Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics

Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
Also known as	Scooby's All-Stars
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Directed by	Charles August Nichols Ray Patterson (1978) Carl Urbano (1978)
Presented by	Snagglepuss Mildew Wolf
Voices of	Don Messick Daws Butler Mel Blanc Casey Kasem Frank Welker Julie McWhirter Julie Bennett Joe Besser Alan Oppenheimer John Stephenson Heather North Pat Stevens Gary Owens Laurel Page Marilyn Schreffler Vernee Watson
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	24 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producers	Don Jurwich (1978) Alex Lovy (1978) Art Scott (1978)
Editors	Larry C. Cowan Dick Elliot Gil Iverson
Camera setup	George Epperson Jerry Smith Reba Bement Tom Epperson Chuck Flekal Curt Hall Ron Jackson Larry Smith Terry Smith Brandy Whittington Jerry Whittington
Running time	120 minutes (1977–78) 90 minutes (1978–79)
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	September 10, 1977 (1977-09-10) – September 2, 1978 (1978-09-02)
Related
The Scooby-Doo Show Laff-A-Lympics Dynomutt, Dog Wonder Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics is a two-hour Saturday morning animated program block produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on ABC from September 10, 1977, until September 2, 1978. ^[1]

The block featured five Hanna-Barbera series among its segments: The Scooby-Doo Show Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Laff-A-Lympics, The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels , and reruns of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! . 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 December 23, 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: ^[2]

• The Scooby-Doo Show (one episode, 30 minutes): Comedy/mystery show about four teenage detectives and their talking dog, Scooby-Doo. Eight first-run episodes were produced for 1977–78, with 16 made for The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour 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.
• Laff-A-Lympics (one episode, 30 minutes): Based on Battle of the Network Stars , this series featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters, including Scooby-Doo, Yogi Bear, Mumbly, and others competing in Olympics-styled events. Sixteen episodes were produced for 1977–78.
• The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt (one episode, 11 minutes each): New episodes featuring the superhero Blue Falcon and his bumbling cyborg dog sidekick Dynomutt, introduced the previous year in the Dynomutt, Dog Wonder 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.
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (one episode, 11 minutes): Comedy/mystery show about three female teenage detectives and their companion, a prehistoric caveman superhero thawed from a block of ice. Sixteen episodes were produced for 1977–78.
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (one episode, 30 minutes): reruns of the first Scooby-Doo series, originally run on CBS from 1969–70.

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 + a rerun from the previous season). Eight new Laff-A-Lympics and Captain Caveman segments were produced for the block in 1978–79. For the first eight weeksThe Scooby-Doo Show segment began the 1978–79 season in reruns, though starting from November 4, the remaining eight 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. Laff-A-Lympics and Captain Caveman segments also aired reruns from their previous seasons for the remainder of the series run.

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.

Cast

• Daws Butler as Yogi Bear, Augie Doggie, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Wally Gator, Snagglepuss, Mr. Jinks, Dixie, Hokey Wolf, Super Snooper, Blabber Mouse, Scooby-Dum, Dastardly Dalton
• Don Messick as Boo-Boo Bear, Pixie, Ranger Smith, Scooby-Doo, Mumbly, Dirty Dalton, Mr. Creepley, Junior Creepley, Announcer
• Julie Bennett as Cindy Bear
• John Stephenson as Doggie Daddy, Mildew Wolf, Dread Baron, The Great Fondoo
• Frank Welker as Fred, Jabberjaw, Yakky Doodle, Tinker, Dynomutt, Magic Rabbit, Sooey
• Mel Blanc as Captain Caveman, Speed Buggy, Barney Rubble
• Alan Oppenheimer as Additional voices
• Bob Holt as Grape Ape, Dinky Dalton, Orful Octopus
• Vernee Watson-Johnson as Dee Dee Skyes
• Marilyn Schreffler as Brenda Chance, Daisy Mayhem
• Laurel Page as Taffy Dare, Mrs. Creepley
• Scatman Crothers as Hong Kong Phooey
• Gary Owens as Blue Falcon
• Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone (earlier episodes)
• Henry Corden as Fred Flintstone (later episodes)
• Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
• Heather North as Daphne
• Pat Stevens as Velma
• Joe Besser as Babu

Season 1 (1977-78) as Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics

No. Overall	No. in Season	Episode Title					Original Airdate
		Scooby-Doo	Laff-A-Lympics	The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt	Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Runtime		24 min	22 min	11 min	11 min	22 min	90 min (no commercials)
1	1	The Curse of Viking Lake	Swiss Alps and Tokyo	Beastwoman, Part 1	The Kooky Case of the Cryptic Keys	What a Night for a Knight (R)	Sat, Sep 10, 1977
2	2	Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats	Acapulco and England	Beastwoman, Part 2	The Mixed-Up Mystery of Deadman's Reef	A Clue for Scooby-Doo (R)	Sat, Sep 17, 1977
3	3	Hang in There, Scooby-Doo	Florida and China	The Glob, Part 1	What a Flight for a Fright	Hassle in the Castle (R)	Sat, Sep 24, 1977
4	4	The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller	Sahara Desert and Scotland	The Glob, Part 2	The Creepy Case of the Creaky Charter Boat	Mine Your Own Business (R)	Sat, Oct 1, 1977
5	5	The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race	France and Australia	Madame Ape Face, Part 1	Big Scare in the Big Top	Decoy for a Dognapper (R)	Sat, Oct 8, 1977
6	6	The Ozark Witch Switch	Athens and Ozarks	Madame Ape Face, Part 2	Double Dribble Riddle	Foul Play in Funland (R)	Sat, Oct 15, 1977
7	7	The Creepy Cruise	Italy and Kittyhawk, North Carolina	Shadowman, Part 1	The Crazy Case of the Tell-Tale Tape	The Backstage Rage (R)	Sat, Oct 22, 1977
8	8	The Creepy Heap from the Deep	Egypt and Sherwood Forest	Shadowman, Part 2	The Creepy Claw Caper	Bedlam in the Big Top (R)	Sat, Oct 29, 1977
9	9	The Harum Scarum Sanitarium (R)	Spain and the Himalayas	The Queen Hornet (R)	Cavey and the Kabuta Clue	Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too! (R)	Sat, Nov 5, 1977
10	10	The No-Faced Zombie Chase Case (R)	India and Israel	The Wizard of Ooze (R)	Cavey and the Weirdo Wolfman	A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts (R)	Sat, Nov 12, 1977
11	11	Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo (R)	Africa and San Francisco	Tin Kong (R)	The Disappearing Elephant Mystery	Spooky Space Kook (R)	Sat, Nov 19, 1977
12	12	The Ghost That Sacked the Quarterback (R)	Grand Canyon and Ireland	The Awful Ordeal with the Head of Steel (R)	The Fur Freight Fright	That's Snow Ghost (R)	Sat, Nov 26, 1977
13	13	A Bum Steer for Scooby (R)	Hawaii and Norway	The Blue Falcon vs. The Red Vultrure (R)	Ride 'Em Caveman	Nowhere to Hyde (R)	Sat, Dec 3, 1977
14	14	There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark (R)	Alaska and Tahiti	The Injustice League of America (R)	The Strange Case of the Creature From Space	The Backstage Rage (R)	Sat, Dec 10, 1977
15	15	A Frightend Hound Meets a Demon Underground (R)	Arizona and Holland	Lighter Than Air Raid (R)	The Mystery Mansion Mix-Up	Which Witch is Witch? (R)	Sat, Dec 17, 1977
16	16	The Headless Horseman of Halloween (R)	Quebec and Baghdad	The Prophet Profits (R)	Playing Footsie with Bigfoot	Haunted House Hang-Up (R)	Sat, Dec 24, 1977

Notes

1. The first segment was billed as Scooby-Doo and all the episodes produced from 1976 to 1979 were repackaged and rerun under The Scooby-Doo Show in 1980
2. For its second season Dynomutt, Dog Wonder because The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.
3. After episode eight, the Scooby-Doo & Dynomutt segments continued the season in reruns of episodes from both shows first seasons.
4. The rerun episodes were never officially listed during the original series run. The episodes shown reflect an AI generated list of how the episodes may had been potentially broadcast based on popularity, airdate and time of year.

Season 2 (1978-79) as Scooby's All-Stars

No. Overall	No. in Season	Episode Title
		Scooby-Doo	Laff-A-Lympics	Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels		Original Airdate
Runtime		24 min	22 min	11 min	11 min	68 min (no commercials)
17	1	High Raise Hair Raiser (R)	Russia and Caribbean	Disco Cavey	The Kooky Case of the Cryptic Keys (R)	Sat, Sep 9, 1978
18	2	The Fiesta Host is an Aztec Ghost (R)	New York and Turkey	Muscle-Bound Cavey	The Mixed-Up Mystery of Deadman's Reef (R)	Sat, Sep 16, 1978
19	3	The Grusome Game of the Gator Ghoul (R)	South America and Transylvania	Cavey's Crazy Car Caper	The Creepy Case of the Creaky Charter Boat (R)	Sat, Sep 23, 1978
20	4	The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man (R)	Monte Carlo and New Zealand	Cavey's Mexicali 500	Big Scare in the Big Top (R)	Sat, Sep 30, 1978
21	5	Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo (R)	Louisiana and Atlantis	Wild West Cavey	Double Dribble Riddle (R)	Sat, Oct 7, 1978
22	6	The Harum Scarum Sanitarium (R)	Morocco and Washington, D.C.	Cavey's Winter Carnival Caper	The Crazy Case of the Tell-Tale Tape (R)	Sat, Oct 14, 1978
23	7	The No-Faced Zombie Chase Case (R)	Canada and Poland	Cavey's Fashion Fiasco	The Creepy Claw Caper (R)	Sat, Oct 21, 1978
24	8	The Headless Horseman of Halloween (R)	Siam and the Moon	Cavey's Missing Missile Miss-tery	Cavey and the Kabuta Clue (R)	Sat, Oct 28, 1978
25	9	Make a Beeline Away from That Feline	Swiss Alps and Tokyo (R)	Cavey and the Weirdo Wolfman (R)	The Disappearing Elephant Mystery (R)	Sat, Nov 4, 1978
26	10	The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw	Acapulco and England (R)	The Fur Freight Fright (R)	Ride 'Em Caveman (R)	Sat, Nov 11, 1978
27	11	The Diabolical Disc Demon	Athens and Ozarks (R)	The Strange Case of the Creature From Space (R)	The Mystery Mansion Mix-Up (R)	Sat, Nov 18, 1978
28	12	Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper	Italy and Kittyhawk, North Carolina (R)	Playing Footsie with Bigfoot (R)	What a Flight for a Fright (R)	Sat, Nov 25, 1978
29	13	A Menace in Venice	Egypt and Sherwood Forest (R)	The Kooky Case of the Cryptic Keys (R)	The Creepy Claw Caper (R)	Sat, Dec 2, 1978
30	14	Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear	Spain and the Himalayas (R)	Double Dribble Riddle (R)	Big Scare in the Big Top (R)	Sat, Dec 9, 1978
31	15	The Warlock of Wimbledon	France and Australia (R)	The Creepy Case of the Creaky Charter Boat (R)	The Crazy Case of the Tell-Tale Tape (R)	Sat, Dec 16, 1978
32	16	The Beast is Awake at Bottomless Lake	India and Israel (R)	The Mystery Mansion Mix-Up (R)	Playing Footsie with Bigfoot (R)	Sat, Dec 23, 1978

Notes

1. Scooby-Doo began the season in reruns from the 1976–77 season for the first eight weeks.
2. After the first eight weeks Laff-a-Lympics aired rerun episodes from the 1977–78 season.
3. Captain Caveman aired 2 episodes; newly produced episodes for the 1978-79 + a rerun from the 1977–78 season. After eight weeks both episodes were repeat episodes from the 1977–78 season.
4. The rerun episodes were never officially listed during the original series run. The episodes shown reflect an AI generated list of how the episodes may had been potentially broadcast based on popularity, airdate and time of year.

See also

• List of Scooby-Doo media

References

1. Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's television, the first thirty-five years, 1946-1981. The Scarecrow Press. p. 253. ISBN   0-8108-1557-5 . Retrieved March 5, 2020.
2. Lenberg, Jeff (1991). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. New York: Facts of File. ISBN   0-8160-6599-3 p. 409-411.

External links

• Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics at IMDb