1970 Bugaloos Intro

[@bobsilver3983]

The Bugaloos song has been stuck in my head for decades...my God man, it won't leave!

[@howardmerritt445]

This show was on for a single year, when I was six years old, and I remember it fondly the this day! I remember that just before Christmas that year, my dad took me to see Santa Claus one Saturday morning, and I was upset that I would be missing "The Bugaloos" to see Santa! Thanks for posting!

[@consumerwarrior1267]

Generation X rules!!!!!

[@lisaelam4216]

This song gets stuck in my head all the time even after all these years!

[@happymemories8873]

Loved this & Sigmund & the sea monsters! The name, baggy pants & the nitwits names has been stuck in my head & mr. Green jeans. Anyone? I knew Martha Raye from othet stuff, like Witchiepoo, but were the Bugaloos ever in anything else? (Tooo Siiiir, Wiiith Looove)

[@kurtkauffman4326]

I do remember that show.I was 5 at the time & began Kindergarten when it aired for the very 1st time.

[@jamiecooper8957]

LOL!! I remember this song from WAY baCk in my chiLdhood, when i was just starting schooL over 50 years ago. I LoVed it then & I stiLL do. It brings baCk SO many memories.

[@AT-sd9qq]

When I was in elementary school I learned to play the Benita Bizarre theme with my kazoo and I would play that theme almost every time my english teacher walked into the classroom. It always got a big laugh from the classroom and I spent many hours in the principals office.

[@wilfriedtewalvaart1457]

this tune was years in the back of my head(dutch version),at last i didn't know if it really excisted or that i made it up.in my memory it was broadcasted in Holland on sunday(4 pm?),before Star Trek.

[@joseph60us]

This was a cartoon. It was televised on Saturday mornings. So I watched it. As an eight year-old, it really wasn't much more complicated than that. Only later did we realize that kids are pretty helpless and unable to dodge and weave around all of the brain rot stuff that adults foist upon us. And let's face it: Caroline Ellis WAS (and probably still is) cute.

[@SteveCarras]

Crushed on Joy. Sparky the firefly sounded like Crazy Guggenheim!

[@jonvalle347]

Make...this...song...go...away....rotting my brain since 1971

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Starting in 1970,to be so very exact.The Show ran for a couple seasons.

[@xenapgf]

a Lot Of British actors there! Wayne Layrea went on to be in Inigo Pipkins ( On ITV ( UK) ) and Caroline Ellis went into the tardis !

[@Akira625]

Caroline Ellis was so adorable as Joy.

[@Daisyno2]

Martha Raye was fantastic ---great in whatever she played. The female bugaloo was hot.

[@jason.arthur.taylor]

Are you aware that her character is that of an ugly witch here?!?

[@CashewsAunt]

OMG!! I remember this song!!

[@stebaer]

By Jove,as The Brits would say or sy,this is a nice touch of Nostalgia.

[@stebaer]

This British Saturday Morning show really is great for Nostalgia's sake.

[@Astraldragon1]

I had such a crush on Joy. growing up....she was so cute and beautifull

[@consumerwarrior1267]

Same here. I was a tyke back then; and she was so much older than me, but I was crazy about her and loved watching her on this show every Saturday morning back in those days.

[@kurtkauffman4326]

First airdate:9/12/1970,,Last airdate:9/2/1972.

[@Astraldragon1]

every kid I knew loved the show as well as the rest of the Krofft shows. for it's time I liked it. face it as a kid your not going to care about state of the art stuff.

[@consumerwarrior1267]

Sid and Marty Krofft were geniuses to come up with this show. The Bugaloos were like a British invasion rock group. At the same time, they had the talent of the American comedian Martha Raye on that show in the form of Benita Bizarre. The demographics were there in both the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Little kids loved this show, and teenagers watched it too to hear the Bugaloos perform songs. Nonetheless, I always wondered how the Bugaloos were able to get their surfboards to float along with them in the sky. Like, what was holding their surfboards to their feet as they were flying? I guess that none of the little kids really cared. They just thought it was cool. Me being one of them back then.

[@Puppetgirl93]

I got to participate several months ago in a Bugaloos Zoom Reunion for their 50th Anniversary- The few cast members who participated John P. and Caroline Ellis said they used chromakey on the show, so the surfboards were put on boxes with a blue background to make it appear that they were flying in the sky- I hope this information was helpful

[@consumerwarrior1267]

@@Puppetgirl93 Thank you. :-)

[@Puppetgirl93]

Bugaloos rock!!

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Indeed!,They rock alright.

[@elrond3737]

Wow! Drug trip

[@dr.roberts4508]

John Phillpot went on to have a Career in local radio &T.V. news

[@DrummerGrrrl]

Ha ha ha! "Benita Bizarre" looks like Erik Karol from "Dralion"--Cirque Du Soleil! Ohh, jesus, that's mean as hell to Erik Karol but pretty funny.

[@tracyrunyan3567]

Martha Raye was a bona fide bad ass.

[@l.salisbury1253]

Martha Raye: the ONLY person on the planet to work with the Bugaloos... and Charlie Chaplin... and Abbot & Costello... and WC Fields... and Bob Hope... and the Three Stooges...

[@MikeysGayToday]

Courage was hot.

[@DakotaRTinTX]

You're apparently still around.

[@Shockeye00]

How many fucking drugs did people do back in the 60s?

[@SuperCartiel]

Can ya get this on DVD?

[@wesleymccurtain166]

I lost MUCH white hot liquid over Joy as a young boy!

[@ThatViralVideo]

wesley mccurtain thanks that's wonderful

[@campbellc1013]

Not sure if I want to be on Sid and Marty's acid trip...

[@DakotaRTinTX]

It obviously didn't.

[@xaulted1]

Joy was insanely hot!

[@Astraldragon1]

yes she was.

[@kurtkauffman4326]

Indeed!,Ditzy lookin' too,especially on all episodes.

[@joseph60us]

NOT FAIR! 15-year-olds are NOT supposed to be watching cartoons.

[@DoIGetTube]

This program was "credited" with reviving Martha Raye's career. NOTHING could POSSIBLY have been FARTHER from the TRUTH! Sidney Krofft and Martin Krofft, who agreed on little else, both HATED "Colonel Maggie," as G.I.s affectionately called her. They made her villain, the evil Benita Bizarre, the ONLY American character(all four of the heroic Bugaloos were acted out by BRITISH actors, all of whom did their own singing), the ONLY old, AND the ONLY UGLY, character(all the heroic Bugaloos were YOUNG and ATTRACTIVE), AND, WORST of ALL, the ONLY UNTALENTED character(every one of the heroic Bugaloos was FORMIDABLY talented as a SINGER AND as an INSTRUMENTALIST, whereas Benita Bizarre was REPEATEDLY shown to be UNABLE to carry a tune and to have NO sense of rhythm)!!! No, the Krofft brothers did more to KILL, and to DESTROY, PERMANENTLY, what HAD been LEFT of "Colonel Maggie's" career than anyone else did. She ended her days miserable and nearly penniless, and senile dementia had almost completely closed down her mind by the time she died.

[@Themaddprof]

This Sid and Marty Krofft stuff was WEIRD! Too much for me as a kid. Jim Henson ruled!

[@mikesmemoriesfromthepast89]

Well, Marty Krofft has passed away.

[@fhb3]

AWFUL show! Like it, but it's SO bad!

[@NatedogO33]

I only watched this , as a kid, in hopes that we'd get an up-skirt shot of Caroline Ellis as she flew in the air :)