The Scooby-Doo Show facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The Scooby-Doo Show |
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| Genre | Comedy Mystery Adventure |
| Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson (1978) Carl Urbano (1978) Charles A. Nichols |
| Voices of | Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Pat Stevens Heather North Daws Butler |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Bob Singer Iwao Takamoto Don Jurwich (1978) Alex Lovy (1978) Art Scott (1978) |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Taft Broadcasting |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | Film 4:3 480i |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 11, 1976 – December 23, 1978 |
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| Preceded by | The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–73) |
| Followed by | Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–80) |
The Scooby-Doo Show is an American animated mystery comedy TV series. It's a name used for episodes from the third version of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo cartoons. There were 40 episodes in total, spread across three seasons. They aired from 1976 to 1978 on ABC. This was the first time a Scooby series appeared on the ABC network.
The episodes were shown in different ways each year. In 1976, 16 episodes were part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. In 1977, eight episodes were part of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. Then, in 1978, 16 more episodes were made. Nine of these aired on their own as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, and the last seven were part of Scooby's All-Stars.
Even with these changes, the Scooby episodes from 1976 to 1978 made up the longest-running format of the original show. This was before the character Scrappy-Doo joined the gang. Since 1980, all these episodes have been rerun under the name The Scooby-Doo Show. However, they didn't originally air with this title. The reruns often show a 1976 copyright date, even for episodes made in 1977 and 1978. Like many cartoons from Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show included a laugh track.
How the Show Started
When TV executive Fred Silverman moved to ABC in 1975, the Scooby-Doo gang followed him. They first appeared on ABC in 1976 as part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. This hour-long show featured 16 new adventures. They were in the same style as the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
Scooby's country cousin, Scooby Dum, joined the gang in these episodes. He was a semi-regular character. Also, Pat Stevens took over as the voice of Velma, replacing Nicole Jaffe. The other half of the hour was Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. This was a new Hanna-Barbera cartoon about a superhero called the Blue Falcon and his funny robot dog, Dynomutt. The Mystery, Inc. gang even appeared in three Dynomutt, Dog Wonder episodes. The show's name changed to The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show in November 1976. This happened when ABC added a rerun of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! to the show.
Changes Over the Years
In 1977, ABC had a special block of shows called Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. The Scooby-Doo part of this two-hour block included eight new episodes. Two of these featured Scooby-Dum. One episode, "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller," even had Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dum's distant female cousin, Scooby-Dee, as a guest star. The block also showed reruns from the 1976–1977 season.
The name of the block changed to Scooby's All-Stars for the 1978–1979 season. The show became an hour and a half long after Dynomutt was cancelled. This season, 16 new Scooby-Doo episodes were made. These only featured the original five characters. They started airing earlier in the morning in September as a third season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. Scooby's All-Stars showed reruns of the 1976 and 1977 episodes for the first nine weeks. By November, the early-morning Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! airings stopped. The new 1978 episodes then began airing during the Scooby-Doo part of Scooby's All-Stars.
The original creators of Scooby-Doo, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, worked at ABC in 1976. They helped develop and produce the episodes from 1976–77 and 1977–78. In 1977, they even started their own animation studio, Ruby-Spears Productions. This studio became a competitor to Hanna-Barbera.
Meet the Voice Cast
- Don Messick – Scooby-Doo
- Casey Kasem – Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Frank Welker – Fred Jones
- Heather North - Daphne Blake
- Pat Stevens - Velma Dinkley
- Daws Butler - Scooby Dum
See also
In Spanish: The Scooby-Doo Show para niños
