Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw
TV Flash files “The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw” as hour 10 of 16 in the TV Flash guide — Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1970) on CBS, season 1, episode 10, aired 1978-11-11, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 10 of 16 in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! guide, hour 10 of 16 in season 1. It aired 1978-11-11 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Make a Beeline Away from That Feline” (S01E09). Next is “The Diabolical Disc Demon” (S01E11).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
While visiting Vulture's Claw Botanical Gardens, owned by one of Velma's friends, Professor Greer, the gang confronts a seven-foot-tall praying mantis that roams the grounds.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw sit in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 10 of 16 — hour 10 of 16 in season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! S01E10 air?
The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw aired 1978-11-11 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any original 1969–1970 mystery is the formula: van, fake monster, snack, unmask. The first series is the template; later franchise decades are clones.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! locked Saturday morning into a van, a Great Dane, and four meddling kids who always unmask the caretaker. Hanna-Barbera's 1969 mystery cartoon is formula as comfort: chase, snack, trap, rubber mask. The template still clones itself, and cowardice plus Scooby Snacks became a franchise language that never left the air.
The silhouette is a van, a Great Dane, and four meddling kids who treat a rubber mask as the week's costume change. *Mystery-machine paint, snack as accessory, caretaker waiting under the latex.* Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! arrived on CBS September 13, 1969 — Joe Ruby and Ken Spears locking Saturday morning into a look: chase, snack, trap, unmask. Don Messick's Scooby, Casey Kasem's Shaggy, Frank Welker's Fred, Nicole Jaffe's Velma, and Stefanianna Christopherson's Daphne set the voices. **This was…
Filed against
- Don Messick as Scooby-Doo
Don Messick’s Scooby-Doo locked Saturday morning into a van and a snack — Hanna-Barbera’s 1969 mystery cartoon, four meddling kids, chase, trap, rubber mask, cowardice plus a Great Dane as comfort formula. The template still clones…
- Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
Casey Kasem’s Shaggy Rogers made Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! a coward’s poetry — 1960s catalog van, snacks, rubber masks, then Super Friends keeping the countdown voice in the Hall of Justice. TV Flash files him as the hunger that unmasked…
- Frank Welker as Fred Jones
Frank Welker’s Fred Jones drove Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! like a van with a plan — 1960s catalog rubber-mask religion, then The Transformers stretching the throat into robots in disguise. TV Flash files him as the meddler who became a…
- Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley
Nicole Jaffe’s Velma Dinkley locked Saturday morning into glasses, a van, and a rubber mask — Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Hanna-Barbera’s 1969 mystery cartoon, four meddling kids, a Great Dane, chase-snack-trap as comfort formula. TV…
- Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake
Stefanianna Christopherson voiced Daphne Blake on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! — the purple-dress meddler in Hanna-Barbera's 1969 van, a Great Dane, four kids who always unmask the caretaker. Chase, snack, trap, rubber mask. TV Flash files…