The Groovie Goolies Archive (1970)

1970 · Television · 38 min

• Horror
• Musical

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Synopsis

Following the success of "The Archie Show" and its companion, "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," Filmation greenlit an original companion for Sabrina based on The Universal Monsters. "Laugh-In" writers Jack Mendelsohn and Jim Mulligan were hired to develop the show, patterning it after that gag-a-minute series, and musical numbers were added to ape the success of The Archies. The Goolies characters also appeared in more traditional stories on Sabrina's show. "Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies" premiered in the fall of 1970, to great acclaim from children... and to the disdain of parents' groups, who routinely singled the show out for its grotesque characters and comical violence. The next year, the two shows were split apart, never to be reassembled (until now!). There were a variety of musical groups featured on the show (The Monster Trio, The Mummies and the Puppies, The Spirits of 76, etc.), but the music all came from the same team, the guys who were also behind the songs on Filmation's " The Hardy Boys " (and there's some musical overlap on their second album, " Wheels," which was released the same year). One of the bands that showed up in preliminary artwork was The Running Stones, a colorful band of rocks with arms, legs, and instruments who were probably replaced by The Rolling Headstones because they looked like insects-- but weirdly, these unused characters were featured in both the American and Japanese coloring books. As for the music, the masterminds behind it were…

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Running time

38 minutes

Language

English

Collection

1970s Classic TV, Classic TV

Subjects on the Internet Archive

• Groovie Goolies
• Dracula
• Frankenstein
• The Wolf Man
• The Mummy
• Witches
• Vampires
• Werewolves
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Archie

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