Sid and Marty Krofft

See, that's a callback.

He also played Professor Frank Heflin, the gadget-making scientist on Sid and Marty Croft's Electoral Woman and Diner Girl.

And just last episode, I declared my superpower was to tie anyone into several many items, and one of them was a Sid and Marty Croft.

Fans may also recognize him as Lou, the diner owner in the original Back to the Future.

And he, you know how earlier we mentioned the writer who worked on Transformers the movie?

And that was drug-fueled escapade, right? Yeah, Sid

and Marty Croft, which as a kid, I loved it.

You watch it now and you're like, wow, this is really bad.

I mean, I love it.

these days.

All you have to do is start off with something pseudo-intellectual, and by the end of it, make references to Jabberjaw, Garbage Pail, Kids, The Funky Phantom, or Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, or Sid and Marty Croft in general, and people will be howling.

Speaking of which, does anybody remember when Charles Nelson Reilly would fall into the Shampoo River on Lidsville? No! Enough! Honestly, I thought you were going somewhere with this, but no, you wandered off track as usual.

Sorry, Satan.

Their fantasy programs often featured large-headed puppets, high-concept plots, and extensive use of low-budget special effects.

And before you ask, no, that does not mean that this podcast is a Sid and Marty Krofft production.

But if you've listened to us enough, you'd probably think the comparison is a coincidence.

For this special, however, one of the Croft Brothers' most beloved creations is on loan to Mr. Lin.

And we created this world in which we hired famous witches to play his sisters.

He was part of a family of witches.

And Margaret Hamilton was one of the witches, and Billy Hayes was Witchy Pooh, which was from a Sid and Marty Krofft series.

And he was going to visit them, and we loaded it up with guest stars.

The Munsters ran for just two seasons in the mid-60s, 70 episodes, but it has left a huge cultural mark, and my guest today was part of that original cast.

Butch Patrick never left our imaginations, and though he would go on to star in Sid and Marty Croft's Lidsville, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Monkees, we talk about living at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, and then why he walked away from acting to work for his father and his amazing second act.

Here's Butch Patrick.

Butch, take us back to the beginning.

Schilberling? I don't know.

It's a loose, high-budget adaptation of the 1974 Sid and Marty Croft television series.

The movie follows Dr. Rick Marshall.

He's a pompous, disgraced paleontologist whose fringe theories on tachyon energy have made him a laughingstock.

Like, if you like them in Eastbound and Down, what else are they in together? Here you go.

Uh, let's see.

Of course, it's a parody of the original 74 Land of the Lost television series, which was created by Sid and Marty Croft.

That was a live-action Saturday morning sci-fi adventure that ran for three seasons on NBC between 1974 and 1976.

Oh yeah.

The, the Sid Croft, Marty Croft puppets.

Um, uh,

Yes.

I want to shout out somebody named Walker Edmiston.

Do you know that name, Amanda? He is a puppeteer who did – he was in the show Lidsville, Sid and Marty Kroff.

He voiced the Keebler Elf.

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