Dubya51

The only episode of this show I remember involved a female bad..uh...woman who had lots of spiders at her command. I know she was referred to as "queen of the spiders" and I think her name was Cleopatra, or some other historical name that really doesn't go very well with the title of arachnid all-mother.

That episode became the basis of many a Saturday afternoon. My sister and I would pretend we were trapped like Electra Woman and Dyna Girl were in this huge web with tarantulas everywhere (we were actually in a walk in closet with a tangle of old jump ropes and a smattering of plastic spiders from the dollar store).

Bout the only other things I remember about Sid and Marty Krofft is Dr. Shrinker and of course Land of the Lost. Really horribly cheesy stuff, and really strange...which probably explains why I can't remember very much of it.

I remember watching it on TV on Saturday morning (or early afternoon maybe?) while shoveling Count Chocula from a bowl on a wbite TV tray with a green neo-60s looking flower design on it. I was about 3 or 4 at the time, and all I knew is that the people were really having a hard time and I felt bad for Martin Landau because he always seemed sad or scared.

I have an appreciation for it because it reminds me of simpler days when I was a little kid, back when Saturday mornings were something we all looked forward to...for better (future memories of a time-honored tradition) or worse (endless stream of mind-numbing tv over a large bowl of pure sugar), it was a lot of fun.