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    Kids TV TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Groovie Goolies, The

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    After being a supporting act on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The Groovie Goolies spun off a year later as kind of a comic rapid-fire ghoul revue.

    The thin storyline had a group of monsters – the Groovie Goolies – who resided at Horrible Hall as boarders of Tom Drac the vampire (voiced by Larry Storch); his wife Hagatha (Jane Webb), who had a cat called Salem and a mischievous broom called Broom Hilda (also voiced by Jane Webb); and their son Frankie, who resembled Dr Frankenstein’s monster and had a pet dinosaur named Rover.

    Among the joke-spewing renters were Wolfie the wolfman (Howard Morris); the Thing Eating Plant; Orville Mummy; Dr Jekyll-Hyde the two-headed doctor; Fatso and Batso the vampire kids; the disembodied Ghoulihand; Bella La Ghostly the switchboard operator; the Ask It Casket; Boneapart the collapsing skeleton, and various other rocking ghosts.

    It concluded with a Laugh-In-type joke wall segment, just one aspect of the series that was influenced by the NBC nighttime variety show which ran from 1968-73.

    After a year’s run, the series ran in repeats in 1975 as a stopgap replacement after Uncle Crocs Block failed.

    Frankie/Wolfie/Orville Mummy/Ghoulihand
    Howard Morris
    Tom Drac/Fatso
    Larry Storch
    Hagatha/Broom Hilda/Sabrina
    Jane Webb
    Dr Jekyll-Hyde/Batso/Boneapart
    Larry Mann

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