Sid Krofft’s subversive and fantastical TV puppet worlds will live on
Puppeteer, producer, self-described “artist” and “dreamer” Sid Krofft, who with his brother Marty made a wonderland of Saturday morning television through the 1970s, died Friday at 96. (Marty, younger by nearly eight years, died in 2023.) Their left-field shared fantasies included “H.R. Pufnstuf” (magical island, with a dragon for a mayor), “Lidsville” (anthropomorphic hats), “The…