I also own the first 3 seasons of "Scooby-Doo," but that's what I found confusing. The "third season" is actually entitled The Scooby-Doo Show.

Yeah, for some reason they were retroactively added as a "third season" to the first 25 episodes of the original series.

Basically, those 16 episodes originally ran as part of the Scooby's All Stars series in the fall of 1978. The entire 1976-1978 run was later given the blanket name of "The Scooby-Doo Show" when run in syndication since the early '80s.

That's why I didn't recognize it.

I really don't understand why they did that when they have different openings and everything. It doesn't make sense why they consider those 1978 episodes as part of the original series when they were only aired on their own back in the day.

Anyway here is the breakdown of each series as follows to clear up any confusion.


CBS

Scooby-Doo Where Are You: 25 episodes (1969-1970)

The New Scooby-Doo Movies: 24 episodes (1972-1973)



ABC

The Scooby-Doo-Dynomutt Hour: 16 episodes (1976)

Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics: 8 episodes (1977)

Scooby's All Stars: 16 episodes (1978)

Thank you; that does help.

Yeah that's the division of each by series, and i don't get why they added the All Stars episodes to the original series' 25 episodes.

Neither do I.

laffalympics I think had 26 episodes but were the first 8 ran as scooby doo

I think they had produced those 8 episodes in 1977 and aired them alongside the Laff a Lympics segments.

different or same

1 of them Scooby-Doo movies 1st aired on the day I was born

I have the complete first and second series of Scooby Doo.

Yes the original '69 SD series is my personal favorite of the franchise series wise.

We're still awaiting on the third series over here to be released.