The Scooby-Doo Show
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| The Scooby-Doo Show | |
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 The title card for The Scooby-Doo Show, under which name the 1976 – 1978 episodes of Scooby-Doo have been syndicated under since 1980. |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Running time | 30 minute segments of The Scooby-Doo / Dynomutt Hour and Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics |
| Creator(s) | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Starring | Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Pat Stevens Heather North Daws Butler |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 11, 1976–December 23, 1978 |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Preceded by | The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1973) |
| Followed by | Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1980) |
The Scooby-Doo Show is the blanket name for the episodes from the third incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo series. A total of 40 episodes ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, on ABC. Sixteen episodes were produced as segments of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (aka The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show) in 1976, eight episodes were produced as segments of Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics in 1977 and sixteen episodes were produced in 1978, with nine of them running by themselves under the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! name and the final seven as segments of Scooby's All-Stars
Despite the yearly changes in the way they were broadcast, the 1976-1979 stretch of Scooby episodes represents, at three seasons, the longest-running format of the original show before the addition of Scrappy-Doo. The episodes from all three seasons have been rerun under the title The Scooby-Doo Show since 1980.
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[edit] Overview
When television executive Fred Silverman moved from CBS to ABC in 1975, the Scooby-Doo gang followed him, making their ABC debut in 1976 as part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. This hour-long package show featured 16 new half-hour adventures in the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! format, with Scooby's country cousin, the Mortimer Snerd-inspired Scooby-Dum joining the gang as a semi-regular character. In addition, Pat Stevens replaced Nicole Jaffe as the voice of Velma. The other half of the hour was filled by Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, a new Hanna-Barbera cartoon about a superhero named Blue Falcon and his goofy mechanical canine sidekick, Dynomutt. The Mystery, Inc. gang made guest appearances in three of the Dynomutt, Dog Wonder segments. The show was renamed to The Scooby-Doo / Dynomutt Show when ABC added a rerun of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! to the show in November 1976.
In 1977, ABC offered a programming block called Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics. The Scooby-Doo segment of this two-hour block included 8 new episodes of Scooby-Doo (two of which featured Scooby-Dum and one of which, "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller", guest-starred Scooby's female cousin, Scooby-Dee), plus reruns from the 1976–1977 season. The name of the block was changed to Scooby's All-Stars for the 1978–1979 season, when the program was shortened to an hour and a half, after the cancellation of Dynomutt. 16 half-hours of Scooby-Doo (featuring just the original five characters) where produced this season, and began airing earlier in the morning before the Scooby's All-Stars block as a third season of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! in September. By November, the early-morning airing of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! had been cancelled, and the new 1978 episodes began airing during the Scooby-Doo segment of Scooby's All-Stars.
[edit] DVD releases
The 1976 episodes were released on DVD with the Dynomutt episodes they originally aired with as The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series on March 7, 2006.
It has been announced that 16 episodes from this incarnation will be released on DVD as the third season of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! on April 10, 2007[1]. These will most likely be the 1978 episodes, as nine of those officially ran as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in their initial run. That leaves the eight episodes that ran as part of Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics as the only episodes not released on DVD from this incarnation.
[edit] Episode guide
The following guide only includes 30 minute Scooby-Doo segments. It does not include other episodes that ran along with them.
Also, the episode titles given for the first two seasons reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records as no on-screen titles were given The third season, however, did have on-screen title cards.
[edit] Season 1 (1976, as segments on The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour)
| # | Episode title | Original airdate | ||||
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| 1.1 | "High Rise Hair Raiser" | September 11, 1976 | ||||
| 1.2 | "The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost" | September 18, 1976 | ||||
| 1.3 | "The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul"1 | September 25, 1976 | ||||
| 1.4 | "Watt A Shocking Ghost" | October 2, 1976 | ||||
| 1.5 | "The Headless Horseman of Halloween"1 | October 9, 1976 | ||||
| 1.6 | "Scared a Lot in Camelot" | October 16, 1976 | ||||
| 1.7 | "The Harum Scarum Sanitarium" | October 23, 1976 | ||||
| 1.8 | "The No-Face Zombie Chase Case" | October 30, 1976 | ||||
| 1.9 | "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo" | November 6, 1976 | ||||
| 1.10 | "A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground" | November 13, 1976 | ||||
| 1.11 | "A Bum Steer for Scooby" | November 20, 1976 | ||||
| 1.12 | "There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark" | November 25, 19762 | ||||
| 1.13 | "Scooby-Doo, Where's the Crew?" | November 27, 1976 | ||||
| 1.14 | "The Ghost that Sacked the Quaterback" 3 | December 4, 1976 | ||||
| 1.15 | "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" 3 | December 11, 1976 | ||||
| 1.16 | "The Spirits of '76" 3 | December 18, 1976 | ||||
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[edit] Season 2 (1977, as segments on Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics)
| # | Episode title | Original airdate | ||||
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| 2.1 | "The Curse of Viking Lake" | September 10, 1977 | ||||
| 2.2 | "Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats"1 | September 17, 1977 | ||||
| 2.3 | "Hang in There, Scooby-Doo" | September 25, 1977 | ||||
| 2.4 | "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller"1 | October 1, 1977 | ||||
| 2.5 | "The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race" | October 8, 1977 | ||||
| 2.6 | "The Ozark Witch Switch" | October 15, 1977 | ||||
| 2.7 | "The Creepy Cruise" 2 | October 22, 1977 | ||||
| 2.8 | "The Creepy Heap from the Deep" 2, 3 | October 22, 1977 | ||||
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[edit] Season 3 (1978, as Scooby-Doo, Where are You! and segments of Scooby's All-Stars)
| # | Episode title | Original airdate | ||||
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| 3.1 | "Watch Out! The Willawaw!" 1 | September 9, 1978 | ||||
| 3.2 | "A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle" 1 | September 16, 1978 | ||||
| 3.3 | "A Scary Night With a Snow Beast Fright" 1 | September 23, 1978 | ||||
| 3.4 | "To Switch a Witch" 1 | September 30, 1978 | ||||
| 3.5 | "The Tar Monster" 1 | October 7, 1978 | ||||
| 3.6 | "A Highland Fling With a Monstrous Thing" 1 | October 14, 1978 | ||||
| 3.7 | "The Creepy Case Of Old Iron Face" 1 | October 21, 1978 | ||||
| 3.8 | "Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro" 1 | October 28, 1978 | ||||
| 3.9 | "Who Was That Cat Creature I Saw You With Last Night?" (a.k.a. "Make A Beeline Away From That Feline") 1 | November 4, 1978 | ||||
| 3.10 | "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claws" | November 11, 1978 | ||||
| 3.11 | "The Diabolical Disc Demon" | Novemebr 18, 1978 | ||||
| 3.12 | "Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper" | November 25, 1978 | ||||
| 3.13 | "A Menace in Venice"2 | December 2, 1978 | ||||
| 3.14 | "Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear" | December 9, 1978 | ||||
| 3.15 | "The Warlock of Wimbledon"2 | December 16, 1978 | ||||
| 3.16 | "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake" 2, 3 | December 23, 1978 | ||||
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[edit] References
- Banks, Clive. "Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics". Retrieved from http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Scooby-Doo/Scooby-Doo%20Series%204.htm on September 4, 2005.
- Baxter, Joel (2003). The Complete Scooby-Doo Episode Guide. Retrieved from http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/doobydoo.htm on September 3, 2005.
- Handy, Aaron III. "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour Episode Guide". Retrieved from http://www.angelfire.com/la/aaronh3d/SDDH.html on September 4, 2005.
- "Hanna-Babera Studios" (and subarticles). The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved from http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/index.html on September 3, 2005.
