Bigfoot and Wildboy
Bigfoot and Wildboy is a live action children's television series on ABC. It began in 1977 as a part of The Krofft 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.
The series was heavily influenced by the two-part Bigfoot episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, from the super-powered Bigfoot character to "bionic" sound effects used for Bigfoot running and leaping and the use of slow motion photography for action scenes such as throwing a giant object or uprooting a large metal fence post.
Plot
Bigfoot finds a young boy lost in the vast wilderness of the Northwestern United States. Bigfoot raises the boy who becomes known as Wildboy. Now, eight years later, they fight crime and aliens who show up around their forest home.Cast
- Ray Young as Bigfoot
- Joseph Butcher as Wildboy
- Monika Ramirez as Susie
- Ned Romero as Ranger Lucas
- Yvonne Regalado as Cindy
- Al Wyatt Jr. as Cindy's dad
Syndication
Cox Cable's "Retro Saturday Morning" aired the first eight two-part episodes of "Bigfoot and Wildboy" in 2003 and 2004 as part of the second season of the Krofft Supershow.Amazon Prime is now airing The Krofft Supershow with this series and many others.