Comments on: 70s Bigfoot Flashback

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:51:37 +0000

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.

By: shill

shill — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:33:10 +0000

Now THAT was a pretty decent costume. (How come I only remember the intro and none of the show?) Ditto on Chaka.

By: kidquid

kidquid — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:46:56 +0000

Awesome music. Just awesome.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:57:57 +0000

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.

By: MBFH

MBFH — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:07:24 +0000

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?!

By: southernfriedbigfoot

southernfriedbigfoot — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:43:53 +0000

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?

By: kittenz

kittenz — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:53:14 +0000

I had forgotten this one … thanks for the memories!

By: One Eyed Cat

One Eyed Cat — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:45:21 +0000

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.

By: Jeremy_Wells

Jeremy_Wells — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:06:32 +0000

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.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:40:42 +0000

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.