Kid's TV Kreator Marty Kroft Interviewed By Suicide Girls
By DJ M on May 30th, 2006
In Miscellaneous Music
SUICIDE GIRLS: I’ve read that you and your brother have said that you never did drugs when you’re doing the shows. But how can you not when you got a show called Lidsville?
Marty: Well, you don’t have to have a show called Lidsville to do drugs. We were just smart. We had The Beatles calling us for our shows every week. Brian Epstein asked for all the Pufnstuf 16 millimeters and all The Bugaloos 16 millimeters to be sent to London every week. We knew we had something when that was going on. When we did those shows we weren’t thinking about college kids.
But we always did big shows and we always spent more money than any network gave us. For these shows we only got like 50 to 60,000 dollars an episode but we spent $100,000 on each one. Today that $100,000 would probably equal $350,000 but we put everything on the screen.
SG: But would you guys get high?
Marty: Now we’re back at the drug thing.
SG: Yeah, I only want to follow up.
Marty: It’s true that we weren’t doing acid and drugs when we were doing shows. Fortunately we’re not drug addicts or alcoholics. But I know many of them.