Attack of the Puppet People

[countchocula]

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A harmless sci-fi cakewalk about a dollmaker who shrinks his acquaintances down to six-inch captives. Light on "terror," but it does manage to drum up mild suspense. The script is perforated with plot cavities. The ending leaves an admixture of questions unanswered (Where did the other puppet people run off to? Was the "sedative" subplot even remotely necessary?). For a low-budgeter made in 1958, the special effects are often exceptional, with only one or two shots immolating my eye sockets. You won't get your fill from Attack of the Puppet People, but on the whole, it's an obliging, endearing film.

[Gluttony]

I recall a TV show that was a lot like this, I think I have seen this movie, but it was a long time ago. The movie if I recall, was unmemorable at best, sometimes working to be entertaining, but for the most part just existing.

[Shadow Whisper]

Originally posted by Gluttony
I recall a TV show that was a lot like this...

Was it

Dr Shinker

starring

Jay Robinson as Dr. Shrinker

and

Billy Barty as Hugo the minatuer assistant of Dr. Shinker and setting the standard that mini-me would have to follow.

Plot (yes I am laughing right now): A trio of teens crash their plane on an island controled by a mad scientist who uses his shrink ray on them. They get away and he spends the rest of the series trying to captuer them.

It was not a stand alone series but part of a saturday morning live action children's anothology show called The Krofft Supershow.

Other subseries from the show include:

The Lost Saucer: Ruth Buzzi and Jim Nabors stared as time traveling androids who acidently picked up a pair of kids and are trying to get them back home. Of cousres the time travel engien never worked right (must have gotten it from a type 40 space time capsule).

ElectraWoman and DynaGirl: Basicly a Batman ripoff with female leads. Neither hero had any superpowers but each had an electronic bracelet that fired beams and perform other utility belt functions. Of course every once in a while one of them get their bracelet broken or ripped off (useually this happened to DynaGirl). They also had their own Alfred who was a scientist who made the bracelets, repaired and upgraded them, and in an emrgancy could give them a remote power boost from a console at their base. They also had a six wheeled car (golf cart) that was shaped like an arrowhead. Deidre Hall stared as ElectraWoman.

* The truly sad thing is that I can still remember part of the theme song. What is even sadder than that is back when I was 5 I thought DynaGirl was the hotter of the two. What was I thinking its clearly obious that ElectraWoman was far hotter.

Bigfoot and Wildboy: Ever wonder what would happen if Tarzan was raised by Bigfoot? Nope, neither did I but the producers at
Krofft did.

Other ilk of its kind that Sid & Marty made as stand alone series to inflict on innocent children include:

Far Out Space Nuts: Two maintenance workers are loading supplies into a rocket when Gilligan ur um Bob Denver is asked to press the lunch button and accidently hits the launch button and sends them both out into the deep recesses of space. Each week followed their misadventures as they and their alien pet/friend tried to get back to earth.

Sigmund & The Sea Monsters: A child sea monster that looked like a cross between a pile of sea weed and mass of tenticals (played by Billy Barty) runs away from home when his family gets mad at him for refusing to scare humans. He meets up with a pair of human brothers who take him in and hide him from his parents and their own.

*Basicly Alf from under the sea. While looking this up I think I may have finaly found my avatar for his board.

And fo course the crowning jewel of the brothers Krofft was the original Land of the Lost.

Back to the original subject of this thread.

I have seen the begining of Attack of the Puppet People. There is also a similar movie of around the same vintage called Dr Cyclops.