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There was a Magic the Gathering card called the Knights of the Order of Leitbur. So all of them you could argue would be called Leitburites.
I am starting to think my memory of Land of the Lost is now residing in the Land of the Lost Memories. I never watched the version that came out in the 90's. And I can't remember any of the details of the other shows I watched like The Adventures of Huck Finn, or Johnny Quest. Star Blazers might be the only program I can remember in detail. And having rented it from Blockbuster about fifteen years ago, I realized how amazingly bad it was.
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I never saw the 90s one, either, actually.
What was huck finn from? Wasnt that part of the banana splits?
I remember my babysitter telling me that the footage shot for the beginning and ending sequences were on location at six flags over texas. the flume ride does look familiar.
RMA Survivor:
The opening sequence being the part where the three are waving from a river paddle boat?
I am pretty sure it was part of banana splits. There were several short segments each week with Gullivers Travels being another one. A always liked Glum and him saying '"It'll never work....it's a hopeless cause...we're doomed...doomed I tell you..."
But you appear to be the expert on LoL. Sid and Marty always seemed to have no budget. Those Schoolhouse Rock episodes were used because they apparently filled the exact time space at certain intervals in kids programming. Everything back then was shoestring budget. Going back to Star Trek I think.
I hate to say it but I only learned what Jump The Shark meant just a few years ago. My buddy from RMA who was actually allowed by his parents to be glued to the tube all day explained it to me, and I had actually watched the Happy Days episode back when it came out. Poor me.
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oh, i meant for the banana splits ending seq, not huck finn. they were at an amusement park, and it had the flume ride in there, but there are flume rides in most parks, so not sure how my babysitter apparently "knew" that it was from sfot.
I think my memories of childhood are split down the middle.. 50% television, 50% real life.
It was one of the many hannah barbera atrocity-fests that I loved back then. (although i hated a lot of the shorts on banana splits, such as arabian knights and that other one where the famiy is fighting natives or some such thing. I enjoyed the actual show, with the actors in their animal suits, jumping around and getting their asses served to them by the sour grapes messenger girls.) They also had one music video every episode, and I always liked those.
As for Sid and Marty Kroft...
I recall that the kroft superstars would show their series on rotation, so youd get the far out space nuts, then bugaloos, then land of the lost, then lost saucer (jim neighbors and ruth buzzi in robot costumes?? and a horse dog?), then sigmund the sea monster.. etc etc etc.
Although land of the lost existed before all of these other shows were cobbled into kroft superstars. I remember it used to be a saturday morning thing when I was around 4 or so, but at that point, my parents wouldnt allow me to watch it because they felt it was too scary. I believe that was around the same time that h.r. pufnstuff was out. (one of the few kroft shows I remember being shot on film instead of video.)
All I have to say is.. thank god I missed lidsville. They never played it on my local station, and I heard it was particularly painful. (although the actor who played the villain made a great joke about it when he was on an episode of the x-files.)
believe it or not, sid and marty built an amusement park. I saw footage of the place, and it's just as creepy and weird and awesome as you would imagine. It didnt do too well. Most of the rides ended up breaking relatively soon, or never really worked all that well to begin with. I guess people would consider it a failure, but for me, it made perfect sense... that is *exactly* how a kroft amusement park should behave.
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The certainly came up with some odd shows.
I tended to like things with space. Lost in Space was a real favorite, though I wouldn't last more than five minutes today watching it.
I do remember H.R Puff and Stuff. Sigmond the Sea Monster I recall as well. What I hated about the show was watching only life five minutes of show at a time as they popped from one to another. And every week did not have the same shows, so sometimes you had to wait another week to see if they'd show what you liked. I guess they ran it that way because they figured kids didn't have attention spans of more than five minutes, or else Sid and Marty and Hannah Barbera had so many ideas and so few platforms to show them that they just cobbled together one program to show ten.
That is funny about the Sleestaks in small caves. I never remembered them as being tall compared to the father. That may be why.
Being the third youngest in the family I often did not have any choice in what I watched. So I got to watch Brady Bunch, Eight is Enough, Barney Miller, All in the Family, Hawaii Five-Oh, The Munsters, The Odd Couple, and WWF Wrestling back when Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant were the big names. My brothers were all glued to that show. And anything dealing with KISS. I remember having to prevent myself from committing suicide when KISS made a television movie.
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