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Variety reports:

Marty Krofft, who with his brother Sid produced memorable kids shows “H.R. Pufnstuf” and “Land of the Lost” — as well as the 2009 feature based on the latter — has died. He was 86.
Krofft died of kidney failure Saturday in Los Angeles, Calif., a family representative told Variety.

In 2007 TV Guide named “H.R. Pufnstuf” No. 27 on its list of the top cult shows ever. Only 17 episodes of the series were produced; they originally aired in 1969-70 but proved successful enough to warrant reairing on NBC’s Saturday morning schedule through August 1972.

The show and others from the Krofft canon such as “Sigmund and the Sea Monsters” and “The Bugaloos” are lovingly recalled as cheesy afternoon TV fun by many who grew up at the time and Gen-Xers who discovered the show in syndicated reruns by the mid-1970s.

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