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The Groovy Show was an American half-hour live dance program aired on weekday afternoons on KHJ-TV Channel 9, in the Los Angeles, California market from 1967 to 1970. Overview [ edit ]
Michael Blodgett (September 26, 1939 – November 14, 2007) was an American actor, novelist, and screenwriter.Of his many film and television appearances he is best known for his performance as gigolo Lance Rocke in Russ Meyer's 1970 cult classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
In 1969–70, Morgan hosted the final year of The Groovy Show on KHJ's sister television station KHJ, Channel 9, in Los Angeles. In 1970 Morgan made a surprise move from Los Angeles to WIND Radio Chicago where he remained in the morning slot until finally being enticed back to his KHJ morning show in 1972.
The show premiered January 5, 1985 and ran through 1989. It was hosted by Jim Hendricks as "Commander USA" (Soaring super hero! Legion of Decency - Retired), a wacky but slightly seedy blue-collar comic book superhero who occasionally displayed powers such as "microwave vision" (usually to prepare a mid-movie meal of fish or eggs).
The characters made their final original appearances in two episodes of NBC's 1977 series The New Archie and Sabrina Hour, and Frankie was featured in that show's closing credits. [ 17 ] In 1977, the show entered syndication as part of an anthology series entitled The Groovie Goolies and Friends , which featured over 104 half-hour episodes. [ 18 ]
Based on Archie Comics' Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the show was a spin-off of The Archie Comedy Hour—featuring new episodes of Sabrina along with the Groovie Goolies. [3] Writers at Archie Comics later stated they were "flabbergasted" that Filmation sought to cast Sabrina, then a minor (but rising) character in the Archie Comics fictional ...
Children's show/fitness Dance Suomi: 29-08-2010 Finland: So You Think You Can Dance: Talent search/competition (dance only) Dance Party USA: 12-05-1986 United States-- Musical variety Dance Revolution: 2007 United States-- Children's show/fitness The Dance Scene: 10-05-2011 United States-- Reality television Dance Your Ass Off
By the early 1970s, the word was commonplace in American TV advertisements aimed at young audiences, as exemplified by the slogan "Feeling groovy, just had my Cheerios." An early ironic use of the term appears in the title of the 1974 film The Groove Tube , which satirized the American counterculture of the time.