Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979 TV series)

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Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
(1979-1980)
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Title card from Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo.
Genre Mystery
Adventure
Comedy
Format Animated series
Created by Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Developed by Mark Evanier
Starring Don Messick
Lennie Weinrib
Casey Kasem
Frank Welker
Heather North Kenney
Pat Stevens (1979)
Marla Frumkin (1979-1980)
Country of origin  United States
Language(s) English
No. of episodes 16 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Warner Bros. Animation
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 22, 1979 – January 5, 1980
Chronology
Preceded by The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1978)
Followed by Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980–1982)

The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 22, 1979 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. A total of sixteen episodes were produced. It was the last Hanna-Barbera cartoon series to utilize the studio's laugh track. Cartoon Network's classic channel Boomerang reruns the series.

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[edit] Overview

By 1979, the staff at Hanna-Barbera realized that the Scooby-Doo formula was getting worn out, which gave them reason to parody it in a 1979 prime time Scooby special, Scooby Goes Hollywood. In addition, ABC began threatening cancellation for the show, whose ratings were in decline.[1] Therefore, for its 1979 - 1980 season, Scooby-Doo was given a major overhaul, adding the character of Scooby's nephew Scrappy-Doo, voiced by Lennie Weinrib, and changing the name of the show to Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo.

The gang, along with Scrappy, is traveling around the world to discover the ghosts and decides to solve the mystery. While splitting up, Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy end up falling to the ghost. However, unlike his uncle, Scrappy wants to fight the ghost, forcing Scooby and Shaggy to save him. Meanwhile, Fred, Velma and Daphne find the clues which will expose the ghost as a crook. Scooby and Scrappy end up capturing the ghost and is exposed to be a crook.

Although still present in these episodes, the characters of Fred, Daphne, and Velma became less essential to the plot.

Marla Frumkin took over Pat Stevens' role as Velma Dinkley towards the end of the season, beginning with episode 12, "The Ghoul, the Bat, and the Ugly". Velma does not speak in episode 16, "The Ransom of Scooby Chief".

[edit] Voice cast

[edit] Special

A musical-based parody based onScooby-Doo is titled Scooby Goes Hollywood. The storyline centered on Shaggy convincing Scooby that both of them deserve better than being stars in what he considers a low-class Saturday morning show, and attempts to pitch a number of potential prime-time shows to network executive "C.J." (voiced by Rip Taylor), all of which are parodies of then-popular TV shows and movies such as How The West Was Won, Superman, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, The Sound of Music, The Love Boat and Charlie's Angels. Caught in the middle of this entire ordeal are Fred, Daphne, Velma, and also Scooby's loyal Saturday morning fan base; all of whom convince Scooby to come back to his Saturday morning TV show.

The special was first released on VHS by WorldVision Enterprises in the 1980s, and is currently available on DVD from Warner Home Video.

[edit] Releases

Previously, Warner Home Video has failed to deliver any of the episodes from this season on DVD, until a new Scooby-Doo compilation set was announced for a release on May 15, 2012 (over three decades after the episodes aired), entitled, Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales From Around the World. It will include Shiver and Shake, That Demon's a Snake!, and Lock the Door, It's a Minotaur! (among other episodes from other series).

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ "The network kept threatening to cancel it every year or two, so every season they had to add a new element to the show to keep it fresh." - Mark Evanier, one the writers for the series. Retrieved from The Scooby Story on October 6, 2006.

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