![]() ![]() She is mean to everyone around her, even her henchmen, whom she constantly whacks with her wand. ![]() She rides a large rocket-powered broom with a steering wheel called the Vroom Broom. Witchiepoo (portrayed by Billie Hayes) – The primary antagonist of the series a wicked but ineffective witchwho has been targeting Freddy the Flute to use him in her own agendas. ![]() Cling and Clang (performed by Joy Campbell and Angelo Rossitto) – Two short mute keystone cops with furry three-toed feet and bird-like faces who work for H.R.Freddy the Flute (voiced by Joan Gerber) – A magic talking flute that is owned by Jimmy.Bentley, voiced by Lennie Weinrib in a Southern accent) – A friendly dragon who is the Mayor of Living Island. Witchiepoo controlled the boat with the aim of stealing Jimmy's magic talking flute named Freddy. Jimmy (portrayed by Jack Wild) – A young English boy who was lured to Living Island by an enchanted boat.Another concerns Jimmy and Freddy's efforts to return home from Living Island with the same lack of success. A frequent plot device involves Witchiepoo and her henchmen Orson Vulture, Seymour Spider, and Stupid Bat trying to steal Freddy only to be thwarted by Pufnstuf. Robinson or most notably John Wayne as "The West Wind". Since everything on Living Island was alive (namely houses, castles, boats, clocks, candles, books, trees, mushrooms, etc.), virtually any part of the Living Island sets could become a character, usually voiced in a parody of a famous film star, such as Mae West, Edward G. Pufnstuf, who was able to protect him from Witchiepoo, as the cave where he lived was the only place her magic had no effect.Īpart from Jimmy and Witchiepoo, all of the characters on Living Island were realized via large cumbersome costumes or puppetry of either anthropomorphic animals or objects. Pufnstuf (voiced by the show's writer Lennie Weinrib, who also voices many of the other characters) who found out about her plot upon witnessing the action and was able to rescue Jimmy, with the help of Cling and Clang, when he leaped out of the enchanted boat with Freddy and swam ashore. The Mayor of Living Island was a friendly and helpful anthropomorphic dragon named H.R. She used the boat to lure Jimmy and Freddy to her castle on Living Island, where she was going to take Jimmy prisoner and steal Freddy for her own purposes. Witchiepoo (played by Billie Hayes) who rode on a broomstick-like vehicle called the Vroom Broom. The boat was actually owned and controlled by a wicked witch named Wilhelmina W. Jimmy and his friend, a talking flute named Freddy, take a ride on a mysterious boat, which promised adventures across the sea to the kooky Living Island, home of dancing talking trees and singing frogs. He is 11 years old when he arrives on the island and turns 12 in the episode called "The Birthday Party". The show centered on a shipwrecked boy named Jimmy (played by teenage actor Jack Wild). Pufnstuf introduced the Kroffts' most-used plot scenario: their fairy tale of good versus evil, as well as their second plot scenario: the stranger in a strange land. ![]()
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