''The Scooby-Doo Show'' is an American

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series. The title of the series is an

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for episodes of the third incarnation of

Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ) was an American animation studio and production company which was active from 1957 to 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to c ...

's ''

Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animation, animated media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative List of Scooby-Doo media, media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the orig ...

'' franchise. A total of 40 episodes ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, on

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, marking the first ''Scooby'' series to appear on the network. Sixteen episodes were produced as segments of ''

The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour'' is a 60-minute package show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1976 for ABC Saturday mornings. It marked the first new installments of the cowardly canine since 1973, and contained two segments: ''The Scooby ...

'' in 1976, eight episodes were produced as segments of ''

Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics ''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 ...

'' in 1977 and sixteen episodes were produced in 1978, with nine of them running by themselves under the ''

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' is an American animated television comedy, comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of Children's programming on CBS, the network ...

'' name and the final seven as segments of '' Scooby's All-Stars''. Despite the yearly changes in the way they were broadcast, the 1976–1978 stretch of ''Scooby-Doo'' 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; these ''Scooby'' episodes did not originally air under this title. The credits on these syndicated versions all feature a 1976 copyright date, even though series 2 and 3 were originally produced in 1977 and 1978. Outside the United States, reruns aired on

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in the

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until 2015. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio.

Overview

When television executive

Fred Silverman Fred Silverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer. He worked as an executive at all of the Big Three television networks, and was responsible for bringing to television such programs as '' ...

moved from CBS to ABC in 1975, the ''Scooby-Doo'' gang followed him, making their ABC debut in 1976 as part of ''

''. This hour-long package show featured 16 new half-hour adventures in the original ''

'' format, with Scooby's country cousin, the

Mortimer Snerd Edgar John Bergen (born Edgar John Berggren; February 16, 1903 – September 30, 1978) was an American ventriloquist, actor, comedian, vaudevillian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Ch ...

-inspired

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, joining the gang as a semi-regular character. In addition,

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replaced

Nicole Jaffe Nicole Cowgill Jaffe (born May 23, 1941) is a retired Canadian actress, best known as the original voice actress for Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's ''Scooby-Doo'' Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1973. Biography A life member o ...

as the voice of Velma. The other half of the hour was filled by ''

Dynomutt, Dog Wonder ''Dynomutt, Dog Wonder'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that aired on ABC from 1976 to 1977. The show centers on a Batman-esque superhero, the Blue Falcon, and his assistant, Dynomutt, a bumbling, ...

'', a new Hanna-Barbera cartoon about a

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named the Blue Falcon and his goofy mechanical canine sidekick Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. 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 ''

'' to the show in November 1976. In 1977, ABC had a programming block called ''

''. The ''Scooby-Doo'' segment of this two-hour block included eight 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 1977–1978 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 eight weeks of the 1978–1979 season. By November, the early-morning airing of ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' had been cancelled, and the new 1978 episodes began airing during the ''Scooby-Doo'' segment of ''Scooby's All-Stars''. ''Scooby-Doo'' creators

Joe Ruby Joseph Clemens Ruby (March 30, 1933 – August 26, 2020) was an American animator, writer, television producer, and music editor. He was best known as the creator of the animated ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise, together with Ken Spears. In 1977, they c ...

and

Ken Spears Charles Kenneth Spears (March 12, 1938 – November 6, 2020) was an American animator, writer, television producer and sound editor. He was best known as a co-creator of the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise, together with Joe Ruby. In 1977, they co-found ...

, started working at ABC for Fred Silverman as production supervisors for the Saturday morning lineup, they were both involved in the development and production of the 1976–1977 and the 1977–1978 episodes (in 1977, they formed their own animation studio,

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, as a competitor to Hanna-Barbera).Shostak, Stu (05-02-2012).
Interview with Joe Ruby and Ken Spears
. ''Stu's Show''. Retrieved 03-18-2013.

Cast

Don Messick Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor. He was best known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered vocal creations include Scooby-Doo, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in ...

Casey Kasem Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio personality, who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably '' American Top 40''. He was the first actor to voice Nor ...

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Heather North Heather May North (December 13, 1945 – November 29, 2017) was an American actress, best known for voicing Daphne Blake in the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. Early years North was born in Pasadena, California. Heather was close with actress and v ...

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as Velma *

Daws Butler Charles Dawson Butler (November 16, 1916May 18, 1988) was an American voice actor. He worked mostly for the Hanna-Barbera animation production company where he originated the voices of many familiar characters, including Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Ho ...

Staff

* Story editor: Ray Parker, Tom Dagenais, Duane Poole,

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, Dick Robbins,

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* Story:

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, Bill Butler, Dick Conway,

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, Duane Poole, Haskell Barkin, Tom Dagenais, Tony DiMarco, Dave Ketchum,

, Dick Robbins, Dalton Sandifer,

, Neal Barbera,

Bob Ogle Robert Allen Ogle (May 28, 1926 – February 25, 1984), known as Bob Ogle, was an American voice actor, animator and writer. Most characters he voiced are performed in the style of Bill Thompson's character Wallace Wimple from ''Fibber McGee and ...

, Michael Maurer, Chuck Couch, Howard Post, Lee Davenport, Paul Pumpian, Orville Hampton, Kimmer Ringwald, Mark Jones, Jeffrey Scott, Joan Maurer, Misty Stewart-Taggart, Ruth Filppen, Bill Lutz, Lee Orgel, Deirdre Starlight, Gene Thompson, Harry Winkler, Jameson Brewer, Earl Doud, Fred Freiberger,

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* Director: Charles A. Nichols, Ray Patterson,

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Home media

The first season was released on DVD by

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(via

and

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) with the Dynomutt episodes they originally aired with as ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series'' on March 7, 2006. The second season has not been released in a set, but some episodes have appeared on DVD. This leaves only four of the eight episodes in season two that ran as part of ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics'' as the only episodes that have not yet been released on DVD from this 40-episode incarnation. The third season was released on DVD as ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - The Complete Third Season'' from Warner Home Video, H-B Cartoons and WBFE on April 10, 2007, although only nine of those originally aired under the title ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' in their initial run, and none of the third season was presented under the ''Where are You!'' title for 28 years following their broadcast debuts (the cartoons on the DVD set still feature the syndicated ''Scooby-Doo Show'' opening and closing credits). All 40 ''Scooby-Doo Show'' episodes are available for purchase and download from the

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, as either individual episodes or a season set. The first two seasons are grouped under ''The Scooby-Doo Show'', while the third season is listed under ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!''

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scooby-Doo Show, The 1976 American television series debuts 1978 American television series endings 1970s American mystery television series

Scooby-Doo Show ''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animated media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are ...