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Joe Ruby has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s.
Picking up where 'The New Scooby and Scappy Doo Show' left off. The main difference being that the team is now occasionally joined by Daphne Blake and friends to solve mysteries together.
Dir. Tom Ruegger, Joe Ruby, Ken Spears · With Casey Kasem, Heather North, Don Messick
Each episode of this series include multiple segments: The first and last were "Laff-A-Lympics" segments, the other ones were "Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels", "Scooby-Doo" and "Dynomutt" segments. The "Laff-A-Lympics" segments feature 45 Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters (classic and otherwise) competing for gold medals in wacky events. Events include racing on ostriches, camels, kangaroos, rickshaws and unicycles, as well as scavenging for creatures like the Abominable Snowman, vampires, and the Loch Ness Monster.
Dir. Joe Ruby, Ken Spears · With Don Messick, Daws Butler, John Stephenson
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and the talking dog, Scooby-Doo, travel on the Mystery Machine van, in search of weird mysteries to solve.
Dir. Joe Ruby, Ken Spears · With Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Frank Welker
The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show is the sixth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 10, 1983, and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program made up of two eleven-minute short cartoons. The show is a return to the mystery solving format and reintroduces Daphne after a four-year absence. The plots of each episode feature her, Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo solving supernatural mysteries under the cover of being reporters for a teen magazine.
Dir. Ken Spears, Joe Ruby, Tom Ruegger · With Casey Kasem, Heather North, Don Messick
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo and friends must return 13 ghosts which they inadvertently released to a magical chest. Together with Daphne and Scrappy-Doo, along with newcomer Flim-Flam, they travel the world facing the ghosts that must be returned to the chest.
Dir. Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Tom Ruegger · With Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Heather North
Everyone’s favorite mystery-solving Great Dane is here to find clues, along with a little help from his energetic nephew and four human companions.
Dir. Ken Spears, Joe Ruby, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera · With Casey Kasem, Don Messick
The 1977 and 1978 episodes were originally broadcasted as segments on the package show Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars. The 1980 episodes featured Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels in their own half-hour timeslot.
Dir. Joe Ruby, Ken Spears · With Mel Blanc, Vernee Watson, Marilyn Schreffler
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