The Richie Rich & Scooby Doo Show Vol. 1

Warner Brothers brings to DVD the first seven episodes of the Hanna Barbera production The Richie Rich/Scooby Doo Hour which premiered in 1980 on ABC and ran for two seasons. As this was the first effort to bring Richie Rich from the extensively successful comic book series to television, what better way to insure success than to combine it with the already established animated juggernaut that was Scooby-Doo?

In what was clearly an attempt to market this show to the extremely young viewers of the day, the producers streamlined the previously more involved Scooby-Doo adventures into brief seven-minute episodes that featured only Scooby, Shaggy, and Scooby’s nephew Scrappy-Doo. As with the Richie Rich portion of the show, the stories are short, full of a lot of action, and for the most part, surprisingly well animated.

For the young at heart who are looking for the Scooby-Doo cartoons and Richie Rich comic book stories they grew up with; sadly, this is not for you. Fred, Daphne, and Velma aren’t involved in the Scooby-Doo stories other than an occasional guest appearance, the stories have little meat to them, and even more disappointing are the rare explanations at the end of the story. In most cases the monsters really are monsters, witches, etc., or there are actually no monsters at all.

The Richie Rich stories hold little elements of the classic comic books. Most of the stories revolve more around the supporting characters such as Richie’s dog Dollar, and some of his servants, and lack the simplicity of the comic book stories as far too many gadgets are used to justify storylines. blogcritics.org Code



Episode One: Scooby Goes West/Piggy Bank Prank/Swamp Witch/Muscle Beach/Waxworld/Robotnappers

Episode Two: A Close Encounter with a Strange Kind/The Rare Scare/A Fit Night Out For Bats/Kitty Sitter/The Chinese Food Factory/One of Our Ancient Carriers is Missing

Episode Three: Scooby's Desert Dilemma/Spring Cleaning/Stuntman Scooby/Silence is Golden/Mummy's the Word//The Shocking Lady Strikes Again

Episode Four: The Old Cat and Mouse Game/The Blur/Scooby's Three Ding-a-Ling Circus/Cur Wash/Hang In There, Scooby/The Kangaroo Hop

Episode Five: Scooby's Bull Fright/Irona Versus Demona/Stow-Aways/Chef's Surprise/Long John Scrappy/The Snow Bounders

Episode Six: Scrappy's Birthday/The Abominable Snow Plan/Sir Scooby and the Black Night/Miss Robot America/A Bungle in the Jungle/Constructo

Episode Seven: Scooby in Wonderland/Counterfeit Dollar/Scooby's Fun Zone/The Greatest Invention in the World/Scooby's Fantastic Island/Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Bug? Video Information



Video Codec : XviD



Video Bitrate : 1142 kbps



Resolution : 640x480



Frames Per Second : 23.976

Audio Information



Audio Codec : MPEG-1 Layer 3



Audio Bitrate : 128 kbps



Frequency : 48000 Hz