Channel 10 are doing a nice thing for us by placing The Simpsons at 6:00pm each night. But they are also doing a nasty thing too, replaying the same episodes over and over again. This series of DVDs from Scooby-Doo is great to watch, and gives a break from The Simpsons when they play, for the 138 billionth time, the 138th Episode Spectacular.

Saying this, however, this particular disc of the Scooby-Doo DVD series fails to satisfy, resulting in that same feeling of “oh my god� and turning the TV off. As a DVD reviewer, however, I don’t have that luxurious option...

This short episode of Scooby-Doo from 1979 feels like that 138th Episode Spectacular from The Simpsons, with a sequence of clips rather than a true story or, indeed, mystery. OK, sure enough, Scooby-Doo Goes to Hollywood is not a flashback episode, but just lacks the magic of solving a mystery as we have come to expect from Scooby and the gang.

Basically, Shaggy, Scooby’s agent, feels that he should leave his Saturday morning cartoon timeslot and take on some serious acting so he and Scooby make a heap of pilots illustrating the hound's potential. Films and shows they make fun of include The Sound of Music, Superman and Charlie’s Angels, some of which are actually pretty clever. However, it is Mystery, Inc. and there is no mystery here. I guess the only mystery is why was this actually made. One thing we’ll probably never know.

In tune with the other Scooby-Doo discs, this too is presented in a full frame aspect, missing anamorphic enhancement. Overall, things look rather neat, with a full colour palette that screams a little too much '70s. At times one may be mistaken for thinking that the colours are bleeding, however upon closer inspection on a PC you can easily see that the painters got lazy and decided to colour outside the lines. This is really only visible on fine details, such as the lettering on the side of the Mystery Machine. The only real complaint is with the rather consistent scattering of film artefacts in the form of black and white specks. While these are constantly on screen throughout the presentation, they are not too distracting, but rather a subtle glazing.

The sole Dolby Digital 1.0 English audio track is totally sufficient for this feature, and offers clear dialogue and effects. Synch is close to spot on, well as close to being spot on as an animation can be, and dialogue is audible throughout.

The anamorphically enhanced menus host the extra features, which include a few interesting features. Up first is one of the interactive games, The Scooby-Doo Network Game, where you use the remote control to pick out props in the sets of some of Scooby’s films - pretty simple stuff. The other games are demo versions of Showdown in Ghost Time, Phantom of the Knight and Jinx at the Sphinx, all included as DVD-ROM extras for those with a Windows-based PC.

Up next is the Mystery, Inc. Yearbook, running for 6:38, which is an interview with William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the executive producers and creators of Scooby-Doo and Mystery, Inc. They discuss the concepts of the characters and the development, and this is interesting to watch, even if it is too short. Finally there is a Get the Picture special teaching you how to draw Scooby-Doo. Well, I don’t know about you, but learning how to draw requires more than just watching someone move their hand on a page. At 1:47, it also skims past too briefly to be of much help – printed instructions with the DVD-ROM content would have gone down much better.

You know you can turn the TV off when you see a 'best-of' Simpsons clip show collaboration come along. This is like that - worthy turning the TV off for. There are a few laughable moments for the movie nuts, but generally this lacks the magic of Mystery, Inc.

The video transfer is neat, with a huge amount of discrete film artefacts, and the single audio track does the job nicely. The extra features, while worthy of two paragraphs, are still rather thin. Obviously this is a must-have for fans, however there are better Scooby-Doo releases than this.