Lost Saucer | Sid & Marty Krofft

Description

Two time-traveling robots (who seemed to be lost most of the time), played by Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors, arrive in 1970s Chicago, and panicked by crowd descending on them, take off in their flying saucer – and find a boy and his babysitter still onboard. Each episode is an adventure of the robots trying to return the kids to the right time and place.

Bios

Sid & Marty Krofft Headshot

Many of the most colorful and fondly remembered children's series of the 1970s and 1980s sprang from the imaginations of Sid and Marty Krofft. Their groundbreaking, live-action fantasy shows were...

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Awards

  • Music City News | Sid & Marty Krofft

    Music City News

    Barbara Mandrell, Program of the Year, 1981
  • Action for Children’s Television | Sid & Marty Krofft

    Action for Children’s Television

    Pryor’s Place for Achievement in Children’s Television, 1985
  • Youth In Film | Sid & Marty Krofft

    Youth In Film

    Lifetime Achievement Award, 1992

History

It all started when Sid & Marty Krofft's father Peter Krofft, discovered seven-year-old Sid (born July 30, 1929) had puppeteering talent and auditioned him in his own production of “Snow...

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