Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies



"Once upon a time, there was the witches, who lived in the little city of Greendale. Two aunts, Hilda and Zelda are chosed the ingredients to create the evil wicked witch. But suddenly, Zelda bumped right into Hilda and accidentally added a beautiful girls' stuff as an extra ingredients. Thus the grooviest teenage witch was born, she has a white hair with a pink headband, and blue eyes. She wears a blue dress with a black belt and black shoes. She loves to goofing off and battling evil forces using her ultra magical powers. It so happens that this is the first bewitching american superhero — Sabrina, the teen-age witch!"

This Filmation series from 1970, produced for CBS, featured Sabrina, the platinum blond teenage witch from The Archie Show, as well as her cat, Salem; her boyfriend, Harvey, and her two aunts, Hilda and Zelda. Yes, the same characters from Sabrina the Teenage Witch, but 20 years earlier.

Sabrina often visited Horrible Hall, which was home to the Groovie Goolies: comic versions of classic monster types (vampire, werewolf, Frankenstein monster, mummy, etc.) who told jokes and played songs. It bore a hit single in 1970, "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)" by Daddy Dewdrop, the pseudonym of producer Allen Duchovny. The single itself was slightly racy; the version on the cartoon was much more sanitized.

About a year later, the show would be split into its constituent halves and shown separately. In 1972, on the ABC Saturday Superstar Movies, the Groovie Goolies would appear in a bizarre Crossover with the Looney Tunes characters.


 * Accent Adaptation: For some reason, despite being portrayed as livig in America and being called "All-American" one one of the DVD boxes, Sabrina (and her aunts) have British accents.


 * Animated Adaptation
 * Animated Series
 * Artificial Human: Sabrina was created by Hilda and Zelda Spellman out of magic potions, as well as the accidental addition of teenage girls' stuff, due to being accidentally bumped by Zelda.
 * Bratty Half Pints: Batso and Ratso
 * Catch Phrase: "This place is driving me batty!"
 * Frank (after being struck by lightning): "I needed that!"
 * Cool Broom: Sabrina's ride had a big cushioned eggshell-like seat with a flower on top. (Aunt Zelda flew a vacuum cleaner.)
 * Crossover: In the aptly named Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies.
 * Dem Bones: Bonapart and the Barebones Band.
 * Extraordinarily Empowered Girl
 * Magical Girl Warrior
 * Evil Redhead: Enchantra.
 * Monster Mash
 * Non-Human Sidekick: Salem the cat
 * Rich Bitch: Enchantra, Queen of the Witches in every sense.
 * Stock Footage: Common, as in all Filmation series. Footage of vampires Drac and Bella (!) would show up decades later on Filmations Ghostbusters.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Sabrina herself. Her hair is either white or platinum blond.
 * Wicked Witch: Hilda and Zelda both had the traditional appearance, though it was belied by a kindly nature in Zelda's case.