From a family of puppetmakers; they became children's television moguls of the 70s (H.R. Pufnstuf, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos, Lidsville; McDonald's ripped them off: Mayor McCheese, the Hamburglar, etc), branching out into other things, like The Donny and Marie Show and a similar one by the Bay City Rollers. A design shop also: they do sports mascots, invented that dancing Kool-Aid Man, and created The Banana Splits figures.