Were the Sid and Marty Kroft productions, such as Liddsville and H.R. Puffinstuff, drug induced?

I used to defend these Saturday Morning childrens’ television productions of the 1970s as just being the products of really good imaginations. That the swirling colours and sensations of falling, and trippy, otherworldly deportations and adventures, were due to the extremely vivid colour television technologies that were burgeoning in the 1970s.

But now that I am mature enough and enough time has passed that I can look back objectively, and that younger people who view these programs nowadays automatically think these shows are trippy, weird, and drug induced, its hard to imagine that they’re not the product of L.S.D. or something similar.

But maybe some defenders will still say they are not. The Wizard of Oz might also be called drug induced if judged by the same standard

Any references to the props and storylines that are telltale signs of drug references that you remember or know of?

H.R. Puffinstuff: Actually the least trippy, even it was freaky like a drug-induced nightmare—being transferred or translated into a strange and weird world

The Bugaloos: Vivid colours and, since the characters were supposed to be tiny, there were huge flowers and sort of an ;Alice in Wonderland” ambiance, with Celtic / British music and a trippy seeing of the world in otherworldly harmony, like being high or seeing the world in afterglow.

Liddsville: Falling, swirling, psychedelic imagery, endless swirling, vivid colours and music

Sigmund and the Seamonsters: Trippy premise, running in circles in caves with swirling, colored lights. Two pre/early teenage boys with lots of swirling coloured lights and music.

Land of the Lost: Even this show had falling into the Land of the Lost, lots of weird things with vivid colours and sounds such as trippy time tunnels, alternate universes that were like trips, pylons and ‘skylons’ with trippy effects and lights.