Happy Saturday, race fans and nostalgia nerds! Craving some new matieral that rekindles that childhood Saturday morning fun with a tire shredding twist? I got you covered!
I recently floated the idea of doing a small series of posts of “fan fiction” stories based on some of our favorite Saturday Morning memories! Now, I’m a big Hanna Barbera fan, and I’m sure it won’t surprise you which franchise I’ve chosen to kick this series off! A mystery that revolves around car racing? How cool is that? And you know which show did that! So here, for the first time, is my homage to that classic 1976 episode The Spooky Case of the Grand Prix Race.
This ep was the first of four segments of Scooby’s All Star Laff-a-Lympics. It was later repackaged as the fifth episode of the second season of The Scooby-Doo Show, and the twenty-first episode overall in the series. This has always been one of my favorites and, ya know, I bet I don’t have to explain why!
So ask yourself what would happen if, after Scooby and the gang solved that famous mystery, the Phantom Racer came back….making a new appearance at a particular racing track at a little town in Southern California in the mid 1980s?!
Well, wonder no more, because here is the story! As cartoon “fan fiction” this is by no means “serious writing,” but it was fun to write and I hope its fun to read!
Enjoy dear readers, and tell me what you think of this idea now that its a reality: would you like to see more like this, with some fan fic eps based on other classic cartoons, or is this a misfire? Thumbs up or thumbs down, let me know!
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“Rocket made of nightmares” Bud! You still have it! What a great read, fun, well paced, and full of the literary quality that you are famous for. I just have to say that was well done and fun to read. You not only managed to capture the spirit of Scooby Doo but also Drag City. This was really cool!!!