Line #171 WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow


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3	->''We've got here all together for a brand new show\
4	Scooby-Doo is here again, away we go!''\
5	'''Shaggy:''' ''While Scooby-Doo is runnin' from a spooky ghost\
6	Shaggy is-a doing what he does the most.\
7	Hey! Come and get involved till the mystery is solved''\
8	'''Shaggy:''' ''Hang around for Scooby-Doo!''
9	-->-- '''Syndicated theme song''' excerpt
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11	''The Franchise/ScoobyDoo Show'' is a popular sequel animated television series created by Creator/HannaBarbera. This is the second spinoff of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''; returning the series to half-hour mysteries without weekly guest stars.
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13	This show's broadcasting history is a turbulent one: Premiering in 1976, it was the first ''Scooby-Doo'' series to air on [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]], as Fred Silverman and both of the original ''Scooby-Doo'' creators, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, had jumped ship from Creator/{{CBS}}. This new series aired as a part of a package series known as ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour'', where it was paired with ''WesternAnimation/DynomuttDogWonder'' during its first year. In 1977, the two shows were then added to a longer block known as ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'', which included ''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels'' and the aforementioned ''WesternAnimation/LaffALympics''. The final batch of episodes released in 1978 (then airing under ''Scooby's All-Stars'', which removed ''Dynomutt'' from the lineup) were, for some reason, originally touted as the third season of ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!''. This didn't stick however, as reruns of the 1976–78 episodes have aired under ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' since 1980, using a similar opening and theme song to those found in ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour''.
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15	Thematically, the show's evolution is summed up with the fact that this is the first show to work in Scooby's relatives. Scooby-Dum appears in four episodes and Scooby-Dee in one. Also carrying on from the previous series, ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'', the gang travels a lot more around the world than the more basic local adventures of the first incarnation.
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18	!!''The Scooby Doo Show'' provides examples of the following Tropes:
19	%%Nearly all tropes for specific episodes have been moved to their respective recap pages. Please put relevant tropes there.
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21	* SeventiesHair: The characters were designed in 1969, but close enough.
22	* AdaptationDyeJob: As a possible paint cost cutting measure, Velma sports noticeably lighter hair than in ''Where Are You!'' and ''New Movies'' throughout the full run of the show.
23	* AlwaysNight: Most of the monsters continue the trend of only striking at night.
24	* ArtEvolution: Some closeups give Daphne pupils.
25	* BigEater: Scooby and Shaggy, obviously. Scooby-Dum too.
26	* BoyishShortHair: Velma Dinkley has short hair that reaches up to her chin.
27	* BrainyBrunette: Brunette Velma is portrayed as a highly intelligent young woman.
28	* CartoonyTail: Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane and has a tail like one, but it often curls and waves like that of a cat.
29	* TheCavalryArrivesLate: As usual for the series.
30	* CharacterCatchphrase:
31	** Shaggy: Zoinks!
32	** Velma: Jinkies!
33	** Daphne: Jeepers!
34	** Scooby: Scooby Dooby Doo!
35	*** By this point, all the catchphrases were firmly established, with Daphne and Velma's having made only sparing appearances in the two previous shows, and Shaggy's "ZOINKS!" especially turned up in usage.
36	* ChaseScene: Still very frequent, but no music in this series.
37	* ComicBookAdaptation: In August 1977, Creator/MarvelComics started publishing the Hanna-Barbera line (following Gold Key and Charlton). Issue #1 of ''Scooby-Doo'' had a truncated adaptation of "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" as its lead story (under the title "Three Phantoms Too Many"). The other stories were written specifically for the comic (with teasers in issues of ''Dynomutt'').
38	* ComplexityAddiction[=/=]RevealingCoverUp: Quite a few of the villains' schemes really don't seem to warrant the presence of the ScoobyDooHoax.
39	* CoversAlwaysLie: The DVD of the 1978 episodes reuses artwork from the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' VHS/DVD cover on one of the disc labels, including the adult versions of Fred and Daphne.
40	* DarkerAndEdgier: In comparison to most of the other Scooby-Doo series, yes. The show's theme, also unlike many of the others, doesn't lighten this feeling one bit.
41	* DramaticUnmask: At the end of every episode.
42	* EpisodeTitleCard: Absent from the 1976 season, but brought back for the five '77 episodes and all sixteen from '78. Somewhat of a spin on the classic episode titles from the bulk of ''Where Are You!'', with the gang in the distance disembarking from the Mystery Machine into a creepy mansion.
43	** Oddly, the last four episodes of the 1978 season do not show the gang.
44	* TheEponymousShow: Made up of the forty episodes spanning between ''The Dynomutt Hour'', ''Laff-A-Lympics'', and ''All-Stars'', ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' is a [[OfficiallyShortenedTitle reasonable choice in name]], as the segments themselves are still just the same old ''Scooby'', and outside of their original broadcast years, may seem like unusual titles.
45	* EvilLaugh: The Ghostly Gondolier in "A Menace in Venice".
46	* {{Expy}}: Many of the designs of villains from ''Where Are You!'' made their way into ''The Scooby-Doo Show'', including the zombie (Mamba Wamba's henchman), and the green ghosts (now technicolor phantoms).
47	* KarloffKopy: "The Headless Horseman of Halloween" has a butler named Tarloff whose name, appearance and voice invoke Creator/BorisKarloff.
48	* LargeHam: Scooby-Doo. "What a ham," indeed.
49	* LaughTrack
50	* LetsSplitUpGang: Fred often suggests splitting up while trying to find clues or the villain of the week. During one episode, Shaggy asks if it wouldn't be safer to stay together.
51	* LovableCoward: Shaggy and Scooby, as usual.
52	* NerdGlasses: Velma still wears them, but no longer has them knocked off her face.
53	* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite occasionally mocking Shaggy and Scooby's [[LovableCoward reactions]] to the mystery, the monsters and locations they go to have scared Fred, Velma, and Daphne on occasion as well.
54	* OccultDetective: Same as usual.
55	* OddballDoppelganger: Scooby has one in his cousin Scooby-Dum, who is rather dimwitted.
56	* OddNameOut: Most episodes follow [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming zany rhyming schemes]] and the like, making a simple title like "The Tar Monster" stand out even more.
57	* ParanormalInvestigation
58	* ParentalAbandonment: While not yet firmly established how rich the gang was, this show includes plenty of globetrotting for young people.
59	* RealAfterAll: During "[[Recap/TheScoobyDooShowS2E3HangInThereScoobyDoo Hang in There, Scooby-Doo]]" Shaggy meet a ''real'' monster in the form of living skeleton. Fortunately it was a scared off easily.
60	* {{Recut}}: Two episodes from the 1977 season, "The Curse of Viking Lake" and "Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats", strangely managed to reach completed film in both work-in-progress and finished forms, with dozens of visual and audible differences. The latter's WIP cut was rather infamously included on the ''Scooby-Doo's Spookiest Tales'' VHS in 2001, after the regular, finished version had aired on cable for years. The two WIP episodes have still aired as late as 2017 on Teletoon.
61	* RecycledAnimation: Inevitable as it's a cheaply-produced Saturday morning cartoon from TheSeventies.
62	* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The show has different song lyrics used for syndication, even though it had different titles when the show was in different group shows.
63	* RiseFromYourGrave: Several villains are believed to be ghosts of dead people.
64	* ScoobyDooHoax: Once again, the TropeNamer.
65	* ShoutOut: In one episode, Shaggy calls Scooby "[[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Bones]]".
66	* SignatureTeamTransport: The Mystery Machine is still rolling.
67	* SecurityCling: Scooby often jumps into Shaggy's arms.
68	* SigningOffCatchPhrase: "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
69	* SkintoneSclerae: Unchanged, but oddly, Daphne is drawn with white sclerae in the majority of her closeups.
70	* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Scooby Doo.
71	* StandardizedLeader: Fred.
72	* StrictlyFormula: ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' sits in an interesting place here - it's at the point where the series' formula really became iconic, but was also at a point where they would occasionally play around while still doing it straight (such as in "To Switch A Witch").
73	* TheSummation: Every time the monster is revealed to be fake, the gang explains why the masked man went through all the trouble he did, how he did it and how the gang managed to piece the clues together.
74	* SyndicationTitle: The show first started playing in syndication under the page title around 1980, when Hanna-Barbera started preparing all of their previous shows for the jump from 16mm to tape in TV broadcast usage.
75	* TalkingAnimal: Scooby and at least some of his relatives talk.
76	* TangledFamilyTree: This show expands out relatives for Daphne, Velma and Shaggy. And for the first time, Scooby's relatives first show up with Scooby Dum and Scooby Dee.
77	* ToonPhysics: Used somewhat by Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and Scooby-Dum.
78	* VagueAge: Going forward, this may be considered their college years.
79	* WalkingTheEarth: Or ''driving'' it, anyway.
80	* WraparoundBackground: Still a production mainstay. Interestingly, a particular wraparound backdrop was used in both syndicated intros for ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' and ''Dynomutt, Dog Wonder'', as a leftover from the original ''Dynomutt Hour'' assets.
81	* YouLookLikeYouveSeenAGhost: Invoked verbatim on more than a few occasions.
82	* YouMeddlingKids: And they would've gotten away with it, too.
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84	->''Hey! Come and get involved till the mystery is solved''\
85	'''Shaggy:''' ''Hang around for Scooby-Doo! [{{Beat}}] That's my pal!''\
86	'''Scooby:''' ''Scooby-Dooby-Doo!''

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