Scooby Goes Hollywood

Scooby Goes Hollywood
The cover of the DVD release of Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Story by	Dick Robbins Duane Poole
Directed by	Ray Patterson
Starring	Don Messick Casey Kasem Rip Taylor Frank Welker Heather North Kenney Pat Stevens
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Producer(s)	Don Jurwich
Cinematography	Allen Childs Ron Jackson Candy Edwards Kieran Mulgrew George Epperson Neil Viker Tom Epperson Roy Wade Curt Hall Jerry Whittington
Editor(s)	Gil Iverson
Running time	49 minutes
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	Taft Broadcasting
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	December 13, 1979
Chronology
Followed by	Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers

Scooby Goes Hollywood (later released on video as Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood) is a 1979 television special starring the cast of Hanna-Barbera's Saturday-morning cartoon series Scooby-Doo. It was originally broadcast on ABC on December 13, 1979.

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. Caught in the middle of this entire ordeal are Fred, Daphne, Velma, and also Scooby's loyal Saturday morning fan base; all of whom convince Scooby to come back to his Saturday morning TV show.

The movie was first released on VHS by WorldVision Enterprises in the 1980s, and is currently available on DVD from Warner Home Video.

Scooby and Shaggy are filming an episode of their cartoon as they are running from "The Crabby Creature of Creepy Crag." After Scooby and Shaggy fall on the ground after going through a catapult, they start getting tired of doing the same routine, and decide to become real movie stars. They show the president of a network, C.J., a pilot film called How Scooby Won the West, where Sheriff Scooby and Deputy Shaggy undergo the ornery Jesse Rotten. C.J. believes the film is a joke, and throws Shaggy and Scooby out, laughing. After the gang finds out Scooby is leaving the show, they protest while Shaggy tells how Scooby will become famous.