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I wish I could remember all of the doctor Seussish poem the Groon . The Groon came on the ABC 'Children's Television Workshop' Saturday Mornings. A break from the standard cartoons. I do remember the first time I saw it. I was sitting for my sisters kids around Halloween . My young nephew who was eight years old and my niece a year younger were throwing pillows and jumping around, suddenly stopped and sat down, first lured then mesmerized by the eerie tone of the narration and totally captured by the Chuck Jones visual on our small black and white TV. It reran a few time for a couple years, but them faded into TV history. For months nay years to come when it was dark I could get both of the kids to cringe, by in the deepest voice I could muster, by simply saying, Beware the Groon is coming soon, so keep one eye on the moon and the other on anything moving about the room. What a terrible Uncle I was.

I thought of it from time to time in the following years and yet when asking about it only a few remember. Just the same I have been desperately seeking a copy of this T.V. series or even a printed version of this Ray Bradbury poem for a long time. I think many would enjoy this if it were available on DVD

I remember the "Groon" cartoon, even after all these years!

"Does it bump 'neath your bed? (Near the head or the toe?) When it's here, *is* it here--when it's gone, where's it go?"

Truly powerful stuff for an easily-spooked kid's head.

:D

I searched and I searched, and I finally found a recent YouTube video of Bradbury's "Groon" poem!

Not a video from the *show* -- but it's the same poem all right! Yayyyyyyyyy!!! :D

Here's the link:

http://youtu.be/_ozcEBiHkTE

Certainly hope the original cartoon version comes to DVD some day!

Ray Bradbury's poem, "Groon" really made an impression on me as a child. I only heard it once, but it stuck with me for years! I'm fifty-something now and a big Ray Bradbury fan... and up until this week I had no idea who had written those words I'd remembered all these years! :) I was googling it today, and this listing on IMDb was one of only a few results available.

But there was also this video someone had done, reading the poem! I could almost follow along, word for word, after only hearing the original once a zillion years ago! :) You can listen to it here: http://youtu.be/_ozcEBiHkTE Still gives the little kid inside me the shivers. And a hunger for some Halloween candy-corn. :)