Originally shown on 'ABBA in the USA' TV Special shown in Australia on 23 July 1976
This was made for an Australian cartoon series which was canned
before release, the same as
"Happy Hawaii".
The ABBA cartoon** was shown on Australian TV in a special called
"ABBA in the USA".
The show. The show traced ABBA's rise to No.1 with
"Dancing Queen" with their TV appearances on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
(including him introducing ABBA to the USA for the first ever time with the
video of "Waterloo" ) & other shows (including "Ring Ring" from Tommy Cooper
Show) and was shown on 23 July 1977 and ran for 60 minutes. The show was
hosted by a different host for Queensland, NSW/Victoria and South
Australia/Western Australia so there are three different versions.
The cartoon was a test for a possible ABBA cartoon show (like The Osmonds & The Jackson Five cartoon shows from the 70's) that was never picked up.
Another theory is that
the two cartoons were not
meant to be part of a series per se, but just a collection of cartoon clips
available for distribution to childrens' magazine-type shows, much the same
way as the film-clips were available to pop shows.
**The cartoon featured the PROMO for "Money, Money, Money".
The cartoon even has the bit of Frida laughing in the limo from the "Money,
Money, Money" PROMO.
Thanks to Ian Cole, Jun Seo, Philip Muytjens, Jozsef, Sam Shervz, Matti Crocker and Rod Kirkman for information.