Scooby's All Stars

''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' is a two-hour Saturday morning animated program block produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on ABC from September 10, 1977, until October 28, 1978.

The block featured five Hanna-Barbera series among its segments: '' The Scooby-Doo Show'', '' Laff-A-Lympics'', '' The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt'', ''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' and reruns of '' Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!''. During the second season in 1978–79, the show was re-titled ''Scooby's All-Stars'' and broadcast on ABC from September 9, 1978, to October 28, 1978. The runtime was reduced from 120 minutes to 90 minutes by dropping ''The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt'' and ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!''.

Overview

''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' included five cartoon segments:Lenberg, Jeff (1991). ''The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons''. New York: Facts of File. p. 409-411.
* ''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' (one episode, 11 minutes): Comedy/mystery show about three female teenage detectives and their companion, a prehistoric caveman superhero thawed from a block of ice. Sixteen episodes were produced for 1977–78.
* '' Laff-A-Lympics'' (one episode, 30 minutes): Based on '' Battle of the Network Stars'', this series featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters, including Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear, Mumbly, and others competing in Olympics-styled events. Sixteen episodes were produced for 1977–78.
* '' The Scooby-Doo Show'' (one episode, 30 minutes): Comedy/mystery show about four teenage detectives and their talking dog, Scooby-Doo. Eight first-run episodes were produced for 1977–78, with 16 made for ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour'' from 1976–77 re-run following the final first-run episode. Two of the new episodes, as well as two others from 1976–77, feature Scooby-Doo's cousin Scooby-Dum as a recurring character.
* '' Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' (one episode, 30 minutes): reruns of the first ''Scooby-Doo'' series, originally run on CBS from 1969–70.
* '' The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt'' (one episode, 11 minutes each): New episodes featuring the superhero Blue Falcon and his bumbling cyborg dog sidekick Dynomutt, introduced the previous year in the '' Dynomutt, Dog Wonder'' segments of ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour''. The new ''Dynomutt'' episodes were two-part cliffhangers, of which eight episodes (four stories total) were produced for 1977–78.

When the show became ''Scooby's All-Stars'' during the second season on September 9, 1978, the ''Blue Falcon & Dynomutt'' and ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' segments were dropped and two ''Captain Caveman'' segments were broadcast instead of just one; eight new ''Laff-A-Lympics'' and eight new ''Captain Caveman'' segments were produced for the block in 1978–79. ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' began the 1978–79 season in reruns, though starting from November 11, seven new episodes (produced for an aborted revival of ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' as a separate half-hour) were run as part of ''Scooby's All-Stars''.

For the 1979–80 season, the block was cancelled and ''Scooby-Doo'' became a half-hour show as ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo''. ''Laff-A-Lympics'' and ''Captain Caveman'' would resurface on ABC during the latter part of the season in 1980.

See also

* List of ''Scooby-Doo'' media

References

External links

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''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics''
at The Big Cartoon DataBase

''Scooby's All-Stars''
at The Big Cartoon DataBase

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