| Scooby Goes Hollywood | |
|---|---|
 Cover of the DVD release of "Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood" | |
| Based on | Characters by Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Story by | Dick Robbins Duane Poole |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson |
| Starring | |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer | Don Jurwich |
| Cinematography | Allen Childs Ron Jackson Candy Edwards Kieran Mulgrew George Epperson Neil Viker Tom Epperson Roy Wade Curt Hall Jerry Whittington |
| Editor | Gil Iverson |
| Running time | 49 minutes |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | December 23, 1979[1] |
| Related | |
| Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers | |
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Scooby Goes Hollywood (later released on home video as Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood) is a 1979 animated television special starring the cast of Hanna-Barbera's Saturday-morning cartoon series Scooby-Doo. It was originally broadcast on ABC on December 23, 1979 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the franchise.[2]
A musical-based parody of both the Scooby-Doo formula and of Hollywood in general, the story line centered on Shaggy convincing Scooby that both of them deserve better than being stars in what he considers a low-class Saturday morning show, and attempts to pitch a number of potential prime-time shows to network executive "C.J." (voiced by Rip Taylor), all of which are parodies of movies and then-popular TV shows which are How The West Was Won, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Superman, The Sound of Music, Saturday Night Fever, Sonny & Cher, The Love Boat, and Charlie's Angels.[3] Caught in the middle of this ordeal are Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Scooby's loyal Saturday morning fan base; all of whom convince Scooby to come back to his Saturday morning television show.
The animated special was first released on VHS by Worldvision Enterprises in the 1980s, and again later by Warner Home Video in 1997. The special was released on DVD by Warner Bros. on June 4, 2002. The special was included as a bonus feature in the Blu-ray release of Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf in 2024.[4]
- ^ "Prime time TV listings from Sunday December 23, 1979".
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 363–365. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Warner. p. 161. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ "Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10: The Complete Film Collection Blu-ray (Yogi's Great Escape / Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers / The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones / Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose / Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats / The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound / Rockin' with Judy Jetson / Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School / Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf / Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears | Warner Archive Collection)".