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From: rossen@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Remember HR Pufnstuff? - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 30-Nov-83 22:38:39 EST
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uiuccsb!rossen    Nov 30 14:17:00 1983

Well, I'm particularly impressed with Mary's recall of the theme song.
I used to watch that show, too.  I think it was at the tail end of when
I used to watch TV ALL Saturday.  It was a Sid and Marty Krofft show
-- they did lots of those puppet-type things, including the later (?)
"Lidsville" with Butch "Eddie Munster" Patrick and Charles Nelson Reilly
(as the villainous Whoudini).  
 
A couple of addenda and corrections:  
  1) The name (I'm pretty sure) was spelled "H. R. Pufnstuf."
  2) In the theme song, it's "...kooky old witch," "flute to snitch,"
     and "as often they'd rehearsed."  The portion of the theme in the
     second response was the chorus; it came after the first part.
  3) The witch's name was Witchiepoo.  Billie Hayes (who was actually
     real young and pretty) played her, and played a subsequent good
     character on the later (!) "Lidsville."  
 
Isn't reminiscing fun?
 
                      Ken in Champaign (...uiucdcs!rossen)