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Welcome to vast wasteland the video journal of 60s and 70s television I'm Mark Schmidar along with Wilbert Neal and Marty Wiley Well tonight, we're gonna be talking about those geniuses Sid and Marty cropped But first off I want to tell you we're on Tuesdays at 6 Wednesdays at 10 and Thursdays at 3 p.m. Here on a CTV cables what he went Also, if you want to write into vast wasteland just write box 15 14 11 Columbus, Ohio 4 3 2 1 5 Well, let's see before we also before we jump into the show just again More kudos if you missed last show and you didn't and you didn't see the new opening there It is again the new opening and we want to thank David Park the man in there incredible just one of the many Dave's on the show and The work is still continuing on on the on the new backdrop so We end all the paint you have Having a telephone later for that the paint of that's right paint of fun. Yeah, anyways sit and Marty cropped Wilbert, what's your first point for the evening? Well by golly back in the the late 60s there was a Movie that was a an adaptation of a Charles Dickens movie And it was a musical adaptation which was totally unusual for that kind of thing But still they did it. It was Oliver. That's right now So what basically what I'm gonna mention here is the so what? That's true it introduced that a child star who a British child star too, but Played the artful Dodger in that and his name was Jack Wilde and Well by golly. What was it a year or maybe was it? It was about a year after Oliver came out and was going real strong that um this new show showed up on TV And it was The Jack Wilde show. Well, almost That was called the Jack Wilde show HR puffin Being guys you would not understand what a major heartthrob he was for like a Seven or eight year old you knew you were too young for Davey Jones, but here was this guy about your size with that accent Yeah, but I but I heard recently. He's not doing very well and in Robin Hood. Yeah, he's But before me Have been just before that I don't know but there was on entertainment tonight or something They were doing the the where are they now could type thing and he wasn't doing very well at the time So basically you've got this show HR puff and stuff about this this this boy named Jimmy hi Jimmy And his his magic flute Fwetti Well Freddy actually but he can never quite say Freddy so it always was Fwetti His magic talking flute and well diamond studs. Yes. It was just an amazing thing So anyway Anyways, let's go on he was amazing talking flute and what happened was well one day He's just outplayed his flute and tripping lightly over the hills and everything and he sees this magic boat And the boat says come along with me Jimmy come along with me And I'll take you on a trip far across the sea But the boat belonged to a kooky old witch who had in mind the flute to snitch and from her vroom vroom in The sky she watched her play materialized She waved her wand and the beautiful boat was gone the skies grew dark the sea grew rough and the boat sailed on and on and on Tough and stuff was watching to and knew exactly what to do He saw the witches boat attacking as the boat as the boy was flying back He called his rescue racer through as often days rehearsed and off to save the boy They flew but who would get there first by now the boy is washed ashore puff arrived to save the day Which made the witch so mad and so she shook her fist and screamed away. Hey, hey, HR puffing stuff Took me a long time to figure out exactly what puffing stuff was Yeah, I'm told you don't look dragon Lizard. That's good. He's he's a big thing with cowboy boots He's a big talking lizard with a cousin accent. Yeah, that's too big Well, he was a dragon Was a documentary Well, anyway, and um the witch was witchy poo play by Billy Hayes who The movie they had a whole bunch and mama cast was in the movie. Yeah, I think she was witch hazel or Another witch thing Witch thing is there was dr. Blinky the owl. Yeah, who he had all these talking things in his office The book the skull the skull with the candle On the candle, let me see didn't he have beakers that talked or something like that everything talked that would get on my nerve Everything on the island was basically alive when you get right down to it everything on the island was alive everything could talk because they had trees on that island that were like People trees Coming up And the tree with the big glasses and I remember we had that that singer that big. What was it a bird or a hippopotamus or something that was the singer Yeah, like I said those things could be it was like a big thing ahead with they had this afro I remember she used to do a Thing right after show came on talked about puffin stuff was brought to you by toy maker toy maker hasbro That's who remember hasbro toys boys and girls. Oh, they made gi joe One of those big huge toy Beatrice Beatrice can glomerate type things And then there was the vulture the vulture in the um In the castle I want to say seymour, but I don't think that's right. That could be it But I don't know because there was another show with seymour in it. Well, they could have been veni seymours It's all right, but anyway giant spider thing. Yeah, was it a spider thing? It was a we don't know We don't know. Well, let's move on now. That was the 69 brothers Say it could have been or were they fake brothers like the smothers brothers Now I suspect it's sitting marnie croff. We're actually Look that up in your book That's something they never taught a big sitting marnie croff book Oh, that'd be a scary thing All full of big-headed things that don't look like what they are That's the whole key to those things Big heads look at lidsville. Yeah The whole show was nothing but big heads What do we got next They weren't just big heads, they were big heads, but before that there's the bugaloo The infamous bugaloo. Yeah, are we going chronologically? Oh, yeah chronologically here. Okay, the bug You know the bugaloo's the bugaloo's the in the air and every there flying high flying loose flying free of the summer breeze Happy as a summer breeze. Yeah, he's got a little lightning, but he was a little sparky the lightning bug Well, feel like feel like sella was on uh hr puff and stuff. He was probably one of the little little police guys Probably feel like sella who went on to do the wonderful things like um, tweaky That's right the robot on buck ride Of course, he didn't have his own voice and it was no blank voice, but well there we are every time There's a robot or something in a car too. You can't expect it to have its own voice You got to give it another voice like david prows and uh, james roll jones, but well, there we are Okay, um the bugaloo's the bugaloo's were little they were bugs And they uh, well they were people who dressed up as bugs for the show And they had a neat a neat bugaloo car, which is another one of the great george barris, uh made for tv cars Which did the uh the auto cars That's right But it was the bugaloo car it was just great now this one starred bonita bazaar who was martha ray She was the evil star Well, I doubt if you you're watching We can only dream I mean if she will be will be more than pleased if she does if she wants to come on the show and personally My Who else was that was there somebody who like they sang on that show right they were they were like a band of bug people Right exactly. Yeah, that's right. And none of these names mean anything to Oh, that's too bad. It means something to somebody. Joy harmony courage and iq those were the four bugaloo's iq the smart one Was courage the courageous one or the cowardly one who cares And harmony why that was the girl, right? Well, that was the guy joy was the girl Hello Oh, okay The inhabitants well, it's the um, okay, um, they lived in tranquility forest The inhabitants the bugaloo's were four musically inclined bees who buzzed in perfect harmony. Although I think they were bees How do I think one of them was a one of them was a grasshopper if i'm not mistaken. Why were they called the beagleers? It's so raw the tongue is easily Well, they were all different kind of bug insects, but um, then what happened then what was the show Talk about the stupid hat show yet. There was also a bad on that show. I believe I was confused that helped the martha rake here. Anyway lidsville lidsville Stupid hat show basically these big stupid hats rain around For a copper Yeah, clever lines like but they basically ran around and do whatever stupid job that they're stupid hat Yeah, that's about it so it was like The show a big stupid This is a pretty bad picture. Yeah, I don't know if you if you want to get that or I don't know Just sit back and close your eyes and With feet and big eyes hats They're just they were they were basically nobodies because they were just hats and feet Big mouth to say dumb thing Well, here's a party hat. Here's a little um African explorer hat. Here's a john wane hat. I remember the john wane hat He would always come in and talk like that. It's probably a rich little or something Little little indian native american hat and football player helmet the nurse hat This fire hydrant who wore a fireman's hat That was a scary thing because he had a had a how to hose come out of his nose And the straw hat would always won't get talking to country boys Stereotypes abound in this show the dramatic opera hat You couldn't have a doctor because doctors don't wear hats Couldn't have a lawyer because lawyers don't wear hats Basically, this was the story of a boy whose name was mark who had gone to king's island See this magic guy And he walked he went back to see how the tricks were done And he stepped up on the rim of the hat and the hat grew big and well He walked over to the hat that grew big So he walked over looking at it because there was something down inside of it Oh silly mark. He fell into the hat Yeah, it ended up in lidsville Where the um the magician was actually who do who was the evil magician of lidsville played by Charles nelson riley Yeah, where is he now? He's still doing the match game 2000 or whatever it's called now That's game the next generation And hey, what a Sid and Marty cross favorite people billy haze was back in this one playing weenie the genie Really be proud to go home. I'm a playing weenie the genie That's probably just a high a high point of her life Well, what else we got in it? Well, there is another one in it's not even in here. Well, I am shocked Oh, he's shocked now didn't Sid and Marty cross when Kings Island first opened they had Shows there. Yeah, that's that's how I remember seeing one in particular that used to crack me up It was a big duck And it was supposed to be bet middler came out and did this Campy act of course had great big Test on it and when it danced it just it was hilarious I think they called her duck middler even And she used to come out and then the big theater there collapsed and they didn't have it anymore Don't ride on her. It was a tragic thing Just during the winter the duck was flew south Okay, and then when they decided that darn it. It's time to really start There was a big push in the mid 70s. I think because there were I think the action for children's television and some of those groups we're looking at and saying You're really putting out dippy cartoons now, which they always did and they always have and now they're dippier than ever but They said how about some live action stuff? So well not that these weren't live action the other things weren't but they just weren't realistic They decided well, we'll have some actual more than one person in the show. We'll do land of the lost Great show, which was basically about a family Well, I heard I heard an explanation for this is just cracking me up It was a little kid that came up with the idea for this show. He said Well dad, why don't you do a show about a group of people a family that goes out in their back hole Their backyard and they fall into a black hole that just happens to be in their backyard Oh And so somebody like david gerald came along and said well, no son If there's a black hole in your backyard, that's basically gonna suck in the whole planet and every other planet around it So we'll have to we'll have to work on that idea a little so what happened was they were they were out on a rafting trip And they go over a waterfall And they just They fall into the land of the lost which is basically a Prehistoric land that's juxtaposed out of time because everything exists at the same time So you've got dinosaurs. You've got cave people. You've got You got a little brontosaurus that eats giant strawberries and you got the sleet stack or these big nasty lizards And live in a cave And they were big funny lizards With little stubby tails Little stumpy stubby tails And see the sleet stack were actually from the future But yet these everything else Waterfall was still there thousands of years from now and they fell over There was one that was like further from the future Who became their friend because he could communicate. Well, he could talk and the other sleet stacks just kind of You mean chaka could talk? That was one that was um From the future and i'm trying to remember exactly what it what it tie was into um George decay either. Well, not george um water canik Yeah, he either wrote some of the shows or he did the voice for this dars lisa. I think he wrote some of the stuff Okay Anyway, it was into the bid it was just really it was really writing this it was really odd Well, it was so odd that they're remaking it. That's right. They've remade a new land of the loss The new land of the loss is out again. It's on this season the well 91 92 I don't know it's on too early in the morning cartoon season and basically, um, they've improved the idea a little where it's um Still the family this time they were out in the desert and they got caught in an earthquake And the earth opened up and so they fell and fell and fell Into a land that's displaced from time And so there's big there's bigger nastier dinosaurs and more evilsly second It wasn't ever your your chaka always he looks a little better too because before he looked like um, he looked like clinton howl But now he he looks much better. He's much better now Hair pushed way Me pushed way back Oh, he is now it was just the shape of things to come Too much tron yet Oh all these obscure references they're back there George decay who are these people? And then well by golly we get to the mighty 90s 1976 Where there's The big the big um, the big super hero boost is still going on here. And so they decide they're going to have the croft super show Because I think the other thing was I think they were just saying none of these concepts are really good enough Even even for a saturday morning tv by themselves by themselves So if they don't work we can just yank it and put another one in Basically, we'll just combine a lot of ideas and see how well they do together So you have this croft super show which is hosted by captain cool Oh era singing group Oddly enough Oddly enough. I saw a puzzle of captain cool and the Kong's on it at a local toy store And there was wonderbug a broken down heap of a car that could transform into a heroic crime fighting vehicle Not that that hasn't been done Hannah Barbera started that whole thing and by golly look look what came of it night writer Wow Then there's dr. Shrinker Who was basically your mad scientist guy who had a beam that could shrink people It was kind of like the name He was forced to endure by fate You know, I got the name dr. Shrinker. I better build a shrinking range. Yeah It's like, you know, maybe maybe that's what Well, I won't say that It's a family And then there's a lecture woman and dyna girl Play Diedra hall I become What is that days days of our children or whatever that show is What's what's the Diedra hall and days of our lives is days of our lives? Yeah Does that mean that she's been on that show for years but it isn't that or maybe during that maybe during a hiatus or another something Doing that darn doing that darn Electro woman and dyna girl And this dyna girl looks awfully familiar too, but Judy strangest. Okay Yeah, not that we've ever heard of her before since but you know, she's just got that familiar here Yeah, she just looks like every American girl Oh This was about the time I guess that well, I also was out around that time Other other networks were doing things like shazam and mighty isis. So this was there. Yeah This was their addition there Is basically just a whole lot of ideas chunked together ideas that might not have worked by themselves And chunked them all together They're gone So well by golly, I guess that's really all that didn't worry. Well, no, they did something else What was that? Just couldn't tell you this probably involved big head They they must have I'm sure they did another thing though. I I think you're right and I'm gonna see if I can find it Let's see. I'm sure they kept Billy Barney employed for another season. I think it was almost a night time show Yep, that's right, but I cannot remember what it was just to save me. Was that good. Yeah blew your mind Yep. Well, not me over smack my face Martha Ray I can't remember what it was Well, that's just too dark bad And they're just sitting out there. You know, Sid and Marty Crawford sitting down the edge of their seat. Come on Come on What is it another show that the crop puppets were on was that darn bourbon man drill show? Hey, that's true Not in the um in the vein of the um, who knows the old the old jimmy dean show that used to have Rolf Well, I'd like to drag out old h.r. Puffin stuff wherever he is Of course, that's your local library. You can find those h.r. Puffin stuff tapes So it's poor deprived children who never see never seen h.r. Puffin stuff And probably won't never see a friend when things get rough. That's right Go to your local library check out the tapes can't do a little because he can't do enough. That's right Such a hero. Well, that was probably my favorite just because jack wild was on And I was a little kid. Well, I really like the nifty songs that they had but well there we are how nifty They were nifty. What was the 60s and 70s? They were nifty Well, it looks like that's all the time we got for vass wasteland. Thank goodness because we just ran out of material So funny how those things work out like that hard to believe. Well next time on vass wasteland. It's school shows I have no idea what it means. So find out together. We'll find out next time And since we couldn't seem to find some sort of uh We couldn't seem to find a a tape of any of the sit-in marty croft find songs We're gonna have a live rendition of one of the songs Go ahead birdie a reading actually i kind of like a kind of like a literary reading take it away mr. Neal In the middle of the summer in the middle of a park there began a great adventure for a guy whose name was mark He had come to see the magic man along with all the children and was so began the day that mark was never to forget He performed all sorts of miracles and mark was so impressed that when the time arrived to go He lagged behind the rest And quietly he did return the secret of the hat to learn but everyone had gone away and darkness felt the place The moment that he touched the hat the room began to glow And as he put it down and ran the hat began to grow and grow and grow and grow and grow and grow He was stunned and he was fascinated But still he had to see there was something deep inside the hat. What could that something be? Well cautiously each step he took he climbed upon the brim to look and all at once the hat began to shake and rock Look out Falling falling into the hat. He fell spinning turning twirling twirling And looney looked into the sky he couldn't believe his ears rise Oh lidsville is the cuckoo cuckoos lidsville is the kicky kickiest lidsville is the gruger groovy is lidsville Is the living in friends if you get a chance to go go there you'll be glad you did because Everyone who goes to lidsville really flips his lid Good night everybody