Groovie Goolies
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Groovie Goolies is an American
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 animated
Animation
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 television show that had its original run on network television between 1970 and 1972. Produced by Filmation
Filmation
Filmation Associates was an American production company that produced animation and live action programming for television during the latter half of the 20th century. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1963...

, Groovie Goolies was a spinoff
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 of Sabrina the Teenage Witch (itself a spinoff of The Archie Show
The Archie Show
The Archie Show is a Saturday morning cartoon animated series produced by Filmation. Based on the Archie comic books, created by Bob Montana in 1941, The Archie Show debuted on CBS in September 1968 and lasted for one season. A total of 17 half-hour shows, each containing two 11 minute segments,...

). Like most Saturday morning animated series of the era, Groovie Goolies contained an adult laugh track
Laugh track
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.

About the Goolies

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
Universal Pictures
-1920:* White Youth* The Flaming Disc* Am I Dreaming?* The Dragon's Net* The Adorable Savage* Putting It Over* The Line Runners-1921:* The Fire Eater* A Battle of Wits* Dream Girl* The Millionaire...

. The group sang a pop song
Pop Song
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 each episode.

Premise and Plot

Sabrina's cousins the Groovie Goolies all reside at Horrible Hall (a haunted boarding house
Boarding house
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 for monsters) on Horrible Drive. Among its inhabitants are:
  • Drac
    Count Dracula
    Count Dracula is a fictional character, the titular antagonist of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula and archetypal vampire. Some aspects of his character have been inspired by the 15th century Romanian general and Wallachian Prince Vlad III the Impaler...

     (voiced by Larry Storch
    Larry Storch
    Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Storch is an American actor best known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for top cartoon shows, including Mr...

    ): The short-tempered vampire
    Vampire
    Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...

     who is the head of Horrible Hall.
  • Frankie (voiced by Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

     impersonating Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    William Henry Pratt , better known by his stage name Boris Karloff, was an English actor.Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films and his portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein , Bride of Frankenstein , and Son of Frankenstein...

    ): An easygoing Frankenstein's Monster
    Frankenstein's monster
    Frankenstein's monster is a fictional character that first appeared in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. The creature is often erroneously referred to as "Frankenstein", but in the novel the creature has no name...

     who headed the Muscle-leum Gymnasium ("great for body building").Often would be zapped by lighting, revealing his inner workings and then remarking "I needed that!!" Also had a dual identity as the inept superhero "Super Gool"
  • Wolfie (voiced by Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

     impersonating Wolfman Jack
    Wolfman Jack
    Robert Weston Smith, known commonly as Wolfman Jack was a gravelly voiced US disc jockey who became famous in the 1960s and 1970s.-Early career:...

    ): A hippie werewolf
    Werewolf
    A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope , is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or an anthropomorphic wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse...

     always out for a good time, often by running wild, surfing, or driving his Wolfwagon. Especially gets on Drac's nerves.
  • Hagatha (voiced by Jane Webb
    Jane Webb
    Jane Webb, a.k.a. Joanne Louise, is a movie actor and voice actor; as a voice actor, she has worked on a large number of animated cartoons, mostly for Filmation.-Film career:...

    ): A plump witch
    Witchcraft
    Witchcraft, in historical, anthropological, religious, and mythological contexts, is the alleged use of supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a practitioner of witchcraft...

     who served as resident cook. She also has a living broom named Broomhilda and is the cousin of Hauntleroy.
  • Bella La Ghostly (voiced by Jane Webb
    Jane Webb
    Jane Webb, a.k.a. Joanne Louise, is a movie actor and voice actor; as a voice actor, she has worked on a large number of animated cartoons, mostly for Filmation.-Film career:...

    ): A vampiress switchboard operator.
  • Dr. Jekyll and Hyde (voiced by Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

     and Larry D. Mann
    Larry D. Mann
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    ): The two-headed resident doctor who often fought as to which one of them was Jekyll and/or Hyde. One head (the right) is a normal "human" doctor while the other (left) head is a green-skinned, "monster" doctor. He's his own second opinion.
  • Mummy
    Mummy
    A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...

     (voiced by Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

     impersonating Ed Wynn
    Ed Wynn
    Ed Wynn was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor....

    ): A bandaged mummy who dabbles in First Aid and serves as the announcer for "The Mummy's Wrap-Up" newscasts. Often became unraveled.
  • Boneapart (voiced by Larry D. Mann
    Larry D. Mann
    Larry D. Mann is a Canadian actor. Prior to his acting career, he was a disk jockey on CHUM 1050 radio in Toronto in 1949. His best-known Canadian television exposure was in a Bell Canada series of commercials called "The Boss" in which he played the title role for ten years beginning in 1981...

    ): A skittish skeleton
    Skeleton (undead)
    A Skeleton is a type of physically manifested undead often found in fantasy, gothic and horror fiction, and mythical art. Most are human skeletons, but they can also be from any creature or race found on Earth or in the fantasy world.- Myth and folklore :...

     in a Napoleon
    Napoleon I
    Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution.As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815...

     hat who had a tendency to go to pieces (literally!).
  • Ghoulihand (voiced by Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

    ): A giant, disembodied glove (no Irish brougue).
  • Batso and Ratso (voiced by Larry D. Mann
    Larry D. Mann
    Larry D. Mann is a Canadian actor. Prior to his acting career, he was a disk jockey on CHUM 1050 radio in Toronto in 1949. His best-known Canadian television exposure was in a Bell Canada series of commercials called "The Boss" in which he played the title role for ten years beginning in 1981...

     and Larry Storch
    Larry Storch
    Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Storch is an American actor best known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for top cartoon shows, including Mr...

    ): Two fanged imp
    Imp
    An imp is a mythological being similar to a fairy or demon, frequently described in folklore and superstition. The word may perhaps derive from the term ympe, used to denote a young grafted tree.-Folklore:...

    -like brats with a penchant for coming up with plans for swiping treats, as well playing mean practical jokes that often backfired.
  • Hauntleroy (voiced by Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

    ): A rotund, coniving and selfish two-faced sissy kid in a sailor suit who was often the primary foil for Batso's and Ratso's tricks. He is the cousin of Hagatha.
  • Icky and Goo Two gargoyle-like creatures that seem to be the main pets of Horrible Hall.
  • Tiny: A diminutive, long-haired mummy
    Mummy
    A mummy is a body, human or animal, whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness , very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs, so that the recovered body will not decay further if kept in cool and dry...

     with a high-pitched voice (a parody of the then-popular entertainer Tiny Tim
    Tiny Tim (musician)
    Tiny Tim , , born in Manhattan, was an American singer and ukulele player. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto/vibrato voice.-Rise to fame:Born to Lebanese parents in 1932, Khaury displayed musical talent at a very young age...

    ). He is the cousin of Mummy.
  • Missy: An enigmatic spook whose face was a large single eye and whose body was hidden by her long, pink hair. She is Tiny's wife.


Additional fixtures at Horrible Hall included:
  • Orville (voiced by Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

    ): A large thing-eating plant
    Plant
    Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

    .
  • Fido Wolfie's pet piranha, that eats anything and can even fly when necessary.
  • The Ask-it Casket: A talking casket that answers any questions given to it.
  • The Spookoo Clock: A cuckoo clock
    Cuckoo clock
    A cuckoo clock is a clock, typically pendulum-regulated, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo's call and typically has a mechanical cuckoo that emerges with each note...

     that has a vulture
    Vulture
    Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains...

     coming out of it.
  • Rover: Frankie's pet dinosaur
    Dinosaur
    Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

    .
  • The Lovesick Love Seat: It is very affectionate to anyone who gets too close.
  • The Skelevator: A skull-shaped elevator
    Elevator
    An elevator is a type of vertical transport equipment that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building, vessel or other structures...

    .
  • Wolf Wagon: Wolfie's convertible transport. A high speed racer shaped like a wolf's skull. Often had a mind of its own.


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:
  • Dracula's Schoolhouse - It provides the finer points of (mad) science.
  • Hagatha's Bedtime Stories - Hagatha reads a popular fairy-tale to Frankie with the other inhabitants in different parts.
  • Home Movies - The inhabitants watch the home movies of their past activities.
  • Wolfie's Theater - Wolfie re-enacted a popular fairy-tale with some of the inhabitants while the others watch.


Every episode featured at least two musical segments. The first one is by the Groovie Goolies with Drac on the organ, 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 Mummies and The Puppies: A takeoff on the folk/pop group The Mamas & The Papas
    The Mamas & the Papas
    The Mamas & the Papas were a Canadian/American vocal group of the 1960s . The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and 11 Top 40 hit singles...

    led by Tiny on guitar with Missy on tambourine, the green amply-contoured mummy Mama Casket on drums, and four puppies (two sharing a guitar, one on tambourine, and one on piano).
  • The Spirits of '76: Three ghost
    Ghost
    In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...

    s all dressed as colonial soldiers.
  • The Rolling Gravestones: A takeoff of the Rolling Stones that are performed by three animate tombstones
    Headstone
    A headstone, tombstone, or gravestone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. In most cases they have the deceased's name, date of birth, and date of death inscribed on them, along with a personal message, or prayer.- Use :...

    . Hudson Rock, Captain Marble, and General Granite.
  • The Bare Boned Band: A band consisting of three skeleton
    Skeleton (undead)
    A Skeleton is a type of physically manifested undead often found in fantasy, gothic and horror fiction, and mythical art. Most are human skeletons, but they can also be from any creature or race found on Earth or in the fantasy world.- Myth and folklore :...

    s.

Episodes

Title Airdate Synopsis
GG-1 "1-2-3" 1970·Sep·12
GG-2 "Cling Clang" 1970·Sep·19
GG-3 "What’s in the Bag" 1970·Sep·26
GG-4 "Goolie Picnic" 1970·Oct·03
GG-5 "Goolie Garden" 1970·Oct·10
GG-6 "Feed the Ghost Some Garlic" 1970·Oct·17
GG-7 "Frankie" 1970·Oct·24
GG-8 "Noises" 1970·Oct·31
GG-9 "Monster Trio" 1970·Nov·07
GG-10 "Goolie Swing" 1970·Nov·14
GG-11 "Witches Brew" 1970·Nov·21
GG-12 "Gool School" 1970·Nov·28
GG-13 "Shadows" 1970·Dec·05
GG-14 "Save Your Good Lovin’" 1970·Dec·12
GG-15 "Darlin’ Darlin’" 1970·Dec·19
GG-16 "At the First Annual Semi Formal Combination Meet the Monster Population Party" 1970·Dec·26

Production

The show originally aired on CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 as Sabrina and the Groovy Goolies, and also featured Archie Comics
Archie Comics
Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and Jughead Jones. The characters were created by...

 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 Archie Show
The Archie Show is a Saturday morning cartoon animated series produced by Filmation. Based on the Archie comic books, created by Bob Montana in 1941, The Archie Show debuted on CBS in September 1968 and lasted for one season. A total of 17 half-hour shows, each containing two 11 minute segments,...

the previous year. In 1971, Sabrina was spun off into her own show.

Never a critical success, the Goolies had appeal, reappearing in 1971 as The Groovie Goolies on their own solo show. After one season with Sabrina, executives decided that the Goolies were strong enough to make it on their own, and thus Sabrina and the Goolies both received their own separate shows. The following year they had a feature entitled Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies is a 1972 animated one-hour TV-movie that was part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie...

(which was part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie — renamed The New Saturday Superstar Movie in its second season — is a series of one-hour animated TV-movies , broadcast on the ABC television network on Saturday mornings from September 9, 1972, to November 17, 1973.Intended as a "Movie of the Week" for kids, this...

), teaming them with the Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

 stars. Interestingly, this movie featured a brief, live-action sequence featuring some of the Goolies, including Drac, Wolfie, and Hauntleroy. ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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 later rebroadcast the original series for one season in 1975. They finally entered syndication
Television syndication
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 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 New Adventures of Waldo Kitty
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty
The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty was a children's television show alternating animation and live footage segments. It took the concept of James Thurber's popular short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, and parodied it with anthropomorphised dogs and cats.-Plot:Waldo Kitty and his girlfriend...

(minus the live-action sequences), Lassie's Rescue Rangers
Lassie's Rescue Rangers
Lassie's Rescue Rangers is an animated TV show produced by Filmation and featuring Lassie, running from 1973 to 1975. The hour-long pilot, Lassie and the Spirit of Thunder Mountain, was part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie.-Overview:...

, The New Adventures of Gilligan
The New Adventures Of Gilligan
The New Adventures of Gilligan is an animated series produced by Filmation and was aired on ABC during the 1974-1975 season. It was based on the 1964-1967 CBS television series Gilligan's Island and featured almost all the actors from the show, except for Tina Louise, who was determined to distance...

, My Favorite Martian
My Favorite Martian
My Favorite Martian is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS from September 29, 1963 to May 1, 1966 for 107 episodes...

s
, and former Uncle Croc's Block
Uncle Croc's Block
Uncle Croc's Block was a short-lived, hour-long live-action/animated series on ABC, produced by Filmation Associates.-History:A spoof of kid shows, Charles Nelson Reilly played the titular Uncle Croc, who hated his job as the show's host. Also featured were Alfie Wise as his sidekick Mr...

segments M.U.S.H., Fraidy Cat, and Wacky and Packy. M.U.S.H. standing for "Mangy Unwanted Shabby Heroes"; a parody of the very adult Korean War
Korean War
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 dramedy M.A.S.H., but starring dogs working in an arctic military fort.

The cartoon aired with the UK
United Kingdom
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 version of Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera
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's Banana Splits
Banana Splits
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in the early 1980s, and as of May, 2009, the show can be streamed in the US in Minisode
The Minisode Network
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 form on Crackle
Crackle
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.

Production credits

  • Directed by: Hal Sutherland
  • Animation Directors: Rudy Larriva, Don Towsley, Anatole Kirsanoff
  • Production Manager: Rock Benedict
  • Written by: Jack Mendelsohn, Jim Mulligan, Bob Ogle, Chuck Menville, Len Jansen, Jim Ryan, Bill Danch
  • Art Director: Don Christensen
  • Key Assistants: Mike Hazy, George Carey, John Tucker
  • Layout: Kay Wright, Alberto De Mello, Don Bluth, Herb Hazelton, Ray Jacobs, Carol Marshall, Mel Keefer, Enrique Arnau
  • Storyboard: Sherman Labby
    Sherman Labby
    Sherman Labby was an American storyboard artist and production illustrator....

    , Mike O'Connor, Dale Hale, Jack Miller, Paul Fennell
  • Background Director: Erv Kaplan
  • Background Artists: Paul Xander, Maurice Harvey, Bill Loudenslager, Patricia Frye, Phil Lewis, Doug Stevenson
  • Animators: Amby Paliwoda, Kaem Wong, Ben Shenkman, George Waiss, Louise Sandoval, Russ Von Neida, Virgil Ross, Ralph Somerville, Len Rogers, Ed Solomon, Ed Rehberg, Hank Smith, Lenn Redman, Larry Silverman, Virgil Raddatz, Bill Pratt, Norm McCabe, Barney Posner, Marsh Lamore, Rod Parkes, Paul Krukowski, Jack Ozark, George Kreisl, Casey Onaitis, Les Kaluza, Bill Nunes, Lou Kachivas, Larry Miller, Maria Jursic (Marija Dail), Bob Matz, Karen Haus, Laverne Harding, Butch Davis, Lee Halpern, Emil Carle, Dick Hall (Dick Marion), Herman Cohen, Z. Gasparovic, Bob Bransford, Frank Gonzales, Jim Brummett, Fred Grable, Ted Bonnicksen, Otto Feuer, Bill Ackerman, Ed Friedman
  • Checking Supervision: Marion Turk, Jane Philippi
  • Ink and Paint Supervision: Martha Buckley, Betty Brooks
  • Xerography: John Remmel
  • Prints by: Technicolor
  • Camera Supervision: Sergio Antonio Alcazar, R.W. Pope, Frank A. Parrish, John D. Aardal, Ted C. Bemiller, Mike Kinney, Luis Melendez Jr., Tony Rivetti, Dennis M. Lady
  • Editorial: Joseph Simon, Jim Blodgett
  • Film Coordinator: June Gilham
  • Music and Sound Effects by: Horta-Mahana Corporation, Jan Moore
  • Voices: John Erwin
    John Erwin
    John Lee Erwin is a voice actor known for voicing Morris the Cat and He-Man.-Career:Erwin was the voice of He-Man in the Filmation production He-Man and the Masters of the Universe that ran from 1983 to 1985. Due to the extreme cost-cutting by Filmation, the cast of voice actors was small, and...

    , Dallas McKennon
    Dallas McKennon
    Dallas Raymond McKennon , sometimes credited as Dal McKennon, was an American actor, with extensive work as a voice actor, in a career lasting over 50 years.-Career:...

    , Larry D. Mann
    Larry D. Mann
    Larry D. Mann is a Canadian actor. Prior to his acting career, he was a disk jockey on CHUM 1050 radio in Toronto in 1949. His best-known Canadian television exposure was in a Bell Canada series of commercials called "The Boss" in which he played the title role for ten years beginning in 1981...

    , Howard Morris
    Howard Morris
    Howard Morris was an American comic actor and director who was best known for his role as Ernest T. Bass on The Andy Griffith Show.- Life and career :...

    , Larry Storch
    Larry Storch
    Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Storch is an American actor best known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for top cartoon shows, including Mr...

    , Jane Webb
    Jane Webb
    Jane Webb, a.k.a. Joanne Louise, is a movie actor and voice actor; as a voice actor, she has worked on a large number of animated cartoons, mostly for Filmation.-Film career:...

  • Groovie Goolies Songs Produced by: Richard Delvy, Ed Fournier, Dick Monda
  • Groovie Goolies Background Music: Jeff Michael (pseudonym for Ray Ellis
    Ray Ellis
    Ray Ellis was an American record producer, arranger and conductor. The orchestration for Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin is probably his best known work in the jazz vein.-Biography:...

    )
  • Publisher: Shermley Music Corporation A.S.C.A.P.
  • Sabrina Background Music: Yvette Blais (pseudonym for Ray Ellis)
  • Publisher: Don Kirshner Music Inc. B.M.I.
  • "Sabrina" is adapted from the Archie Comic Book Series and appears in the comic book titled "Archie's TV Laugh-Out featuring Sabrina, the Teenage Witch." Sabrina is a copyrighted feature of Archie Music Corporation."
  • Produced by: Lou Scheimer
    Lou Scheimer
    Louis Scheimer is an Emmy and Grammy Award–winning American producer, one of the original founders of Filmation, an animation company, and also an executive producer of many of its cartoons .-Career:Early in Filmation's history, Scheimer also contributed...

    , Norm Prescott
    Norm Prescott
    Norman "Norm" Prescott was co-founder and executive producer at Filmation Studios. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he began his radio career in the Hub, becoming program director at station WORL in the late 1940s. He went to work for Joseph E. Levine's Embassy Pictures Corp. in 1959, serving as...

  • Produced by Filmation Associates. A TelePrompTer
    Teleprompter
    An autocue is a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text of a speech or script. Using a teleprompter is similar to the practice of using cue cards...

     Company.

Music

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 "Chick-a-Boom" was first featured on the show, and became a hit two years later for Daddy Dewdrop
Daddy Dewdrop
Daddy Dewdrop is a pseudonym for an American songwriter named Dick Monda , backed up by some studio musicians, including Tom Hensley who later became the musical director for Neil Diamond, and Butch Rillera who later became a member of the group Redbone...

 (actually one of the show's producers).

The music of the some of the later Groovie Goolie segments was produced by Jackie Mills, who had also produced Bobby Sherman
Bobby Sherman
Robert Cabot "Bobby" Sherman, Jr. , is an American singer, actor and occasional songwriter, who became a popular teen idol in the late 1960s and early 1970s.He graduated in 1961 from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, California...

, the Brady Bunch Kids, and some of the Archie programs. Tom McKenzie, a former member of the Doodletown Pipers
Doodletown Pipers
The Doodletown Pipers were a 1960s and 1970s easy listening vocal group founded by Ward Ellis, George Wilkins, Bernie Brillstein and Jerry Weintraub....

, who was also the vocalist for the U.S. of Archie show, sang the vocals for these shows.

The show’s theme song, titled "Goolie Get-Together", was written by Linda Martin
Linda Martin
Linda Martin is an Irish singer and television presenter. She is best known in Europe as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1992, with the song "Why Me?", and in Ireland as a member of the 1970s/1980s band, Chips.-Chips:Martin started off her musical career when she joined the band Chips...

 and Janis Gwin.

A cover of the show’s theme song, performed by The Toadies, is included on the 1995 tribute album
Tribute album
A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist.There...

 Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, produced by Ralph Sall
Ralph Sall
Ralph Sall is a record producer, music supervisor, composer, songwriter, and screenwriter. He is the president of Bulletproof Entertainment, a company involved in several facets of the entertainment industry, including film, television, comic books and graphic novels, music, internet and live...

 for MCA Records
MCA Records
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.

Autumn Teen Sound also recorded and performed the theme song. It appears on the bootleg "Beaten Up By Rock N' Roll."

DVD release

All 16 episodes were released on DVD on October 24, 2006 and titled the Saturday Mourning Collection.

Special features include:
  • "Goolians"—brand new, 45 minute "docu-comedy" created by producer and voice over artist Wally Wingert
    Wally Wingert
    Wallace E. "Wally" Wingert is an American actor and voice artist. He is originally from Des Moines, Iowa but he currently works and lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the current announcer for the second incarnation of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the current voice of Jon Arbuckle in...

     (Family Guy
    Family Guy
    Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...

    , Invader Zim) and Daniel Roebuck
    Daniel Roebuck
    Daniel James Roebuck is an American television film actor, writer and producer, primarily in films, soap operas and television.-Life and career:...

     (Lost, The Fugitive), featuring interviews with Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...

    , Forrest J. Ackerman, Ron Chaney, Lou Scheimer
    Lou Scheimer
    Louis Scheimer is an Emmy and Grammy Award–winning American producer, one of the original founders of Filmation, an animation company, and also an executive producer of many of its cartoons .-Career:Early in Filmation's history, Scheimer also contributed...

    , Oscar winning make-up artist Bill Corso, "Goolie" head writer Jack Mendelsohn, and more. Includes new original rock song "True Blue Goolian," and a music video with the Sacramento punk band The Groovie Ghoulies
    The Groovie Ghoulies
    The Groovie Ghoulies were an American pop punk band from Sacramento, California whose music took inspiration from horror movies. They released numerous albums, EPs, and singles, and toured internationally...

    .
  • Audio commentary tracks for two episodes, featuring producer Lou Scheimer
    Lou Scheimer
    Louis Scheimer is an Emmy and Grammy Award–winning American producer, one of the original founders of Filmation, an animation company, and also an executive producer of many of its cartoons .-Career:Early in Filmation's history, Scheimer also contributed...

    , "Goolie" head writer Jack Mendelsohn
    Jack Mendelsohn
    Jack Mendelsohn is a writer-artist who has worked in animation, comic strips and comic books. An Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor, he has numerous credits as a TV scripter, including Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Three's Company, The Carol Burnett Show and Teenage Mutant Ninja...

    , Filmation historian Darrell McNeil, and Hollywood monster expert Bob Burns. Hosted by Wally Wingert.
  • Image gallery featuring original model sheets, animation cels, storyboards, backgrounds and PSAs
  • "Goolie-Get-Together Sing-a-Long"
  • Candid story from producer Lou Scheimer about "The Creation of Filmation"
  • Trivia and episode guide
  • DVD-ROM extras, including scripts and the original Series Bible for "The Kookie Spookies"

External links

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