The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo.[1] It premiered on September 22, 1979, and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. A total of sixteen episodes were produced.[2] It was the last Hanna-Barbera cartoon series (excluding prime-time specials) to use the studio's laugh track.
Overview[]
By 1979, the staff at Hanna-Barbera realized that the Scooby-Doo formula was getting worn out, which gave them reason to parody it in a 1979 primetime special, Scooby Goes Hollywood, which was produced before the series aired. In addition, ABC began threatening cancellation for the show, as the show's ratings were declining and Fred Silverman, one of the show's biggest backers at ABC, had left for NBC in 1978.[3] ABC was going to choose between two shows: Scooby-Doo or an unnamed pilot from Ruby Spears Enterprises.[4] Therefore, for its 1979–1980 season, Scooby-Doo was given a major overhaul, adding the character of Scooby's nephew Scrappy-Doo, voiced by Lennie Weinrib, and changing the name of the show to Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo.[5]
Although still present in these episodes, the characters of Fred, Daphne, and Velma became less essential to the plot, and it became more of a concentrated effort to try and make them relevant, once the new character's presence shed light on it. [6] However, they ultimately were removed by the next season. Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy were the main focus. Marla Frumkin took over Pat Stevens' role as Velma Dinkley towards the end of the season, beginning with episode 12, "The Ghoul, the Bat, and the Ugly". Velma is not seen physically speaking in episode 16, "The Ransom of Scooby Chief" as she, Fred, and Daphne were not in that episode very much. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio.
Staff[]
- Directors: Ray Patterson, Carl Urbano, Oscar Dufau, George Gordon
- Story editors: Duane Poole and Tom Swale
- Story: Doug Booth, Diane Duane, Mark Evanier, Willie Gilbert, Glenn Leopold, Duane Poole, Tom Swale, David Villaire
Voice cast[]
- Main article: List of Scooby-Doo characters
- Don Messick – Scooby-Doo
- Lennie Weinrib – Scrappy-Doo
- Casey Kasem – Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Heather North – Daphne Blake
- Frank Welker – Fred Jones
- Pat Stevens – Velma Dinkley (eps. 1–11)
- Marla Frumkin – Velma Dinkley (eps. 12–16)
Episodes[]
| Nº | Episode title | Villain | Identity | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “The Scarab Lives!” | The Blue Scarab | Howard Gruber | September 22, 1979 |
| The gang has to help a cartoonist after his superhero creation "The Blue Scarab", who is Scrappy’s hero, comes to life and begins committing crimes all over town. | ||||
| 2 | “The Night Ghoul of Wonderworld” | The Night Ghoul of London | Mr. Marino | September 29, 1979 |
| The gang is trapped inside a theme park created to be like 19th-century London. The plot and title are similar to that of Westworld. | ||||
| 3 | “Strange Encounters of a Scooby Kind” | The Alien | Tessie | October 6, 1979 |
| While the gang tries to relax on a camping trip in the mountains, Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy are kidnapped by an alien, and it is up to Fred, Velma and Daphne to save them. The title is a spoof of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. | ||||
| 4 | “The Neon Phantom of the Roller Disco!” | The Neon Phantom | Bill Walker | October 13, 1979 |
| When the Neon Phantom appears at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and cuts out the electricity, the gang chases him all over the city to find out what he is up to. | ||||
| 5 | “Shiver and Shake, That Demon's a Snake” | The Snake Demon | First Mate Defarge | October 20, 1979 |
| While on vacation in the Florida Keys, the gang encounters a menacing Snake Demon after Daphne buys an idol cursed by the demon. | ||||
| 6 | “The Scary Sky Skeleton” | The Sky Skeleton | Eddie Drake | October 27, 1979 |
| When a living skeleton appears and threatens to ruin Daphne's friend Wendy's air show, the gang must solve the mystery and help Wendy. | ||||
| 7 | “The Demon of the Dugout” | The Dragon Beast | Mr. Husai | November 3, 1979 |
| The gang goes to Japan for a baseball game involving the American Team vs. the Japanese Team for the Baseball Diamond. During the game, a dragon-like demon appears and the gang must solve the mystery. | ||||
| 8 | “The Hairy Scare of the Devil Bear” | The Devil Bear | Chuck Hunt | November 10, 1979 |
| The gang investigates a myth of a "devil bear" haunting Indian caves within the Grand Canyon. | ||||
| 9 | “Twenty Thousand Screams Under the Sea” | The Sea Beast of the Aztecs | Tiger Morris | November 17, 1979 |
| The gang tries to solve the mystery of a Sea Beast that is haunting the Mexican coastal town of Acapulco. The title is a take-off of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. | ||||
| 10 | “I Left My Neck in San Francisco” | The Lady Vampire of the Bay | Lefty Callahan (Mrs. Corneil) | November 24, 1979 |
| The gang goes to San Francisco, where they encounter the Lady Vampire of the Bay on Alcatraz Island. The vampire strongly resembles Daphne, who sits out most of the investigation with a cold, but she is nowhere to be found when the vampire turns up, leading Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy to think she is a vampire. | ||||
| 11 | “When You Wish Upon a Star Creature” | The Star Creature | Mr. Greenfield | December 1, 1979 |
| When Professor Spaulding, of Green Hills observatory, discovers a new star, it does not take long before the Star Creature comes to frighten everyone off. | ||||
| 12 | “The Ghoul, the Bat and the Ugly” | The Shadow Creature | Brandon Davies | December 8, 1979 |
| The gang attends the Batty Awards Show at Hillside Manor, which is interrupted by a Shadow Creature. | ||||
| 13 | “Rocky Mountain Yiiiii!” | The Ghost of Jeremiah Pratt | Will Henry Pratt | December 15, 1979 |
| The gang goes to Denver, Colorado for a skiing vacation where they meet the ghost of Jeremiah Pratt, who wants to find his caravan and his pot of gold. | ||||
| 14 | “The Sorcerer's a Menace” | The Ghost of the Great Haldane | Morgan the Magician | December 22, 1979 |
| At a magic show in a fancy hotel on Atlantic City's boardwalk, the ghost of the magician's former teacher appears and causes a valuable black pearl to disappear. The gang has to find out why. | ||||
| 15 | “Lock the Door, It's a Minotaur!” | The Minotaur | Nick Papas | December 29, 1979 |
| While in Greece, the gang discovers that the Minotaur is scaring everyone off and they set out to find him. | ||||
| 16 | “The Ransom of Scooby Chief” | Carl and Tony | N/A | January 5, 1980 |
| The gang arrives in New York City and drops off Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy to look around Scrappy's old neighborhood. After Scooby and Shaggy are kidnapped for ransom, it is up to Scrappy and his puppy friends to save them. The title is a take-off of "The Ransom of Red Chief." | ||||
Home media[]
A complete series set was released on April 28, 2015.[7]
| DVD Name | Release Date | Episode(s) Included |
|---|---|---|
| Scooby Doo and Scrappy-Doo: The Complete Season 1 | April 28, 2015[7] | All episodes |
| Scooby Doo! 13 Spooky Tales Around the World | May 15, 2012[8] |
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| Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Holiday Chills and Thrills | October 16, 2012[9] | "Rocky Mountain Yiiiiii!" |
| Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Ruh-Roh Robot! | September 24, 2013[10] | "The Scary Sky Skeleton" |
| Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Field Of Screams | May 13, 2014 | "The Demon of the Dugout" |
| Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Surf's Up Scooby-Doo | May 5, 2015 | "Twenty Thousand Screams Under The Sea" |
References[]
- ↑ (1983) Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press, page 249=253. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5.
- ↑ (2018) The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield, page 534–538. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ↑ "The network kept threatening to cancel it every year or two, so every season they had to add a new element to the show to keep it fresh." – Mark Evanier, one of the writers for the series. Retrieved from The Scooby Story on October 6, 2006.
- ↑ http://radiorashy.com/radio-rashy-episode-170-son-of-evenings-with-evanier/
- ↑ (2005) Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003, 2nd, McFarland & Co, page 723–724. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ↑ You must specify title = and url = when using {{cite web}}.. A Podcast Named Scooby-Doo. “20:02”
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo - Press Release for 'The Complete Season 1' of the 1979 Show". tvshowsondvd.com.
- ↑ "Scooby's All-Stars - '13 Spooky Tales Around The World' Draws From 6 Scooby Shows". tvshowsondvd.com.
- ↑ Lambert, David (June 21, 2012). "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - '13 Spooky Tales: Holiday Chills and Thrills' 2-DVD Set".
- ↑ Lambert, David (June 13, 2013). "The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries - '13 Spooky Tales: Ruh-Roh Robot!' DVDs with More Classic Episodes".
External links[]
- Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo on The Big Cartoon DataBase
The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo shorts represents the fifth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo series.[1]
The original format of four teenagers and their dog(s) solving faux-supernatural mysteries for a half-hour was eschewed for simpler, more comedic adventures that involved real supernatural villains (the villains in previous Scooby episodes were almost always regular humans in disguise).
A total of 33 half-hour episodes, each of which included three 7-minute shorts, were produced over three seasons, from 1980 to 1982 on ABC. Thirteen episodes were produced for the 1980–81 season, and seven more for the 1981–82 as segments of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show. The remaining thirteen episodes were produced as segments of The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour for the 1982–83 season. Out of the 99 shorts that were produced, 86 of them feature Scooby-Doo, his nephew Scrappy-Doo and Shaggy without the rest of the Mystery Inc gang, and the other 13 only feature Scrappy-Doo and Yabba-Doo.[2]
Cast[]
- Main article: List of Scooby-Doo characters
- Don Messick – Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, Yabba-Doo (1982)
- Casey Kasem – Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Frank Welker – Deputy Dusty (1982)
Episodes[]
The following guide only includes 30 minute Scooby-Doo segments from each show.[3] It does not include other series from the original broadcast package shows.
Season 1 (The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show) (1980)[]
The following ran from 1980–1981, as segments on The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show. That show, and the rest of the new 1980 ABC Saturday morning lineup, did not debut until November 8 (instead of the traditional first or second week of September) because of a voice actors' strike.
| No. and episode title | Original airdate |
|---|---|
| 1.1: "A Close Encounter With a Strange Kind" 1.2: "A Fit Night Out for Bats" 1.3: "The Chinese Food Factory" |
November 8, 1980 |
| 1.4: "Scooby's Desert Dilemma" 1.5: "The Old Cat and Mouse Game" 1.6: "Stow-Aways" |
November 15, 1980 |
| 1.7: "Mummy's the Word" 1.8: "Hang in There, Scooby" 1.9: "Stuntman Scooby" |
November 22, 1980 |
| 1.10: "Scooby's Three Ding-A-Ling Circus" 1.11: "Scooby's Fantastic Island" 1.12: "Long John Scrappy" |
November 29, 1980 |
| 1.13: "Scooby's Bull Fright" 1.14: "Scooby Ghosts West" 1.15: "A Bungle in the Jungle" |
December 6, 1980 |
| 1.16: "Scooby's Fun Zone" 1.17: "Swamp Witch" 1.18: "Sir Scooby and the Black Knight" |
December 13, 1980 |
| 1.19: "Waxworld" 1.20: "Scooby in Wonderland" 1.21: "Scrappy's Birthday" |
December 20, 1980 |
| 1.22: "South Seas Scare" 1.23: "Scooby"s Swiss Miss" 1.24: "Alaskan King Coward" |
December 27, 1980 |
| 1.25: "Et Tu, Scoob?" 1.26: "Soggy Bog Scooby" 1.27: "Scooby Gumbo" |
January 3, 1981 |
| 1.28: "Way Out Scooby" 1.29: "Strongman Scooby" 1.30: "Moonlight Madness" |
January 10, 1981 |
| 1.31: "Dog Tag Scooby" 1.32: "Scooby at the Center of the World" 1.33: "Scooby's Trip to Ahz" |
January 17, 1981 |
| 1.34: "A Fright at the Opera" 1.35: "Robot Ranch" 1.36: "Surprised Spies" |
January 24, 1981 |
| 1.37: "The Invasion of the Scooby Snatchers" 1.38: "Scooby Dooby Guru" 1.39: "Scooby and the Bandit" |
January 31, 1981 |
Season 2 (The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show) (1981)[]
The following ran in 1981, as segments on The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show.
| No. and episode title | Original airdate |
|---|---|
| 2.40: "Scooby Nocchio" 2.41: "Lighthouse Keeper Scooby" 2.42: "Scooby's Roots" |
September 19, 1981 |
| 2.43: "Scooby's Escape from Atlantis" 2.44: "Excalibur Scooby" 2.45: "Scooby Saves the World" |
September 26, 1981 |
| 2.46: "Scooby Dooby Goo" 2.47: "Rickshaw Scooby" 2.48: "Scooby's Luck of the Irish" |
October 3, 1981 |
| 2.49: "Backstage Scooby" 2.50: "Scooby's House of Mystery" 2.51: "Sweet Dreams Scooby" |
October 10, 1981 |
| 2.52: "Scooby-Doo 2000" 2.53: "Punk Rock Scooby" 2.54: "Canine to Five" |
October 17, 1981 |
| 2.55: "Hard Hat Scooby" 2.56: "Hothouse Scooby" 2.57: "Pigskin Scooby" |
October 24, 1981 |
| 2.58: "Sopwith Scooby" 2.59: "Tenderbigfoot" 2.60: "Scooby and the Beanstalk" |
October 31, 1981 |
Following the final first-run episode on October 31, reruns from the first seasons were rerun alongside episodes from the second season.
Season 3 (The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour) (1982)[]
The following ran in 1982, as segments of The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour. All segments were written and storyboarded at Hanna-Barbera, but were produced and animated by then-sister company Ruby-Spears Enterprises. Note: The third episode for each air date listed is the Scrappy and Yabba-Doo episode from that date.
| No. and episode title | Original airdate |
|---|---|
| 3.61: "Maltese Mackerel" 3.62: "Dumb Waiter Caper" 3.63: "Yabba's Rustle Hustle" |
September 25, 1982 |
| 3.64: "Catfish Burglar Caper" 3.65: "Movie Monster Menace" 3.66: "Mine Your Own Business" |
October 2, 1982 |
| 3.67: "Super Teen Shaggy" 3.68: "Basketball Bumblers" 3.69: "Tragic Magic" |
October 9, 1982 |
| 3.70: "Beauty Contest Caper" 3.71: "Stakeout at the Takeout" 3.72: "Runaway Scrappy" |
October 16, 1982 |
| 3.73: "Who's Scooby-Doo?" 3.74: "Double Trouble Date" 3.75: "Slippery Dan the Escape Man" |
October 23, 1982 |
| 3.76: "Cable Car Caper" 3.77: "Muscle Trouble" 3.78: "Low-Down Showdown" |
October 30, 1982 |
| 3.79: "Comic Book Caper" 3.80: "Misfortune Teller" 3.81: "Vild Vest Vampire" |
November 6, 1982 |
| 3.82: "A Gem of a Case" 3.83: "From Bad to Curse" 3.84: "Tumbleweed Derby" |
November 13, 1982 |
| 3.85: "Disappearing Car Caper" 3.86: "Scooby-Doo and Genie-Poo" 3.87: "Law and Disorder" |
November 20, 1982 |
| 3.88: "Close Encounter of the Worst Kind" 3.89: "Captain Canine Caper" 3.90: "Alien Schmalien" |
November 27, 1982 |
| 3.91: "The Incredible Cat Lady Caper" 3.92: "Picnic Poopers" 3.93: "Go East, Young Pardner" |
December 4, 1982 |
| 3.94: "One Million Years Before Lunch" 3.95: "Where's the Werewolf?" 3.96: "Up a Crazy River" |
December 11, 1982 |
| 3.97: "Hoedown Showdown" 3.98: "Snow Job Too Small" 3.99: "Bride And Gloom" |
December 18, 1982 |
Home media[]
Warner Home Video (via Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment) released The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show: Volume 1 on DVD in Region 1 on May 20, 2008.[4]
| DVD name | Episodes | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show: Volume 1 | First Seven Complete Episodes | May 20, 2008 October 3, 2017 (re-release) |
| 13 Spooky Tales Around the World | Moonlight Madness | May 15, 2012 |
| 13 Spooky Tales: Holiday Chills and Thrills |
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October 16, 2012 |
| Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon | Comic Book Caper | February 26, 2013 |
| 13 Spooky Tales: Run for Your Rife | Snow Job Too Small | September 10, 2013 |
| 13 Spooky Tales: Ruh Roh Robot! |
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September 24, 2013 |
| 13 Spooky Tales: For the Love of Snack |
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January 7, 2014 |
| 13 Spooky Tales: Field of Screams |
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May 13, 2014 |
| 13 Spooky Tales: Surf's Up Scooby-Doo![5] |
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May 5, 2015 |
All three seasons are available for download from the iTunes store.
References[]
- ↑ "Archived copy".
- ↑ "Hanna-Barbera Studios Studio Directory". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).
- ↑ "THE ALMOST COMPLETE SCOOBY-DOO EPISODE GUIDE" (26 August 2005).
- ↑ "The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Hour DVD news: Announcement for The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Hour - The Complete Series, Volume 1". Tvshowsondvd.com.
- ↑ "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! DVD news: Press Release for Scooby-Doo - 13 Spooky Tales: Surf's Up Scooby-Doo!". Tvshowsondvd.com.
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