The World of Sid & Marty Krofft at the Hollywood Bowl (1973 TV Special) User Reviews

Review - hilarious!

[stjudeflagship · 26 February 2009]

This concert was a lot like the shows - low budget! It was a scream. There were so many gaffes and goofs that you could not help love this if you liked any of the shows a little bit. I had no problem with this. Thrown together? Poorly planned? You bet it was! I really felt for Johnny Whittaker, who did his absolute best and still pulled off the song despite getting the mike cord caught and everything. His expression was priceless! Looked like he wanted to throw up. Everything that went wrong still got done, all the numbers were finished, the audience was still there. This must have been one of the cheapest production numbers of all time. What were the clothes the Brady kids wore made out of, z-grade tarp strung together with paste?

An interesting little oddity

[dtucker86 · 10/10 · 24 September 2023]

A number of years ago when I was stationed in Maryland with the Army, there was this obscure tv channel that started running some "nostalgia" shows from the 1970s (I remember one superheroine show from Saturday mornings called Electra Woman And Dyna Girl that they showed again). Sid and Marty Krofft were two very orgianal and unique talents (I think even their greatest critics have to give them credit for trying something different). This is a variety special of theirs that has the kids from the Brady Bunch as well as Jack Wild singing a few songs and also features "Sigmund And The Sea Monsters" star Johnny Whittaker (who was also on Family Affair) as a master of ceremonies. It is good clean fun that may make you feel nostaglic for the days of bell bottoms and people using words like "groovy".

This was horrible

[NGant · 11 April 2004]

I've seen this on TV land several times. Witchy Poo is obviously played by someone other than Billie what's-her-name, and this actress just cannot handle it. Also, that green guy is obviously not C.N. Reilley. The whole thing looks like it was basically planned and choreographed in the span of that afternoon. It looks like one of those puppet shows you make up as you go along but invite your friends over and charge them a quarter admission to watch your made-up crap. It just looks so poorly thrown together. Obviously, the producers of this just thought they could assemble all the pre-pubescent heart throbs of that zeitgeist, throw 'em on stage and make a quick buck. Whittaker looked very nervous and unsure of himself. Also, when the camera pans across the audience at one point, before cutting to a commercial break, you can see Robert Reed (Mr. Brady) in the audience drinking a beer or something. Bad singing, dancing, acting, jokes, everything. Everytime I watch this I just want to punch a hole in my television, I hate it so much. I hate when it comes on and I am subjected to this tripe. Who would watch this garbage? I sure wouldn't want to. I hate watching it. The kids look so dorky, then there's this part where HR Puffinstuff goes out in the audience to shake kids hands, and he has to keep bouncing to keep his mouth moving, and he misses all these kids hands and he winds up looking like a total dorkozoid. Really, watch it sometime just to see how terrible this is. You will go ballistic. I hate watching this and would not recommend this to anyone. You'd have to basically be moronic to watch this. I don't know how anyone sits through this whole thing. When I watch it, I ask myself how much lamer could this get, and sure enough, it gets very lame, from the lame beginning to the lamer end.