History: Bigfoot and Wildboy is a Sid and Marty Krofft live action children's television series on ABC. It began in 1976 as a part of The Offtrack Supershow on Saturday mornings. Each episode was 15 minutes long, with cliffhanger endings resolved the following week. It became its own series in 1979 with twelve 30-minute episodes. There were a total of 28 episodes produced. Bigfoot and Wildboy was very similar to five episodes from another ABC series The Six Million Dollar Man, which included Bigfoot, who was the protector of aliens from outer space.
Plot: Bigfoot (Ray Young) finds a young boy lost in the vast wilderness of the American northwest. Bigfoot raises the boy and calls him Wildboy (Joseph Butcher). Now, 8 years later, they fight crime and aliens who show up around their forest home.
Releases: Only two releases were available in the 1980s by Embassy Video, "Bigfoot and Wildboy Volume One" and "Bigfoot and Wildboy Volume Two." Both are now out of print. Columbia House released The World Of Sid and Marty Krofft series, which contained Bigfoot and Wildboy episodes. Rhino Video released a three-DVD collection also called The World Of Sid and Marty Krofft in 2002 included "The Return Of The Vampire" episode.
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