GROOVIE GOOLIES AND FRIENDS tv show opening

[ded2rite]

I loved this show...still do...

[jesseeinblau]

This show helped me grow up to be the groovy individual I am today.

[burpo]

I'd rather watch this or the old Warner Bros. cartoons than the overproduced Disney or Pixar stuff.

[jnd080895]

Great song here!

This is the hayday of cartoons unlike the crap today!!!

[Adventurestud]

How could one hour contain so - much - AWESOMENESS!!!

[davidlerner100]

my friend you did a great job i love the old classic cartoon from the 60 70 and 80

[hilarioph]

GROOVIE GOOLIES was aired here in the Philippines

back in the 80's on City2 television before ABS CBN 2

was return back in 1986

[johnissoevil]

Hearing Lou Scheimer doing these voiceovers brings back great memories.

[Scarletspeedster68]

@johnissoevil I don't think that was Lou Scheimer, but it might be Norm Prescott, who before joining Filmation was a DJ from Boston.

[johnissoevil]

@Scarletspeedster68 To this day, I still tend to get those two confused with each other.

[HardyGirl66]

Nothing like recycling. Filmation didn't waste a thing. But I must say that I like the original incarnations of these shows w/ the corny intros and all. And I liked Uncle Croc's Block!

[loneshewolf74]

Yes, the 1930's-50's were definitely the Golden Age of Animation. Most 70's cartoons are really overrated. :) When I was a kid I got to see many of the classics like Looney Tunes which were also released on video back in the 80's.

[modularhalfpipe]

Never saw Fraidy cat or mush, but they look like the stuff people are talking about when they say the 70's were a joke. In the 70's, we watched Looney Tunes, which were made mostly in the 40's and 50's, and still rock to this day.

[loneshewolf74]

I remember watching MUSH and Fraidy Cat together in a video my mother once rented for me. Dumb, boring and unfunny are the nicer words to describe the cartoons. In fact even as a kid I found the animation, plots and voice acting of most Filmation cartoons to be really bad. Fat Albert was maybe one exception.

[TIPTON340]

M*U*S*H, Fraidy Cat, and Wacky & Packy were part of a failed 1975 Saturday morning show called Uncle Crock's Block with Charles Nelson Riely.

[modularhalfpipe]

Waldo kitty? Geesh that's awful! Early '70's cartoons, like the original Goolies and Fat Albert were awesome, mid and late 70's stuff like Jabber Jaws and the super friends were junk. They liked to take ideas that already existed (Lassie) and make cheesy stupid cartoons out of them ( Lassie's rescue rangers)

[TerrorBlack]

1:15 looks like someone left in a placeholder clip

[Wridde23]

I think Filmation would have been in business much longer if they allow the Brown Hornet to have his own series instead riding on the coattails of Fat Albert all the time and not relaunch the Ghost Busters from the 70's as a cartoon. Basically, the Ghost Busters coincided with the Real Ghostbusters based on the film which was bad timing in itself. Also, allowing Brave Starr to be a cartoon which was poorly written and allow a hair company like L'Oreal sealed the fate for Filmation as a business

[moxie96]

@Wridde23 the ghostbuster cartoons did crash into each other being coinsidentally produced around the same year 1985-86 but the one based on the ghostbusters movie was done by the DIC cartoon corporation in canada and is the version I wish was on instead of the very hated filmation version. I loved filmation from the 70's the company started to lose its magic right at 1980 or 81. Qubo kids cartoon network has been playing a block of filmation cartoons, I wish they'd put on the 70's cartoons too

[erndogog]

Do you re,mber waiting until Saturday to watch cartoons!!!! And not have a whole chanel of them like now a days

[artytoons]

The narrator is of course, Lou Scheimer, executive producer of Filmation and uncredited voice actor (Dumb Donald and Stinger on "Fat Albert", Orko on "He-Man", Swiftwind and various Horde robots on "She-Ra")

[DonDessaDesoto20s]

I used to wake up at god forsaken hours to watch this show.

[SKOTxFREE]

"I needed that!" hey where's the other intro for Groovy Ghoulies, where they'd sing something like," it's a Grover ghoulie get together"

[moxie96]

@SKOTxFREE You mean it s a groovy ghoulie get together

[Raiden3651]

FRIEND OVERLOAD....OOOOHHHHHH!

[baldpecker66]

Man I remember all that! I HATED Saturday mornings 'cause i was in a stupid bowling league & always missed my cartoons!

[Lumotaku]

This is why the japanese owned us filmation removed all adult references in cartoons from the 1970s and it took until the late 80s for us to start adding them back in. i grew up in the 70s and 80s and this kind of stuff I cant go back and watch again unlike the flintstones and jetsons from the 60s.

[TIPTON340]

All these cartoon entrys were one season flops except for the Groovie Goolies

themselves.

[merlinforever]

Talk about experiencing the past...

[cornjobb]

wow, that chick in the headband in the helicopter looked just like animated marcia from the brady kids. holy recycled animation.

[jermainemack]

The List of all the Groovie Goolies and Friends Segments

The Groovie Goolies

Lassie's Rescue Rangers

My Favorite Martians

The New Adventures of Gilligan

M-U-S-H

Fraidy Cat

Wacky & Packy

The New Adventures of Waldo Kitty

[pictureisup1]

Waldo Kitty was funny. Wow, I am 11 years old right now

[Aquaslasher]

I did not know there was a Gilligan's Island cartoon.

I thought there was just the planet one.

[silverzhawk]

Seeing this now. Not as fun to see as I remember it being when i was like 8 years old.

[SidJustice1]

@silverzhawk , this was CBS, right? I remember this sort of.

[silverzhawk]

@SidJustice1 dont even remember that much! LOL!

[utubesmann]

I remember watching this before going to school.

[freakyoboy]

you wanted to come home and look at tv when i was a kid the best cartoons ever but this shit the kids have now they can keep it

[H4v0kksh0tgunMan]

thank goodness i grew up when gi joe and transformers existed. You old farts got screwed with that crap. Lets not forget ghost busters later on or MASK and on my way out of kiddie hood i got EXO SQUAD.

[Astraldragon1]

@H4v0kksh0tgunMan , When i was a kid in the 70's I liked this show it ws great..and when I was a teen in the 80's I watched GI Joe, Transformers, He-man , She-ra, the real Ghostbuster's, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. all of it was great time to grow up oh yeah and great music of the 80's.

[soseztheleadr]

Good memories. ^^

[sachalhernandez]

man we had the most awesome cartoons...and omg i feel old...lol

[roadskare63]

now i know i've dated myself....i watched this stuff as a kid...i'm 46 here...tell me yer ages my old friends...lol

[DoktorSick]

me to LOL I'm 36

[116Eggleston]

just Okay for me

[randallhead]

sweet stuff man thanks!

[Loboprotosolitario]

jajaja que estupides más grande

[lobo81865]

Love it. I own the box set. Filmation had some good stuff.

[larrystarstruck]

It was unique. I liked it.

[UglyMannheim]

Did they actually create new Goolies episodes for this or were they recycling from the previous show?

[Astraldragon1]

great show I loved the Groovie Goolies. I've allways been a fan of the classic horror films from the 1930's and 1940's/

[jcfbell3001]

it's not crap as much as it's just bizarre...weird stuff, man

[jzerony]

I wish Lou Scheimer and Norman Prescott were alive again.... so I could personally kick them in the acorns for ruining my childhood with crap like THIS!!!

[TIPTON340]

Lou Scheimer is still living.

[bigg3469]

OOPS MY BAD it was Frank Inn that had the animals in the live action segments of Waldo Kitty.

[krsjnk]

These are classics !!!

[johnnyray1717]

Regardless of the old time animation, I still like that style of cartoon. Brings back memories of my childhood watching the real shows they did the take offs from,like M.A.S.H.,Gilligans Island, My favorite martian. I think filmation did great. Too bad others don't think so.

[Astraldragon1]

I agree with you Filmation did a great job with a lot of the classic cartoons from the 60 thru the 80..I enjoyed them.

[trumbachd1]

Thanks Dude! I still like the older "cartoons" much better than all this new "Anime" stuff!!!

[TimmyGal]

Anime is nothing but crap!

[steveasat2]

Uh, you're gonna have a lotta Star Blazers fans demanding you soften that "nothing but crap" ruling. Even those whose eyes bleed at the sight of a giant robot know that a flying WWII battleship is all kinds of win.

[TimmyGal]

I stand by my original opinion. Anime is nothing but crap. I can't stand it. I never could, not even when I was a kid I hated it. Sorry dude, there's just no talking me out of that. No matter how rude "Star Blazers fans" get.

[steveasat2]

Okay, but: Miyazaki. Hate it or not, you ought to acknowledge that there's some anime that isn't merely crap. That doesn't obligate you to like it in the least, after all. It's just that anime is so diverse that saying it's ALL crap is to say that all animation is crap.

[Astraldragon1]

@steveasat2 , what I find strange is those that complain about things are on a youtube site watching it. lol....makes no sence at all.

[TimmyGal]

All anime looks the same to me. They all have poor movement, the eyes are either huge and scary-looking or beady and scary-looking, and the faces have no real expression, and most, if not all of them, is about nothing but violence. Not my kind of thing.

[Astraldragon1]

@TimmyGal, I have a simple question if you hate animie, and cartoons then why are you on a youtube site watching it let alone posting on it.....I would think if you hate something you wouldn't be on the siite in the first place...just curious is all.

[TimmyGal]

I don't hate cartoons, I just hate anime-style cartoons. I love cartoons like this one. In fact, I finally just got the whole Groovie Goolies series on DVD.

[MegaEvalee]

@TimmyGal the kids love anime,and its not crap.very talented people draw them ,my autism daughter loves it and can draw her own anime cartooms and shes only 11.. i even took her and her sis to the anime convention..it was great!and the people[fans]are so awsome!

[nakamichiguy]

Wow, what a trip! I haven't thought of that show in years but I really remember some of them. Oh man that animation is awful to modern eyes now! The Filmation studios were always bottom feeders in the animation world.

[Skulldini]

"Oh man that animation is awful to MODERN eyes NOW ! "

So it isn't as sophisticated as Sponge Bob or Family Guy huh ?

[iwasanangryyoungman]

Talk about a lot of crappy ideas...no wonder Filmation never made it to the '90s....

[TIPTON340]

Lassie 1973-74 last one season

Gilligan 1974-76 was pushed to the Sunday morning graveyard the second yr.

Martin one season runner

Waldo Kitty one season in 1975-76.

[ThundaLippz]

when the hell is cartoon network gonna show repeats of this? that wood be trippy.

[abfabinri]

1970-72

[SHRINA17]

I REMEMBER THESE!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!

[TIPTON340]

All these shows were one seasoners. They were not big hits. M*U*S*H, Fraidy cat, and Wacky & Packy were part of Uncle Croc's block.

[punchcar]

long time ago my mom would get really mad and turn off Uncle Croc's show saying it was 'super dumb'. Seeing Charles Nelson Rally at his campiest in a croc costume flopped the show fast!

[Astraldragon1]

YES!! Its time for The Groovie Goolies and Friends! love this show great memories.

[4321tim]

This was my cartoon so many memories, waldo kitty for life.

[fmix10]

This was like the recycle bin of 70s filmation saturday morning fare. All leftover shorts from previous years programming blocs thrown together in one giant mediocre package.

[UnwashedMusician]

Haha, they sure do have alot of friends!

[TheEnviousParrotHead]

The New Adventures of Waldo Kitty. As opposed to the Old Adventures of Waldo Kitty.

[cuttersboi08]

As opposed to The Secret Life of Walter Mitty... and old Danny Kaye movie.

[servo1138]

Wow! I totally had forgotten about this! But as soon as I started watching it it all came rushing back! Awesome!

[acholl980]

Quake was so unpopular that Quaker kept changing his appearance and his cereal til it made no sense. And adding a kangaroo partner helped matters less. Thus Quisp was the victor and Quake was sent packing. Incedently some stores still sell Quisps. I recently bought a box

[acholl980]

Quake was so unpopular that Quaker kept changing his appearance and his cereal til it made no sense. And adding a kangaroo partner helped matters less. Thus Quisp was the victor and Quake was sent packing. Incedently some stores still sell Quisps. I recently bought a box

[neddx]

So, is MUSH basically MASH only with dogs or something?

[cuttersboi08]

Neddx - Correct.

[HoustonRules]

Wasn't there another segment that was "Star Trek" only with cats? Or am I thinking of another show? Anyway, I only saw this when it was in syndication in the early '80s. Wacky Races and Perils of Penelope Pitstop were on in syndication at that time also.

[TIPTON340]

That was Waldo Kitty.. Waldo was a (live action) cat who pretended he was (in animation form) Captain Kirk, Robin Hood, Batman, Tarzan, and the Lone Ranger.

[bigg3469]

& the live action segments of Waldo Kitty starred animals trained by the legendary Joe Camp who was also the owner of Arnold Ziffel the pig from Green Acres & Benji.

[emaheartslife]

Its time for.. the groovie goolies and friends! (ok, nice simple intro) With Lassie And the Rescue Rangers! (O___O WTF?!?!?!)

((((shock))))

[Astraldragon1]

I liked this show was great simple fun cartoons, to enjoy growing up, unlike today's cartoons which I just can't stand....for me the cartoons of the 70's and 80's were the best.  when growing up during that time.

[kipptumor]

Yes - I am transported through time, seated in front of the Television eating a bowl of Vanilla Crunch, and waiting for Land of the Lost to come on.

[jericho4004]

Bowl of Trix worked for me. :-)

[DRbiohazard]

How 'bout Quisp and King Vitamin?

[jericho4004]

Quisp was ok, it got soggy way too fast for me :-)

[videoinformer]

Remember the commercial rivalry/contest between Quisp and Quake, produced by the same company? Quisp won, and Quake disappeared from the shelves.

[jericho4004]

No, I don't remember Quake at all. What was the commercial like?

[videoinformer]

Search on YouTube for "Quisp Quake". The one titled "1968 Quisp/Quake Cereal (4 Commercials)" will give you some idea of the on-screen rivalry.

[ThundaLippz]

wow.time travel,im 5y/o again.the ghoulies,gilligan,and wacky+packy were the only ones i wanted to see.rest were gay.tho they hardly ever showed wacky+packy.

[CadillacL]

Would love to see the Gilligan's Island cartoon...I remember watching as a kid.

[red5700]

i love this show.its been too long

[Starrstreak]

Does anyone have the little shorts that came on before and after commercials where the Goolies interacted with Lassie, Gilligan, My Favorite Martian, and all the other shows? I've been combing the Internet trying to find them!

[migmang412]

i want to see the GILLIGAN'S ISLAND SHOW that used to come on tv with that big frog and it was a kid show also i would like to see the whole show of OUT OF THE BOX plz that is my favorite show

[chrgerfan21]

Please can someone tell me what year this came on early 80's was one of my favs.

[gamewizard]

The original Groovy Goolies came on at the end of the 60's. This show was mid-70's if I remember right. I used to watch this every Saturday when I was a kid.

[JerryWE]

Wrong. The original was Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies it came out in 1970. Later when it was syndicated it became Groovie Goolies and friends with the Lassie and other cartoons.

[ckc1958]

Wolfie the werewolf drove the hot rod; not Bone-A-Part the skeleton.

[mistofoles]

"Wacky and Packy??" They wouldn't show a cartoon with a title like that in Britan nowdays!LOL!

[JerryWE]

Wacky and Packy was a great cartoon when it came out. I don't know if it ever made it to Britain as it was an American cartoon.

[mistofoles]

It probably did, what I mean is "Packy" would be deemed as racist nowadays

[joemahmma]

They sure did have some goofy ass shit on TV back in the 70's.

[bigbill1991]

Wow the memories that is totally awesome almost 30 years and seems like yesterday.

[DatGirlG]

This is when cartoons were really cartoons! What happened to just plain old simple fun!!

[honeegrrl]

New generation of kids that have no idea what real cartoons are like, that's what happened, sad isn't it :-(

[JerryWE]

I agree the new cartoon stuff is crap. Only good new cartoon I have seen is SpongeBob SquarePants. The rest are crap especially the Cartoon Network created stuff.

[honeegrrl]

I don't know why they don't show this on the Boom Channel.

[lunacyn]

OMG! i forgot this een existed in my LIFE !!!!! lmao. man, i feel old! and fried.

[Motorcyclephil]

What ever happened to that skeleton that use to drive that cool hot rod?

[danjanhol]

stumbled upon this by mistake,the things u forget,this was boss.

[Griff1319]

DAMN OMG TALK ABOUT going back in time lol this is fkn great lol

[Fgrandinetti]

anyone have the original opening to The Groovie Goolies and Sabrina the Teen-Age Witch (70-71, CBS)?

Thank you

[Scarletspeedster68]

I do on my channel! Go to my page and you will see tons of opening clips from classic Filmation shows, including Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and the Groovie Goolies.

[funrunla]

Gosh, no wonder Saturday mornings were so much fun! I never realized how Drac runs like a girl.

[davidhazard71]

Its a shame that only now FIlmation animation is seeing the light of day on DVD. moviepreviews4u i am glad you have them. I wish i had a library like that also. We didn't get a VCR until 89....alot of the good stuff was already off TV

[lowellriggsiam]

Blame L'Oreal, the cosmetics company bought Filmation Studios in 1988? so they could close it the next year as a tax write off.

[markandrewware]

I want the gilligans opening! markandrewwareatyahoodotcom

[moviepreviews4U]

i sent an email to ya

[moviepreviews4U]

i've got a complete Gilligan's show with this opening that is GREAT quality if anyone wants it on dvd