The greatest movie ever!

Better Late Then Never

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I remember thinking it was a weird sort of Sesame Street and I thought the creatures and characters were odd and off putting and really rather pointless. I was a child of the seventies in America and saw this show on TV in syndication but remember dodging it. So glad to see there are some people who thought this show was creepy, too. It sort of reminds me of that Creepy Pasta about Candle Cove, currently being made into a show by the SyFy Channel as Channel Zero. When I saw the show online, I thought immediately about HR Pufnstuf. Especially with the talking skull and Witchy Poo. I guess it was supposed to appeal to the more "hippy" parent who wanted an alternative to the Sesame Street Urban setting. In retrospect, HR Pufnstuf looks like what Sesame Street would be like if one dropped acid.

My name is Andrew Leitch. I live in Melbourne, Australia.I hadn't seen this show for 25 years until today and it sent chills through me. Our local TV station aired it today (channel 2,abc) Australia. I was very young when this first came out and grew up on the series. I know that my young niece would love this type of film. She has just turned three. Could someone please tell me how to purchase a copy of this movie in a converted DVD copy or in original video format. I have been on the internet and every response has been very vague. Can someone please help? Thank you!

I cannot recommend this show highly enough! It is a major reason that I grew up with the wild imagination I still have to this day! Along with Lidsville and Sigmund and the Seamonsters, Pufnstuf was a staple of my Saturday morning. I taught a group of high school kids last year. A few of them somehow found out about the show. We started talking and then one of them came back the next day with the DVD set! He bought all the episodes and a new generation was exposed to the big goofy dinosaur. They loved it! Now I need to show it to some younger kids and get them influenced early by Pufnstuf, Witchiepoo, Freddy, Jimmy, and the rest! HR Pufnstuf is a classic. Pufnstuf even went on stage with the Brady Kids at one of their cheesy concerts at the Hollywood Bowl ! The late 60's early 70's were a great time to be a kid. A big dinosaur puppet became a teen idol !

I have nothing but deep loathing for the anguish and fear that this dark and frightening series created in the young minds of Australian children. Every episode ended with the boy struggling to get away from an evil figure. Isolationism, fear of loss, envy of others, greed, bullying, self loathing and disconnection with normality were the only themes and lessons that the children were provided with at every episode.The whole series would make children afraid to dream.It was a waste of one television channel on Saturday morning because we would all stay well clear of this deeply disturbing production.