The Ransom of Scooby Chief is the sixteenth and final episode of the original half-hour, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo.
Premise[]
The gang heads to New York City, and drop off Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy, so they can visit Scrappy's old neighborhood. Soon Scooby and Shaggy are kidnapped, and it is up to Scrappy and his puppy friends to get him back.
Synopsis[]
The gang drives through New York towards Scrappy's old neighborhood to visit Scrappy's old gang. Fred, Daphne, and Velma drop Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy off, and drove off in the Mystery Machine. Unbeknown to the trio, two crafty men named Carl and Tony recognize Scooby and dubs him their ticket to a fortune. Arriving at Annie's place, Scrappy sounds his secret whistle which Annie recognizes, and as she tumbles her way down the fire escape with her apartment, she accidentally catapults Duke from his box, and the pair catch up with Scrappy who introduces them to Scooby. While Scrappy was telling Duke and Annie how great Scooby is, Carl and Tony, who were listening to the conversation, formed a plan to kidnap Scooby and held him for ransom.
While exploring the streets of New York, the bad guys manage to capture Scooby (walking blinded by all the groceries he was carrying) into their truck. As they drove off with Scooby, Shaggy came out of the grocery shop looking for Scooby, and he hears Scooby's cries of help and rushes to save him. Grabbing hold off the truck's rear hatch, Shaggy calls Scrappy, Duke and Annie to help them. As the trucks drives off, a crate falls out of its trailer and smashes on the road. When Scrappy tried to run after the truck, Duke stops him and tells him they need a clue to find out where the crooks have taken Shaggy and Scooby. Examining the broken pieces of China from the smashed crate, Annie piece together two pieces of it with the words "Made in Japan", and Duke reads the stamped words on the smashed saying "Paris Warehouse", that's right here in New York, just a subway away.
At the Paris Warehouse, Carl and Tony place Shaggy and Scooby in a storeroom. Tony stayed to watch them while Carl went to the phone booth outside the warehouse to make a phone call to Hollywood for a ransom demand. Meanwhile, Scrappy, Duke and Annie are waiting for someone to drop a token, which someone does. While trying to grab the runsway token, it falls down into a sewage grate, but they managed to retrieve it with some bubble gum. Disguising themselves as a man, they managed to board the subway to the Paris Warehouse. In the meantime, Scooby and Shaggy attempted to escape by using blankets as makeshift rope, and throwing a glass bottle out the window, but both methods fail and the two crooks, after catching in their attempts to escape, sealed the window with bars and tells the duo they won't let them until someone pays the ransom, depressing the pair.
When they arrived at the Paris Warehouse, Scrappy, Duke and Annie use a bow and some plungers to climb up the wall into the room where Shaggy and Scooby are hold up. At the same time, Scooby and Shaggy escape through the air vent. When Scrappy challenges the bad guys, they escaped and when Shaggy and Scooby made to the end the air vent, they fall into the back of the bad guys' truck and Carl and Tony drove off with them to the S.S. Stewart.
Following the bad guys to the pier, Scrappy and his gang climb aboard the ship and continue to try to rescue Shaggy and Scooby, but every attempt lands them right back in the cargo hold and Carl and Tony capture Scrappy, Duke and Annie with a fishing net. Shaggy and Scooby stuff a rubber life raft through a porthole, which sucks them out and flies around the harbor, landing on the crooks, who now want to be taken to jail, much to the joy of Scrappy, Duke and Annie who complement Scooby for catching the two crooks.
Fred and the girls have arrived back at Annie's place to pick up Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy. When he gives his secret whistle again for Duke and Annie, it blows out all the windows and tires of the Mystery Machine. Annie says, "Nobody does it like Scrappy!", and Shaggy agrees with her.
Characters[]
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
Villains:
Other characters:
- Fred Jones
- Daphne Blake
- Velma Dinkley
- Subway guard (only appearance)
Locations[]
- New York City, New York
- Hollywood (mentioned)
- Japan (mentioned)
Objects[]
- Manhole cover
- Fire hydrant
- Umbrella
- Bananas
- Telephone
- Bubblegum machine
- Subway "Y" token
- Bow
- Plunger
- Life-raft
- Rope
- Net
- Glass bottle
Vehicles[]
- Mystery Machine
- Carl and Tony's delivery truck
- subway "BB" line train
Cast[]
Don Messick | Scooby-Doo |
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Lennie Weinrib | Scrappy-Doo |
Casey Kasem | Shaggy Rogers |
Frank Welker | Fred Jones Duke |
Heather North Kenney | Daphne Blake |
Marla Frumkin | Velma Dinkley |
Full credits[]
The following credits are how they are seen on-screen (or as close as possible).
- Executive Producers: Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
- Producers: Don Jurwich, Alex Lovy
- Directors: Ray Patterson, Carl Urbano, Oscar Dufau, George Gordon, Charles A. Nichols
- Story Editors: Duane Poole, Tom Swale, Ray Parker
- Story: Haskell Barkin, Doug Booth, Larz Bourne, Dick Conway, Tom Dagenais, Tony DiMarco, Diane Duane, Mark Evanier, Willie Gilbert, Dave Ketchum, Glenn Leopold, Norman Maurer, Duane Poole, Dick Robbins, Dalton Sandifer, Tom Swale, David Villaire
- Story Direction: John Bruno, Dan Danglo, Jan Green, Cullen Houghtaling, Jack Kinney, Emilie Kong, Larry Latham, Fred Lucky, Don Sheppard, Paul Sommer
- Recording Directors: Don Jurwich, Alex Lovy
- Voices: Jack Angel, Marlene Aragon, Joe Baker, Michael Bell, Bill Callaway, Mickey Dolenz, Pat Fraley, Marla Frumkin, Joan Gerber, Virginia Gregg, Bob Hastings, Bob Holt, Hettie Lynn Hurtes, Linda Hutson, Stanley Jones, Donald Jurwich, Casey Kasem, Heather North Kenney, David Landesberg, Allan Melvin, Don Messick, Shirley Mitchell, Alan Oppenheimer, Michael Rye, Marilyn Schreffler, John Stephenson, Pat Stevens, Ginny Tyler, Janet Waldo, Lennie Weinrib, Jimmy Weldon, Frank Welker, William Woodson, Marian Zajac
- Graphics: Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
- Title Design: Bill Perez
- Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
- Musical Supervisor: Paul DeKorte
- Creative Producer: Iwao Takamoto
- Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
- Design Supervisor: Bob Singer
- Character Design: Mike Sekowski, Curtis Cim, Sandra Young, Kimie Calvert, Donna Zeller, Alex Toth
- Layout Supervisor: Don Morgan
- Key Layout: Terry Morgan, John Tucker
- Layout: Mike Arens, Tom Coppola, Susan Crossley, Hak Ficq, Owen Fitzgerald, C.L. Hartman, Gary Hoffman, Jack Huber, Alex Ignatiev, Zygamond Jablecki, Ray Jacobs, Homer Jonas, Brad Landreth, Warren Marshall, Greg Martin, Gale Morgan, Jim Mueller, Steve Nakagawa, Anna Lee Orr, Paul Power, Rebecca Price, Tony Rivera, Linda Rowley, Tony Sgroi, Bob Singer, Adam Szwejkowski, Wendell Washer, George Wheeler, Al Wilson
- Animation Supervisors: Bill Keil, Jay Sarbry, Bob Goe
- Assistant Animation Supervisor: Rick Leon
- Animation: Robert Alvarez, Frank Andrina, Colin Baker, Anne Marie Bardwell, Ed Barge, Tom Barnes, Max Becraft, Bob Bemiller, Richard Bowman, Bob Bransford, James Brummet, Oliver Callahan, Lars Calonius, Rudy Cataldi, Roger Chiasson, Steve Clark, Richard Coleman, John Conning, Jesse Cosio, Gabor Csupo, Zeon Davush, Daniel de la Vega, Elaine Despins, Charles Downs, Joan Drake, Judith Ann Drake, Marcia Fertig, Gail Finkeldei, High Fraser, Al Gaivoto, Charles Gammage, Miguel Garcia, Fernando Gonzalez, Jeff Hall, Terry Harrison, Bob Hathcock, Jerry Hathcock, Fred Hellmich, Charles Howell, Bill Hutten, Volus Jones, Aundre Knutson, Rick Leon, Teresa Loewy, Hicks Lokey, Michael Longden, Ernesto Lopez, Tony Love, Mircea Manta, Mauro Maressa, Duncan Marjoribanks, Burt Medall, Tran Vu Minh, Ken Muse, Constantin Mustatea, Sean Newton, Margaret Nichols, Eduardo Olivares, Margaret Parkes, Rod Parkes, Don Patterson, Lester Pegues, Jr., Delpino Ramirez, Harry Rasmussen, William Recinos, Morey Reden, Vev Risto, Mitch Rochon, Tom Ruegger, Joel Seibel, Mark Simon, Ed Soloman, Ken Southworth, Leo Sullivan, Robert Taylor, Barry Temple, Dave Tendlar, Richard Thompson, Richard Trueblood, Robert Tyler, Carlos Vincenzi, Russ von Neida, John Walker, Allen Wilzbach, Xenia
- Background Supervisor: Al Gmuer
- Backgrounds: Lorraine Andrina, Fernando Arce, Greg Battes, Dario Campanile, Gil DiCicco, Dennis Durrell, Martin Forte, Fla Ferreira, Bob Gentle, Bonnie Goodknight, Al Gmuer, Ann Guenther, Tom Hames, James Hegedus, Eric Heschong, Jim Hickey, Michael Humphries, Richard Khim, Fernando Montealegre, Andrew Phillipson, Bill Proctor, Jeff Richards, Jeff Riche, Marilyn Shimokochi, Cal Titus, Dennis Venizelos
- Checking and Scene Planning: Cindy Smith, Evelyn Sherwood
- Xerography: Star Wirth
- Ink and Paint Supervisor: Alison Victory, Billie Kerns
- Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- Camera: Jerry Mills, Ross Avery, Bob Berry, Allen Childs, Marc Debbaudt, Candy Edwards, George Epperson, Curt Hall, Ron Jackson, Mike Kane, Frank Paiker, Norman Stainback, Neil Viker, Roy Wade, Brandy Whittington, Jerry Whittington
- Supervising Film Editor: Larry C. Cowan
- Dubbing Supervisor: Pat Foley
- Music Editors: Joe Sandusky, Chip Yaras
- Effects Editors: Richard Allen, Tom Gleason, Mark Mangini, Karla McGregor, Terry Moore
- Show Editor: Gil Iverson
- Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
- Production Manager: Jayne Barbera
- Post Production Supervisor: Joed Eaton
- A Hanna-Barbera Production
- ©1979 Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc.
Notes/trivia[]
- This is the series finale of the original Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo series; online streaming will show this as the first-season finale.
- This is also the final time that Lennie Weinrib voices Scrappy-Doo. Don Messick takes over the role of Scrappy starting with the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo episode A Close Encounter with a Strange Kind.
- With the exception of What's New, Scooby-Doo?'s A Scooby-Doo Halloween, which was used mainly for parody, this is the final Scooby-Doo episode to use a laugh track, particularly Hanna-Barbera's custom track that was used for most of its 1970s input.
- The title is from the O Henry story The Ransom of Red Chief, in which two kidnappers capture a boy who is so much trouble that they end up paying to give him back to his family.
- While Velma is never seen actually speaking, Marla Frumkin's voice can be heard saying, "Have a good visit", when Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy are being dropped off at the beginning of the episode.
- This is the first episode not to have any monsters or supernatural elements.
- This is one of the first times it is addressed that Scooby-Doo is famous, but this is very inconsistent throughout the franchise.
- It is revealed that Scrappy grew up in New York City.
- The subway scenes show signs identifying real life subway lines. The token has the actual "Y" on it, like tokens did at the time.
- This is one of the first times the Mystery Machine is badly damaged.
- In many ways, this episode looks like it could've been a back-door pilot to how the show was revamped into short segments for the next three years (this is essentially a full-length episode of that format); which feature Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy in both supernatural and non-supernatural misadventures. This episode also greatly reduces Fred, Daphne and Velma's involvement, who were subsequently removed from the franchise, until Daphne's return three years later in The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show episode Scooby the Barbarian. Fred and Velma made guest appearances the following years, including in The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, but they did not return as series regulars until A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, respectively.
Miscellaneous[]
- Disguises: Scrappy, Duke and Annie as a person in a trench coat.
- Traps: A teeter totter.
- "Zoinks" count: 2 (1 from Shaggy, 1 from Scooby)
- "Ruh-roh" count: 1.
- "Rikes" count: 1.
- "Puppy Power" count: 3.
- Scooby Snack bribe: None.
Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]
- Scrappy's tail appears to grow in length when he's trying to reach for a coin in the sewer.
- Scooby's shoulder is the color of Shaggy's sleeve when they cry on each other.
- Shaggy's neck is too fat when the barrel lands on him.
Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]
- Why were Carl and Tony calling Hollywood and asking for ransom? Shouldn't they have called Fred, Daphne, and Velma?
- They probably had no idea who they were (yet still somehow know who Scooby is).
- When Carl and Tony were holding Shaggy and Scooby hostage, why didn't they think to restrain them with something?
- Scooby and Shaggy were desperately trying to find a way to climb up to the hatch in the ship, but when they do, they don't look like they're hanging from anywhere.
In other languages[]
Language | Name | Meaning |
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Greek | Η Απαγωγή του Σκούμπι | Scooby's Kidnapping |
Home media[]
Scooby-Doo! and Scrappy-Doo!: The Complete Season 1 DVD set released by Warner Home Video on April 28, 2015.
Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Scooby-Doo! DVD set released by Warner Home Video on August 13, 2019.
Quotes[]
Shaggy: Like Annie's right Scrappy nobody can do it like you. |
External links[]
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