Actress Patricia Stevens (1945)

Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood (1979) is an animated special featuring the beloved cast of Hanna-Barbera’s Saturday-morning show, Scooby Doo. The gang has gained immense popularity thanks to their successful crime-solving adventures and now have their own TV series in Hollywood, California. One fateful day, during a chase with ‘The Crabby Creature of Creepy Crag’, Scooby and Shaggy find themselves launched into a catapult. Tired of their repetitive routine, they decide to pursue fame as real movie stars. They pitch their pilot film titled How Scooby Won the West to the network’s president, C.J., where Sheriff Scooby and Deputy Shaggy face ...

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1983), the fourth iteration of the beloved Scooby-Doo franchise, was an American animated television series. By 1979, the team at Hanna-Barbera realized that the Scooby-Doo formula had become tiresome and decided to poke fun at it in a special primetime episode called Scooby Goes Hollywood. This special was completed before the series aired in September 1979. At the same time, ABC was considering cancelling the show due to declining ratings and the departure of Fred Silverman, one of its main supporters who had left for NBC in 1978. Faced with a tough decision between ...

Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977–1979), produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, graced the Saturday morning airwaves on ABC from September 10, 1977 to September 2, 1978. It showcased five beloved Hanna-Barbera series: 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!. In its second season (1978-79), the show was renamed as Scooby’s All-Stars and aired on ABC from September 9 to October 28. However, the runtime was shortened to 90 minutes by omitting The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt and ...

Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1976 for ABC Saturday mornings, The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1978) was a 60-minute package show. It made its debut on September 11, 1976. Later, an additional 30 minutes were added to the series (due to repeats of the first two CBS seasons of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!), making it the Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show for nine months from December 4, 1976 to September 3, 1977. Like many animated shows from Hanna-Barbera in the ’70s, this one also included a laugh track created by the studio. With Willie the Weasel’s new formula, he can transform into the notorious ...

Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1978) is a popular American animated comedy series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. It follows the adventures of four high school students, Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, accompanied by their Great Dane friend Scooby-Doo. Together, they solve a variety of unusual mysteries, often thwarting someone’s plans to cause chaos in the world. Their trusty van, the Mystery Machine, always seems to have engine trouble or break down on their way to or from regular teenage activities. As they stumble ...