The Scooby-Doo Show

The Scooby-Doo Show
"Hey come on get involved till the mystery is solved! Hang around for Scooby-Doo!"
Genre: Animation Comedy Horror Mystery Adventure Running Time: 23–24 minutes Country: United States Release Date: September 11, 1976 – December 23, 1978 Network(s): ABC Created by: Joe Ruby Ken Spears Distributed by: Turner Program Services (1992-1998) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1999-present) Starring: Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Pat Stevens Heather North Alan Oppenheimer Seasons: 3 Episodes: 40 Previous show: The New Scooby-Doo Movies Next show: Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979 TV series)

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, from 1976 to 1978, on ABC, marking the first Scooby-Doo series to appear on the network. Sixteen episodes were produced as segments of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour 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 nine of them running by themselves under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! name and the final seven as segments of Scooby's All-Stars.

Summary

The Scooby-Doo gang still travel in their bright green van called the "Mystery Machine" solving more strange and hilarious mysteries, while returning from or going to a regular teenage function, they also come across Scooby-Doo’s cousin, Scooby-Dum, sometimes.

Why It Rocks

1. Good animation.
2. It’s the third show of a beloved franchise.
3. The mystery solving idea from the first series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! still works here as always.
4. The characters are still interesting with different types of personalities.
5. Many of the main characters still have catchphrases that'll never get old.
   • For example: Velma's catchphrase "Jinkies!", Shaggy's "Zoinks!" or Daphne's "Jeepers!".
6. There are still funny moments and running gags, such as Scooby and Shaggy's endless craving for food or how the others have to convince Scooby to continue the mystery by bribing him with Scooby-Snacks.
7. The new theme song is good, catchy and timeless.
8. The memorable phrase "I would've gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!" from the villains, as always.
9. This is the last classic Scooby-Doo cartoon to feature just 5 members of the gang.
10. Great voice acting, especially from Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Frank Welker, and Daws Butler.
    • This Scooby-Doo series is when Velma’s voice started to improve, with Pat Stevens doing a decent job voicing her.
11. Scooby-Doo’s cousin, Scooby-Dum, is a great and hilarious character.
12. In "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller", Scooby-Dee, Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dee’s cousin, was a decent character, and it was hilarious and cute to see Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dee’s crushes on her, and one of the few examples of cousin marriage done right in a kid’s cartoon.

Bad Qualities

1. A rather obnoxious laugh track that sometimes plays at things that aren't even funny.
   • Fortunately, versions that don't have the laugh track exist.
2. The animation, while good, is frequently recycled, especially the running animations.
   • There are also animation errors all over the place, which was typical of '70s television animation.
3. The dialogue heavily uses exposition. Characters frequently state the obvious, even things that are being shown on-screen.
4. Still yet, not all of the jokes land, especially the one-liners.

Trivia

• This is Scooby-Dum’s only appearance in the Scooby-Doo franchise (excluding Laff-a-Lympics), most likely due to the death of his voice actor, Daws Butler, in 1988, and also the new character in the next show, Scrappy-Doo.

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