The Scooby-Doo Show

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The Scooby-Doo Show
The title card for The Scooby-Doo Show, under which name the 1976 – 1978 episodes of Scooby-Doo have been syndicated under since 1980.
Format	Animation
Created by	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
No. of episodes	40
Production
Running time	30 minute segments of The Scooby-Doo / Dynomutt Hour and Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 11, 1976 – December 23, 1978
Chronology
Preceded by	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1974)
Followed by	Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1980)
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

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. 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; it should be noted that these Scooby episodes did not originally air under this title.

[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-Doo and Scooby-Dum's distant 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) were 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. Scooby's All-Stars instead aired reruns of the 1976 and 1977 episodes for the first nine weeks of the 1978-79 season. By November, the early-morning airing of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! had been canceled, and the new 1978 episodes began airing during the Scooby-Doo segment of Scooby's All-Stars. Today The Scooby Doo Show can be seen Saturdays and Sundays on the Boomerang channel at 11:00 am central time.

[edit] Episode guide

The following guide only includes 30 minute Scooby-Doo segments; It does not include episodes from other programs that ran alongside them. 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.

A scene from the 1976 episode "The Headless Horseman of Halloween". Scooby-Doo's cousin Scooby-Dum (left) appeared in four of the 1976–1979 Scooby-Doo episodes.

[edit] Season 1 (1976, as segments on The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour)

5. In Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo (1976) the zombie on there was very similair to the one on "Which Witch is Which" (1969).

• In "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" (1976) the Phantoms are very similar to the green ghost on the episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight" (1970).

[edit] Season 2 (1977, as segments on Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics)

Episodes 2.5-2.8 The First Episodes of Scooby Doo Where Are You! Season three.