| Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics | |
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| Genre | Animation Comedy Children's television series |
| Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson (1978) Carl Urbano (1978) Charles A. Nichols |
| Voices of | Don Messick Daws Butler Mel Blanc Casey Kasem Frank Welker Julie Bennett Joe Besser 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 |
| Running time | 120 minutes (1977–78)90 minutes (1978–79) |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributors | Taft Broadcasting (1977–1979) Worldvision Enterprises (1979–1989) Great American Broadcasting (1989–1991) Turner Program Services (1991–1996) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1996–present) |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | September 10, 1977 – October 28, 1978 |
| 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 October 28, 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 October 28, 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:[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 1969–70.
- 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 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[]
- ↑ 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 the Internet Movie Database
- Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics at TV.com
- Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics at The Big Cartoon DataBase
- Scooby's All-Stars at The Big Cartoon DataBase
| Children's programming on the American Broadcasting Company in the 1970s | ||
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| First-run animated series |
Rocky and Friends (1957-73) • The New Casper Cartoon Show (1963–70) • The Smokey the Bear Show (1969–70) • The Cattanooga Cats Show (1969–71) • Hot Wheels (1969–71) • Skyhawks (1969–71) • The Adventures of Gulliver (1968–70) • Fantastic Voyage (1968–70) • Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down (1970–72) • The Road Runner Show (1971–73) • The Funky Phantom (1971–73) • The Jackson 5ive (1971–73) • The Osmonds (1972–74) • The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972–74) • The Brady Kids (1972–74) • Kid Power (1972–74) • Yogi's Gang (1973–75) • Super Friends (1973–74) • Lassie's Rescue Rangers (1973–75) • Goober and the Ghost Chasers (1973–75) • Mission: Magic! (1973–74) • Hong Kong Phooey (1974–75) • The New Adventures of Gilligan (1974–77) • Devlin (1974–76) • These Are the Days (1974–76) • The Tom and Jerry Show (1975–77) • The Great Grape Ape Show (1975–76) • The Oddball Couple (1975–77) • Jabberjaw (1976–78) • The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–77) • The Mumbly Cartoon Show (1976–77) • The All-New Super Friends Hour (1977–78) • Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (The Scooby-Doo Show) • Laff-A-Lympics • Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels) (1977–79) • Fangface (1978–79) • Challenge of the Super Friends (1978–79) • The All-New Pink Panther Show (1978–79) • The World's Greatest Super Friends (1979–80) • The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show (Mighty Man and Yukk) • Rickety Rocket) (1979–81) • Spider-Woman (1979–80) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–80) | |
| First-run live-action series |
American Bandstand (1957–87) • Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp (1970–72) • Here Come the Double Deckers (1970–72) • Lidsville (1971–73) • Curiosity Shop (1971–73) • Make a Wish (1971–76) • Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974–75) • The Lost Saucer (1975–76) • Uncle Croc's Block (1975–76) • The Krofft Supershow (1976–78) • Bigfoot and Wildboy (Dr. Shrinker • Electra Woman and Dyna Girl • Magic Mongo • Wonderbug) • Junior Almost Anything Goes (1976–78) • Animals, Animals, Animals (1976–81) • ABC Weekend Special (1977–97) • Kids Are People Too (1978–82) | |
| Rebroadcasts | George of the Jungle (1967–70) • Bewitched (1972–73) • Jonny Quest (1970–72) • H.R. Pufnstuf (1972–73) • The Monkees (1972–73) • The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1972) • The Roman Holidays (1972) • Speed Buggy (1976) • Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1978) • The Bugs Bunny Show (1973–75) | |
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| Related topics | Animation in the United States in the television era | |