''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' is a two-hour Saturday morning animated

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produced by

Hanna-Barbera Productions 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 ...

and broadcast on

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from September 10, 1977, until October 28, 1978. The block featured five Hanna-Barbera series among its segments: ''

The Scooby-Doo Show ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' is an American animated mystery comedy series. The title of the series is an umbrella term for episodes of the third incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise. A total of 40 episodes ran for three seasons, f ...

'', ''

Laff-A-Lympics ''Laff-A-Lympics'' is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The series premiered as part of the Saturday-morning cartoon program block '' Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'', on ABC in 1977. The show is a spoof ...

'', '' The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt'', ''

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels ''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' is an American animated mystery comedy series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC. The series aired during the network's Saturday morning schedule from S ...

'' and reruns of ''

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 ...

''. 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. * ''

'' (one episode, 11 minutes): Comedy/mystery show about three female teenage detectives and their companion, a prehistoric

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superhero thawed from a block of ice. Sixteen episodes were produced for 1977–78. * ''

'' (one episode, 30 minutes): Based on ''

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'', this series featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters, including Scooby-Doo,

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, Mumbly, and others competing in

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-styled events. Sixteen episodes were produced for 1977–78. * ''

'' (one episode, 30 minutes): Comedy/mystery show about four teenage detectives and their talking dog,

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 ...

. Eight first-run episodes were produced for 1977–78, with 16 made for ''

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 ...

'' 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. * ''

'' (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 A cyborg ()—a portmanteau of ''cybernetic'' and ''organism''—is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline.

dog sidekick Dynomutt, introduced the previous year in the ''

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, ...

'' 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.

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