Editing Scooby-Doo (section)

=== ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' and ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' ===
Now president of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], Fred Silverman made a deal with Hanna-Barbera to bring new episodes of ''Scooby-Doo'' to the ABC Saturday-morning lineup, where the show went through almost yearly lineup changes. For their 1976–77 season, 16 new episodes of Scooby-Doo were joined with a new Hanna-Barbera show, ''[[Dynomutt, Dog Wonder]]'', to create ''[[The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour]]'' (the show became ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' when a bonus ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' rerun was added to the package in November 1976). Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, now working for Silverman as supervisors of the ABC Saturday-morning programs, returned the program to its original ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' format, with the addition of Scooby's dim-witted country cousin [[Scooby-Dum]], voiced by [[Daws Butler]], as a recurring character.<ref name="STUEP1" /> The voice cast was held over from ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'' save for Nicole Jaffe, who retired from acting in 1973. [[Pat Stevens]] took over her role as the voice of Velma.

Then Joe Ruby and Ken Spears left again to start their own studio in 1977 as competition for Hanna-Barbera.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqDi77RnNAQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HqDi77RnNAQ |archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live |title=Ruby & Spears: WonderCon 2012 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> They would remain away for the rest of the 1980s.

For the 1977–78 season, ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' became the two-hour programming block ''[[Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics]]'' (1977–78) with the addition of ''[[Laff-a-Lympics]]'' and ''[[Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels]]''. In addition to eight new episodes of ''Scooby-Doo'' and reruns of the 1969 show, Scooby-Doo also appeared during the ''All-Star'' block's ''Laff-a-Lympics'' series, which featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters competing in ''[[Battle of the Network Stars]]''-esque parodies of [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic]] sporting events. Scooby was seen as the team captain of the ''Laff-a-Lympics'' "Scooby-Doobies" team, which also featured Shaggy and Scooby-Dum among its members.

''Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics'' was retitled ''Scooby's All Stars'' for the 1978–79 season, reduced to 90 minutes when ''Dynomutt'' was spun off into its own half-hour and the 1969 reruns were dropped. ''Scooby's All-Stars'' continued broadcasting reruns of ''Scooby-Doo'' from 1976 and 1977, while new episodes of ''Scooby-Doo'' aired during a separate half-hour under the ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' banner. After nine weeks, the separate ''Where Are You!'' broadcast was cancelled, and the remainder of the 16 new 1978 episodes debuted during the ''Scooby's All-Stars'' block.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenberg |first1=Jeff |year=2006 |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |location=New York |publisher=Facts of File |isbn=0-8160-6599-3 |pages=618–619}}</ref> The 40 total ''Scooby-Doo'' episodes produced from 1976 to 1978 were later packaged together for [[broadcast syndication|syndication]] as ''[[The Scooby-Doo Show]]'', under which title they continue to air.