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atomic-chronoscaph · 1 year

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The Krofft Supershow: Dr. Shrinker (1976)

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thearcadearchives1981 · 11 months

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The Sid and Marty Krofft Channel is coming very soon- to make Saturday morning- every morning!!!!

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#1980s Arcades #Arcade Archives #Arcade Archives Network #Bigfoot and Wildboy #Dr. Shrinker #Elecra Woman and Dyna Girl #Far Out Space Nuts #H.R. Pufnstuf #Krofft Supershow #Land of the Lost #Lidsville #Magic Mongo #Sid and Marty Krofft #Sigmund and the Sea Monsters #The Bugaloos #The Lost Saucer #Wonderbug

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lumpyrock · 1 year

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Rewatching some Krofft Supershow today and it's just like, "Today on WonderBug, schelp car gets kidnapped by the mafia! Oh, also Dr. Shrinker commits cultural appropriation and fraud!"

#sid and marty krofft #Krofft supershow #wonderbug #dr. shrinker

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dailynicknews · 3 years

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Krofft Quickies: Dr. Shrinker's "Miracle Immobilizer" SD 480p

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trickstervixen-misterauthority · 4 years

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Dr. Shrinker (Jay Robinson) is a mad scientist who creates a shrinking ray that can miniaturize anything. Three young adults — Brad Fulton (Ted Eccles), B.J. Masterson (Susan Lawrence) and her brother Gordie Masterson (Jeff MacKay) — crash land their airplane on an island. As they make their way to the only house on the island, they meet Dr. Shrinker and his assistant, Hugo (Billy Barty). Dr. Shrinker, in an effort to prove that his shrinking ray works, shrinks the three people down to 6 inches (15 cm) tall. The remainder of the series was different efforts by the 'Shrinkies' to return to normal size, while Dr. Shrinker and Hugo want to catch the trio so that they will have physical proof that the ray works for whatever world power wants to buy it. The show aired in 1976.

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blancheanguisette · 5 years

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TMI Tuesday: Sex, Cereal, and Ants

What was your favorite part of yesterday?

Talking politics over udon noodles with a datefriend. Even if he we didn’t agree, he’s still good company. Dating him is amazing.

2. If you could make your own porn movie, what would you call it? Would you write it, direct and/or star in the movie?

I feel like my answer should be “write it” because that’s what I do, write. But I can’t imagine that…

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rp-kat · 7 years

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Dr. Shrinker

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Eternal Torment Zine #7

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oldschoolsciencefiction · 7 years

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Dr. Shrinker preparing to fire his shrink ray. The mad scientist was portrayed by Jay Robinson on The Krofft Supershow on ABC in 1976.

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atomic-chronoscaph · 5 years

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The Krofft Supershow: Dr. Shrinker (1976)

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fancoloredglasses · 4 years

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The many shows of Sid & Marty Krofft (part 2 of 3: Krofft Supershow)

While I’ve covered the standalone Krofft kids’ shows (except one), in the late 70s Sid & Marty decided to produce a 90-minute showcase of some of the shows they wanted to produce that networks didn’t want any part of...

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(Thanks to Tommy Retro’s Blast From The Past)

The Krofft Supershow ran for 2 seasons and featured three half-hour (well, 20 minute, since ads cut into the run time) shows that were connected by a Glam Rock “musical” “comedy” group knows as Kaptain Kool and the Kongs. The band members were (and I’m using their stage names here) Kaptain Kool, Turkey, Superchick, Nashville, and Flatbush (who was not in season 2). Of the 5, only Kaptain Kool (played by Michael Lembeck) had any sort of success following the show, primarily as a director (which includes The Santa Clause 2 and 3 and The Tooth Fairy)

The songs were pure cheese and the jokes were lame even by kids standards.

In season 1, we had the following...

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(Thanks to Kevin Crosby)

Dr. Shrinker is yet another Gilligan’s Island style show in which 3 teens crash their Cessna (and no one has searched for the plane’s transponder in all this time? And for that matter, who gives a pilot’s license to a teenager?) on a remote island owned by the mad scientist named Dr. Shrinker (appropriately named, as he developed a shrinking ray) who, along with his minion Hugo (played by legendary dwarf actor Billy Barty, who also played Sigmund and one of Pufnstuf’s bumbling cops....Basically, Barty was the 70s version of Warwick Davis; if you needed a dwarf character he would be the first you would call). Shrinker lures the teens into his lab and shrinks them to about six inches tall. They somehow escape before they could be caged as display pieces to show prospective buyers the ray works (why not hire someone to do a live demo? With the millions you’d make selling the device you could likely afford it!)

The plots usually revolve around Shrinker trying to capture the “shrinkees” (as he calls them) or the “shrinkees” trying to return to normal size and escape. Neither is very successful.

Next up, we have the first of two “super hero” shows in the season...

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(Thanks to stevenblackheart)

So we have three broke teens hoping to find a working car in a junkyard (because none of them look like they know what end of the car the gas is supposed to go in, let alone being able to restore a junker) and find a jalopy (named Schlep Car) that not only works, but is sentient. On top of that, they find a magic horn that plays the CHARGE! music and does a SHAZAM! on Schlep Car, making him the flying dune buggy known as Wonderbug. I personally don’t understand why Schlep Car would ever change back.

The plots involve some boneheaded criminals running afoul of the teens, who try to deal with them without involving Wonderbug (much like the Planeteers try to stop the eco-terrorists without involving Captain Planet...only much less effectively) Usually this involves some harebrained plan that involves elaborate disguises (I thought they were broke? How the hell can they afford costumes on a weekly basis?!) Inevitably Wonderbug gets involved and saves the day.

Finally, we have the strongest entry in the lineup (so naturally this didn’t make the cut in the second season...)

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(Thanks to The House of Dracula - Monster Model Museum)

...probably due to the fact that it pretty much ripped off Batman. Between the secret lair, all of their gadgets having “Electra” in front of them (even their transformation was called the Electra-Change) and Dyna Girl punctuating everything with “Electra-whatever!” (as opposed to Robin’s “Holy whatever!”) The villains were just as over-the-top (including a glam rocker who could hypnotize people with his guitar)

Unlike Batman, there were no cliffhangers. Everything was resolved in a single episode, and there were no recurring villains (which was a shame, as some of them were pretty interesting)

I’m guessing the reason this got the axe was because the boys complained about “cooties” on their TV. As I said, of the three this was the strongest entry. The pair got new life as an online series. I have not yet seen it, but now that I know it exists I certainly will.

With the second season, the glam image is gone (in favor of something more like Sha Na Na), as are Dr. Shrinker and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. They are replaced by...

(Thanks to 70s Live Action Vid Kid)

Once again, we have three teens: Donald (a guy who looks like he falls over any time anyone in the room whispers “stiff breeze”) and his two friends Lorraine and Kristy (whom I’m sure only hang out with him out of pity) Donald finds a genie’s lamp washed up on a beach, but instead of Barbara Eden we get Mongo, a genie who obviously magicked himself a few too many all-you-can-eat buffets (as a side note, the actor who played Mongo was also the voice of Hunk in the English dub of the original Voltron, so he had that going for him) Mongo summons a clever disguise as Donald’s uncle, a typical beach bum (which would be totally believable if he didn’t have to hold his ears and wiggle his tongue to use his abilities...and constantly call Donald “Master”)

The plots revolve around Donald being fed up with his lot in life, but rather than attempt to better himself he calls on Mongo to magic an improvement, which usually backfires comically (did I mention Mongo isn’t a very good genie?) until the group manages to get Mongo to change everything back to the status quo. Yeah, this is what they cancelled Electra Woman and Dyna-Girl for...

And last, but certainly not first, we have...

(Thanks to EpisoDate)

It turns out Bigfoot is real and always wanted to be a father, so when he finds a human orphan in the wild (at least I hope he was an orphan when Bigfoot found him. Otherwise this series just got a whole lot darker...) he raises the boy as his own. For whatever reason, the boy is now known as Wildboy instead of whatever name he had when Bigfoot found him (he has to be around 16, and according to the intro he was around 8 when found. Therefore, you’d assume the kid had a different name) Now they run around the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest fighting evil with the help of their friend Cindy, an archaeology student.

The plots are rather absurd, though I’m sure the kids may not have realized it at the time. But once again, this is what Electra Woman was cancelled in favor of.

There is one more show that the Kroffts are known for, and I’m sure everyone has at least heard of it (thanks to Will Farrell), but here’s a hint...