Scooby-Doo: Exciting Christmas Stories

Tracks:
Trouble at Santa's Workshop
Mystery of the Missing Santa

Power Pal Mike Bridges found yet another "rarity", this Scooby-Doo (and Friends) Christmas record, complete with cover art by comics legend Dan Spiegle! Like the other Scooby audio stories Peter Pan produced, these are pretty loyal to the show, using what sounds like the original cast. Fun stuff all around.

This album came with another, Scrappy-Doo-centric cover. I'm not posting it, because I have my limits. Thanks Mike!

Scooby-Doo Picture Disk

 

Tracks:
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Strange Paw Prints
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Sticky Money

Here's another unusual find, courtesy Power Pal Mike Bridges--a Peter Pan Picture Disk! As per usual with this blog now, I had no idea this existed, or that the company ever dabbled in this format. Unfortunately, I was not able to find an audio track for "Scooby-Doo and the Ghost in the Doghouse", so you'll all just have to take a wild guess what happens.

Of course, seeing this makes me think--hope--that Peter Pan did something similar for their Power Records line. How cool would a Neal Adams "Robin Meets Man-Bat" picture disk be? Odds are they never did, seeing as how none of them have ever surfaced over the years. But as is always the case with the Power Records, you never know.

Thanks again Mike!

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Rider Without A Head

 

Track:
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Rider Without A Head

Another Scooby-Doo book-and-record adventure, with quite the ungainly title. When I first saw it I thought it was a Headless Horseman/Ichabod Crane thing, which would have been cool. Instead, it takes place at a rodeo, which is not a location you associate with "spooky." Although I do love the Women's Lib angle they worked in--pretty darn modern, though I always got the sense the Power Records people were overall a fairly progressive bunch.

I couldn't find decent scans of the interior book, but you can listen and see the pages as they go by on YouTube.

Scooby-Doo LP

Tracks:
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Strange Paw Prints
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Sticky Money

I had no idea Peter Pan Records ever did a Scooby-Doo record, when in fact they did several, some of which were book-and-record sets, like you see above. Aside from some dodgy artwork (check out Fred there), these stories are pretty close to the animated version, using (to my untrained ears) the same voice cast and some nice artwork on the interiors (which I haven't been able to find complete enough to post here...yet). Sorry about the less-than-stellar audio files, they were the best I could find via YouTube.

Sure, these are not Power Records, but even as a kid I always sort of lumped Scooby-Doo in with the world of superheroes, comics, and sci-fi, probably because they met Batman and Robin, and that was good enough for me! Rooby-rooby-roo!