ATDTDA (2): Headwear in ATD? (pp. 1 - 44)

[Ya Sam]

>"...she was more immediately concerned with the loss of her hat, flying 
>away
>to join hundreds of others in migration to some more southerly climate, 
>some
>tropical resort of hats ...'(816)



'If you ever find yourself immersed in a magical land populated by oversized 
talking hats, it could only mean one of two things: either you're having a 
particularly strange LSD trip, or you've stumbled into Lidsville, one of the 
koo-koo-kookiest creations from the fertile minds of producers Sid & Marty 
Krofft. Kids who tuned in to ABC on September 11, 1971 found themselves in 
the same predicament - becoming immersed in Lidsville, that is, not on a 
strange LSD trip (although it was the '70s, so who really knows?). The 
Kroffts already had a large following, thanks to their previous two Saturday 
morning hits: H.R. Pufnstuf and The Bugaloos. Lidsville would be their 
strangest yet - no small task when you consider that Pufnstuf is about a 
boy, his talking flute, and a talking dragon, while The Bugaloos follows a 
rock band of singing, dancing bugs.

While visiting a theme park with his pals, teenage Mark (The Munsters' Butch 
Patrick) becomes entranced by a magic show. Ditching his friends, he sneaks 
backstage to discover the secrets behind the magician's amazing tricks. He 
finds the magician's top hat, but when he tries to examine it, the hat grows 
and grows to enormous proportions. He climbs onto a chair to peer inside, 
loses his balance, and plunges inside. After a terrific fall, he finds 
himself in Lidsville, a topsy-turvy place inhabited by talking hats, 
including Colonel Poom (a safari helmet with a British accent), Mr. Chow (a 
Chinese chef's hat who speaks with a chop-socky accent), Tex (a cowboy hat 
who sounds like John Wayne), Tonsilini (a dapper hat who speaks/sings with 
an operatic trill), and Hiram (a straw hat who sounds like a resident of 
Green Acres). These "good hats" live in constant fear of Horatio W. Hoo Doo 
(Match Game bon vivant Charles Nelson Reilly), an evil sorcerer with green 
skin, a nearly bald pate, and reddish-orange facial hair. Hoo Doo zooms 
around on his Hatamaran, an oversized top hat that flies around like a 
hovercraft, and "zaps" the good hats with magic rays that shoot from his 
fingertips. At his command is his gang of bad hats, including Mr. Big, a 
fedora who sounds as if he has stepped out of a 1930s gangster film. With 
the help of the good hats and Weenie the Genie (Pufnstuf's Billie Hayes), 
Mark tries to stay one step ahead of Hoo Doo and find his way back home.'

http://www.tvdvdreviews.com/lidsville.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1kyDKuzRbs

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