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Maltese Mackerel is the first part of the first episode of The Scooby & Scrappy Doo Puppy Hour, later repackaged as the first part of the first episode of the third season of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (second series).

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The boys get an assignment to deliver the "Maltese Mackerel", a golden, jewel encrusted fish, to the boat docks, but someone else wants it too, and is trying to steal it from these bumbling detectives.

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Don Messick Scooby-Doo
Scrappy-Doo
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers

Notes/trivia[]

  • After not being used since 1978, the original Ted Nichols score returns in this episode.
  • Clips from this episode, as well as video of Kasem recording his lines, were used in a 1983 WJZ-TV profile of Casey Kasem.[1]
  • An extended preview of this episode (from where Scooby acts as a hot dog vendor to the guys looking for the misplaced Maltese Mackerel at the end) was shown on the 1983 Pac Preview Special.
  • The S.S. Bouyant captain resembles Captain Clements from the The Scooby-Doo Show episode The Creepy Heap from the Deep.

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  • The title parodies the famous mystery novel and Film Noir, The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre.
    • The big thug and small thug are parodies of Kasper Gutman and Joel Cairo from the film who were portrayed by Greenstreet and Lorre respectively.

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  • None known.

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  • None known.

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