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The Scooby-Doo Dynomutt Hour - The Complete Series

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Although Dynomutt was not a great show, the Scooby-Doo part of this package include some great episodes. There are sixteen hours in total; eight of Scooby and eight of Dynomutt. The Scooby-Doo episodes included (16 in total) are (naming the ghosts and guest stars):
1. High Rise Hair Raser (180 year-old specter)
2. The Fiesta Host is an Aztec Ghost (Mayan Ghost and living statue)
3.Watt a Shocking Ghost (10,000 volt ghost)
4.The Headless Horseman of Halloween (the Headless Horseman and guest-star Scooby Dum (Scooby's cousin)
5. The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul (the Alligator Ghost and guest-star Scooby Dum)
6. Scared A Lot in Camelot (the ghosts of the Round Table, the Black Night, and Merlin the Magician)
7. The Harum-Scarum Sanitarum (the ghost of Doctor Coffin)
8. The No-Face Zombie Chase Case (the No-Face Zombie and the Gorilla Monster)
9. Mamba Wamba and the Voodo Hoodo (the Mamba Wamba and the zombie)
10. A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground (the demons of Underground Seattle)
11. A Bum Steer for Scooby (Ghost Shaman and the ghost bull)
12. There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark (million year-old shark monster)
13. Scooby Doo, Where's the Crew (Ghost of Captain Piscado, Octopus monster, kelp monster)
14. The Ghost that Sacked the Quarterback (Ghost of the long-dead 1930s football player)
15. The Ghosts of the Bad Humor Man (the vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ghosts)
16. The Spirits of '76 (ghosts of traitors Bennedict Arnold, John Andre, and another traitor (I forget the name)

Enjoy this wonderful show, even if Dynomutt is included. It is worth every cent!

The 1976-1977 Saturday morning TV season saw the premiere of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. This show was composed of a half-hour Scooby-Doo episode and a half-hour Dynomutt episode. These were the first new Scooby-Doo episodes produced in 3 years, and the very first episodes ever of Dynomutt. In total, 16 episodes of Scooby-Doo and 16 episodes of Dynomutt were produced for this season. After only 13 airings of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour, the show proved popular enough that it was expanded to 90 minutes and renamed The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show, adding repeats of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes for the extra half-hour. The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show aired the final 3 new episodes of each, and then repeated all 16 episodes of each for the remainder of the season. This is the ONLY season of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour/Show, and so, YES, this DVD is complete with all 16 episodes produced for both Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt that aired under that title.

The 1977-1978 Saturday morning TV season saw the premiere of Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics, a 2-hour show composed of the half-hour debut of the Laff-a-Lympics, the half-hour debut of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, plus a half-hour of Scooby-Doo, and a half-hour of Dynomutt. The half-hour of Scooby-Doo aired repeats from The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour/Show, PLUS 8 new episodes. Similarly, the half-hour of Dynomutt aired repeats PLUS 4 new episodes as well. It's these new episodes of Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt that aired during Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics this season that some folks refer to as the "2nd season".

The 1978-1979 Saturday morning TV season gets even more confusing. 16 more new Scooby-Doo episodes were produced for this season. No new Dynomutt episodes were produced. The first 9 of these new episodes were first aired under the half-hour Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! show, complete with the original show's opening credits, just with new episodes. The remaining 7 new episodes (plus repeats of all 16) aired as part of the renamed Scooby's All-Stars, a 90-minute show composed of new and repeat half-hour episodes of the Laff-a-Lympics, new and repeat half-hour episodes of Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, and new and repeat half-hour episodes of Scooby-Doo. It's these 16 new episodes of Scooby-Doo that some folks refer to as the "3rd season".

Now to add even more confusion, all Scooby-Doo episodes from these past three seasons, 40 episodes in total (16 + 8 + 16), were re-packaged together as The Scooby-Doo Show for syndication reruns. All Dynomutt episodes, 20 in total, were re-packaged together for both network and syndication reruns as Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. So most folks only know these episodes from the syndication repeats airing on cable networks like Cartoon Network, and not from their original airings.

As for the DVD, the GOOD news is that, YES, this DVD is complete with all 16 episodes produced for both Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt that aired under The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour/Show, from the ONLY season that the show aired. The video and audio are both great for a 30-year old show, with the Dynomutt episodes just a bit under par compared to the Scooby episodes. The bonus features are the best of any Scooby-Doo DVD set released thus far, particularly with the interviews with the voice cast: Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, Heather North, etc.

But, there is BAD news and REALLY BAD news. The BAD news is that the 2006 Hanna-Barbera DVD releases so far for this year, for both this DVD set, and for The Flintstones Season 5 DVD set, show the "cheapening" in production for the product packaging. Gone are the plastic outer covering transparent slip covers that were on all the 2004 and 2005 Hanna-Barbera animated DVD sets. The DVD discs themselves are now stored two to a page, with one on top of the other, overlaying half of the one underneath it. More likely to scratch one while trying to get to the one below it, especially with the two-sided discs. It does make for a thinner boxed set.

And the REALLY BAD news: I was fully expecting to see The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour episodes as they originally aired back in 1976 when I first watched them on Saturday mornings. That means with the original opening credits with the original Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt theme song, and with the original closing credits. Heck, even the back of the DVD box listed partial lyrics from the original theme song. I was even hoping to see the modified opening credits when the show changed from Hour to Show, which was also noted on the back of the box. Whoever did the text for the back of the DVD box certainly did his homework and knew his stuff. But, boy was I surprised when I watched my first episode, and each episode thereafter. What you get is the opening credits for the syndicated re-packaged The Scooby-Doo Show followed by the Scooby-Doo episode, followed by the closing credits of The Scooby-Doo Show, followed by the opening credits of the re-packaged Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, followed by the Dynomutt episode, followed by the closing credits of Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. This is NOT how these shows originally aired in 1976.

Overall, if you are a fan of either Scooby-Doo or Dynomutt, and want to add these episodes and bonus material to your DVD collection, you will greatly enjoy this collection. However, if you are a completist, and want the episodes as they aired on their original network airing, or want every episode that aired in the re-packaged syndication reruns, you will be disappointed.

Getting the old Dynomutt series on DVD will be a joy. It's been ages since it was on TV, and I hold the crazyness of it fondly in my memories. Of particular note were the bizarre assortment of villains that raised the show up a notch by parodying the illogical and idiotic villains that were the standard of the its time in all forms of media. Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon took satire to the extreme, doing battle with such antagonists as The Blimp, who inflated his victims into helpless balloons while he robbed the city blind. In this age of addressing Jokers, Riddlers, and Penguins realistically, Dynomutt is a reminder that we shouldn't be taking our superheroes and their worlds so seriously.

People don't know what they are talking about. Check the Hanna-Barbera website or any episode guide on the web about this dvd release. In 1976 Hanna-Barbera showed 16 weeks of this Dynomutt Scooby-Doo hour which is COMPLETE here. ALL 16 episodes. The Scooby-Doo show went on the next fall of 1977 for a second season and then a third season in 1978 without Dynomutt. Hanna-Barbera did this dvd release right..They released it EXACTLY as it was shown on Saturday morning television in 1976. To put 24 MORE episodes on this release would have been WAY too many dvd's and LOTS more time to wait while they cleaned up the prints. There are no more than 3 one hour episodes per dvd side which is the HIGHEST quality way. As for the arrangement of the dvd's people they are trying to keep costs down for the consumer. Put up with the case as it is..I'm glad it isn't 2 inches thick!! It's Scooby Doo man!! I am sure seasons 2 and 3 will be the next Scooby set Hanna-Barbera put out since they've gone in order thus far. For the most part to have these Scooby-Doo shows on tape you would have had to tape them off Cartoon Network or Boomerang and the prints they've been showing even the current bi-weekly episodes on Boomerang are VERY dated looking and too dark. When I do a side by side comparison of those eps to the new transfer it is brilliant and crystal sharp!! Warner Brothers did an OUTSTANDING job on the remastering of the prints the colors are gorgeous. A perfect example is the scene with Shaggy's uncle at the start of Scared Alot in Camelot..The one on the Boomerang channel a few weeks ago was too dark, fuzzy and bland. The books on the shelf behind him weren't even visible nor was any of the decor in the room. On the dvd you can even see the title of the book he's reading and all the detailed colors on those bookshelfs behind him!! GORGEOUS transfer. It is a cartoon from 1976 so there are not even enough sound effects to do the whole surround thing with so why do people gripe about that?? The Scooby-Doo show season 1 eps are ALL there and they are GORGEOUS and transferred at the correct frame rate unlike Boomerang and Cartoon netowrk who run them fast to make them under 22 minutes each!! I have to admit that I haven't seen Dynomutt in awhile but me and my 4 year old enjoy the Dynomutt shows too. They are NOT bad. The deadpan humor from Blue Falcon at Dynomutt's constant malfunctions is hilarious and he calls him Dog Blunder!! The Dynomutt's are engaging to this 36 year old and his 4 year old son. Anywhoo the whole Scooby gang even ends up on 4 of the Dynomutt episodes helping them out since they WERE on the hour show together...Do the people who don't even have this dvd set know that??!! Truthfully I only bought this for the Scooby Doo Show season 1 episodes and it is WORTH EVERY CENT for the beautiful work Warner did on these prints but the Dynomutt shows are pretty good as well. Yes they don't look as good as the Scooby ones but why should they?? I am sure the special care wasn't taken with those old originals as with any Scooby film. Scooby Doo is an icon. This aside the Dynomutt episodes look better than anything from the 70's or 80's being shown on Boomerang or Cartoon Network. Scooby Doo fans rejoice!! Go buy this and lets hope Warner doesn't make us wait too long for Seasons 2 and 3!!

I was glad to finally see the first season of "The Scooby-Doo Show" released. This, along with "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?" and "The New Scooby-Doo Movies", are my favorite Scooby-Doo series. While this series is not quite as good as "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?", I find it quite enjoyable to watch. In fact, some of my favorite Scooby-Doo episodes are in this set, including High Rise Hair Raiser, Watt a Shocking Ghost, and Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo. It also has my favorite Scooby-Doo theme song.

The picture and sound quality are very good (well, as good as mono sound can be), at least for the Scooby-Doo episodes (the picture for the Dynomutt episodes is not nearly as clean). The special features are another plus, definitely better than any of the previous Scooby-Doo collections. I especially liked the "In Their Own Words" segment, since I've wanted to see interviews with the great voice talent on the show for a long time. I was really impressed by Frank Welker, who does the voice for Dynomutt in addition to Fred, and can also do quite a range of sound effects. I also enjoyed the segment on the history of the show, "Eerie Mystery Of Scooby-Doo And Dynomutt's History".

The one complaint I have is about the packaging. The way the discs are arranged makes it hard to take them out - on each side of the box one disc partially covers the other, so you sometimes have to remove one disc just to get to another. This leads to the potential for scratching the discs, in addition to being inconvenient. I would have preferred to have separate, non-overlapping places to store each disc, as in the other Scooby-Doo box sets.

Overall, I liked this set and would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of Scooby-Doo, particularly the "vintage years" (1969-78). I look forward to the release of the remaining episodes of "The Scooby-Doo Show".

I was thoroughly entertained with this 4-DVD set, basically because Dyn-o-Mutt was a character i had always laughed my you know what off at. His malfunctions coupled with Blue Falcon's seriousness in my opinion are what make the series hilarious. Lots of credit goes to the vocal delivery of Gary Owens who in spite of ridiculous situations his character is put through thanks to "Dog Wonder", watching Blue Falcon's slow burn at the malfunctions of Dynomutt and then hearing him call his side-kick "dog blunder", etc etc. Well, to me it's funny but my sense of humor is off the wall anyway. Frank Welker voices Dynomutt. On the Scooby side of the collection, i enjoyed the programs...for pure nostalgia reasons if nothing else, Scooby-Dum makes an appearance as well. I enjoyed every episode but some i can watch and re-watch and re-re-watch and never get tired of seeing them, even though i know the mystery. Those episodes include "The Lighter Than Air Raid" which features Blue Falcon and Dynomutt pursuing a villain known as The Blimp. "The Awful Ordeal with The Head of Steel" is about a villain named Iron Face who goes on an abduction spree of Big City's top officials. "Everybody Hyde" deals with Willie the Weasel disguising himself as Mr Hyde to commit crimes. Scooby and the gang guest star on this episode. Another favorite episode is "Sinister Symphony" where Blue Falcon must stop evil clones who are hypnotized by a lullaby to commit crimes. "The Injustice League of America" deals with the villains of Blue Falcon teaming up to form a plan to defeat the super-hero and Dynomutt. The villains include The Gimmick, Lowbrow, Super Thug, Fish Face, and Queen Hornet. The Scooby episodes that i love are "Watt a Shocking Ghost" which tells the story of the 10,000 volt ghost and a blacked-out ski resort. "The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul" features the debut of Scooby-Dum and the famous Scooby-Doo/Scooby-Dum hand slap and dance routine. "The Headless Horseman of Halloween" features the tale of the Headless Horseman...trivia: the descendant of Icobod Crane is voiced by Janet Waldo of Penelope Pitstop and Judy Jetson fame. Scooby-Dum appears on that episode as well. In "There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark", Scooby and the gang unravel the mystery of the shark monster that haunts Aqua-Land. "The Spirits of '76" is based on history. Scooby and the gang are at the Smithsonian Institution, and end up being locked in over-night where they stumble onto a mystery involving wet foot prints, which leads them to unravel a mystery leading to a crime being committed by imposters, posing as Benedict Arnold and the like. In "The Ghost and the Bad Humor Man", Scooby and the gang stumble onto a mystery revolving around an ice cream factory. On each of the DVD's there contains menu selections of course. However only one disc provides bonus material...DVD #4...on side 2. I also had to search each DVD to find the masterpiece segment, which only runs a little over 7 minutes, giving spotlight to the wonderful voice actors on that cartoon...including what could have been one of Don Messick's last interviews in the early-mid '90s. The clip of Don isn't dated to it's not for certain when he did that...he passed away in 1997 so it's safe to say it was before 1997. Frank Welker shows us his vocal tricks...he portrayed both Fred and Dynomutt in that series...oh, and Casey Kasem is also featured. Anyone with ears can tell Casey is the voice of Shaggy plus a few of the cops and criminals {including Swamp Rat in one of the episodes}. Along with Casey, Don, and Frank there is Nicole Jaffe {Velma} and Heather North {Daphne} and Gary Owens {Blue Falcon}. Gary also narrates a segment in the bonus selections on side 2 of DVD #4 recalling the history of Scooby, which includes appearances from Fred Silverman, Iwao Takamoto, Mark Evanier, and the Ruby-Spears team that created the program. As a whole, and for nostalgia, i give the DVD set 4 stars. Like others have said, it would've been nice to have the official opening credits and theme songs on here but it's the best that's out there.

I was not a fan of Dynomutt, but for years I missed the rarely-seen Scooby episodes. I've always thought they're campier AND creepier than the original Scooby-Doo Where Are You. I was thrilled to find these 'lost' episodes on one DVD, especially "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" and "High-Rise Hair Raiser" and "The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium". Great for nostalgia, even if now-grown Scooby fans recognize how cheesey the plots can get...My only complaint is about the unprinted discs; I wish episode titles could have appeared clearly on each. But definitely worth buying.

This set has my all time favorite scooby doo show episode,the 10,000 volt ghost! great one. i remember hating dynomutt and then he just dissarpered and wasnt on tv anymore. but now i saw it again, wasnt that bad. i especially love when scooby and the gang were on a couple of the dyno episodes. hes still ALOT better than that EXTREMLY annoying and stupid scooby dum. man i hate that idiot. scrappy is even better! all in all scooby fans and "new to" dynomutt people should definetly pick this set up.

As a fan of Hanna Barbera I give this show five stars all the way for pure nostalgia and harmless fun. Hanna Barbera knew how to make cartoons with memorable characters that left lasting impressions on generations of children. The Scooby-Doo/ Dynomutt hour is full of laughs for the whole family and still appeals to the kid in all of us. I don't know what kind of restoration went into the 16 episodes, because its clear that the episodes do suffer from age related issues and debris. Overall the picture and sound of this show in DVD format is very good and it's really a treat to add it to my ever expanding Hanna Barbera collection. I am not a fan of the disc packaging, you have to fumble around too much to get the discs in and out and risk scratching them. The other complaint is why the studio chose to put the series on two single sided discs & two double sided discs instead of making it a five disc set. The bonus features included are pretty good and I thought they were interesting. Whether you go for a ride in the Mystery Machine or fly with the Blue Falcon you'll have a blast doing it.

DVD Features Include:

- Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
- "Eerie Mystery of Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt's History" featurette - the history of both dog wonders
- "In Their Own Words" featurette - the original voice actors share memories from their days on the shows
- "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Files" - unseen treasures from the Hanna-Barbera vault including original character sketches

Episodes Include:
- Scooby-Doo: High Rise Hair Raiser/Dynomutt: Everybody Hyde
- Scooby-Doo: The Fiesta Host Is an Aztec Ghost/Dynomutt: What Now, Lowbrow?
- Scooby-Doo: The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul/Dynomutt: The Great Brain Train Robbery
- Scooby-Doo: Watt a Shocking Ghost/Dynomutt: The Day and Night Crawler
- Scooby-Doo: The Headless Horseman of Halloween/Dynomutt: The Harbor Robber
- Scooby-Doo: Scared a Lot in Camelot/Dynomutt: Sinister Symphony
- Scooby-Doo: The Harum Scarum Sanitarium/Dynomutt: Don't Bug Superthug
- Scooby-Doo: The No-Faced Zombie Chase Case/Dynomutt: Factory Recall
- Scooby-Doo: Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo/Dynomutt: The Queen Hornet
- Scooby-Doo: The Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground/Dynomutt: The Wizard of Ooze
- Scooby-Doo: A Bum Steer for Scooby/Dynomutt: Tin Kong
- Scooby-Doo: There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark/Dynomutt: The Awful Ordeal with the Head of Steel
- Scooby-Doo: Scooby-Doo, Where's the Crew? /Dynomutt: Blue Falcon vs. the Red Vulture
- Scooby-Doo: The Ghost That Sacked the Quarterback/Dynomutt: The Injustice League of America
- Scooby-Doo: The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man/Dynomutt: The Lighter Than Air Raid
- Scooby-Doo: The Spirits of '76/Dynomutt: The Prophet Profits

This was indeed by far the best DVD package to come out of the WB in some time but I hope that the WB will come out with the other Dynomutt cartoons that were made when Dynomutt got a solo spot. Scooby Doo's 1976 series lacks the original charm of the Where Are you series. Gator Goul and Mumba wamba are 2 of the best ones from that show.

I like the everybody hyde episode where Scooby Teams up with dynomutt and BF to catch the criminal.. I even like the one with Iron face where the people that put Iron Face away are captured and locked up in their own prison... It is up to BF and Dynomutt to save them.

the interviews are FUN... We see the late GREAT Don Messeck and all the cast have a blast recalling their own memories about the series. Hopefully the WB will decide to release the other dynomutt cartoons for the fans that want them..

Shadowman, and the one about beast Woman taking control of Dynomutt are not on the set... I intend to enjoy my set as I am glad to see SOMETHING come out with Dynomutt and Scooby Doo...