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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.

This series provides examples of:

Animated Adaptation
Animated Series
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
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.

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 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 (TV)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', but [[Adaptation Displacement|20 years earlier]].