Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics

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.

The block featured five Hanna-Barbera series among its segments: The Scooby-Doo Show, 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:

• 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 weeks The 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

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 title in 1980
2. For its second season Dynomutt, Dog Wonder became The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.
3. After episode eight, the Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt segments continued the season in reruns from episodes originally broadcast on The Scooby-Doo / Dynomutt Show.
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

Notes

1. Bold = indicates new episodes
2. Scooby-Doo began the season in reruns from the 1976–77 season for the first eight weeks.
3. After the first eight weeks Laff-a-Lympics aired rerun episodes from the 1977–78 season.
4. 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.
5. 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

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