The Caped Crusader Caper

The Caped Crusader Caper
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Network	CBS
Premiere date	December 16, 1972
Starring	Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe Olan Soule Larry Storch Ted Knight
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"The Caped Crusader Caper" is the fifteenth episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies season one. It aired on December 16, 1972 on CBS. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Mystery Inc. teams up with Batman & Robin to save a kidnapped professor from the Joker & Penguin.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor

Organizations

• Mystery Incorporated

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Forest
      • Joker and Penguin's cave
    • Gotham City
      • Gotham Rubber Factory

Objects

• Ultity belt

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine
• Batcopter

Music

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

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: December 16, 1972 on CBS
• United Kingdom and Ireland:

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Greek	Η Χαρούμενη Παρέα των Ηρώων	The Happy Team of Heroes
Hungarian	Szárnyas szuperhősszalsza	Winged superheroes' salsa

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • 1988: Worldvision Home Video releases Scooby-Doo with Special Guest Stars Batman and Robin on VHS.
  • 2002: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo Meets Batman on VHS.
  • 2002: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo Meets Batman on DVD.
  • March 22, 2005: Warner Home Video releases The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies on DVD.
  • August 11, 2009: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo Meets Batman/Scooby-Doo! Meets the Harlem Globetrotters on DVD.
  • February 14, 2017: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown on DVD.
  • June 6, 2017: Warner Home Video releases The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
  • January 9, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold on DVD.
  • June 4, 2019: Warner Home Video releases The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection on DVD.
  • June 4, 2019: Warner Home Video releases The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection on Blu-ray Disc.
• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • July 1, 2019: Warner Home Video releases The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection on DVD.
  • July 1, 2019: Warner Home Video releases The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection on Blu-ray Disc.