Lidsville - Complete Series
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Movie Reviews of Lidsville - Complete Series
Movie Review: Like No Other!
Summary: 5 Stars
Lidsville is a little-known treasure from the early 1970s! The title song has stuck with me for over 36 years and I still LOVE it! This is a little, wacky show with the talents of Billie Hayes (Witchiepoo), Butch Patrick(Eddie Munster) and the ever-flambouyant, late Charles Nelson Reilly. A teenager named Mark (Butch Patrick), sneaks back into an area where a magician was performing his show at an amusement park. Mark falls into the magician's hat. When he hits bottom, he is in the zany land of Lidsville, surrounded by the good "Hat People". These "Hat People", in the shapes of a helmet, chef's hat, safari hat, party hat, etc., befriend him and join forces against HooDoo, the mad magician who lives in the "Top Hat" on the hill with his bumbling henchmen. HooDoo flies his real top hat that converts into a "Hattamaran"! HooDoo constantly abuses/over-taxes the good Hat People and foils Mark's (Butch Patrick) attepts to get back into his own world. Aided by HooDoo's bumbling former Genie, "Weenie the Genie" (Billie Hayes), who lives in a ring on Mark's finger, Mark makes attempts at getting skyward on a magic carpet and even in HooDoo's Hattamaran! There is plenty of word-play for adult enjoyment (the "Weather Bureau" is a chest of drawers-- a bureau-- whose drawers HooDoo can "zap" and create select weather conditions). I always sang the song to my children as they grew and, one fateful day in an electronics store, I found Lidsville! I bought it, brough it home and my kids love it, too! Silly, now, but they still love it. Mostly, Mom loves this silly little show that brings back wonderful memories of a 10 year old eager for Saturday mornings and the wonderful Lidsville to air! I only lament that the show lasted only one season. Okay, the set was wobbly and soooo obviously fake, but folks, this is a must-have for you and the youngsters in your life. I have two: one for myself to keep and one for my kids (since the 'bad' thing could happen to the disc). It's a nutty show that will make you smile, marvel in the creativity that only Sid and Marty Kroft could create! Enjoy!Movie Review: Flip Your Lid
Summary: 5 Stars
You've got to hand it to those Krofft brothers Sid and Marty. They came up with some of the wackiest and strangest Saturday morning shows imaginable in the early 1970s. The brothers are responsible for bringing us Land of the Lost, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, and H. R. Pufnstuf. They also brought us Lidsville. As much as I loved it, the show freaked me out.
In case you don't remember, the premise of the show was kind of convoluted. Mark (played by Butch Patrick, a.k.a. Eddie Munster) goes to see Merlino the Magician perform. After the show, Mark goes backstage to nose around and in doing so discovers Merlino's hat. He touches the hat, and it begins to grow and grow. Soon, it pretty much takes up the whole room. Unable to resist, Mark climbs up to have a look and falls inside. And that's how he ends up in Lidsville, which is a land filled with living hats (yes, really). Hat people. Whichever of the Krofft brothers came up with this concept must have been on some serious drugs.
Anyway, the series of 17 episodes (which ran from 1971-1973), focuses on lots of strange goings-on, and lots of attempts by Mark to find his way home. His efforts are thwarted by Hoo Doo the Magician (played by the very flamboyant Charles Nelson Reilly. Hoo Doo, who isn't himself a hat, and his evil band of bad hats cause trouble whenever they can. Hoo Doo is especially pissed off at Mark because Mark absconded with the magician's magic ring, which gives the owner power to order and control Weenie the Genie. Weenie is a questionable name for a male genie, especially one played by a woman playing a male genie. Very weird indeed.
But there's a band of good hats too, and they're Mark's friends. And Mark is cool since he can control Weenie the Genie.
If you want to turn off your mind and relive Saturday mornings the way they used to be, you can't go wrong with this great DVD set. Introduce it to your kids so they can flip their lids too.
Movie Review: Childhood Nostalgia, and My Kids Love It, Too! :-)
Summary: 5 Stars
It was great to see these old Lidsville episodes again - it brought back so many memories of my childhood in the 70's... (and it also proves to everyone that this unique show really *did* exist...! :-).
My kids love the show (5 & 7), and often beg to watch another of the 17 episodes included in this set. It's a great show about people working together to solve problems, and accepting a wide range of diversity with all the different "hat personalities"...
Hoo-Doo is a "perfectly evil" character, and sometimes I feel a bit uncomfortable laughing at his blatant pleasure at being evil, and I cringe at the harsh language to his cronies, the "bad hats" (I guess it's a kinder gentler kids' TV world these days... no one is "stupid" any more... :).
Butch Patrick is a good role model, and of course "Weenie the Genie" is fantastic (though it still freaks me out whenever they call her "him"... :-). (In fact, I think I heard Charles Nelson-Reilly slip up once and call him/her a her/him...! :-)
I highly recommend this set to anyone who watched the show, and for anyone who wants to expand the imagination and creativity of their kids. Go "Ra Ra"! :-D
Movie Review: 70's Psycadellic kids show starring Charles Nelson Reilly.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is another fine example of a Sid and Marty Krofft acid trip gone bad. Lidsville is about a boy named Mark (Butch Patrick a.k.a. Eddie Munster) who is trapped in a town of Living hats by a gay magician named Merlo. There are many wacky things like the Bad hats, Hot-lines, Hatamarans, weenie the genie and even a shampoo river. But the star of this show is undoubtably the evil magician Horatio J. Hoodoo played by Charles Nelson Reilly. You may remember Reilly as the most flamboyant star on the Match Game. If you're a fan of Pee-wee's Playhouse, you'll probably find many similaritys in this psycadellic Krofft classic. Don't miss it! Nhuh huh!Movie Review: If you love Charles Nelson Reilly....
Summary: 5 Stars
These episodes are the funniest ever by the Sid and Marty Krofft group, almost singlehandedly by the evil magician Hoodoo, played by Charles Nelson Reilly. Also Raunchy Rabbit (move back flunkie). I used to crack up watching Match Game from Reilly's comments but never knew why. He is hilarious without even trying. Lidsville is a bland silly show that is perfect to watch when your either staying ay home sick, or if your under the influence. "I could just scream."