The Scooby-Doo Show

Infobox Television
show_name = The Scooby-Doo Show


caption = 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 = Animated Series
Mystery
Comedy
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audio_format =
runtime = 30 minute segments of "The Scooby-Doo / Dynomutt Hour" and "Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics"
creator = Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
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starring = Don Messick
Casey Kasem
Frank Welker
Pat Stevens
Heather North
Daws Butler
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country = USA
language = English
network = ABC
first_aired = September 11, 1976
last_aired = December 23, 1978
num_episodes = 40
list_episodes =
preceded_by = "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" (1972–1974)
followed_by = "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" (1979–1980)
website =
imdb_id = 0074053
tv_com_id = 2474

"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.

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".

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 season reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records, as no on-screen titles were given."

eason 1 (1976, as segments on "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour")

DVD and digital download releases

All of The Scooby Doo Show episodes can be seen here for FREE! [http://www.youtube.com/user/scoobydoo090 The Scooby Doo Show] 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.

The 1978 episodes were released on DVD as "Scooby-Doo, Where are You! The Complete Third Season" on April 10, 2007 [ [http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6725 Scooby All-Stars DVD news: Warner releases 'All-Star' series as continuation of Where Are You? | TVShowsOnDVD.com ] ] , although only nine of those originally aired under the title "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" in their initial run, and none of the 1978 episodes were presented under the "Where are You!" title for twenty-eight years following their broadcast debuts (the cartoons on the DVD set still feature the syndicated "Scooby-Doo Show" opening and closing credits). That leaves the eight 1977 episodes that ran as part of "Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics" as the only episodes not yet released on DVD from this incarnation.

All forty-eight "Scooby-Doo Show" episodes are available for purchase and download from the iTunes Store, as either individual episodes or a season set. The 1976 and 1977 episodes are grouped under "The Scooby-Doo Show", while the 1978 episodes are listed under "Scooby-Doo, Where are You!"

ee also

*"Dynomutt, Dog Wonder"
*"Laff-a-Lympics"
*"The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour"
*"Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics"

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.