Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3257912-20190315191408

This thread is mainly for those who have watched the 1970s line of Scooby-Doo shows like TNSDM, SDS, and the first incarnation of SS&SS, which all contained a laugh track, although very different than the one used on SDWAY. SDWAY utilized Charley Douglass' full laugh track. But after the show was done, Hanna-Barbera, for reasons we still don't entirely know, eventually dismissed Douglass' track and they created their own using only five different laughs from Douglass' laugh track (three of these I actually know where they came from!). You may recognize that one of those laughs has a woman cackle at the end of it, being repeated continuously.

While I enjoyed the 1970s Scooby-Doo shows, that laugh track kinda drives me nuts, and just to clarify, I seriously don't have a quarrel with a show having a laugh track. After all, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is quite different from something like M*A*S*H which you can agree a laugh track is inappropriate. But does anyone here have any thoughts on Hanna-Barbera's 1970s laugh track that was played on most of their shows during that period, including TNSDM and SDS? 