The BEST Episodes of The Scooby-Doo Show
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jan 11, 2020
Network: ABC (US)
The Scooby Doo Show premiered on ABC in September 1976 as part of The Scooby-Doo-Dynomutt Hour, in which new episodes of Scooby Doo shared an hour with a superhero dog named Dynomutt. It was a revamped version of Scooby Doo, Where Are You? which started on CBS in 1969.
#1 - Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 17, 1977
Lisa Banoh must be good friend of the Gang's seeing they decided to visit her on an island called 'Great Skull Island'. It is her 18th birthday after all, but still, did she have to have it on an island inhabited by vampire bats!
9.47 
#2 - The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired Dec 11, 1976
One rainy night Freddy lets Shaggy drive his precious Mystery Machine--and Shaggy wrecks it! Luckly for Shag, it wasn't his fault; he slid on a ton of popsicles laying in the street, right outside the Happy Humor Ice Cream factory. A trip inside to use the phone to get a tow truck turns into a mystery, complete with three Technicolor Phantoms--Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla! Scooby might love food, but these guys could ruin even his appetite!
8.60 
#3 - The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 1, 1977
Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Dum and the gang set out to protect Scoobys' cousin Scooby-Dee from the phantom of Milo Booth, a long dead silent film actor determined to keep Dee from remaking one of his greatest films.
8.56 
#4 - Hang in There, Scooby-Doo
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired Sep 24, 1977
The gang heads to the southwest to watch a hang gliding contest, only to run into a ghostly pterodactyl!
8.47 
#5 - The Spirits of '76
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired Dec 18, 1976
In Washington D.C., the gang gets locked up in the Smithsonian Institute for the night. This institute, if you don't know, is chock full of antiques, inventions, and of course Ghosts!
8.47 
#6 - There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired Nov 25, 1976
The gang's day of water-skiing comes to a halt when they get tangled up in a mystery involving missing pearls and a million year old shark monster!
8.37 
#7 - The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 8, 1977
The gang goes to watch a grand prix race, only to run afoul of a phantom race car driver that makes the other drivers and their cars disappear!
8.37 
#8 - Scooby-Doo, Where's the Crew?
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired Nov 27, 1976
The gang goes on a cruise abord the 'Sea Prowler' and come into contact with the Ghost of Captain Pescado. Turns out the ghost is pretty ok for a ghost, just as long as you don't go near his undersea treasure trove like the gang decided to. Then, Captain Pescado can turn into a pretty mean ghost.
8.36 
#9 - The No-Face Zombie Chase Case
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired Oct 30, 1976
Scooby witnesses a robbery at a coin store by a weird zombie. The gang chases the thief to a toy factory and learns that something else is there.
8.26 
#10 - The Creepy Heap from the Deep
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired Oct 29, 1977
The gang is having a beach party when a bizarre monster emerges from the deep. Soon after they meet an old sea captain who tells them about the monster, only to have it steal his soul!
8.26 
#11 - High Rise Hair Raiser
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 11, 1976
The gang is low on money so they take jobs as hard hats. While investigating some mysterious safe robberies, they learn of a mysterious figure that's haunting the construction site.
8.21 
#12 - Watch Out! The Willawaw!
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 9, 1978
The Gang is waiting for Velma's Uncle to meet them but they get worried when he doesn't show up so they head back to his cabin they see something monstrous flying in the sky they learn that it's the willawaw an owl-like monster that according to legend will carry it's victim off when an owl calls the person's name but not only that but some owl creatures are on the loose.
8.13 
#13 - The Ghost That Sacked the Quarterback
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired Dec 4, 1976
The gang is attending a Hawk's football game when the star player vanishes--and the ghost of a long dead 1930s football player shows up, propelling them into yet another mystery!
8.12 
#14 - The Headless Horseman of Halloween
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 9, 1976
The gang is having fun at a Halloween costume party with their friend who happens to be a descendant of Ichabod Crane. Their fun turns into a nightmare when the headless horseman shows up.
8.05 
#15 - Creepy Cruise
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 22, 1977
After winning a contest, the whole gang goes on a vacation cruise. On board the ship is a rather nice professor, along with some investors of his who are interested in his time machine. Testing out his time machine, for his investors, the professor unleashes a monster from five thousand years in the future into our modern world. Trapped on the boat, the gang have nothing else to do but return the mean monster to the future.
8.02 
#16 - A Frightened Hound Meets Demons Underground
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired Nov 13, 1976
The gang investigates the weird happenings of some ancient demons. They learn that the demons are after a talisman that will drive them back into the iron lid of an underground city where they belong.
8.00 
#17 - The Curse of Viking Lake
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 10, 1977
The gang heads off to a fishing trip with Velma's uncle John, only to find Uncle John missing--and long dead Vikings and their ship haunting the area!
8.00 
#18 - A Menace in Venice
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired Dec 2, 1978
The gang goes to visit their friend Antonio in Venice, Italy, and find that he's haunted by the ghost of an ancestor, the Ghostly Gondoleer, who seeks to steal the ancient necklace/family heirloom Antonio wears!
8.00 
#19 - A Bum Steer for Scooby
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired Nov 20, 1976
The gang is having fun driving to Daphne's uncle's dude ranch but they run into some trouble. A flying ghost bull is suspected to be responsible for the disappearance of many cattle. Uncle Matt mysterious vanishes and the gang finds themselves up against Tumaka and an ghostly Indian.
7.97 
#20 - The Ozark Witch Switch
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 15, 1977
It was a dark and stormy night that the gang chose to spend the night in the Hatfield's cabin. It was so dark and stormy that a witch decided to come out and play 'Turn the humans into frogs' with the Hatfields. Discovering that their friends are now frogs, the gang sents out to find themselves a witch and hopefully wrap up another mystery.
7.90 
#21 - A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Sep 23, 1978
The gang goes to visit their pal, Professor Krueger up in the North Pole, and he's disappeared before they get there. Turns out Jurassic Park is in full operation up in Santa Land as a fur covered dinosaur is wandering around. Was the Prof this beast's last main course?
7.88 
#22 - The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired Nov 11, 1978
Velma sure knows a lot of professors. Turns out her buddy, Professor Greer, is being stalked by a humanoid mantis, and man is this bad bug a creep.
7.88 
#23 - The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 23, 1976
The gang gets lost while driving and runs into a state trooper who warns them to stay away from an old abandoned hospital. It's rumored to be haunted by a doctor that went mad years ago.
7.86 
#24 - A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 14, 1978
The gang heads to Scotland to help Velma's friend Aggie MacDuff, who's ancestral castle home, which she's turned into a tourist attraction, is being haunted by the ghost of her great grandfather Finnyan MacDuff, who in turn has summoned the Loch Ness Monster to help him scare away potential tourists.
7.81 
#25 - The Beast is Awake at Bottomless Lake
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired Dec 23, 1978
On a fishing trip, the gang ends up in Canada at the newly deserted village of Bottomless Lake. Turns out the beast has scared everyone away, which only leaves Scooby, and the gang, to fritter away.
7.81