Groovie Goolies
| Groovie Goolies | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Comedy horror Musical comedy |
| Directed by | Hal Sutherland |
| Voices of |
John Erwin Dallas McKennon Larry D. Mann Howard Morris Larry Storch Jane Webb |
| Theme music composer | Richard Delvy Ed Fournier Dick Monda |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Norm Prescott Lou Scheimer |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Filmation The Sabrina Company |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 12, 1970 – September 4, 1971 |
Groovie Goolies is an American animated television show that had its original run on network television between 1970 and 1971. Produced by Filmation, Groovie Goolies was a spinoff of The Sabrina the Teenage Witch Show (itself a spinoff of The Archie Show). Like most Saturday morning cartoons of the era, Groovie Goolies utilized an adult laugh track.
The Goolies were a group of hip monsters residing at Horrible Hall (a haunted boarding house for monsters) on Horrible Drive. Many of the Goolies were (in look and sound) pop-culture echoes of the classic horror-film monsters created in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly by Universal Pictures. The group sang a pop song each episode.
Every episode featured at least two musical segments. The first one is by the Groovie Goolies with Drac on the organ piano, Wolfie playing a lyre-like stringed instrument, and Frankie on a drumset with a xylophone made of bones. The second musical segment is by one of the other resident bands including:
The show was structured very much like the then-popular show Laugh-In, with several short segments of one-liner jokes and riddles. This was most shown by the "Weird Windows Time", a take off on Laugh-In's famous Joke Wall. Every so often one of the Goolies had a special segment in which they instructed the audience in the finer points of one thing or another, such as:
The songs were written by Richard Delvy, Ed Fournier, and Dick Monda, who made a separate hit single recording of "Chick-a-Boom" as Daddy Dewdrop in 1971. The show’s theme song, "Goolies Get-Together", was written by Linda Martin and Janis Gwin.
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.
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