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The Scooby-Doo Show is the blanket name for the episodes from
the third incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. A total of 40
episodes ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, on ABC. Sixteen episodes were
produced as segments of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
(aka The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show) in 1976, eight episodes were produced
as segments of Scooby's All-Star
Laff-A-Lympics in 1977 and sixteen episodes were produced in 1978, with
six of them running by themselves under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! name
and the final ten as segments of Scooby's
All-Stars.
Despite the yearly changes in the way they were broadcast, the 1976-1978
stretch of Scooby 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. When television executive Fred Silverman moved from CBS to ABC in 1975,
the Scooby-Doo gang followed him, making their ABC debut in 1976 as part
of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour.
This hour-long package show featured 16 new half-hour adventures in the original
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
format, with Scooby's country cousin, the Mortimer Snerd-inspired
Scooby-Dum joining the gang as a
semi-regular character. In addition, Pat Stevens replaced Nicole Jaffe as the voice of Velma. The other half
of the hour was filled by Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, a new
Hanna-Barbera cartoon about a superhero named Blue Falcon and his goofy mechanical
canine sidekick, Dynomutt. 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 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! to
the show in November 1976.
In 1977, ABC offered a programming block called Scooby's All-Star
Laff-A-Lympics. The Scooby-Doo segment of this two-hour block
included 8 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 1978–1979 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 nine weeks of the 1978-79 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
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Season 1 1976
| # |
Episode title |
Original airdate |
| SDD-1 |
"High Rise Hair Raiser" |
September 11, 1976 |
| SDD-2 |
"The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost" |
September 18, 1976 |
| SDD-3 |
"The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul" |
September 25, 1976 |
| SDD-4 |
"Watt A Shocking Ghost" |
October 2, 1976 |
| SDD-5 |
"The Headless
Horseman of Halloween" |
October 9, 1976 |
| SDD-6 |
"Scared a Lot in Camelot" |
October 16, 1976 |
| SDD-7 |
"The Harum Scarum Sanitarium" |
October 23, 1976 |
| SDD-8 |
"The No-Face Zombie Chase Case" |
October 30, 1976 |
| SDD-9 |
"Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo" |
November 6, 1976 |
| SDD-10 |
"A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground |
November 13, 1976 |
| SDD-11 |
"A Bum Steer for Scooby" |
November 20, 1976 |
| SDD-12 |
"There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark" |
November 25, 1976³ |
| SDD-13 |
"Scooby-Doo, Where's the Crew?" |
November 27, 1976 |
| SDD-14 |
"The Ghost that Sacked the Quarterback" |
December 4, 1976 |
| SDD-15 |
"The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" |
December 11, 1976 |
| SDD-16 |
"The Spirits of
'76" |
December 18, 1976 |
Season 2 1977
| # |
Episode title |
Original airdate |
| SDLA-1 |
"The Curse of Viking Lake" |
September 10, 1977 |
| SDLA-2 |
"Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats" |
September 17, 1977 |
| SDLA-3 |
"Hang in There, Scooby-Doo" |
September 24, 1977 |
| SDLA-4 |
"The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller" |
October 1, 1977 |
| SDLA-5 |
"The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race" |
October 8, 1977 |
| SDLA-6 |
"The Ozark Witch
Switch" |
October 15, 1977 |
| SDLA-7 |
"Creepy Cruise" |
October 22, 1977 |
| SDLA-8 |
"The Creepy Heap from the Deep" |
October 29, 1977 |
Season 3 1978
| # |
Episode title |
Original airdate |
| SDAS-1 |
"Watch Out! The Willawaw!" |
September 9, 1978 |
| SDAS-2 |
"A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle" |
September 16, 1978 |
| SDAS-3 |
"A Scary Night With a Snow Beast Fright" |
September 23, 1978 |
| SDAS-4 |
"To Switch a Witch"
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September 30, 1978 |
| SDAS-5 |
"The Tar Monster" |
October 7, 1978 |
| SDAS-6 |
"A Highland Fling With a Monstrous Thing" 1 |
October 14, 1978 |
| SDAS-7 |
"The Creepy Case Of Old Iron Face" |
October 21, 1978 |
| SDAS-8 |
"Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro" |
October 28, 1978 |
| SDAS-9 |
"Make a Beeline Away from That Feeline!" |
November 4, 1978 |
| SDAS-10 |
"The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" |
November 11, 1978 |
| SDAS-11 |
"The Diabolical Disc Demon" |
November 18, 1978 |
| SDAS-12 |
"Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper" |
November 25, 1978 |
| SDAS-13 |
"A Menace in Venice" |
December 2, 1978 |
| SDAS-14 |
"Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear" |
December 9, 1978 |
| SDAS-15 |
"The Warlock of Wimbledon" |
December 16, 1978 |
| SDAS-16 |
"The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake" 2, 3 |
December 23, 1978 |
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