"Movies on TV and Videocassette" stated that this film "started out life in an off-Broadway showcase where the sketches were seen on TV screens". Further, according to Wikipedia, "the film was originally produced to be shown at the Channel One Theater on East 60th St. in New York, a venue that featured R-rated video recordings shown on three television sets, which was a novelty to the audiences of the time". Moreover, according to the "Virgin Film Guide", "The Groove Tube was an outgrowth of 'Channel One', a comedy troupe (in an off-Broadway experimental multimedia theater) formed in 1967, by (Ken) Shapiro, Lane Sarasohn, and Chevy Chase. Instead of performing live, they videotaped parodies of TV, and showed them in a ratty theater in Greenwich Village. (Chase left early on, and was replaced by Richard Belzer). After touring a collection of Channel One's best bits to colleges, Shapiro transferred them to film, and assembled this movie."

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