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Groovie Ghoulies
Groovie Goolies, created in 1970, was a take off of Filmation's wildly popular The Archie Show with a monster bend. Combined with another show featuring a character directly spun off of The Archie Show, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, the Goolies were a group of hip monsters, many of whom were, in look and sound, pop-culture echoes of the classic horror-film monsters created in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly by Universal Pictures including Frankie (Frankenstein's Monster), Wolfie (The Wolfman, who talks like Wolfman Jack), Mummy, Drac (Dracula), Batzo and Ratzo (two mean green-skinned kids), Boneapart (an animated skeleton that might have been Napoleon Bonaparte), Dr. Jekyll & Hyde (bicephalous, a reference to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Hagatha (a witch), Bella La Ghostly (who looks very much like Drac and like Lily Munster), Broomhilda, Hauntleroy (an often whiny, goody-two shoes kid patterned after Little Lord Fauntleroy), and Orville (a take on the man-eating plant from The Little Shop of Horrors). The show originally aired on CBS as Sabrina and the Groovy Goolies, and also featured Archie Comics character Sabrina the Teenage Witch with her aunts Hilda and Zelda. Sabrina had had previous appearances as a supporting character on The Archie Comedy Hour the previous year. In 1971, Sabrina was spun off into her own show. Adding music to the series, Filmation hoped that lightning would strike twice: the previous success of The Archie Show produced several musical hits. The song Chic-a-Boom was first featured on the show, and became a hit two years later for Daddy Dewdrop (actually one of the show's producers.) Like most animated comedies at the time, Groovie Goolies contained a laugh track. Never a critical success, the Goolies had legs, reappearing in 1971 as The Groovie Goolies on their own solo show. The following year, they had a special pairing them with the Looney Tunes stars on the ABC Network, which later rebroadcast the original series for one season in 1975. They finally entered syndication in 1978. The syndicated version became an anthology series, entitled The Groovie Goolies and Friends, with the Goolies introducing rotating episodes of many other Filmation series, including The Adventures of Waldo Kitty, Lassie's Rescue Rangers, The New Adventures of Gilligan, My Favorite Martian, and former Uncle Crock's Block segments M.U.S.H., Fraidy Cat, and Wacky and Packy. M.U.S.H. (standing for "Mangy Unwanted Shaggy heroes"; a parody of the very adult Korean War dramedy M.A.S.H., but starring dogs working in an arctic military fort.) The My Favorite Martian remake featured Lost in Space star Jonathan Harris in the role made famous in the original series by Ray Walston. The cartoon aired with of the UK version of Hanna-Barbera's Banana Splits in the early 1980s. The Groovie Ghoulies band takes their name from this show. DVD InformationAll 16 episodes were released on DVD on October 24 2006 and titled the "Saturday Mourning Collection". Special features include:
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