Sid Krofft’s TV Puppets Live On

Sid Krofft’s TV puppets live on

LOS ANGELES — Puppeteer, producer, self-described “artist” and “dreamer” Sid Krofft, who with his brother Marty made a wonderland of Saturday morning television through the 1970s, died Friday at 96. (Marty, younger by nearly eight years, died in 2023.) Their left-field shared fantasies included “H.R. Pufnstuf” (magical island, with a dragon for a mayor), “Lidsville” (anthropomorphic hats), “The Bugaloos” (British pop band resembling insects), “S…

Can’t Do A Little ‘Cause You Can’t Do Enough: Sid Krofft (1929–2026)

Krofft is not a person but an era. Although Sid Krofft’s life ended on April 10, 2026 (his younger brother Marty having died some two and a half years before him), and even though his brilliant career as a puppeteer began not on Saturday morning TV but the Vaudeville stage, for any child of the […]