Lidsville

Lidsville was Sid and Marty Krofft's third television show following H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos. Its seventeen episodes aired on Saturday mornings for two seasons, 1971–1973. The show involved a boy named Mark (played by Butch Patrick) who falls into the hat of Merlo the Magician and arrives in Lidsville, a land of living hats. The hats on the show are depicted as having the same occupations as the humans who would normally wear them. For example, a cowboy hat would act like a cowboy. The character's houses were also hat-shaped.

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The villain of the show, Hoo-Doo was played by Charles Nelson Reilly. Among other notable characters were Raunchy Rabbit (Sharon Baird), Weenie the Genie (Billie Hayes), and Rah-Rah the football helmet (Jerry Maren).

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Lidsville may have been based on an earlier British series, Hattytown Tales, which used an almost identical concept but different characters and was produced in claymation.

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A DVD set of the 17 episodes was released in the United States in January 2005.

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Sid and Marty Krofft: Sid and Marty Krofft are a sibling team of prolific television producers who were very influential in children's television and music/variety television, particularly throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. They are largely known for a unique brand of ambitious fantasy programs, often featuring large-...

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H.R. Pufnstuf: H.R. Pufnstuf was the name of a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft. There were only seventeen episodes of this show, which ran from 1969 to 1970, but it was so successful that NBC kept it on the Saturday morning schedule for a full three seasons....