Sigmund and the Sea Monsters Reboot

[Werewolf]

My sister watched the reboot and really liked it.

[Iron Mego]

I loved the original, but went back recently and tried to rewatch one and couldn't make it through. Ah, to be a kid and not recognize the horrible acting and insipid story lines!

[monitor_ep]

Sid & Marty Krofft present Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, a live action show for children ages 6 to 11, based on their classic Saturday morning series from the 1970s. The show is centered on two brothers, Johnny and Scotty, who discover and befriend Sigmund, a friendly young sea-monster who escapes from his old life and his comically dysfunctional brothers Slurp and Blurp. Now, using a Clubhouse as their hiding place, the boys must keep Sigmund safe from an ambitious sea-monster hunter Captain Barnabas. The show is Executive Produced by Sid & Marty Krofft (H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost) with the pilot being directed by Jonathan Judge (The Thundermans, School of Rock) and starring David Arquette (Scream, Jake and the Neverland Pirates) as Captain Barnabas. Garrett Frawley and Brian Turner (Santa Baby) wrote the new teleplay based on the classic series. http://www.toonzone.net/amazons-new-...-june-17-2016/

dysfunctional brothers Slurp and Blurp

[pmwasson]

The first episode is available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Sigmund-and-the-Sea-Monsters/dp/B01G9CUR7S/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1

[Jorge Galvan]

WHo would they get to replace/mimic JOHNNY WHITAKER????

[binkystarr]

Nothing will eventually happen with ANY of this. You have to recall that Sid and Marty promised a Lidsville movie that NEVER happened.

[HardyGirl]

Let the Saturday morning queen speak!

Just kidding, but really I LOVE all things Krofft! In fact I was watching the original Sigmund this morning. (Yeah, it was Saturday morning!). Generally I'm not to fond of remakes, and the fact this show is on Amazon and not standard TV thrills me even less. The one thing it does have going for it, is that the monsters are NOT CGI, which makes it more like the original. But again, I won't be seeing it b/c I already have cable, so I'm not gonna pay to watch something on Amazon. Even though this was an actual Krofft brothers production, it'll never recapture the magic that was Saturday morning in the 70s.

[Bantha5]

Krofft shows were a unique product from unique times, they should stay in the past. I heard on a podcast awhile ago, comedian Dana Gould wrote a "Gremlins" reboot of the movie, the sea monsters were going to be just that "monsters" no shellevisions or shellephones. The kroffts and the studio were very much on board, until the Monday after The land of the lost movie was released.

[PNGwynne]

I wish I could have photographed my partner's expression the first time I showed him "Lidsville." He muttered something like, "What did I just see?" and his expression was priceless lol.

I hope they can at the least make Sigmund fun like it was for "70's kids, though I was not a huge fan.

[Timothy2251]

Pretty much anything Krofft put out was an acid trip, and gloriously so. But we were hyped up on sugar frosted cereals as kids, so we rolled with it.

[Marvelmania]

I loved this show as a kid!!!!! I don't know about a reboot though. None of those H R Pufenstuf shows wouldn't work well in todays world no matter how well they could be rebooted.

[PNGwynne]

I don't really remember Lidsville much.

Lidsville was like Pufenstuf on acid. Plus, Butch Patrick was a little better as the kid hero, and no damn flute. There was even a guest-starring Witchipoo with Hoodoo in one episode.

[JediJaida]

That was the ONE Kroft show that I had absolutely NO respect for. Sigmund was an idiot most of the time, and the kids weren't all that bright either. Especially when they introduced Rip Taylor as the incompetent genie in the second season.

Pufnstuf was pretty cool; I was terrified of Witchiepoo, even though half of her spells fizzled out. I hated that talking flute though; he was more annoying than Big Bird, Ernie and Elmo all rolled into one package.

I don't really remember Lidsville much.

I was a major fan of Land of the Lost, even with the phoney baloney dinosaurs, outrageous plots, and the fact that their clothing never fell apart, even with all of the danger that they faced on a daily basis.

[LonnieFisher]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/sigmund-sea-monsters-70s-tv-icon-reboots-amazon-article-1.2676912

[StrangeVisitor]

This Sigmund reboot is up now part of Amazon's pilot season.