![]() You just go with the times and come up with a great idea and hire great people.Ĭynsiders: What do you wish you could have done with your earlier shows that you weren’t able to? I think creativity is the same all the time. We know what we’re doing: We’ve got 23 dogs, two puppet cats and Cesar Millan’s son Calvin. Just like at Nickelodeon they trust us, they loved the idea, and they picked us up. Ĭynsiders: How free were you to make your shows? Did you have a lot of network interference? ![]() Everyone else who was making TV back then like Hanna-Barbera, they didn’t own their shows and now they’re. The thing is, we own all the shows we ever did. We’d like to get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest brothers who are producers. ![]() Marty Krofft: I usually say, if I had a dollar from everybody who said that to me, I wouldn’t be talking to you right now. Marty Krofft, now 78 (his brother is 85) spoke with Cynsiders about the show, how kids’ TV has changed – and also how it’s stayed the same.Ĭynsiders: Do you get tired of hearing that your shows were cultural touchstones for a generation? Now they’re back, with the new live-action kids show Mutt & Stuff premiering on Nickelodeon. The budgets were small, the images trippy, the shows enduring. Puppeteers at heart, the Kroffts were the men behind TV gems like Land of the Lost, HR Pufnstuf, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, to name just a few. It was impossible to be a child in the 1970s and 1980s and not be aware of the live-action children’s programming brought to TV sets by the brother team of Sid and Marty Krofft.
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