidsville,<\/em> <em>Pryor\u2019s Place<\/em> (starring Richard Pryor), <em>Far Out Space Nuts, Lost Saucer, The Krofft Supershow, Wonderbug and Bigfoot, Electra Woman &amp; Dyna Girl, Dr. Shrinker<\/em>, and <em>Bigfoot &amp; Wildboy<\/em>.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1265233372\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62427\" style=\"width: 666px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-62427 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sid-and-marty-krofft.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"666\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sid-and-marty-krofft.webp 666w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sid-and-marty-krofft-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 2016 Amazon\/Sid &amp; Marty Krofft Pictures<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Krofft brothers were both born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with their original surname being Yolas. Sid Krofft became a popular puppeteer who worked in vaudeville and was a featured player with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus. In the 1940s, Sid created a one-man puppet show, &#8220;<em>The Unusual Artistry of Sid Krofft<\/em>&#8220;, and performed it throughout the world. His father joined him on tour in Paris while Marty stayed in New York, where he began using his older brother&#8217;s puppets to earn money by staging performances. By the 1950s, the Krofft brothers were working together, and in 1957, they developed Les Poup\u00e9es de Paris, a puppet show with more mature themes. One of their early exposures to a television audience was the premiere episode of <em>The Dean Martin Show<\/em> in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>After designing the characters and sets for Hanna-Barbera&#8217;s <em>The Banana Splits<\/em> (NBC, 1968\u20131970), the Kroffts&#8217; producing career began in 1969 with the landmark children&#8217;s television series <em>H.R. Pufnstuf<\/em>. The series introduced the team&#8217;s trademark style of large-scale, colorful design, puppetry, and special effects. Featuring a boy who has been lured into an alternate fantasy world and can never escape, the team also established a storytelling formula to which they would often return.<\/p>\n<p>The Krofft brothers also expanded into primetime television with variety shows Donny &amp; Marie, The Brady Bunch Hour, and Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters. In 1976, a developer asked the Kroffts to develop an indoor amusement park for the new Omni International complex downtown Atlanta. The park, The World of Sid and Marty Krofft, closed after six months due to poor attendance. 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