Short Changed.

Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again! Continuing the 2020 New Year... Still no Saturday Morning TV cartoons from a century ago, but here's one from half that.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch was an ARCHIE COMICS character who had also become popular as a supporting player in Archie's TV cartoons produced by Filmation Studios. In 1970, she was spun-off into her own show, backed-up by comedic versions of the classic Universal horror monsters. SABRINA AND THE GROOVIE GOOLIES was an hour-long, and served as the lead-in for JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS. Josie was also licensed from Archie Comics, but her TV cartoon was produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios. So Sabrina, Josie, and Archie's Riverdale gang could hang-out together in comic books, but Josie and her crew had to settle for visiting SCOOBY-DOO and his crew on TV. Meanwhile, the CBS Saturday lineup also featured ARCHIE'S FUNHOUSE FEATURING THE GIANT JUKEBOX and the second season of SCOOBY-DOO WHERE ARE YOU?, as well as the HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS (who would later make appearances on Scooby's show, like Josie) and reruns of the live-action MONKEES (who inspired the Archie cartoon formula).

The whole day on CBS never strayed more than two degrees of separation from Archie.

Sabrina and the Goolies were split into two half-hour shows the next year. I already posted the first Groovie Goolies cartoon back on the run-up to Hallowe'en. (As well the first Archie and Josie cartoons, scroll for 'em!) So here's "Short Changed", which was the first Sabrina cartoon from her 1970 show.

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