70s Bigfoot Flashback
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on February 7th, 2007
Anybody else remember Bigfoot and Wildboy from the 70s?
And for those of you who aren’t able to watch the video here on Cryptomundo, here is the link to the video on youtube: Bigfoot and Wildboy.
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
Ah yes, the Kroft Supershow! Who said I wasted my time in front of the TV all Saturday morning?!
Oh … my Mom did.
Yeah baby! Almost as good as Bigfoot on 6 Million Dollar Man!
In 1972, “The New Scooby Doo Movies” (really one hour episodes) had an episode where Scoob and the Gang meet Laurel & Hardy and solve “The Ghost of Bigfoot”.
Did Bigfoot become ingrained in American Pop Culture before or after the Patterson-Gimlin film?
Oh Brother!
I’m almost sure the first time I heard the name “Bigfoot,” it was in, of all places, an episode of “Here Come The Brides,” an early ‘ 70s comedy-drama with an odd setting for one, Washington State at the turn of the century. If I remember correctly, the “Bigfoot” story had one of those “weird recluse” explanations at the end, but either way, it was entertaining.
Kimble,
If you check out Loren’s excellent “Bigfoot, the true story of apes in America” he gives us some examples of hairy giants in pop-culture imagery preceeding the PG footage.
But the actual term “Bigfoot” dates to 1958, almost ten years before the PG footage, when a newspaper reporter coined the term to describe whatever left the tracks found by the logging crew near Eureka California. These were the tracks found by Gerry Crew and that Ray Wallace (the group’s foreman) later claimed he faked. These feet (the Crew casts) were flat and static, and differ from the other prints that Wallace claimed he faked all over Northern California later.
Oh! It was a Saturday morning show! I knew ‘Bigfoot and Wildboy’ was nothing i remembered from nighttime TV watching, but I’m still not sure if I remember it, I would have to see an episode to know.
I had forgotten this one … thanks for the memories!
Though I can’t recall conversations I had weeks ago, I do remember watching this show on Saturday mornings after “Laff A Lympics” way back when. I also remember begging my Mom to buy me a “Bigfoot and Wild Boy” poster at Spencer’s Gifts when I was about six years old. She gave in and bought it, but for the life of me, I can’t remember whatever became of it.
Too bad the Bigfoot from this show never teamed up with Chaka from Krofft’s “Land of the Lost.” Maybe Bigfoot was Chaka’s long-lost dad?
peterbernard – you beat me to it! The slo-mo running is very Steve Austin as well. I can’t remember ever seeing this in the UK – gutted. Is it on DVD does anyone know?!
I have never heard of this show! I guess it was just before my time. This little clip is just fantastic! Bigfoot and Wildboy, what a concept! I thought 6 million dollar man too, and for some reason it reminds me of the old “Incredible Hulk” show. It is at once cool and very cheesy. Genius.
Awesome music. Just awesome.
My best friend grew up watching this, and still speaks of it fondly. I don’t recall it but we were both quite young when it aired. At the time he believed that it only played on sunny days- such a typical and wonderful young child thought…I sent him a link to this so he has something more than memories to remember this by.