In the early '70s, puppeteering brothers Sid and Marty Krofft developed a kid-sized version of the loopy psychedelia that was transforming popular culture; in a string of bizarre Saturday-morning TV shows, the Kroffts offered delirious visions of worlds populated by colorful creatures, talking hats, singing bugs, and heavy doses of white and black magic. The World Of Sid & Marty Krofft DVD set contains one episode each of the brothers' best-known creations: H.R. Pufnstuf, The Bugaloos, Lidsville, Sigmund And The Sea Monsters, Land Of The Lost, Far Out Space Nuts, The Lost Saucer, Electra Woman And Dyna Girl, Dr. Shrinker, Wonderbug, Magic Mongo, Bigfoot And Wildboy, and the award-winning Richard Pryor vehicle Pryor's Place. The remarkable thing about the Krofft oeuvre isn't so much the thinly veiled drug references to "puffin'" and "lids," but the glum recurring situations. The standard Krofft setup has a moppet (or moppets) stumbling into an alternate universe, where friends have been replaced by gaily anthropomorphic (but intellectually dim) objects, and parents have been replaced by despotic witches and wizards. The Krofft landscape made perfect sense to a generation of latchkey kids and children of divorce, but The World Of Sid & Marty Krofft remains a good time—mainly for the nostalgic, but also for a new set of youngsters likely to see the shows more for their color and activity than for their metaphors for loneliness. The programs don't exactly sparkle in their new digital medium, but the packagers at Rhino made a wise choice by selecting representative episodes from the run of each show, rather than loading up on premise-heavy premières. Home viewers can create their very own version of The Krofft Supershow, and pretend it's a typical Saturday in 1977. Or perhaps they're better off just taking in the set in sips and nips. Children's entertainment, and childhood itself, is surreal enough as it is.