Lidsville
 In the middle of the summer in the middle of a park, there
began a great adventure for a boy whose name was Mark...
Intrigued by a magician's performance while at an amusement park,
Mark (played by Butch Patrick of The Munsters fame) decides
to lag behind the rest after the show.
Alone backstage in the
magicians room Mark picks up the magician's hat to inspect it when
the hat suddenly begins to grow larger.
 Startled by this, Mark drops it on the floor where it continues
to grow to an enormous size. Climbing up on the brim while
attempting to look inside, he loses his balance and falls into the
hat.
He keeps falling and falling through the hat that turns into a
long tunnel and he reappears in Lidsville - a land inhabited almost
entirely by living, talking hats of all kinds: Stetsons, top hats
and helmets . . .
He is quickly captured by a band of bad hats (an executioner's
hood, a gangster's hat) that work for the local bad guy, Horatio J
Hoo Doo the evil magician.
 Hoo Doo believes Mark is a spy for the good hats and he holds him
prisoner. In Hoo Doo's dungeon, Mark is befriended by another
prisoner - Weenie the Genie (pictured at right). Weenie must be loyal to Hoo Doo
because he possesses the genie's magic ring.
Together Mark and Weenie plan to escape, a plan that includes
Mark stealing the magic ring.
The weekly episodes then revolved around Mark's struggle to find
his way back home with the assistance of Weenie the bumbling genie
and the good hats (a cowboy hat, a nurse's hat, a party hat, a pith
helmet) of Lidsville.
 Hoo
Doo, on the other hand, tries to recapture Mark, the magic
ring and Weenie the Genie amidst locations like the Shampoo River
and Hair Forest. What else did you want when you were a kid!
ABC ran 17 episodes of Lidsville over two seasons
beginning in September 1971.
NBC then re-ran it for another season
before it jumped to the syndication market.
"How's that for a topper?"
EPISODES
World in a Hat | Show Me the Way to Go Home | Fly Now, Vacuum
Later | Weenie, Weenie, Where's Our Genie? | Let's Hear it for
Whizzo | Is There a Mayor in the House? | Take Me to Your Rabbit |
Have I Got a Girl for Hoo Doo | Mark and the Bean Stalk | Turn in
Your Turban, You're Through | Alias, the Imperial Wizard | A
Little Hoo Doo Goes a Long Way | Oh, Brother | Hoo Doo Who? | The
Old Hat Home | The Great Brain Robbery | Mommy Hoo Doo
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