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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is the eighth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday
morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. This spin-off of the original show
was created by Tom Ruegger
and premiered on September 10, 1988 and ran for three seasons on ABC as a half-hour program.
Thirty episodes were ultimately produced (thirteen in 1988, eight in 1989, and nine in
1990-1991).
Following the show's first season, much of Hanna-Barbera's production staff,
including Tom Ruegger, left the studio, and helped to revive the Warner Bros.
Animation studio, beginning with Tiny Toon Adventures. This was notable
for being the last series where Don Messick voiced Scooby. The new format followed the trend of the "babyfication" of older
cartoon characters, reducing the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cast
to junior-high age. This new show also used the same basic formula as the
original 1969 show: the gang (referred to in this show as the "Scooby-Doo
Detective Agency") solved supernatural-based mysteries, where the villains (the
ghosts and monsters) were always
revealed as bad guys in masks and costumes. The biggest difference was the tone
of the show: With A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, producer Tom Ruegger built upon the slightly irreverent
humor he had established along with producer Mitch Schauer with Scooby's previous incarnation,
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.
This resulted in a wackier, more extremely comic version of Scooby-Doo
that satirized the conventions of the show's previous incarnations. It was not
uncommon for the characters to do wild Tex Avery/Bob Clampett-esque takes when they ran into ghosts
and monsters. Animation director and overseas supervisor Glen Kennedy animated
many of the wild-take sequences personally. Fred was constantly blaming a
character appropriately called "Red" Herring" (a pun on Red
Herring") for each and every crime on the show (true to his name, Red was
always innocent, except for the one episode in which Fred didn't blame
him) and shots of the characters (and even the ghosts and monsters) dancing were
inserted into the obligatory late-80s-pop-rock-music-scored chase sequences. The
ghosts and monsters themselves were also more comedic, such as a creature made
out of molten cheese, and the ghost of a dogcatcher. The series also features
Scooby and Shaggy as their favorite superhero duo. Shaggy would be the fearless
Commander Cool (a combination of Batman
and Superman) and Scooby would be
his faithful canine sidekick Mellow Mutt (a combination of Krypto, Robin and Ace the Bat-Hound.)
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Episode title |
Original airdate |
| 1 |
"A Bicycle Built For Boo!" |
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| 2 |
"The Sludge Monster from the Earth's Core" |
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| 3 |
"The Schnook Who Took My Comic Book" |
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| 4 |
"Wanted Cheddar Alive" |
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| 5 |
"For Letter or Worse" |
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| 6 |
"The Babysitter from Beyond" |
October 15, 1988 |
| 7 |
"Now Museum, Now You Don't" |
October 22, 1988 |
| 8 |
"Snow Place Like Home" |
October 29, 1988 |
| 9 |
"Scooby Dude" |
November 5, 1988 |
| 10 |
"Ghost Who's Coming to Dinner?" |
November 12, 1988 |
| 11 |
"The Story Stick" |
November 19, 1988 |
| 12 |
"Robopup" |
November 26, 1988 |
| 13 |
"Lights...Camera...Monster" |
December 3, 1988 |
| # |
Episode title |
Original airdate |
| 14 |
"Curse of the Collar" |
September 9, 1989 |
| 15 |
"The Return of Commander Cool" |
September 16, 1989 |
| 16 |
"The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll" |
September 23, 1989 |
| 17 |
"Chickenstein Lives!" |
September 30, 1989 |
| 18 |
"Night of the Living Burger" |
October 7, 1989 |
| 19 |
"The Computer Walks Among Us" |
October 14, 1989 |
| 20 |
"Dog Gone Scooby" |
October 21, 1989 |
| 21 |
"Terror, Thy Name is Zombo" |
October 28, 1989 |
| # |
Episode title |
Original airdate |
| 22 |
"Night of the Boogey Biker" |
September 8, 1990 |
| 23 |
"Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare" |
September 8, 1990 |
| 24 |
"Wrestle Maniacs" |
September 22, 1990 |
| 25 |
"Horror of the Haunted Hairpiece" |
September 29, 1990 |
| 26 |
"Mayhem of the Moving Mollusk" |
July 6, 1991 |
| 27 |
"The Were-Doo of Doo Manor" |
July 13, 1991 |
| 28a |
"Catcher on the Sly" |
July 20, 1991 |
| 28b |
"The Ghost of Mrs. Shusham" |
July 20, 1991 |
| 28c |
"The Wrath of Waitro" |
July 20, 1991 |
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