Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics

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Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
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Also known as 'Scooby's All-Stars'
Genre Animation
Comedy
Children's television series
Created by Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Directed by Ray Patterson (1978)<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Carl Urbano (1978)<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Charles A. Nichols
Voices of Don Messick<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Daws Butler<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Mel Blanc<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Casey Kasem<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Frank Welker<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Julie Bennett<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Joe Besser<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
John Stephenson<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Heather North<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Pat Stevens<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Gary Owens<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Laurel Page <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Marilyn Schreffler<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Vernee Watson
Theme music composer Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of episodes 24 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Joseph Barbera
Running time 120 minutes (1977–78)<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
90 minutes (1978–79)
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor Taft Broadcasting
Release
Original network ABC
Original release September 10, 1977 –
September 8, 1979
Chronology
Preceded by The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–77)
Related shows The Scooby-Doo Show<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Laff-A-Lympics<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels<templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
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 to 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 September 8, 1979. 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:[1]

  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (one episode, 30 minutes): reruns of the first Scooby-Doo series, originally run on CBS from 1969–71.
  • 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.

When the show became Scooby's All-Stars during the second season on September 9, 1978, the 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 Laff-A-Lympics and eight new Captain Caveman segments were produced for the block in 1978–79. The Scooby-Doo Show began the 1978–79 season in reruns, though starting from November 11, seven 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.

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.

References

  1. ↑ Lenberg, Jeff (1991). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. New York: Facts of File. ISBN 0-8160-6599-3 p. 409-411.

External links

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