Live-Action Groovie Goolies...and Looney Tunes?!?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I saw this thread over at UMA yesterday;

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies!

Both the stills from the ebay auction, and the wild clip of a live-action Groovie Goolies brought back some WAY repressed memories. I'm pretty sure I saw this once when I was a kid! Too bad this didn't make it onto the complete series DVD.

It's hard to imagine once mighty WB animation studio loaning out their characters to Filmation. But those were hard times for Bugs and co.

My kids were awed and amazed by live-action Goolies. We had to watch the clip twice. They remind me of the Monster Squad show that Brian has posted so much about (now that, I somehow never saw!).

Chris

[The Toyroom]

From Wiki:

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies is a 1972 animated one-hour TV-movie (with a live-action segment near the end) that was part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. In this Filmation-produced movie, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and other Looney Tunes characters interact with the characters from the Filmation series Groovie Goolies.

This movie is notable for being the one and only time that Warner Bros. "loaned out" their famous Looney Tunes characters to appear in a Filmation production (otherwise they were a silent partner). Warner Bros. had shut down their animation studio in 1969. While Warner Bros. had outsourced production to other companies since the 1960s, it was usually to studios run by former Warner Bros. alumni (such as Friz Freleng and later Chuck Jones), something that was not the case with Filmation.

This movie has never been officially released on home video (due to various rights issues), but traders on the Internet have been recording and selling DVDs of this film, most of which were originally black-and-white kinescopes of the original broadcast. Non-official copies of the original color production have also emerged.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Ah! Interesting. I still think I saw this back in the 70s somewhere (must have been a rerun, since I wasn't born until late 74).

So WB was a silent partner in Filmation...I had no idea.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

Yep, the Saturday Superstar Movie! I have this on tape! Love this one on Saturday mornings!

[madmarva]

Would love to get a decent copy of it.