Maltese Mackerel

For the object itself, see Maltese Mackerel (object).

Maltese Mackerel
Premiere date	September 25, 1982
Starring	Don Messick Casey Kasem
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Gordon Hunt Jack Enyart
Director(s)	Don Jurwich (voices) Alex Lovy (voices)
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"Maltese Mackerel" is the first episode (part one) of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo season four, and the thirty-seventh overall, although it originally came as part of The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour. It aired on September 25, 1982 on ABC. It was written by Gordon Kent and Jack Enyart, and voice directed by Don Jurwich and Alex Lovy.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor

Organizations

• Fearless Detective Agency

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Fearless Detective headquarters
    • Thugs' warehouse
    • Dock
  • England (indirectly mentioned)
    • London (mentioned)
      • Maltese Museum (mentioned)

Objects

• Maltese Mackerel

Vehicles

• Thugs' car
• S.S. Peru (mentioned)
• S.S. Buoyant
• Police boat

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, credited as musical director, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 25, 1982 on ABC

Behind the scenes

• The Mystery Machine is absent.

Errors

• S.S. Buoyant is misspelled S.S. Bouyant.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • May 13, 2014: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Field of Screams on DVD.