Since a good portion of the shows covered on this site haven't been shown since their original airings and haven't been released on video, I get a lot of emails on asking where people can find these shows. Because of I don't have the rights to these shows (nor the time and equipment), I can't sell (or give away) copies of these shows. So please don't ask. However, copies of many of the shows can be found in various trading/collecting circles and others, mainly the Krofft shows, are (or were) available through legitimate sources (Amazon, Suncoast, etc...). This page will offer hints and suggestions as to how to find these shows.

One way to find the various episodes is through trading or purchasing tapes from other collectors/dealers. There are various sites on the web that sell/trade tapes, most can be found by doing a web search on whichever show you are looking for. Another online avenue is to try online auctions, like Ebay or Yahoo.

Collectors can also be found through newsgroups. Some newsgroup that might be helpful include alt.video.tape-trading, alt.culture.us.1970s, and rec.arts.tv. If you can't get to the newsgroups directly, you can read or post to them through Google Groups.

If you want to look offline, collectors, comic book/science fiction, and record conventions/shows are a good place to find "rare" videos. Monthly magazines like Big Reel and Movie Collector's World Magazine feature advertisements dealers selling video and 16 mm prints of various old shows. Some of the Saturday morning shows turn up fairly often.

Since the Krofft shows are some of the most popular live action Saturday morning series of the 1970s, it makes sense that they are the shows best represented on VHS and DVD.

Starting on June 1st, 1999, Rhino Home Video began releasing episodes of the various Krofft programs. The first release was the Krofft box set on VHS, which contains the following episodes:
H.R. Pufnstuf - "Book, Flute, & Candle"
The Bugaloos - "Benita's Double Trouble"
Lidsville - "Take Me To Your Rabbit"
Sigmund And The Sea Monsters - "Trick Or Treat"
Land Of The Lost - "Skylons"
Far Out Space Nuts - "Birds Of A Feather"
The Lost Saucer - "Return To The Valley Of The Chickaphants"
Electra Woman And Dyna Girl - "The Pharaoh"
Dr. Shrinker - "Slowly I Turn"
Wonderbug - "Maltese Gooneybird"
Magic Mongo - "Huli's Vacation"
Bigfoot And Wildboy - "Return Of The Vampire"
Pryor's Place - "Voyage To The Planet Of The Dumb"

In July, 1999 individual tapes of select Krofft were released:

Bugaloos, Vol. 1 - "The Love Bugaloos" -- "If I Had the Wings of a Bugaloo"

Far Out Space Nuts, Vol. 1 - "Tower of Tagot" - "Secrets Of Hexagon"

H.R. Pufnstuf, Vol. 1 - "The Stand-In" -- "The Golden Key"

H.R. Pufnstuf, Vol. 2 - "The Birthday Party" -- "The Box Kite Kaper"

Land of the Lost, Vol. 1 - "The Stranger" -- "Tag Team"

Land of the Lost, Vol. 2 - "The Search" -- "The Paku Who Came to Dinner"

Lidsville, Vol. 1 - "Let's Hear It for Whizzo" -- "Is There a Mayor in the House?"

Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Vol. 1 - "Happy Birthdaze" -- "The Nasty Nephew"

Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Vol. 2 - "Monster Rock Festival" -- "Ghoul School Days"

In 2000, Rhino released additional Krofft tapes and introduced the first Krofft DVDs:
On video:
Bugaloos, Vol. 2 - "Lady, You Don't Look Eighty" -- "Benita the Beautiful"

Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, Vol. 1 - "The Sorcerer�s Golden Trick (aka "The Sorcerer") -- "Glitter Rock"

H.R. Pufnstuf, Vol. 3 - "You Can't Have Your Cake" -- "Horse with the Golden Throat"

H.R. Pufnstuf, Vol. 4 - "Dinner for Two" -- "Tooth for a Tooth"

Land of the Lost, Vol. 3 - "Elsewhen" -- "Split Personality"

Land of the Lost, Vol. 4 - "Circle" -- "The Zarn"

Lost Saucer, Vol. 1 - "Where Did Everybody Go?" -- "Get A Dorse"

Sigmund & the Sea Monsters, Vol. 3 - "The Curfew Shall Ring Tonight" -- "Sweet Mama Redecorates"

Wonderbug, Vol. 1 - "The Wonderbug Express" -- "Shlepfoot" -- "The Big Bink Bank Bungle" -- "Shlep O� Clock Rock"

In early 2002, Rhino Home Video released the Krofft Box Set on DVD. The contents are the same as the VHS version released in 1999 (see above for contents).

In 2004, Rhino started releasing full series/seasons box sets of the various Krofft shows. The first release was a box set of the entire Pufnstuf series. The set contains several extras, including commentary and interviews with the Kroffts, Jack Wild, and Billie Hayes.

Following Pufnstuf, Rhino started releasing Land of the Lost, a season at a time. The first season set contains interviews and commentary with actors Wesley Eure. Phillip Paley, and Kathy Coleman, writers David Gerrold, Larry Niven, D.C. Fontana, and Walter Koenig, and Sid and Marty Krofft. The second season set contains interviews and commentary with cast members Wesley Eure. Phillip Paley, Kathy Coleman, and Walker Edmiston, as well as guest stars Van Snowden and Brooke Bundy. The third and final season set includes an interview and commentary with actor Ron Harper.

A Lidsville box set was released in early 2005. It contains commentaries from the Kroffts, Billie Hayes, Butch Patrick, and Charles Nelson Reilly, as well as interviews with the last three.

In September 2005, Rhino Home Video released the first season of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters series on DVD as a box set. Extras on the set include episode commentary and interviews from creators/producers Sid and Marty Krofft and actors Johnny Whitaker and Scott Kolden, as well as an interview with Krofft writer/producer Si Rose.

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H.R. Pufnstuf Complete Series Set

Land of the Lost First Season Set

Land of the Lost Second Season Set

Land of the Lost Third Season Set

Lidsville Complete Series Set

Sigmund & the Sea Monsters First Season Set

In the 1990s,, Columbia House offered a 10 volume set called "The World of Sid and Marty Krofft", as part of their Re-TV/Family series. Each tape has one episode of H.R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monster along with three other shows. The other shows are the Bugaloos, Lidsville, Far Out Space Nuts, Wonderbug, Dr. Shrinker, Magic Mongo, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and the Lost Saucer and Bigfoot and Wildboy are rotated every volume. Unfortunately, Land of the Lost is not part of the series. The series appears to be out of print, but copies can be found on Ebay

Here is a listing of what was on these videos:

Volume 1
H.R. Pufnstuf: The Magic Path
Bugaloos: Firefly, Light My Fire
Dr. Shrinker: Pardon Me King Kong
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: The Monster Who Came To Dinner
Far Out Space Nuts: It's All In Your Mind
Dr. Shrinker: The Other Brad

Volume 2
H. R. Pufnstuf: The Wheely Bird
Lidsville: World In A Hat
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: The Sorcerer (part 1)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Puppy Love
Lost Saucer: 894x I Love You
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: The Sorcerer (part 2)

Volume 3
H. R. Pufnstuf: Show Biz Witch
Bugaloos: The Great Voice Robbery
Wonderbug: Go West
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Frankenstein Drops In
Far Out Space Nuts: The Chrystallites
Wonderbug: Schlepnapped

Volume 4
H. R. Pufnstuf: The Mechanical Boy
Lidsville: Show Me the Way To Go Home
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Glitter Rock (part 1)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Is There A Doctor In the Cave?
Lost Saucer: The Tiny Years
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Glitter Rock (part 2)

Volume 5
H.R. Pufnstuf: The Stand-In
Bugaloos: Our House Is Our Hassle
Magic Mongo: The Surfing Contest (part 1)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Happy Birthdaze
Far Out Space Nuts: The Robots of Pod
Magic Mongo: The Surfing Contest (part 2)

Volume 6
H. R. Pufnstuf: The Golden Key
Lidsville: Fly Now, Vacuum Later
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: The Empress of Evil (part 1)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: The Nasty Nephew
Lost Saucer: My Fair Robot
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: The Empress of Evil (part 2)

Volume 7
H. R. Pufnstuf: The Birthday Party
Bugaloos: Courage Comes Home
Dr. Shrinker: Shake Up
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Monster Rock Festival
Far Out Space Nuts: Fantastic Journey
Dr. Shrinker: The Shrinkie Sale

Volume 8
H. R. Pufnstuf: Box Kite Kaper
Lidsville: Weenie, Weenie, Where's Our Genie?
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Ali Baba (part 1)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Ghoul School Days
Lost Saucer: Transylvania 2300
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Ali Baba (part 2)

Volume 9
H. R. Pufnstuf: You Can't Have Your Cake
Bugaloos: The Love Bugaloos
Bigfoot and Wildboy: The Sonic Projector (part 1)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Curfew
Far Out Space Nuts: Tower of Tagot
Bigfoot and Wildboy: The Sonic Projector (part 2)

Volume 10
H. R. Pufnstuf: The Horse With the Golden Throat
Lidsville: Let's Hear It For Wizzo
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Return of the Sorcerer (part 1)
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters: Sweet Mama Redocorates
Lost Saucer: Beautiful Downtown Atlantis
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl: Return of the Sorcerer (part 2)

In the 80s, Embassy Video released several volumes of Krofft videos. These videos are currently out of print, but they may be found for rental or in the used bins and they show up on Ebay fairly often.

A three hour block of Krofft shows is currently airing on Saturday mornings in California. Cox Cable's Retro Saturday Morning includes Pufnstuf, Far Out Space Nuts, Lost Saucer, Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and the first season of the Krofft Supershow.

Nick-at-Nite has aired two Krofft marathons, Pufapalooza, during the fall of 1995 and once again in the fall of 1997 and TV Land aired the same shows on weekends in December of 1997 and Pufnstuf, Sigmund, the Bugaloos, and Land of the Lost as part of their Super Retrovision Saturdaze line up. Following the ratings success of the first Pufapalooza, the Family Channel aired some Krofft shows (H.R. Pufnstuf, Far Out Space Nuts, Sigmund, Lidsville and the Bugaloos) for a short period on Saturday and Sunday mornings in the fall of 1996. Previous to that, the Sci Fi Channel used to air Land of the Lost on weekday mornings.

The Krofft Supershow, Krofft Superstar Hour, and the Bay City Rollers Show haven't been released on video, but there are copies of some of these shows floating around - so keep an eye out for them.

In 2004, Entertainment Rights, a UK-based company, purchased the bulk of the Filmation library, including Ark II, Ghost Busters, Isis, Jason of Star Command, and Uncle Croc's Block. In 2005, BCI acquired the North American DVD distribution rights of Entertainment Rights' Filmation Catalog, which includes several animated series, along with the following live action series: Ark II, Ghost Busters, Isis, Jason of Star Command, and Space Academy.

A message from Andy Mangels, who is working on the the upcoming Filmation DVD releases:

As you may or may not have heard by now, BCI Eclipse has acquired 230 hours of Filmation live-action and animated programming for release on DVD, in addition to the great set of He-Man DVDs now being produced. You can read both press releases here: www.andymangels.com/BCI_DVDs.html

As you can see, some titles have been announced, though not nearly all titles. What HAS been announced so far are:
She-Ra: Princess of Power
The Legend of Bravestarr
Blackstar
Ghostbusters
The New Adventures of Zorro
The Lone Ranger
Groovie Goolies
Snow White Happily Ever After (feature film)
The Secrets of Isis (live-action series)

As with the He-Man DVDs, I'm one of the people in charge of special features on the DVD sets, and we're planning some great ones. But we may need your help. Here's where you - the super-fans - come in.

We are looking for the following items, from ALL Filmation shows (except He-Man and Fat Albert). If you have anything and can share it with us, please CONTACT ME directly.
** Scripts, Storyboards, Memos
** Cels, Backgrounds, Model Sheets
** Promotional Press Photos, Behind-the-scene Photos
** Contact information for any past Filmation employees or actors that you know

* Important item 1: I cannot guarantee anything to you at this time in terms of use or recompense, as some shows we are not releasing or materials may be duplicated.
* Important item 2: I cannot address any OTHER Filmation properties in this forum other than what it says in the press releases. Please DO NOT ask me about release dates, titles other than the above, or etc.

We've done our best to topload the He-Man DVDs with some of the BEST Special Features for any animated series. We hope to continue this trend with our further Filmation releases. Keep watching my webpage for more news!

Best, Andy Mangels
DVD Special Features director/writer/consultant member, International Association of Media Tie-In Writers
www.andymangels.com
www.wonderwomanmuseum.com

All Filmation shows (Ark II, Ghost Busters, Isis, Jason of Star Command, Shazam!, and Space Academy) have had episodes aired or been released on video since their original airings. In the past, the UK version of the Sci Fi Channel has aired episodes of Ark II, Isis, Space Academy, and Jason of Star Command.

One note: at least some of the shows have been edited since their original airings, most likely to allow for more commercial time. An example of this is that the final part of the Isis shows, where Isis comes on and talks directly to the viewer about the moral of the story, has been cut from UK airings.

Starting in 2000, TV Land has aired select episodes of Shazam! on an irregular basis. The first episode of Shazam! was released on DVD in June 2005 as a bonus on the third season Wonder Woman Box Set.

Besides the one episode of Shazam! mentioned above, Ghost Busters is the only show that has been released in the US. To capitalize on the title similarity between this show and the Ghostbusters movie, episodes were released as the Original Ghost Busters. The first video tape was released in 1985 and contained "The Maltese Monkey", "The Cantorville Ghost", and "Who�s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". Volume 2 had "The Vikings Have Landed" , "Only Ghosts Have Wings," and "Hyde and Go Seek". Volume 3 had "They Went That Away" ; The Vampire's Apprentice; and Merlin, The Magician . The final volume only contained one episode, Dr. Whatshisname. Currently, all of the tapes are out of print, but you can check you local video store or Ebay for used or rental copies.

In 2004, Entertainment Rights, a UK-based company, purchased the bulk of the Filmation library, including Ark II, Ghost Busters, Isis, Jason of Star Command, and Uncle Croc's Block. Hopefully, a video releases of these show (and some of the animated Filmation series) will happen in the near future.

The Unofficial Isis Appreciation Page is working in conjunction with Isis actress Joanna Cameron to get Isis released on video. Visit the site for more information.

To my knowledge, Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, Skatebirds (and the Skatebirds's segment, Mystery Island), Korg, Westwind, and possibly, Here Comes the Double Deckers, the only other series that has been brought back in the US after the show's original network run.

Lancelot Link aired in syndication in the 1980s and Nick-at-Nite and TV Land have aired it in the past. Six volumes of the show have been released on DVD and VHS. Each one contains two half hour episodes.

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DVD

VHS

The Skatebirds aired on Cartoon Network in the mid 90s and has recently showed up on Boomerang, the Cartoon Network's spin off channel. These airings were the 30 minute versions and did not include the serialized live action segment, Mystery Island. The Mystery Island segments did turn up on Boomerang, starting in the spring of 2001 as a segment on the Captain Caveman show. Korg aired infrequently on USA as part of one of their cartoon compilation shows (like Cartoon Express) during the late 80s and on TNT during the early/mid 90s. Westwind (and possibly Here Comes the Double Deckers), has aired in syndication as recently as 2001.

In the UK, Here Come the Double Deckers was rerun in the late 80s. In the 90s, Barrier Reef was aired on a Canadian station. In my searches for copies of the various other shows, some of the other ones I have found from dealers or collectors include Run, Joe, Run, Red Hand Gang, Big John, Little John, and most recently, Monster Squad.

I've talked with various dealers who appear at collectors' shows and have been told that that copies of some of others do show up from time to time, so keep looking. If anyone has copies of any of the other shows, please let me know.

In addition to both official and unofficial video releases, other episodes/series are available for viewing at various libraries and museums.

The Museum of Television and Radio, located in New York and Los Angeles, has several Saturday morning series in their collection. For a fee, patrons can watch up to two hours of shows. The Museum's collection includes several Krofft shows, Muggsy, Korg, as well as various other live action series not currently covered by this site (Talking with a Giant, Take a Giant Step, 30 Minutes, ABC Weekend Special, CBS Children's Film Festival, Hot Dog, Go, and Go USA). Many of these shows feature their original commercials.

The Library of Congress, located in Washington DC, also has several Saturday morning series in their collection. There is no charge for viewing the various shows, but you must register with the Library and you have to schedule your visit and select what you want to view in advance. For more information on how to request and view the various shows, go to the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room page.

The Library's collection includes several Krofft shows, including the first episode of the Krofft Supershow, Thunder, Search and Rescue: The Alpha Team, two episodes (not released on video) of the Ghost Busters, Korg, Skatebirds, Here Comes the Double Deckers, as well as various other live action series not currently covered by this site ( 30 Minutes, ABC Weekend Special, Razzmatazz, and Hot Dog. As with the Museum of Television and Radio, many of these shows feature their original commercials.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive, located in Los Angeles, has several Saturday morning series in their collection. There is no charge for viewing the various shows, but you have to schedule your visit and select what you want to view in advance. The Archive's collection includes several Krofft shows, as well as well as various other live action series not currently covered by this site (Talking with a Giant, Take a Giant Step, 30 Minutes, ABC Weekend Special, Banana Splits, Hot Dog, Wacko, and Runaround.

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