This is not the Scooby Doo Where are you series. This is the Scooby Doo show, which is a blanket for the series that ran from 76-78 as apposed to the original that ran from 69-70. The Scooby Doo Show that is contained here includes The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour, Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics, and Scooby's All-Stars. Which are in a different format than the original show.THis will either piss you off as it did me or you won't mind it.

I love this show, great episodes. The only thing that is wrong is this is not Scooby Doo where are you, this is The Scooby Doo Show. Scooby Doo Where Are You is from 1969 and the first episode is What A Night For A Knight.

I remembered having seen an episode of Scooby-Doo when I was a child where the gang went to Seattle. Sure enough, "A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground"!

Somebody at Hanna-Barbera must have fallen in love with the concept of Seattle's Underground City, the ruins of the original city development which were mostly destroyed by fire and had this episode hastily green-lit. In 1965, Seattle citizen Bill Speidel began to offer tours of Underground Seattle, and the idea was probably still pretty romantic when this episode was produced. The perfect setting for a mystery! It's pretty clear that there was no other research involved however.

The episode was obviously drawn with no reference material whatsoever which is hilarious! The world was still cooling off from the World's Fair in 1962 making Seattle a household name, so it should have been pretty fresh in peoples' minds! However, the Space Needle was obviously sketched based on someone's general description and ended up sort looking sort of like the underside of an end table. The Underground City is depicted as a cavernous and intact frontier town with a functional cable car system rather than the series of musty passages which were cramped and uninspiring even in their heyday... Did they somehow think that Seattle was so obscure that no one would know the difference? Were photos or illustrations of Seattle really so hard to come by in the early 1970s?

The demon storyline is apropos of nothing Seattle for sure - Odd because the writers could have drawn from a pantheon of well-known Pacific Northwest spooky creatures like the first UFO sighting near Mount Rainier in the 1950s, giant octopodes in the Puget Sound or local hero Bigfoot! The single fact to which the writers apparently had access was that old Seattle had been damaged by a fire in 1889, and from that their imaginations went - Well they just seemed a little uninspired even by Hanna-Barbera standards...

Perhaps the most fantastic aspect is that the gang orders lobster TWICE in the Space Needle Revolving Restaurant. Unlike crab, a true and widely available Seattle delicacy, lobster is expensive in these parts even on the ground. Anyone who has ever been in the Revolving Restaurant know that those prices are inflated to match the elevation. Even if Daphne is heiress to the Blake's Bubble Bath Fortune, ordering lobster twice seems more than opulent for high school kids...

I wonder how long it took to throw together an episode of Scooby-Doo. My guess is they could get one in the can in a long afternoon with time to spare!