Color Me Dredful.

Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!

In 1970, Filmation Studios made Universal's top three horror characters (Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Wolfman) into cartoons strictly for laughs in the GROOVIE GOOLIES. (See last Saturday's upload.) Ten years later, Hanna-Barbera's Australian branch-office adapted them into teenage superheros. Still mostly for laughs.

No pop songs this time around. It's pretty goofy. But at least it was free of Smurfs, Care Bears, and other such sickly-sweet drivel that was beginning to pollute the 1980's Saturday Morning TV landscape.

I doubt the producers were even aware that the name they gave their token female villain (Vampira) was already in-use. Maila Nurmi had created the character as a pioneering Horror Host on California TV back in the 1950s. She had been called-upon to executive-produce a new VAMPIRA SHOW about the time this cartoon was being made, but the deal fell apart and they did MOVIE MACABRE WITH ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK instead.

These junior do-gooder versions of the Unholy Trio didn't make quite the lasting impression that the Groovie Goolies had. They had 16 episodes made, standard reruns, then pretty much forgotten.

So here, from September 1980, is the very first episode of DRAK PACK.

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