The Scooby-Doo Show is an American animated mystery comedy series. The title of the series is an umbrella term for episodes of the third incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo franchise. A total of 40 episodes ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, on ABC, marking the first Scooby Doo series to appear on the channel. Sixteen episodes aired as segments of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour in 1976, while eight aired as part of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics in 1977. A final set of sixteen episodes came out in 1978, with ten running individually under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! name and the remaining six as segments of Scooby's All-Stars.
In the United States, Blam! aired the show on September 5, 2024, and continued airing in 4:3 cropping.
Despite the yearly changes in how they were broadcast, the 1976–1978 stretch of Scooby-Doo episodes represents, at three seasons, the longest-running format of the original show before the addition of Scrappy-Doo.
Outside the United States, reruns aired on CBBC in the UK until about 2015 when Absolute Children's BBC 70's channel was launched. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio.
Theme music and opening titles[]
"The Scooby-Doo Show" is the theme song to the TV series of the same name. While most episodes have the instrumental version of the show's theme song during the end credits, some episodes starting with season 2 have the instrumental version of The Smurfs theme song (also known as the Smurfs theme song or the La La Song, its in-universe reference in "The Comet Is Coming" and The Smurfs 2), prior to the another Hanna-Barbera series.
The opening titles start with Scooby-Doo sneaking across the screen in front of a pinky white and blue background. The camera zooms out and we see the white area is actually part of an enormous eye. Scooby runs away as we see both eyes following him and blinking. We then see the words "Hanna-Barbera presents" and a speed boat with Fred, Daphne and Velma in it, pulling a water skiing Scooby-Doo.
The camera cuts to a close-up of Scooby with the series logo, and a large grey shark attacking him, much to Shaggy's horror. The shark then starts biting pieces off Scooby's skis, getting closer and closer to him.
The camera cuts to the Gang, less Scooby, looking concerned. We then see Scooby-Doo running into Shaggy's arms. Merlin appears in a puff of red-orange smoke, causing Shaggy and Scooby to gulp in fear. We then see Fred, Daphne, Velma and shaggy running, and then Scooby running from a different wizard, and then running from a ghost.
Shaggy is then seen creeping towards a door, which he opens, revealing two eyes at waist level. We then see Scooby-Dum, whose eyes roll around in their sockets. Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dum then go through a greeting ritual, slapping paws, and then hug.
The camera cuts to the 10,000 Volt Ghost and Scooby and Shaggy hiding from it in a bank of filing cabinets, before escaping through its legs.
Finally, Scooby-Doo is snow skiing off a jump when it cuts to a witch doctor. As a result, Scooby loses his balance mid-jump. The series logo appears, next to Scooby's head, with a background of H-Bs, graduated from yellow in the center, through green and blue at the corners.
The closing credits to one episode of The Scooby-Doo Show for the early 1990s syndication reruns feature Top Cat returning to his alley and going to bed. The series title also appears on a billboard above the alley. It also played the show's iconic theme music: "The Most Effectual Top Cat".
The closing credits to these 2 episodes of The Scooby-Doo Show for the late 1980s and mid 1990s syndication reruns start with Fred Flintstone and the whole gang goes to the Bronto-Burgers and Ribs Drive-in Restaurant and a waitress serves them some huge Bronto-Ribs, causing the Flintmobile to tilt. When Fred tries to put Baby Puss outside for the night after Wilma, Pebbles and Dino are in the house, the saber-toothed cat shuts the door on him. At the end of the closing credits, Fred furiously and angrily pounds on the front door so many times, shout "WILMA!". It also played the show's iconic theme music: "Meet the Flintstones".