<Tr> <Th> Original network </Th> <Td> NBC </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Original release </Th> <Td> September 6--December 27, 1969 </Td> </Tr> <P> H.R. Pufnstuf is a children's television series produced by Sid and Marty Krofft in the United States . It was the first Krofft live - action, life - sized - puppet program . The seventeen episodes were originally broadcast from September 6, 1969, to December 27, 1969 . The broadcasts were successful enough that NBC kept it on the Saturday morning schedule until August 1972 . The show was shot in Paramount Studios and its opening was shot in Big Bear Lake, California . Reruns of the show aired on ABC Saturday morning from September 2, 1972, to September 8, 1973, and on Sunday mornings in some markets from September 16, 1973, to September 8, 1974 . It was syndicated by itself from 1974 to 1978 and in a package with six other Krofft series under the banner Krofft Superstars from 1978 to 1985 . Reruns of the show were featured on TV Land in 1999 as part of their "Super Retrovision Saturdaze" Saturday morning - related overnight programming block and in the summer of 2004 as part of their TV Land Kitschen (sic) late - night programming block, and was later shown on MeTV from 2014 until 2016 . </P> <P> In 2004 and 2007, H.R. Pufnstuf was ranked #22 and #27 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever . </P>

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