Even though this could have been the spin off of the 6MDM episode...there was also WildBoy...which by co-incidence...there was an episode of the 6MDM where Steve Austin was to save "Wild Boy" from certain death.
So...it could be fair to say..both Big Foot and Wild Boy are a spinoff of both episodes of the 6MDM.
That's weird I don't remember this show at all as a child growing up in the seventies and I clearly remember all the rest of these shows. I was laughing the whole way through this video!!
This is so cheesy, yet, I loved it. I know you could not put it out there today, but man, I used to love to watch these shows. These were great shows for really young kids.
@faceman68 true but its better for them to watch shows like bigfoot and wildboy maybe they wouldn,t be so crazy and picking up guns to kill people at ten years old
omg at 0:40 it sounds like he broke his legs, but he still is able to walk... maybe he's too stupid to feel pain? or does he even know he broke his legs?
I kinda remember the show, don't remember any episodes but i remember the opening, simply because the "bigfoot" character was so awesome, i would like to just watch him doing strong bigfoot stuff.
Update: Bigfoot and Wildboy are now domestic partners, living in the accepting gay district of Seattle, where the faux-hawked, fixie-riding Bigfoot runs a coffee shop and Wildboy is a successful DJ.
How could anyone not enjoy bigfoot from the 70's unless you were not born then or did not watch it. I was not even a teenager and I watch this show and loved it as a kid. As a matter of fact on Saturdays I watched tv from the morning to evening and barely and rarely moved to eat or get a drink of water. Look at this show from a child's point of view and it would be worth over it's weight in gold.
If I recall from back then, this show was nearly a spin-off from the 6 Million Dollar Man's bigfoot character, but only partially. Don't forget, that was a hit when it aired, so the producers obviously wanted to cash in with it's own show. They wanted it both ways, a non-bionic more real-deal Bigfoot, but strongly associated with the bionic man's rendition of it. He was expected to still run as fast, jump as high, etc. because the audience loved it.
@TheJediCharles Ray Young had guest starred on the Six Million Dollar Man and was from that show he learned how to create the illusions of long jumps.
@sallyjosie I have all of the Six Million Dollar man's eps on DVD...what episode was Ray Young in? So, if they hadn't have gotten Ray Young, would the producers of Bigfoot and Wildboy have sat around scratching their heads on how to film those long jumps??
@joeyvader My bad. I guess I received bad information. here is the right info. (cut and pasting)Ray Young who played "Bigfoot" appeared in many other television shows, including an episode of The Bionic Woman called "Iron Ships And Dead Men" on March 30, 1977, but not as Bigfoot. He played Bob Richards. He appeared in a number of shows like the new adventures of Wonder Woman, Murder Sher Wrote, Matlock, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Quantum Leap to name just a few. And not in order. He died in 1999
@sallyjosie Interesting...I'm gonna bet that playing Bigfoot on a lame children's show wasn't the highlight of his career...but a dudes' gotta eat..! Have you ever seen any of theze Bigfoot and Wildfoot episodes?? Man oh man...they stink worse than a flaming diaper pail...
@joeyvader I watched them when I was young and now I'm watching them here on youtube. There was a few years ago a Krofft Supershow 3 video pk that had one of every Krofft show on it. Or at least most of them. I forget where I put it but I do recall that there was one Bigfoot and Wildboy on it. And there's some silly new show about bigfoot on either the History channel or the Discovery channel. I don't believe in Bigfoot. No offense to those that do. But that 1960's film footage looks like a guy.
.Bigfoot..Sightings of them continue to this day, from people from all walks of life. If you're interested check Bill Munn's fx site. . He's the first fx guy to really take an in depth look at the subject in Patterson's film. As a creature suit designer himself, he is well aware of the limitation put on men in suits. The subject in the film has short hair, whereas most suits of the day have long shaggy hair to hide seams and joining points. The head and neck hair has Munn's puzzled.
As the subject puts weight on the right leg, the vastus lateralus is seen flexing.(Youtube clip 'muscle movement on Patty's thigh' to see this). Quite a feet for a suit made by the best fx studio in the world to accomplish, let alone 2 outta work rodeo guys National Geographic had Peter Burke, the head of Jim Henson's Creature Shop scrutinize the film, from a second gen copy (far clearer than anything on Youtube). Burke found some features he wasn't prepared for.
@sallyjosie From the 1st gen copy, achilles tendon flexing is seen, trapezius flexing during the head turn is apparent, as well as toe movement before the heel strike. The hair moves and conforms during movement to all of the muscle in the back, indicating a muscle understructure over 4 way stretch fur (not around in '67).. After finding no smoking gun that would prove it was a man in a suit, Burke commented "I have NO IDEA how they would have made this suit in 1967."
Janos Prohaska, who made his living in primate suits said "If it was a suit, it was the best suit I have ever seen!" Prohaska played apes of every variety in the 50's and 60's. If you're a Trek fan, he is the Mugato in the classic episode 'A Private Little War"...
@joeyvader Actually you really can't tell. Plus the guy who helped film the fraud has come clean. He admitted that he and his friend Roy did it as a joke. Just shows how guillibe some people are. just like the crop circles. Many of the die-hard believers in that crap couldn't believe that mere Humans could build the complicated circles and yet National Geographic filmed some mathematic students and their teacher actually creating both the calculations and actually making the circle themselves.
@sallyjosie Nobody named "Roy" involved....it was Bob Heronimus that finally came forward. after 35 years of silence..35 years! You'd think that when Roger Patterson was making money from the film in the late 60' and early 70's that THAT would have been the time to expose the hoax..why wait 35 years? watch Heronimus in his less than stellar recreation..he's here on youtube..he has NO resemblance to the Patterson subject in his shaggy pathetic ape suit...watch it and see for yourself.
That is correct. They wanted to have Bigfoot with the same speed and strength that Steve Austin had. But again..shows like this don't usually take off if the narrator has to explain the premise of the show during the opening credits. Means you would get lost trying to figure out what the characters are trying to do. Only time the narrator explaining the premise of a show during the opening credits worked was the 6 million dollar man.
I don't know if I agree with the idea that a narrator explaining the show don't usually take off. Star Trek and Star Trek the Next Generation, Twilight Zone, The Hulk, Knight Rider, Charlie's Angels, Dragnet... heck, even Law and Order.
I hear what you're saying and a lot of such shows bombed, but I don't see the "narrator-to-bomb" correlation. I do agree however, the SMDM is probably the king of narrator intros!
@TheJediCharles Nope...the two shows had nothing to do with each other..this was done by Sid and Marty Kroft, who had nothing to do with any shows made by Universal...Bigfoot did get around in the late 70's though...there were several documentaries out at the time on the subject..
Obviously they did have "something to do with one another". They weren't the same production company, but anyone with a pulse can tell at the most the rights were bought or at the least it was a knock off.
But to say they had "nothing to do" with each other is just not correct. It was more than merely cashing in on a Sasquatch interest. It was chasing a popular episode of a popular show.
@TheJediCharles They do have nothing to do with each other..No one owns the right to Bigfoot, so why would one productiuon company have to buy the rights from another one? The Bigfoot seen in the Six Million Dollar Man was a robot...how does this have ANY resemblance to the Bigfoot seen here?
Of course nobody "owns rights to bigfoot", but the SMDM show created a bigfoot with very specific fictional abilities, and corresponding sound effects which were highly recognizable. The super jumps with sound, the super lifts with sound, the super speeds with a speedometer... this show was transparently no less than trying to be a knock-off. They would have been smart to buy rights, because this brand of idea-stealing is the kind that puts one under the fist of a civil court.
@TheJediCharles 'at the most the rights were bought or at the least it was a knock off' Tell us all who owns the original rights to Bigfoots image... I am trying to get a Ssaquatch movie made, and need tio know from whom to get the rights....
It was...that is why they did things during the opening credits...like showing you how fast he ran by putting up a spedometer and showing how high he could jump. The six million dollar man episodes where he confronted bigfoot were some of the highest rated episodes.
@TheJediCharles ok but wasn't the Bigfoot from the 6 million dollar man actually a robot?, because i use to wonder too if this was a spin-off from that show.
Don't get me wrong; I don't mean it was supposed to be "the same" bigfoot. It seems like it was just to cash in on a success. It was a cash cow. They re-imagined a number of things (probably just enough to not be sued) but it was apparently similar to anyone that liked the former Bigfoot on 6MDM.
The dead giveaway are the sounds, jumps, undercranking, and the speedometer.
God...I used to use my Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker action figures as Bigfoot and Wildboy. I think Hollywood needs to reboot this. Hey, Harry and the Henderson's did well, didn't it? Haha
@ohmah70 Let me join you in your time machine :) ! The Six Million Dollar Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Land of The Lost, ZOOM, the Electric Company, the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries...YES, in my opinion, the '70s HAD IT ALL! In my opinion, the '80s were EQUALLY decent! Today, well, despite modern technology, T.V. stations have NO CLUE how to ENTERTAIN TODAY'S audiences! THANK GOD for Youtube!
@ohmah70 haha no doubt, i was born in 1990 and watched this show as well as some really retro shows, like from the 60's thunderbirds and fireball xl 5, lots of great shows through the decades unlike todays crap
@TankerTim1973 Nope. This was a Sid/Marty Krofft show, from the late 1970's. They were ripping off the popularity of the Bigfoot appearance on the SMDM.
It's a shame the quality of televisions we have today, how much it's evolved, whereas the stuff to watch on them have devolved even more rapidly. Really, I didn't mind changing the channels with a pair of pliers after the knob fell off, using a coat hanger to get better reception, things like that. It was worth it to watch awesome shit like this!
Boy, you said it! Kids get spoon fed entertainment these days. Back then, half the entertainment was getting the TV to deliver. It built better character as we appreciated what we got and frankly earned it more.
I believe we have better survival skills after having to learn the subtle nuance of getting a vertical hold in that just right sweet spot. Kids today don't know they're born.
"Bigfoot raised him until he grew up to be Wildboy". That doesn't make sense, should he have grown up to be Wildman? I'm starting to think that this might not be a true story.
I'm not kidding, this might not be a true story. Wildboy speaks perfect english but bigfoot just grunts. Explain that marcus! Plus they caught all this footidge on tape! How likely is that when there have only been 40 or 50 authentic videos of bigfoot ever recorded? You are fooling your elf. I mean self.
@000MrAnderson -You talk a good game, but, after careful analysis, I just don't buy it. The authentic videos are obvious proof that Bigfoot was kind & would nurture a young Wildboy; Bigfoot had a natural responsibility to raise Wildboy - he could've got kids' books from trash cans for WB to LEARN. OK. And BF would stay true to his heritage by grunting. It's simple nature and nurture - that's a fact. True story.
Bigfoot hates criminals, as we all do. Nobody doughts that! The video is authentic and nobody casn argure that Bigfoot is real. There is one thing that is un-clear. Where does Wildboy get a perm? The government is lieing to us! Open your eyes Marcus!
@000MrAnderson -I see! You are right again, but, pure common sense tells us it's an authentic video of the real Bigfoot; we are just debating over aspects of the story line! Of course, everyone knows that to adapt it for prime time TV, Bigfoot and Wb had to 'act it up' a bit just to flesh out the story for younger viewers (and some adults). IMHO - BigFoot did a remakable acting job considering he had very little formal acting training and grew up in a forest and stuff.
marcusbondi, you have missed the point! Bigfoot was a blood thirsty ape/man until he raised Wildboy. Then and only then they became teacher and mentor. Bigfoot was a father figure to Wildboy. I don't think BF & WB ever "acted it up." It was all real. WE NEED MORE BIGFOOTS!
After watching the Little League World Series, I have changed my mind. Bigfoot was a terrible dad. Why didn't he coach a little league team? WB could have been a good shortstop with a good bat. BF got lazy. IMHO.
Ah yeah, I remember this on Saturday mornings. Looking back though, they should have used a mask or better makeup for Bigfoot. Hell this just looks like some guy from Lynard Skynard or something.
One time Bigfoot shit out a possum in the woods and I accidentally stepped in it. Then I rubbed my foot on the ground in order to get the shit off my shoe.
I forgot all about this show until I stumbled onto this. LOL. Assuming this show was post Steve Austin vs. Sasquatch. Did it compete with the incredible Hulk with Lou F. or was it on the same network? I can't remember.
Even though this could have been the spin off of the 6MDM episode...there was also WildBoy...which by co-incidence...there was an episode of the 6MDM where Steve Austin was to save "Wild Boy" from certain death.
So...it could be fair to say..both Big Foot and Wild Boy are a spinoff of both episodes of the 6MDM.
texasghost 1 week ago
OMG this is bad.
Audioquest56 2 weeks ago
Back in the 70s, there was a Bigfoot craze, much like the Dinosaur craze of the 90s.
BricktownBubba 1 month ago
That's weird I don't remember this show at all as a child growing up in the seventies and I clearly remember all the rest of these shows. I was laughing the whole way through this video!!
The7811 1 month ago
LTD----------- DIDNT HAVE SUCH A SPEEDOMETER
timpriddy73 1 month ago
that'd be awesome if Bigfoot wasn't caught in a cave-in in the intro. and he just sleeps using boulders as a blanket
Hancockenstein 2 months ago
i use to love this show when i was a kid.
116Eggleston 2 months ago
Ha ha, Bigfoot looks stupid and he's scared of a station wagon. Ha ha ha...
wafflelust 3 months ago
man i was glued to the tv every sat morn to watch this i used to love this show!!!!
MrTrill1970 3 months ago
Is he screaming "Guayaba"??? that's a fruit LOL
rfd73 3 months ago
This is so cheesy, yet, I loved it. I know you could not put it out there today, but man, I used to love to watch these shows. These were great shows for really young kids.
faceman68 4 months ago
@faceman68 true but its better for them to watch shows like bigfoot and wildboy maybe they wouldn,t be so crazy and picking up guns to kill people at ten years old
tribe1964 4 months ago
Grandissima questa serie tv.
La stanno riproponendo su NekoTv sul canale 45 del digitale terrestre,mi sono emozionato ieri sera a rivedere uno degli episodi :)
TheMrcicciobello75 5 months ago
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omg at 0:40 it sounds like he broke his legs, but he still is able to walk... maybe he's too stupid to feel pain? or does he even know he broke his legs?
krakken242 5 months ago
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krakken242 5 months ago
I kinda remember the show, don't remember any episodes but i remember the opening, simply because the "bigfoot" character was so awesome, i would like to just watch him doing strong bigfoot stuff.
eolsunder 5 months ago
I only now after 30 plus years remember this show. No wonder my generation is so screwed up.....
edmondsnative 5 months ago
I have to say I grew up in the 70's and NEVER heard of this show. Craziness! And I watched the Bionic Man too. Did this air in Canada?
moxxi 5 months ago
he looks like a big collie...just like my cousin's husband. sorry Delroy, but you do
nealadams70 6 months ago
Slow motion Chewbacca + running Tarzan = doomsday for evil. Amazing.
Update: Bigfoot and Wildboy are now domestic partners, living in the accepting gay district of Seattle, where the faux-hawked, fixie-riding Bigfoot runs a coffee shop and Wildboy is a successful DJ.
spamcorndog 6 months ago 6
@spamcorndog but according to the Venture Bros. i thought that Steve Austin and Big foot became domestic partners,.....just asking.
DocHartford 1 month ago
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spamcorndog 6 months ago
awesome movie
EuroUploadChannel 7 months ago
LOL I remember the music but not the episodes my kids would think this was so dumb
lavvy2585 7 months ago
So he exist after all O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O_O
royalsteven 7 months ago
HAHAHA Just Like BATMAN AND ROBIN :D JOY OH JOY
JzillaStudio134 7 months ago
sex with the beast
jceowoodard 8 months ago
in a suit. Even the guy who made the costume for Harry and the Hendersons tv show said it looked a guy in a really bad bigfoot costume.
sallyjosie 8 months ago
Oops! Thats *Murder She Wrote*. I'll get the hang of typing someday. lol
sallyjosie 8 months ago
The 70s rocked, everything was new, things also seemed less complicated then too.
greggieboy71 8 months ago
Oh come on...is this for real??? LoL ;-D
Credithelper75 8 months ago
PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHERE CAN I FIND THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.
FASTBOOBS 8 months ago
These are what makes me loooove YouTube........
kratos3815 8 months ago
No boulder can crush him! No station wagon can catch him!
CapnJay214Supra 8 months ago
Thanks for the memories . :)
drwhostardis 8 months ago
How could anyone not enjoy bigfoot from the 70's unless you were not born then or did not watch it. I was not even a teenager and I watch this show and loved it as a kid. As a matter of fact on Saturdays I watched tv from the morning to evening and barely and rarely moved to eat or get a drink of water. Look at this show from a child's point of view and it would be worth over it's weight in gold.
1954mustang 9 months ago
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Does anyone know what Joseph Butcher is doing now?
LoganRileyButcher 9 months ago
Does anyone really know what Joseph Butcher is doing now?
LoganRileyButcher 9 months ago
I heard they STUFFED wildboy....
nealadams70 10 months ago
@nealadams70 Bigfoot did repeatedly...
Rick6315 9 months ago
Fantastica questa serie.
Mi ha fatto tornare indietro nel tempo a rivedere la sigla :)
TheMrcicciobello75 10 months ago
Damn im old.
fullautoarmalite 10 months ago
Classic...i remember watching this Saturday Mornings
Smooveblack 10 months ago
hell yeah! oh to be a sound designer on this great show.
BeeDotSix 10 months ago
Wild Boy... He wore Barney Rubble's outfit and could run kind of fast. Kind of useless without a giant sasquatch around as enforcer muscle.
nonameslefttotake 10 months ago
@nonameslefttotake now thats funny as all hell,lol
mr68special 10 months ago
OMG!! I REMEMBER THIS SHOW! JUMPED OFF AFTER THE SMDM TV SHOW AIRED STEVE AUSTIN BATTLING BIGFOOT! SHEET WAS TIRED!
jd7779311 11 months ago
i use to love ths show growing up in tazewell west,va in 1977
marlahni07 11 months ago
Ha, if you look closely to the bottom left corner at 0:40, you can see the leg to the ladder he jumped off of.
TheJediCharles 11 months ago
I remember even back then thinking, 'how the hell is Bigfoot bionic-like or whatever??'
aculturemind 1 year ago
@aculturemind
If I recall from back then, this show was nearly a spin-off from the 6 Million Dollar Man's bigfoot character, but only partially. Don't forget, that was a hit when it aired, so the producers obviously wanted to cash in with it's own show. They wanted it both ways, a non-bionic more real-deal Bigfoot, but strongly associated with the bionic man's rendition of it. He was expected to still run as fast, jump as high, etc. because the audience loved it.
It was a partial-spin-off.
TheJediCharles 11 months ago 5
@TheJediCharles
Yeah, I seem to remember that.
aculturemind 11 months ago
@TheJediCharles Ray Young had guest starred on the Six Million Dollar Man and was from that show he learned how to create the illusions of long jumps.
sallyjosie 8 months ago
@sallyjosie I have all of the Six Million Dollar man's eps on DVD...what episode was Ray Young in? So, if they hadn't have gotten Ray Young, would the producers of Bigfoot and Wildboy have sat around scratching their heads on how to film those long jumps??
joeyvader 8 months ago
@joeyvader My bad. I guess I received bad information. here is the right info. (cut and pasting)Ray Young who played "Bigfoot" appeared in many other television shows, including an episode of The Bionic Woman called "Iron Ships And Dead Men" on March 30, 1977, but not as Bigfoot. He played Bob Richards. He appeared in a number of shows like the new adventures of Wonder Woman, Murder Sher Wrote, Matlock, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Quantum Leap to name just a few. And not in order. He died in 1999
sallyjosie 8 months ago
@sallyjosie Interesting...I'm gonna bet that playing Bigfoot on a lame children's show wasn't the highlight of his career...but a dudes' gotta eat..! Have you ever seen any of theze Bigfoot and Wildfoot episodes?? Man oh man...they stink worse than a flaming diaper pail...
joeyvader 8 months ago
@joeyvader I watched them when I was young and now I'm watching them here on youtube. There was a few years ago a Krofft Supershow 3 video pk that had one of every Krofft show on it. Or at least most of them. I forget where I put it but I do recall that there was one Bigfoot and Wildboy on it. And there's some silly new show about bigfoot on either the History channel or the Discovery channel. I don't believe in Bigfoot. No offense to those that do. But that 1960's film footage looks like a guy.
sallyjosie 8 months ago
.Bigfoot..Sightings of them continue to this day, from people from all walks of life. If you're interested check Bill Munn's fx site. . He's the first fx guy to really take an in depth look at the subject in Patterson's film. As a creature suit designer himself, he is well aware of the limitation put on men in suits. The subject in the film has short hair, whereas most suits of the day have long shaggy hair to hide seams and joining points. The head and neck hair has Munn's puzzled.
joeyvader 8 months ago
As the subject puts weight on the right leg, the vastus lateralus is seen flexing.(Youtube clip 'muscle movement on Patty's thigh' to see this). Quite a feet for a suit made by the best fx studio in the world to accomplish, let alone 2 outta work rodeo guys National Geographic had Peter Burke, the head of Jim Henson's Creature Shop scrutinize the film, from a second gen copy (far clearer than anything on Youtube). Burke found some features he wasn't prepared for.
joeyvader 8 months ago
@sallyjosie From the 1st gen copy, achilles tendon flexing is seen, trapezius flexing during the head turn is apparent, as well as toe movement before the heel strike. The hair moves and conforms during movement to all of the muscle in the back, indicating a muscle understructure over 4 way stretch fur (not around in '67).. After finding no smoking gun that would prove it was a man in a suit, Burke commented "I have NO IDEA how they would have made this suit in 1967."
joeyvader 8 months ago
Janos Prohaska, who made his living in primate suits said "If it was a suit, it was the best suit I have ever seen!" Prohaska played apes of every variety in the 50's and 60's. If you're a Trek fan, he is the Mugato in the classic episode 'A Private Little War"...
joeyvader 8 months ago
@joeyvader Actually you really can't tell. Plus the guy who helped film the fraud has come clean. He admitted that he and his friend Roy did it as a joke. Just shows how guillibe some people are. just like the crop circles. Many of the die-hard believers in that crap couldn't believe that mere Humans could build the complicated circles and yet National Geographic filmed some mathematic students and their teacher actually creating both the calculations and actually making the circle themselves.
sallyjosie 8 months ago
@sallyjosie Nobody named "Roy" involved....it was Bob Heronimus that finally came forward. after 35 years of silence..35 years! You'd think that when Roger Patterson was making money from the film in the late 60' and early 70's that THAT would have been the time to expose the hoax..why wait 35 years? watch Heronimus in his less than stellar recreation..he's here on youtube..he has NO resemblance to the Patterson subject in his shaggy pathetic ape suit...watch it and see for yourself.
joeyvader 8 months ago
@TheJediCharles
That is correct. They wanted to have Bigfoot with the same speed and strength that Steve Austin had. But again..shows like this don't usually take off if the narrator has to explain the premise of the show during the opening credits. Means you would get lost trying to figure out what the characters are trying to do. Only time the narrator explaining the premise of a show during the opening credits worked was the 6 million dollar man.
texasghost 8 months ago
@texasghost
I don't know if I agree with the idea that a narrator explaining the show don't usually take off. Star Trek and Star Trek the Next Generation, Twilight Zone, The Hulk, Knight Rider, Charlie's Angels, Dragnet... heck, even Law and Order.
I hear what you're saying and a lot of such shows bombed, but I don't see the "narrator-to-bomb" correlation. I do agree however, the SMDM is probably the king of narrator intros!
TheJediCharles 8 months ago
@TheJediCharles Nope...the two shows had nothing to do with each other..this was done by Sid and Marty Kroft, who had nothing to do with any shows made by Universal...Bigfoot did get around in the late 70's though...there were several documentaries out at the time on the subject..
joeyvader 8 months ago
@joeyvader
Obviously they did have "something to do with one another". They weren't the same production company, but anyone with a pulse can tell at the most the rights were bought or at the least it was a knock off.
But to say they had "nothing to do" with each other is just not correct. It was more than merely cashing in on a Sasquatch interest. It was chasing a popular episode of a popular show.
TheJediCharles 8 months ago
@TheJediCharles They do have nothing to do with each other..No one owns the right to Bigfoot, so why would one productiuon company have to buy the rights from another one? The Bigfoot seen in the Six Million Dollar Man was a robot...how does this have ANY resemblance to the Bigfoot seen here?
joeyvader 8 months ago
@joeyvader
Of course nobody "owns rights to bigfoot", but the SMDM show created a bigfoot with very specific fictional abilities, and corresponding sound effects which were highly recognizable. The super jumps with sound, the super lifts with sound, the super speeds with a speedometer... this show was transparently no less than trying to be a knock-off. They would have been smart to buy rights, because this brand of idea-stealing is the kind that puts one under the fist of a civil court.
TheJediCharles 8 months ago
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@TheJediCharles 'at the most the rights were bought or at the least it was a knock off' Tell us all who owns the original rights to Bigfoots image... I am trying to get a Ssaquatch movie made, and need tio know from whom to get the rights....
joeyvader 8 months ago
@TheJediCharles
It was...that is why they did things during the opening credits...like showing you how fast he ran by putting up a spedometer and showing how high he could jump. The six million dollar man episodes where he confronted bigfoot were some of the highest rated episodes.
texasghost 7 months ago
@TheJediCharles ok but wasn't the Bigfoot from the 6 million dollar man actually a robot?, because i use to wonder too if this was a spin-off from that show.
DocHartford 1 month ago
@DocHartford
Yes, the 6MDM Bigfoot was an android.
Don't get me wrong; I don't mean it was supposed to be "the same" bigfoot. It seems like it was just to cash in on a success. It was a cash cow. They re-imagined a number of things (probably just enough to not be sued) but it was apparently similar to anyone that liked the former Bigfoot on 6MDM.
The dead giveaway are the sounds, jumps, undercranking, and the speedometer.
TheJediCharles 1 month ago
There was so much less tv then so it meant more.
uk1941 1 year ago 3
If I run into a bigfoot in the woods I hope it's a female. I like hairy women.
Attila709 1 year ago
God...I used to use my Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker action figures as Bigfoot and Wildboy. I think Hollywood needs to reboot this. Hey, Harry and the Henderson's did well, didn't it? Haha
HapaPapa7 1 year ago
I had a crush on wildboy as a teenager in the 1970s. Don't tell anyone! Oh, I guess everyone knows know. So sad.
fansyir 1 year ago
oh wow totally forgot about this show,thanks for posting.
stangfever04 1 year ago
Awesome!
talon115 1 year ago
couldnt ask for a better decade to grow up in as a kid......i need a time machine so bad.
ohmah70 1 year ago 29
@ohmah70 "couldnt ask for a better decade to grow up in as a kid......i need a time machine so bad."
You've a point.
It totally sucked for adults but for kids...
cosmosgato 1 year ago 2
@ohmah70 Let me join you in your time machine :) ! The Six Million Dollar Man, the Incredible Hulk, the Land of The Lost, ZOOM, the Electric Company, the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries...YES, in my opinion, the '70s HAD IT ALL! In my opinion, the '80s were EQUALLY decent! Today, well, despite modern technology, T.V. stations have NO CLUE how to ENTERTAIN TODAY'S audiences! THANK GOD for Youtube!
AngelofAnguish 9 months ago
@AngelofAnguish ~ agreed ~ less 4 south park ~ though :)
twilight9202 8 months ago
@ohmah70 haha no doubt, i was born in 1990 and watched this show as well as some really retro shows, like from the 60's thunderbirds and fireball xl 5, lots of great shows through the decades unlike todays crap
ewilliams9 6 months ago
This takes me waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back!
briancolding 1 year ago
I always thought it was funny that when they ran in slow motion it meant they were supposed to be running incredibly fast....
40milesband 1 year ago
@40milesband LOL!!!
HorusRising 1 year ago
The 70's was all about the JUMP!
deadmantyping2 1 year ago
BAAYYAABAA!! Ah the memories. LOL
nosajj12345 1 year ago
@TankerTim1973 it wasnt really a spin off, i just think sid/marty krofft were trying to cash in on the whole "bigfoot craze" back then
jfilesbooks 1 year ago
Interestingly, Season 3 of The Six Million Dollar Man had the episodes "Wolf Boy" and "The Secret of Bigfoot"!! Who knew??
mattmo1 1 year ago
I'm guessing Jack Black watched this show as a kid
SpeedTiberius 1 year ago
I guess I won't be robbing banks in the woods anymore.
Attila709 1 year ago
Yeah, didn't 6 million dollar man fight him in one episode? Lol
rokbarry 1 year ago
@TankerTim1973 Nope. This was a Sid/Marty Krofft show, from the late 1970's. They were ripping off the popularity of the Bigfoot appearance on the SMDM.
kyokogodai 1 year ago
i couldnt I watch this crap LOL
caliking74 1 year ago
very cool video
bortomatcha 1 year ago
I used to love this. We would watch this, Shazam, Wonder Bug and Dr. Shinker then my sister would watch Electric Woman and Dyna Girl....YUK
bpnsirdiealot 1 year ago
Ahhh Saturday Morning Cartoons ..Where would we be without Sid and Marty Kroft:)
smizzman 1 year ago
Notice that Bigfoot's jumps are edited in a manner similarly to the super leaps
from Six Million Dollar Man, Bionic Woman, and Wonder Woman. Even has a similar
sound effect.
drbotanus 1 year ago
Ray Young is my Great Uncle! hes my moms uncle and she has a director chair that he gave her for her 18th birthday! I wish I got to meet him!!!!
Mega3msc 1 year ago 4
maybe I'll think twice about comiting crimes in the woods
Attila709 1 year ago
Six Million Dollar Man meets Turner and Hooch meets Blue Lagoon.
irpogo 1 year ago
i used to love this show as a kid. its so effin cheap and cheezy. I love it.
setpunk12 1 year ago
Is wild boy Dave Edmunds?
BrickLaneBetty 1 year ago
It's clear to me now that Wildboy was Bigfoot's sex slave....that's why he 'raised' him for all those years.....nasty ass
joey75220 1 year ago
LOL ! I vaguely remember watching this, with my brother..so many years ago ! Thanks for posting. I'm saving to my favorites.
SandmanPaul5 1 year ago
I remember watching this as a kid and loving it so much! :o)
mothersfreakout 1 year ago
I use to watch this ??? Who here remembers "rat patrol"
ronofontario 1 year ago
Holy Crap! I still have my Maskatron Bionic action figure.
sgtjagusmc 1 year ago
He is the one that chased the steeve austin in the woods! HA HA HAAA hi-la-ri-us!
youtoubakias 1 year ago
Totally remember this!
bradyall 1 year ago
i think i fell in love with the seventies
hemiputer 1 year ago
Every episode ended in Bigfoot jumping over a mountain to save wild boy. Sigmund pwns as did/ does Dr. Shrinker.
ChimpinApeEasy 1 year ago
bigfoot it jhurk
jeanpaul497 1 year ago
Now this is one Krofft show that I've never heard of before.
Akira625 1 year ago
alguien sabe donde encuentro capitulos de esta serie en español
billiejean140976 1 year ago
DAMN forgot all about this lol.................
Griff1319 1 year ago
That is not Bigfoot, it is my 4th/5th grade teacher Mr. L. (can't post whole name) Man that guy was an ^&*##
2muchreality4u 1 year ago
It got to Colombia in the nearly 80's. For Christ sake, I cannot believe this jewel was on youtube! Thanks, Fabster
andresrodrigoescobar 1 year ago
Big Foot only wanted to be loved. And eat people.
Kevin90028 1 year ago
It's a shame the quality of televisions we have today, how much it's evolved, whereas the stuff to watch on them have devolved even more rapidly. Really, I didn't mind changing the channels with a pair of pliers after the knob fell off, using a coat hanger to get better reception, things like that. It was worth it to watch awesome shit like this!
EvelTwinOfSlogmaster 1 year ago
@EvelTwinOfSlogmaster
Boy, you said it! Kids get spoon fed entertainment these days. Back then, half the entertainment was getting the TV to deliver. It built better character as we appreciated what we got and frankly earned it more.
I believe we have better survival skills after having to learn the subtle nuance of getting a vertical hold in that just right sweet spot. Kids today don't know they're born.
TheJediCharles 1 year ago
There was a "Mockumentary" movie put out in 1975 called "Sasquatch".
Anyone remember it?
ThoughtTraveler 1 year ago
Bahah this show surely looks cheesy as a muthafucka. I don't think I would take my precious time out to even watch this -__-
royalsteven 1 year ago
did wild boy get beat up by the 6 million dollar man, thats why we had bionic bigfoot vrs the 6 million dollar man.
funkzilla1001 1 year ago
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warzoneWoW 1 year ago
hahaha. i loved this 80's stuff man but looking now i think it sure was crazy. check that hairy man jump! hahaha. yee-hah!
Blackhoundrise 1 year ago
"Bigfoot raised him until he grew up to be Wildboy". That doesn't make sense, should he have grown up to be Wildman? I'm starting to think that this might not be a true story.
000MrAnderson 1 year ago 2
@000MrAnderson You've kind of got a good point.....but, nah, C'MON! ;)
marcusbondi 1 year ago
@marcusbondi
I'm not kidding, this might not be a true story. Wildboy speaks perfect english but bigfoot just grunts. Explain that marcus! Plus they caught all this footidge on tape! How likely is that when there have only been 40 or 50 authentic videos of bigfoot ever recorded? You are fooling your elf. I mean self.
000MrAnderson 1 year ago
@000MrAnderson -You talk a good game, but, after careful analysis, I just don't buy it. The authentic videos are obvious proof that Bigfoot was kind & would nurture a young Wildboy; Bigfoot had a natural responsibility to raise Wildboy - he could've got kids' books from trash cans for WB to LEARN. OK. And BF would stay true to his heritage by grunting. It's simple nature and nurture - that's a fact. True story.
marcusbondi 1 year ago
@marcusbondi
Bigfoot hates criminals, as we all do. Nobody doughts that! The video is authentic and nobody casn argure that Bigfoot is real. There is one thing that is un-clear. Where does Wildboy get a perm? The government is lieing to us! Open your eyes Marcus!
000MrAnderson 1 year ago
@000MrAnderson
I said perm, as in permanent hairdo.
000MrAnderson 1 year ago
@000MrAnderson -I see! You are right again, but, pure common sense tells us it's an authentic video of the real Bigfoot; we are just debating over aspects of the story line! Of course, everyone knows that to adapt it for prime time TV, Bigfoot and Wb had to 'act it up' a bit just to flesh out the story for younger viewers (and some adults). IMHO - BigFoot did a remakable acting job considering he had very little formal acting training and grew up in a forest and stuff.
marcusbondi 1 year ago
@marcusbondi
marcusbondi, you have missed the point! Bigfoot was a blood thirsty ape/man until he raised Wildboy. Then and only then they became teacher and mentor. Bigfoot was a father figure to Wildboy. I don't think BF & WB ever "acted it up." It was all real. WE NEED MORE BIGFOOTS!
000MrAnderson 1 year ago
@marcusbondi
After watching the Little League World Series, I have changed my mind. Bigfoot was a terrible dad. Why didn't he coach a little league team? WB could have been a good shortstop with a good bat. BF got lazy. IMHO.
000MrAnderson 1 year ago
LMFAO!
blazingangstaz 1 year ago
god bless you, kenny :D
francisJ91 1 year ago 2
They sure were lucky to find a Bigfoot that had some acting skills
Attila709 1 year ago
Ah yeah, I remember this on Saturday mornings. Looking back though, they should have used a mask or better makeup for Bigfoot. Hell this just looks like some guy from Lynard Skynard or something.
sporty2000 1 year ago
Hahaha....great stuff.....cute girl too...
JonathanVonErich 1 year ago
Oddly, the same production values as todays K v S.
izzybean 1 year ago
HOW DOES KENNY FIND THIS STUFF XD
splitka1996 1 year ago
How do you find this shit Kenny?
chype 1 year ago 2
I love the cheesy costumes, and the music...!!! :D
cherrymaryx 1 year ago
Sounds like Robin Hood
amberandearl 1 year ago
...Chewie?
hippocakes 1 year ago 2
this is kinda random...
hymykalle 1 year ago
hahaha
janikfischer 1 year ago
R U Freaking serious? i cant believe this is for real!!
Heresjarie 1 year ago
I loved shows like this...!
dapperine202 1 year ago
Gee, I wonder why that show didn't turn into a franchise like Star Trek?
kokobaboko 1 year ago
The wild child and opening theme of this series reminds me of Kamen Rider Amazon, but ofcourse that was more awesome XD
KajiRider1997 1 year ago
Cool.A big, hairy daddy and his little blonde twinky.HOT.
magnetomikey 1 year ago
Hey, is that Tommy Shaw, lol?
flyingv111 1 year ago
Isnt Bigfoot supposed to be like 7-8 feet tall?
northmark444 1 year ago
@northmark444 yes that is what he is rumored to be... about 7ft tall
Astraldragon1 1 year ago
Times have changed I guess white men COULD jump back in the days lol
coketrain1 1 year ago
Something is really unhealthy about this relationship
Attila709 1 year ago
I wish I would have sent my son to the woods when he was born. He could be fighting crime instead of eating all of my food.
000MrAnderson 1 year ago 2
@000MrAnderson
Way too funny!! Sadly, I missed this gem back then.
1stDyster 1 year ago
Lol. Gotta love the 70's. I guess weed was easier to come by then?
1acroyear1 1 year ago
Great Post!! I'd hang out with Bigfoot any day!! lol
redtailedkite 1 year ago
Jesus that was hideous..i feel a rumble in my bumble.
blairzel 1 year ago
I can't believe i use to watch this show! I think i was high on Honey combs cereals lol Is bigfoot trying to outrun a wagon?? lmao
TexJavi213 1 year ago
One time Bigfoot shit out a possum in the woods and I accidentally stepped in it. Then I rubbed my foot on the ground in order to get the shit off my shoe.
Prophet658 1 year ago
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Attila709 1 year ago
tv was better way back then,ahh,the good ole days,pjammas,count chocula,kindergarten.i remember alllllll this stuff.damn how time flies
superbert35 1 year ago
I used to watch these, but then my brain was smaller back then. I don't think trying to recapture
those years in these shows are going to be good for my fully developed brain now.
surfmcgoogler 1 year ago
every boy should have a bigfoot in their lives ~ not enough message shows these days ~
TJae1 2 years ago
so amazing this is blowin my mind the memories
gwgn02 2 years ago
i never seen this
234ULTRA 2 years ago
Man, I sure loved this show as a kid.
Starkiller2187 2 years ago
These shows seem so corny now, but I sure loved them as a kid. I forgot about the disco soundtrack. Thanks for taking me back.
greggeek 2 years ago
Squatch must have been the runt of the litter. Wildboy was almost as tall as he was. By-YAHHHH-BahhhHHH!!
Rometiklan 2 years ago
OMG!!!!! I remember this show, WOW, thanks for the forgotten memories!!!! LOL
dab7547 2 years ago
Rent them on DVD...they are just as bad as you will have remembered...
joeyvader 2 years ago
I forgot all about this show until I stumbled onto this. LOL. Assuming this show was post Steve Austin vs. Sasquatch. Did it compete with the incredible Hulk with Lou F. or was it on the same network? I can't remember.