Customer Reviews

Bugaloos: Volume 1 (The Love Bugaloos & If I Had The Wings Of A Bugaloo) [VHS]

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This is a great tape. Here are two classic Bugaloos episodes. The first features Sparky and Gina, plus an excellent song "It's New to You"; and the second has Benita at her best, and includes the only Bugaloos tune released as a single, "For a Friend"!! The only reason I give the tape only 4 stars instead of 5 is because I wish they'd release more episodes per tape!!

I LOVE ALL SID AND MARTY KROFT PRODUCTIONS . I GREW UP WATCHING THEM AND I'M GROWN UP AND STILL WATCHING THEM . ANY HOW THIS IS THE BUGALOOS VOLUME ONE NOT ONE TO FOUR . I TOO AM AWAITING THE DVD RELEASE . RHINO RECORDS HAS A BOX SET THAT CONTAINS ALL 17 EPISODES BUT SADLY IT'S ONLY AVAILABLE ON VHS !

I was an eighties child who watched these series and loved them. They were in syndication on channel 20 (now UPN) and every day after school, my siblings and I would gather around and watch the Kroft brothers syndicated children's television shows. They knew how to create shows that both children and adults love.

This is such a great t.v. show. It was on ABC in the 70's as a saturday morning sitcom. The story lies around a rock n roll band called the Bugaloos againist the evil Benita Bezarre.

In most of my reviews, I do not have kind things to say about the live-action/puppet kid shows of the early 70s (the Muppet Show aside, as that was miles ahead of the pack and REAL family entertainment: Jim Henson, Si!-Sid and Marty Kroft NO!). Most of them, such as Pufnstuf, New Zoo Review, Sigmund, ad nauseum, were too childish and silly to me even when I was a child and look even worse to me now. The Bugaloos was different. This show had good songs and somewhat more clever humor that helps with the whimsical feel (isn't that a young Helen Reddy among them?). In either case, if a hardcore hater of this genre like me could recommend this after seeing it for the first time in 30+years on this set, thaen that says something. Oh yeah, it's also about time for a DVD of this.