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Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics is an animated comedy that aired on ABC.

This entry in the Scooby-Doo franchise was a program block that ran for two years. For its first year, it was 120-minutes--Saturday morning's first 2-hour show--and was comprised of three half-hour segments (Scooby-Doo, Laff-a-Lympics and replays of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You) and two 15-minute segments, The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels. The second year, it was renamed to Scooby's All Stars, was 90 minutes long and had the same segments except The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt and the Scooby Doo, Where Are You replays. Note that not all segments had the same amount of new episodes produced. Of the 24 episodes, all 24 featured new Laff-A-Lympics (16 first season shows and 8 new second season shows) and Captain Caveman segments, but only 8 from the first season featured new Scooby-Doo segments and only 4 from the first season featured new The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt segments. Episodes without new Scooby-Doo, Laff-a-Lympics and/or The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt featured reruns of episodes from previous series.

Before this series, Dynomutt appeared in The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour, which was also the most recent Scooby-Doo series before this one. Season 2 had the show renamed Scooby's All-Stars. After this series, Scooby-Doo continued in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and Captain Caveman continued in Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels in its own half-hour installments.

Of the two newer segments, Captain Caveman & The Teen Angels had a hirsute prehistoric crimefighter teamed up with three nubile teens in mystery solving, and Laff-a-Lympics had 45 Hanna-Barbera characters pared out in three teams--the Yogi Yahooeys (a team of funny animal characters from classic H-B shows, mainly from the late 1950s and early 1960s--only the Great Grape Ape is from later, the 1970s), the Scooby Doobies (superhero and detective characters from the 1970s H-B shows), and the Really Rottens (a team of villains created specifically for the show)1--in athletic competition similar to the trash-sport Battle of the Network Stars specials of the time.

Laff-A-Lympics was divided into two segments on each show, each segment taking place in a different locale. It was aired singularly as just Laff-A-Lympics on ABC in 1980 and 1986.

The team members:

• The Yogi Yahooeys: Yogi Bear (team captain), Boo Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Pixie, Dixie, Mr. Jinks, Quick Draw McGraw, Cindy Bear, Snooper, Blabber, Augie Doggie, Doggie Daddy, Hokey Wolf, Wally Gator, Yakky Doodle, and The Great Grape Ape.

• The Scooby Doobies: Scooby Doo (team captain), Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Dynomutt, The Blue Falcon, Hong Kong Phooey, Speed Buggy, Tinker, Captain Caveman, Dee Dee Skyes, Taffy Dare, Brenda Chance,2 Babu, Scooby Dum.

• The Really Rottens: Mumbly (team captain), Dread Baron,3 Daisy Mayhem, Sooey Pig, The Great Fondoo, Magic Rabbit, Dinky Dalton, Dirty Dalton, Dastardly Dalton, Mr. Creepley, Junior Creeply, Mrs. Creeply, Orful Octopus.

• On-field commentators: Snagglepuss, Mildew Wolf.4

• Guest appearances: Jabberjaw, Fred Flintstone,5, Barney Rubble.

1 - EXCEPTIONS: Mumbly was created a year earlier as a detective on Hanna-Barbera's Tom & Jerry revival. The Creepleys appeared a couple of times as the Flintstones' next door neighbors The Gruesomes in the mid 1960s, and permutations of the Daltons appeared as antagonists in episodes of The Huckleberry Hound Show in the late 1950s. All other Rottens characters were originals.

2 - Originally, Josie & The Pussycats and Jeannie were to have been part of the team, but clearance issues with Radio Comics and Columbia Pictures Television kept them out. Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels were subsequently created in the Pussycats' stead and Babu, from Jeannie, was retained as he was created by the H-B studio.

3 - In the final issue of the Laff-A-Lympics comic book by Marvel Comics, it is revealed that Dread Baron is the brother of Wacky Races villain Dick Dastardly. Also in several episodes of season 2, Mumbly is misidentified as Muttley, of whom Mumbly bears a resemblance. Apparently, Dastardly and Muttley were to have been the Rottens captains, but due to Heatter-Quigley's co-ownership of the copyright to Wacky Races, they were replaced with Dread Baron and Mumbly.

4 - Mildew was originally part of the It's The Wolf! segment of Hanna-Barbera's 1969 series The Cattanooga Cats and was voiced by Paul Lynde. At this point in time, Lynde was subject to scandal and was replaced by John Stephenson.

5 - Alan Reed, the voice of Fred Flintstone since 1960, lent his voice to Fred for the final time in the Laff-A-Lympics debut episode. He died a couple of months after the episode aired. Henry Corden voiced Fred thereafter.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Seasons 3 In-Depth 4 DVD Releases 5 External Sites

Cast

Actor	Character	Duration
Main Cast - Scooby-Doo
Don Messick	Scooby-Doo	1	2
Casey Kasem	Shaggy Rogers	1	2
Frank Welker	Freddy Jones	1	2
	Scooby Dum	1	2
Heather North	Daphne Blake	1	2
Patricia Stevens	Velma Dinkley	1	2
Main Cast - Captain Caveman
Mel Blanc	Captain Caveman	1	2
Marilyn Schreffler	Brenda Chance	1	2
Vernee Watson	Dee Dee Skyes	1	2
Laurel Page	Taffy Dare	1	2
Main Cast - The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt
Gary Owens	Blue Falcon	1
Frank Welker	Dynomutt	1
Main Cast - Laff-A-Lympics
Don Messick	Scooby-Doo	1	2
	Announcer	1	2
	Mumbly	1	2
	Pixie	1	2
	Dirty Dalton	1	2
Daws Butler	Yogi Bear	1	2
	Huckleberry Hound	1	2
	Quick Draw McGraw	1	2
	Snagglepuss	1	2
	Dixie	1	2
	Mr. Jinks	1	2
	Snooper	1	2
	Blabber	1	2
	Hokey Wolf	1	2
	Augie Doggie	1	2
	Wally Gator	1	2
	Dastardly Dalton	1	2
	Scooby Dum	1	2
John Stephenson	The Great Fondoo	1	2
	Mildew Wolf	1	2
	Dread Baron	1	2
	Doggie Daddy	1	2
Frank Welker	Magic Rabbit	1	2
	Tinker	1	2
	Yakky Doodle	1	2
	Jabberjaw	1	2
	Dynomutt	1	2
Marilyn Schreffler	Daisy Mayhem	1	2
	Brenda Chance	1	2
Bob Holt	Grape Ape	1	2
	Dinky Dalton	1	2
Casey Kasem	Shaggy Rogers	1	2
	Mr. Creepley	1	2
Scatman Crothers	Hong Kong Phooey	1	2
Laurel Page	Taffy Dare	1	2
	Mrs. Creepley	1	2
Vernee Watson	Dee Dee Skyes	1	2
Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone	1
Henry Corden		1	2
Mel Blanc	Captain Caveman	1	2
	Speed Buggy	1	2
	Barney Rubble	1	2
Gary Owens	Blue Falcon	1	2
Julie Bennett	Cindy Bear	1	2
Joe Besser	Babu	1	2

Seasons

Season	Premiere	Finale	#
ABC
Season One	September 10, 1977	December 24, 1977	16
Season Two	September 9, 1978	October 28, 1978	8

In-Depth

• At a Glance: Additional information about the series
• Event Results: The results of the events broken down by episode.

DVD Releases

Title	Release Date	#
Episode Collections - Laff-a-Lympics segments only
Volume 1	January 19, 2010	1	purchase
Volume 2	January 19, 2010 (Target)	1
Spooky Games	July 17, 2012	2

External Sites

• Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics at the Internet Movie Database
• opening credits

The Scooby-Doo Franchise
TV Shows
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You • The New Scooby-Doo Movies • The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour • Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo • The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show • The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour • The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show • The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries • The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo • What's New Scooby-Doo? • Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Repackages
The Scooby-Doo Show • Scooby-Doo Classics • The Best of Scooby-Doo • Scary Scooby Funnies • Scooby's Mystery Funhouse
Specials/TV Movies
Scooby Goes Hollywood • Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers • Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School • Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf • Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights • Night of the Living Doo • Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins