The Scooby-Doo Show
The Scooby-Doo Show | |
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Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
Starring | Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Pat Stevens Heather North Daws Butler |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | 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 |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | September 11, 1976 – December 23, 1978 |
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.
Season 1 (1976, as segments on The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour)
# | Episode title | Villain | Original airdate | Plot | ||
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SDD-1 | "High Rise Hair Raiser" | Netty Krabb, The High Rise Specter | September 11, 1976 | As Fred, Shaggy, & Scooby get jobs as construction workers they find out about a lot of robberies. As the come closer they find Netty Krabb, The High Rise Spectar who is 180 years old. | ||
SDD-2 | "The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost" | The Stone Creature and The Ghost of Katazoma | September 18, 1976 | In Aztec, NM for Cinco De Mayo to attend a festival it get's cancelled because of the ghost Katazuma, an ancient Aztec King and of The Stone Creature. | ||
SDD-3 | "The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul"1 | The Gator Ghoul | September 25, 1976 | On their way to see Ma & Pa Skillet and Scooby-Dum they gang finds a Gator Ghoul who is scarying people away from the swamp. | ||
SDD-4 | "Watt A Shocking Ghost" | The 10,000 Volt Ghost | October 2, 1976 | While skiing in the mountains they encouter a glowing orange electric ghost
known as The 10,000 Volt Ghost who wants to ruin the power plant. They believe it is a former worker who died in an accident. | ||
SDD-5 | "The Headless Horseman of Halloween"1 | The Headless Horseman | October 9, 1976 | |||
SDD-6 | "Scared a Lot in Camelot" | Merlin and the Black Knight | October 16, 1976 | |||
SDD-7 | "The Harum Scarum Sanitarium" | The Ghost of Dr. Coffin | October 23, 1976 | |||
SDD-8 | "The No-Faced Zombie Chase Case" ² | The No-Faced Zombie | October 30, 1976 | |||
SDD-9 | "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo" | Mamba Wamba and the Zombie | November 6, 1976 | |||
SDD-10 | "A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground | The Demons | November 13, 1976 | |||
SDD-11 | "A Bum Steer for Scooby" | Tamooka The Flying Ghost Bull and The Medicine Man Ghost | November 20, 1976 | |||
SDD-12 | "There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark" ³ | The Demon Shark | November 25, 1976³ | |||
SDD-13 | "Scooby-Doo, Where's the Crew?" | The Ghost of Captain Piscarro/ The Octopus Monster/ The Kelp Monster | November 27, 1976 | |||
SDD-14 | "The Ghost that Sacked the Quarterback" 4 | The Rambling Football Ghost | December 4, 1976 | |||
SDD-15 | "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" 4 | The Technicolor Phantoms: Chocolate, Vanilla and Strawberry | December 11, 1976 | |||
SDD-16 | "The Spirits of '76" 4 | The Ghosts of Benedict Arnold, William Devonne and Major Andre | December 18, 1976 | While in Washington D.C. the kids visit the Smithsonian Institute. They lose Scooby and they find real strange things going on like a train moving on it's own, people in the building after hours and three dead traitors
ghosts. Is the place really haunted or are the ghosts people trying to hide something. | ||
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Season 2 (1977, as segments on Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics)
# | Episode title | Villain | Original airdate | Plot | ||
SDLA-1 | "The Curse of Viking Lake" | The Viking Ghosts of Viking Lake | September 10, 1977 | While visiting Velma's uncle John, they find out he's discovering viking lake. But getting they they find him missing and they find a lot of dead vikings. | ||
SDLA-2 | "Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats"1 | The Great Skull Island Vampire | September 17, 1977 | The gang goes to visit their friend Lisa Banoh at Great Skull Island. But as it is her 18th birthday, she has it on an island full of vampire bats.
As they get an unexpected and unwanted visit by a vampire, she tells them she is from a long family line of vampires. | ||
SDLA-3 | "Hang in There, Scooby-Doo" | The Pterordactyl Ghost | September 24, 1977 | On a trip to a hang glinding contest. But on their way to the contest
on the road a pterodactyl comes to ruin their fun. It seems like anyone coming to the mountain cliff hideaway he'll scare off. | ||
SDLA-4 | "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller"1, 3 | The Ghost of Milo Booth | October 1, 1977 | Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dum's cousin Scooby-Dee is remaking a movie originally by Milo Booth a great movie director. So the gang must protect her from The Ghost of Milo Booth who decides to haunt her from remaking the film. | ||
SDLA-5 | "The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race"3 | The Phantom Racer | October 8, 1977 | At the Osbourne Grand Prix Race 1977 a Phantom Racer makes the other drivers disappear when they enter in the fog. So the gang goes to solve their next mystery. As getting deeper they find possibly the strangest mystery they ever had from the race track to the junkyard. Legend has it of a driver who died by driving off a cliff and they think the Phantom Racer is his ghost. As finding new clues gives them a new piece of the puzzle so the gang asks Shaggy to race him and beat him and find out what happenend to the drivers. | ||
SDLA-6 | "The Ozark Witch Switch" | The Ghost of the Witch McCoy and the Zombie Man | October 15, 1977 | As the Mystery Machine breaks down the gang sleeps in the Hatfield's
cabin. As the Hatfield's tell them Old Witch McCoy is out to get them for revenge. So as Old Witch McCoy appears she warns the gang and turns the Hatfield's into frogs. Is she really the ghost of Old Witch McCoy or is there a reason she wants them out of that house. What is she hiding. While trying to find out and trying to solve the mystery they encounter a zombie man who is vary mysterious. | ||
SDLA-7 | "The Creepy Cruise"3 | The Future Shocker | October 22, 1977 | While on a cruise ship, the gang is about to watch a presentation. As watching it a Future Shocker bug like creature comes to scare others away. | ||
SDLA-8 | "The Creepy Heap from the Deep" ² 3 | The Creepy Heap From the Deep and the Captain Clemens | October 29, 1977 | At their beach party the gang discovers a vicious monster from the deep.
So as they try to find out who he is by a sea captain, the monster steals his soul. So the gang must take this monster down to see who he is. | ||
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None of these episodes appear on either of the DVD releases. |
Season 3 (1978, as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and segments of Scooby's All-Stars)
# | Episode title | Villain | Original airdate | Plot | ||
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SDAS-1 | "Watch Out! The Willawaw!" 1 | The Williwaw and the Owlmen | September 9, 1978 | Velma gets asked by her uncle Dave Dinkley to visit. But while getting there the legend of the Williwaw comes to scare people away with two owlmen helping the williwaw. Velma's uncle Dave gets kidnapped and they meet Red Heron and Snapping Turtle 2 of uncle Dave's friends to help. | ||
SDAS-2 | "A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle" 1 | The Skeleton Men of Diablos Island | September 16, 1978 | While on a boat the gang finds a flying saucer kidnapping airplanes. So as
they crash on the Diablos Island they encounter the Skeleton Men. | ||
SDAS-3 | "A Scary Night With a Snow Beast Fright" 1 | The Snowbeast | September 23, 1978 | As getting invited by their friend Professor Krueger at the North Pole, the
gang finds out his been kidnapped. So after encountering an eskimo he gets kidnapped to by The Snowbeast. As of the legend of the eskimos has it of the snowbeast will come and get you if you live on their land. Is this real or is it a cover up for a evil plot. | ||
SDAS-4 | "To Switch a Witch" 1 | Milissa Wilcox, The Ghost Witch of Old Salem | September 30, 1978 | The New England town of Salem is getting haunted by the witch of
Melissa Wilcox a witch burned in 1778. As Shaggy and Scooby go out to go trick-or-treat on halloween, they encounter the witch to find out that their friend Arlene is a descendant of her. The witch comes when Arlene is gonna get the inheritance. | ||
SDAS-5 | "The Tar Monster" 1 | The Tar Monster | October 7, 1978 | The gang goes to the ancient city of Byzantius. On their way their they meet
the tar monster who frightens the native workers away. | ||
SDAS-6 | "A Highland Fling With a Monstrous Thing" 1 | The Ghost of Finnyan McDuff and The Loch Ness Monster | October 14, 1978 | The Gang travels to Scottland to visit their friend Aggie MacDuff. She
says people have left her castle in fear of seeing a ghost. She says that the ghost is her grandfather. It seems the ghost plays bagpipes to call on the Loch Ness Monster to help him scare people away from the castle. | ||
SDAS-7 | "The Creepy Case Of Old Iron Face" 1 | Old Ironface | October 21, 1978 | As the gang goes water-skiing they encounter Old Ironface. He is said to be
a prisoner in Skull Island and now he haunts it. | ||
SDAS-8 | "Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro" 1 | Jaguaro | October 28, 1978 | Scooby and the crew crash on the jungle of Jaguaro. As the gang looks around
they meet Barney a man making a movie about Jaguaro worshippers. It is not soon as they meet Jaguaro a half tiger-gorilla creature. | ||
SDAS-9 | "Who Was That Cat Creature I Saw You With Last Night?" (a.k.a. "Make A Beeline Away From That Feline") 1 | The Cat Creature | November 4, 1978 | The Gang goes to visit Daphne's Aunt who believes she turns into a Cat Creature every night. This Cat Creature is said to be the one robbing the jewelry store. | ||
SDAS-10 | "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" | The Mantis Creature of Vulture's Claw | November 11, 1978 | The gang visits their friend Proffesor Greer at Vulture's Claw Botanical Gardens. Soon they discover a creature who's roaming around the place so it's up to the gang to solve the mystery before it's to late. | ||
SDAS-11 | "The Diabolical Disc Demon" | The Disc Demon | Novemebr 18, 1978 | Warning: This is not Gene Simmons in his KISS mask. The gang is invited by their friend Jimmy Lewis to a recording studio. Then they encounter the diabolical disc demon who wants a half-finished song by a missing writer and has caused a lot of trouble and will stop at nothing until the song is his. He made the missing writer dissappear, he"ll haunt Jimmy Lewis, he"ll terrorize the studio and he"ll try to capture Shaggy and Scooby until the song is his. | ||
SDAS-12 | "Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper" | The Moon Monster | November 25, 1978 | The Gang goes to visit their friend Mr. Chin in China. Mr. Chin receives
his inheritance and they encounter the Moon Monster. Legend has it if you get caught in his shadow you turn into stone. | ||
SDAS-13 | "A Menace in Venice"² | The Ghostly Gondolier | December 2, 1978 | The Gang goes to visit their friend Antonio in Venice. They soon discover
the Ghostly Gondolier who wants a necklace Antonio's wearing. | ||
SDAS-14 | "Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear" | The Ghost of General Juan Carlos | December 9, 1978 | As the gang goes to Puerto Rico they soon discover The Ghost of General Juan
Carlos who wants the kids far away from his fortress as possible. | ||
SDAS-15 | "The Warlock of Wimbledon"² | Anthos the Warlock | December 16, 1978 | Going to England for the wimbledon to see Jimmy Pelton, the tennis star they soon encounter Anthos the Warlock and his hounds who tell Jimmy to
forfiet the tournament or pay the price. | ||
SDAS-16 | "The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake" 2, 3 | The Beast of Bottomless Lake | December 23, 1978 | In Canada on a fishing trip the gang soon encounters a beast who lives under the lake who rapes all the village folks and he wants the gang bangers to go away too. | ||
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DVD and digital download 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.
The 1978 episodes were released on DVD as Scooby-Doo, Where are You! The Complete Third Season on April 10, 2007 [1], 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!
DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
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The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour - The Complete Series | 16 | March 7, 2006 |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The Complete Third Season | 16 | April 10 2007 |
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See also
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.