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]
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics | |
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Also known as | Scooby's All-Stars |
Genre | Comedy |
Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
Directed by | Ray Patterson (1978) |
Voices of | Don Messick |
Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer | William Hanna |
Running time | 120 minutes (1977–78) 90 minutes (1978–79) |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | September 10, 1977 September 2, 1978 | –
Related | |
The Scooby-Doo Show |
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!.
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics included five cartoon segments:[2]
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.