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Scooby-Doo!
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A scene from "What a Night for a Knight", the first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Clockwise from top: Shaggy, Fred, Scooby-Doo, Velma, and Daphne.
Genre Mystery / Adventure / Comedy
Format Animated series
Created by Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Iwao Takamoto
Fred Silverman
Starring See "Voices" below
Country of origin United States
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 11
No. of episodes 299 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time 22 minutes
Broadcast
Original run September 13, 1969 (1969-09-13) – Present
External links
Official website

Scooby-Doo! is a 2D animated series produced for Saturday morning television in several different versions from 1969 to the present. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, CBS executive Fred Silverman, and character designer Iwao Takamoto. Hanna-Barbera produced numerous spin-offs and related works until being absorbed in 2001 into Warner Bros. Animation, which has handled production since then. All versions of the show feature a talking dog named Scooby Doo; the original series included four teenagers or young adults: Fred "Freddie" Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers. These five characters (officially collectively known as "Mystery, Inc.", but never referred to as such in the original series) drive around in the Mystery Machine van,[1] solving mysteries by exposing seemingly otherworldly ghosts and monsters as flesh and blood crooks. Later versions of Scooby-Doo featured different variations on the show's supernatural theme, and include characters such as Scooby's cousin Scooby-Dum and nephew Scrappy-Doo in addition to or instead of some of the original characters.

Scooby-Doo was broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976 when it moved to ABC. ABC aired the show until canceling it in 1986, and presented a spin-off, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, from 1988 until 1991, which featured the characters as children. The series was revived for The WB Network's Kids' WB programming block as What's New, Scooby-Doo?, which ran from 2002 until 2006. The most recent Scooby-Doo series, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, ran from 2006 to 2008 on The CW network; a new series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, will begin airing on the Cartoon Network in 2010.[2] Repeats of the series are broadcasted frequently on the Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the United States and other countries.
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* 1 Creation and development
o 1.1 The CBS years
+ 1.1.1 Influences on Scooby-Doo
+ 1.1.2 The New Scooby-Doo Movies
o 1.2 The Scooby clones
o 1.3 The ABC years
+ 1.3.1 1976-1978
+ 1.3.2 1979-1984 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              + 1.3.2 1979-1984      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              + 1.3.2 1979-1984      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              + 1.3.2 1979-1984      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              + 1.3.2 1979-1984      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
+ 1.3.3 The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
+ 1.3.4 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
o 1.4 Reruns and revival
+ 1.4.1 What's New, Scooby-Doo?
+ 1.4.2 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
+ 1.4.3 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
* 2 Television specials, telefilms, and direct-to-video features
* 3 Live-action Warner Bros. feature films
* 4 Critique and analysis
o 4.1 Sexuality
o 4.2 Connection to drug culture
* 5 Critical reaction and awards
* 6 Merchandising
* 7 Scooby-Doo filmography
o 7.1 TV series
o 7.2 TV specials and animated telefilms
o 7.3 Direct-to-video films
o 7.4 Live-action films
o 7.5 Video games
o 7.6 Stage plays
* 8 Voices
* 9 See also
* 10 Footnotes
* 11 References
* 12 External links

[edit] Creation and development

In 1967, parent-run organizations, most notably Action for Children's Television (ACT), began vocally protesting what they perceived as an excessive amount of gratuitous violence in Saturday morning cartoons during the mid-to-late 1960s.[3] Most of these shows were Hanna-Barbera action cartoons such as Jonny Quest, Space Ghost and The Herculoids, and virtually all of them were canceled by 1969 because of pressure from the parent groups. Members of these watchgroups served as advisers to Hanna-Barbera and other animation studios to ensure that their new programs would be safe for children.

Fred Silverman, executive in charge of children's programming for the CBS network at the time, was looking for a show that would revitalize his Saturday morning line and please the watchgroups at the same time. The result was The Archie Show, based upon Bob Montana's teenage humor comic book Archie. Also successful were the musical numbers The Archies performed during each program (one of which, "Sugar, Sugar", was the most successful Billboard number-one hit of 1969). Silverman was eager to build upon this success, and contacted producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera about possibly creating another show based on a teenage rock group, but with an extra spice: the kids would solve mysteries in between gigs. Silverman envisioned the show as a cross between the popular I Love a Mystery radio serials of the 1940s and the popular early 1960s TV show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.[4]

Hanna and Barbera passed this task along to two of their head story writers, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, and artist/character designer Iwao Takamoto. Their original concept of the show bore the title Mysteries Five, and featured five teens: Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, Linda's brother "W.W." and their dog, Too Much, who were all members of the band "Mysteries Five" (even the dog; he played the bongos). When "The Mysteries Five" were not performing at gigs, they were out solving spooky mysteries involving ghosts, zombies, and other supernatural creatures. Ruby and Spears were unable to decide whether Too Much would be a large cowardly dog or a small feisty dog. When the former was chosen, the options became a large goofy German Shepherd or a big shaggy sheepdog. After consulting with Barbera on the issue, Too Much was finally set as a Great Dane, primarily to avoid a direct correlation to The Archies (who had a sheepdog, Hot Dog, in their band). Ruby and Spears feared the Great Dane would be too similar to the comic strip character Marmaduke, but Barbera assured them it would not be a problem.[5]

Takamoto consulted a studio colleague who happened to be a breeder of Great Danes. After learning the characteristics of a prize-winning Great Dane from her, Takamoto proceeded to break most of the rules and designed Too Much with overly bowed legs, a double chin, and a sloped back, among other abnormalities.[6][7]

By the time the show was ready for presentation by Silverman, a few more things had changed: Geoff and Mike were merged into one character called "Geoff" (later renamed "Fred", at Silverman's behest),[8] Kelly was renamed to "Daphne", Linda was now called "Velma", and Shaggy (formerly "W.W.") was no longer her brother. Also, Silverman—not being very fond of the name Mysteries Five—had renamed the show Who's S-S-Scared? Using storyboards, presentation boards, and a short completed animation sequence, Silverman presented Who's S-S-Scared? to the CBS executives as the centerpiece for the upcoming 1969–1970 season's Saturday morning cartoon block. The executives felt that the presentation artwork was too spooky for young viewers and, thinking the show would be the same, decided to pass on it.[5]

Now without a centerpiece for the upcoming season's programming, Silverman turned to Ruby and Spears, who reworked the show to make it more comedic and less frightening. They dropped the rock band element, and began to focus more attention on Shaggy and Too Much. According to Ruby and Spears, Silverman was inspired by a combination of the "scoo-be-doo" section in Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People" and Frank Sinatra's scat "doo-be-doo-be-doo" he heard at the end of Bert Kaempfert's song "Strangers in the Night" on the way out to one of their meetings, and decided to rename the dog "Scooby-Doo" and re-rechristen the show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You![5] The revised show was re-presented to CBS executives, who approved it for production.
[edit] The CBS years
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo confronted by a typical Scooby-Doo villain, a ghost from outer space. From Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! season one, episode fifteen ("Spooky Space Kook," December 20, 1969.)

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! made its CBS network debut on Saturday, September 13, 1969 with its first episode, "What a Night for a Knight." The original voice cast featured veteran voice actor Don Messick as Scooby-Doo, Top 40 radio DJ Casey Kasem as Shaggy, actor Frank Welker as Fred, actress Nicole Jaffe as Velma, and musician Indira Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne.[9] Scooby’s speech patterns closely resembled an earlier cartoon dog, Astro from The Jetsons (1962–63), also voiced by Messick.[1]. Seventeen episodes of Scooby-Doo were produced in 1969. The series' eponymous theme song was written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh, and performed by Larry Marks.
[edit] Influences on Scooby-Doo

The influences of I Love a Mystery and Dobie Gillis were especially apparent in these early episodes; Mark Evanier, who would write Scooby-Doo teleplays and comic book scripts in the 1970s and 1980s, identified each of the four teenagers with their corresponding Dobie Gillis character: "Fred was based on Dobie, Velma on Zelda, Daphne on Thalia and Shaggy on Maynard."[10] The similarities between Shaggy and Maynard are the most noticeable; both characters share the same beatnik-style goatee, similar hairstyles, and demeanours. The core premise of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! was also similar to Enid Blyton's Famous Five books. Both series featured four youths with a dog, and the Famous Five stories would often revolve around a mystery which would invariably turn out not to be mysterious but a plot to disguise the villain's true intents.

The roles of each character are strongly defined in the series: Fred is the leader and the determined detective, Velma is the intelligent analyst, Daphne is danger-prone, and Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are cowardly types more motivated by hunger than any desire to solve mysteries. Later versions of the show would make slight changes to the characters' established roles, most notably in the character of Daphne, shown in 1990s and 2000s Scooby-Doo productions as knowing many forms of karate and having the ability to defend herself, and less of a tendency towards getting kidnapped.
[edit] The New Scooby-Doo Movies

In 1972, after 25 half-hour episodes, the program was doubled to a full hour and called The New Scooby-Doo Movies, each episode of which featured a different guest star helping the gang solve mysteries. Among the most notable of these guest stars were the Harlem Globetrotters, the Three Stooges, Don Knotts and Batman & Robin, each of whom appeared at least twice on the show. Hanna-Barbera musical director Hoyt Curtin composed a new theme song for this series, and Curtin's theme would remain in use for much of Scooby-Doo's original broadcast run. After two seasons and 24 episodes of the New Movies format from 1972 to 1974, the show went to reruns of the original series until Scooby moved to ABC in 1976.
[edit] The Scooby clones
Every episode of the original Scooby-Doo format contains a penultimate scene in which the kids unmask the ghost-of-the-week to reveal a real person in a costume. From Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! season two, episode one ("Nowhere To Hyde", September 12, 1970).

Hanna-Barbera proceeded to repeat the Scooby Doo formula many times over.[11]
[edit] The ABC years
[edit] 1976-1978

On ABC, the show went through almost yearly format changes. For their 1976–1977 season, new episodes of Scooby-Doo were joined with a new Hanna-Barbera show, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, to create The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. (It became The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show when a bonus Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! rerun was added to it in November 1976.) This hour-long package show later evolved into the longer programming blocks Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977–1978) and Scooby's All-Stars (1978–1979).

New Scooby episodes, in the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! format, were produced for each of these three seasons. Nicole Jaffe had retired from acting in 1973, and Pat Stevens took over her role as the voice of Velma. The rest of the voice cast remained the same. Four of these episodes featured Scooby's dim-witted country cousin Scooby-Dum, voiced by Daws Butler, as a semi-regular character. The Scooby-Doo episodes produced during these three seasons were later packaged together for syndication as The Scooby-Doo Show, under which title they continue to air. For the Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and Scooby's All-Stars programming blocks, Scooby-Doo was packaged alongside Laff-A-Lympics, a new Hanna-Barbera cartoon featuring many of its characters in parodies of Olympic sporting events. Scooby-Doo appeared on the show as the team captain of the "Scooby Doobies" team, with Shaggy and Scooby-Dum among his teammates.
[edit] 1979-1984

In 1979, Scooby's tiny nephew Scrappy-Doo was added to both the series and the billing, in an attempt to boost Scooby-Doo's slipping ratings. The 1979–1980 episodes, aired under the title Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, succeeded in regenerating interest in the show. Pat Stevens voiced Velma in the first eleven episodes, but Marla Frumkin took over the role for four episodes. Velma didn't speak in the last episode of the 1979 series.

As a result of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo's success, the entire show was overhauled in 1980 to focus more upon Scrappy-Doo. At this time, Scooby-Doo started to walk and run anthropomorphically on two feet more often, rather than on four like a normal dog as he did previously. Fred, Daphne, and Velma were dropped from the series, and the new Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo format was now composed of three seven-minute comedic adventures starring Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy instead of one half-hour mystery. This version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo aired as part of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show from 1980 to 1982, and as part of The Scooby-Doo/Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour from 1982 to 1983. Most of the supernatural villains in the seven-minute Scooby and Scrappy cartoons, who in previous Scooby series had been revealed to be human criminals in costume, were now real within the context of the series. Daphne returned to the cast for The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show in 1983, which comprised two 11-minute mysteries per episode in a format reminiscent of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! mysteries. This version of the show lasted for two seasons, with the second season airing under the title The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries and featuring semi-regular appearances from Fred and Velma. Marla Frumkin continued voicing Velma.
[edit] The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo

1985 saw the debut of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, which featured Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, and new characters Flim-Flam and Vincent Van Ghoul (based upon and voiced by Vincent Price) traveling the globe to capture "thirteen of the most terrifying ghosts and ghouls on the face of the earth." The final first-run episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo aired in March 1986, and no new Scooby series aired on the network for the next two years. Reruns of previous Scooby episodes, however, continued to air, both as part of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Funhouse package and under the New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show banner.
[edit] A Pup Named Scooby-Doo

Hanna-Barbera reincarnated the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cast as junior high school students for A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, which debuted on ABC in 1988. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was an irreverent, zany re-imagining of the series, heavily inspired by the classic cartoons of Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, and eschewed the quasi-reality of the original Scooby series for a more Looney Tunes-like style, including an episode where Scooby-Doo's parents show up and reveal his real name to be "Scoobert." The retooled show was a success, and lasted until 1991.
[edit] Reruns and revival

Reruns of the show have been in syndication since 1980, and have also been shown on cable television networks such as TBS Superstation (until 1989) and USA Network (as part of the USA Cartoon Express from 1990 to 1994). In 1993, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, having just recently ended its network run on ABC, began reruns on the Cartoon Network. With Ted Turner in control of the Hanna-Barbera library by this time, the Scooby-Doo franchise became exclusive to his networks: Cartoon Network, TBS Superstation, and TNT. Canadian network Teletoon began airing Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in 1997, with the other Scooby series soon following. When TBS and TNT ended their broadcasts of H-B cartoons in 1998, Scooby-Doo became the exclusive property of both Cartoon Network and sister station Boomerang.
[edit] What's New, Scooby-Doo?

In 2002, following the successes of the Cartoon Network reruns and four late-1990s direct-to-video Scooby-Doo releases, the original version of the gang was updated for the 21st century for What's New, Scooby-Doo?, which aired on Kids' WB from 2002 until 2005, with second-run episodes also appearing on Cartoon Network. Unlike previous Scooby series, the show was produced at Warner Bros. Animation, which had absorbed Hanna-Barbera after Turner Broadcasting System's merger with TimeWarner. The show returned to the familiar format of the original series for the first time since 1978, with modern-day technology and culture added to the mix to give the series a more contemporary feel, along with new, digitally-recorded sound effects and music. With Don Messick having died in 1997, Frank Welker took over as Scooby's voice actor, while continuing to provide the voice of Fred as well, and Casey Kasem returned as Shaggy. Grey DeLisle provided the voice of Daphne (she first took the role on Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, replacing Mary Kay Bergman, who committed suicide shortly before the release of Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders) and former Facts of Life star Mindy Cohn voiced Velma. The producer was Chuck Sheetz who has worked on The Simpson's cartoon series.
[edit] Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!

After three seasons, What's New, Scooby-Doo was replaced in September 2006 with Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, a major revamping of the series which debuted on The CW's Kids' WB Saturday morning programming block. The premise centers around Shaggy inheriting money and a mansion from an uncle, an inventor who has gone into hiding from villains trying to steal his secret invention. The villains, led by "Dr. Phibes" (based primarily upon Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers series, and named after Vincent Price's character from The Abominable Dr. Phibes), then use different schemes to try to get the invention from Shaggy and Scooby, who handle the plots alone. Fred, Daphne, and Velma are normally absent, but do make appearances at times to help. The characters were redesigned and the art style revised for the new series. Shaggy and Scooby were slightly developed to make them more charismatic and intelligent due to the adventure-esque pacing.
[edit] Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

Warner Bros. Animation's next Scooby-Doo series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, is being developed for the Cartoon Network. Set in a haunted town known as Crystal Cove, the series debuted on Cartoon Network on April 5, 2010.[12]

In 2005, Scooby-Doo in Stagefright, a live stage play based upon the series, began touring across the world. A follow-up, Scooby-Doo and the Pirate Ghost, followed in 2009.[13]
[edit] Television specials, telefilms, and direct-to-video features

The Scooby-Doo characters first appeared outside of their regular Saturday morning format in Scooby Goes Hollywood, an hour-long ABC television special aired in prime time on December 13, 1979. The special revolved around Shaggy and Scooby's attempts to have the network move Scooby out of Saturday morning and into a prime-time series, and featured spoofs of then-current TV shows and films such as Happy Days, Superman, Laverne & Shirley, and Charlie's Angels.

From 1986 to 1988, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10, a series of syndicated telefilms featuring their most popular characters, including Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons. Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and Shaggy starred in three of these movies: Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987), Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988), and Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988). In addition, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy appeared as the narrators of the made-for-TV movie Arabian Nights, originally broadcast by TBS in 1994 and later released on video as Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights.

Starting in 1998, Warner Bros. Animation and Hanna-Barbera (by then a subsidiary of Warner Bros.), began producing one new Scooby-Doo direct-to-video movie a year. These movies featured a slightly older version of the original five-character cast from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! days. The movies include Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998), Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999), Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000), and Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001). The first set of the direct-to-video movies each had a darker tone than the original cartoons, but it gets lighter in each film. Also in 2001, the Cartoon Network produced Night of the Living Doo, a half-hour parody of the New Scooby-Doo Movies format featuring "special guest stars" David Cross, Gary Coleman, Mark Hamill and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, complete with a classic retro-feel. In 2008, Cartoon Network announced that they were making a Scooby-Doo telefilm that follows the gang when they first met back in high school; the film premiered in 2009.

Scooby Doo returned to Saturday morning with What's New, Scooby-Doo?. To date, these include Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2003), Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003), Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004), Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005), Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005), Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006), Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007), Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King (2008), Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword (2009) and Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2010).

A number of these Scooby-Doo telefilms and direct-to-video features, as well as many of the early-1980s shows featuring Scrappy-Doo, feature the gang encountering actual supernatural beings. In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988), Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy sign up as gym teachers for Miss Grimwood's school for girls, only to find it is actually a school for ghouls, where the trio end up teaching the daughters of Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, the Wolf Man, The Mummy, and the stereotypical ghost monster (Phantasma the Phantom). Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) featured the original 1969 gang, reunited after years of being apart, fighting voodoo-worshiping cat creatures in the Louisiana bayou. Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost featured an author (Tim Curry) returning to his home with the gang, to find out that an event is being haunted by the author's dead great Aunt Sarah, who was an actual witch. The later What's New, Scooby-Doo-based entries in the direct-to-video series returned to the original formula, and are basically extended episodes of the What's New, Scooby-Doo series, with the exceptions of Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico, both of which were done in a retro style, which unlike the newer TV series, made it resemble an old Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? production, complete with the original voice cast and sound effects.
[edit] Live-action Warner Bros. feature films
Warner Bros.' 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo feature film was a box office success, and resulted in a sequel two years later.

A feature-length live-action film version of Scooby-Doo was released by Warner Bros. in 2002. The cast included Freddie Prinze, Jr., as Fred, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Daphne, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and Linda Cardellini as Velma. Scooby-Doo was created on-screen by computer-generated special effects. Scooby-Doo was a successful release, with a domestic box office gross of over $130 million.[14] The film was not well reviewed, but was a great hit with kids and fans of the show.[15] A sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, followed in March 2004, and earned US$84 (€55,98) million at the U.S. box office.[16]

The 2002 film version departed considerably from the standard Scooby-Doo formula in that the paranormal is real and the skepticism of the original series is ridiculed. Various elements of that formula are parodied in both movies. While the first film had generally original characters as the villains (except for one villain revealed as a surprise plot twist), the second film featured several of the monsters from the television series, including the Black Knight, the 10,000 Volt Ghost, the Pterodactyl Ghost, and the Miner 49er, as well as Chickenstein from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. The animated versions of Shaggy and Scooby make a cameo appearance in the 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, complaining to Matthew Lillard about how they were portrayed in the live action films.

A prequel live-action movie (Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins) was released on DVD and simultaneously aired on Cartoon Network on September 13, 2009 (which marked the exact 40th Anniversary of the characters' official debut).[17] A sequel called Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster has been announced and will begin production in 2010.
[edit] Critique and analysis
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[edit] Sexuality

During many of the episodes, Fred and Daphne spend time off screen while Velma, Shaggy and Scooby usually end up encountering the villain. This has led to assumptions that Fred and Daphne are off having sex instead of finding clues.[18]

The Velma character has been called a lesbian icon,[19] while the Scooby-Doo series and direct-to-video films depict her as heterosexual.[18]
[edit] Connection to drug culture

Iwao Takamoto, part of the creative team of the original Scooby-Doo series, states that animators did not place hidden references to drug culture that only "the hippest members of the audience" would appreciate.[20] Later, outside reviewers and the public have made connections between the show and drug culture[20][21], particularly viewing Shaggy and Scooby-Doo's desire for Scooby Snacks[22] and perpetual hunger [23] as signs of marijuana use and drug related "munchies". In an episode of A Pup Named Scooby Doo, "Scooby Dude" Scooby shows his disgust of drugs after Velma mentions it after drugs are found on the villain.

The terms "Scooby Snack" and "Scooby Snacks" in turn have been used to refer to a number of drugs, including cannabis, valium and MDMA [24]
[edit] Critical reaction and awards

While a successful series during its three separate tenures on Saturday morning, Scooby-Doo won no awards for artistic merit during its original series runs. The series has received only two Emmy nominations in its four-decade history: a 1989 Daytime Emmy nomination for A Pup Named Scooby Doo, and a 2003 Daytime Emmy nomination for What's New, Scooby-Doo's Mindy Cohn in the "Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program" category.[citation needed] Like many Hanna-Barbera shows, Scooby-Doo was criticized for poor production values and formulaic storytelling. In 2002, Jamie Malanowski of The New York Times commented that "[Scooby-Doo's] mysteries are not very mysterious, and the humor is hardly humorous. As for the animation -- well, the drawings on your refrigerator may give it competition."[25] Even proponents of the series often comment negatively about the formula inherent in most Scooby episodes.[26] Methodological naturalist Carl Sagan, however, favorably compared the formula to that of most television dealing with paranormal themes, and considered that an adult analogue to Scooby-Doo would be a great public service.[27]

Nevertheless, Scooby-Doo has maintained a significant fan base, which has grown steadily since the 1990s due to the show's popularity among both young children and nostalgic adults who grew up with the series.[28] The show's mix of the comedy-adventure and horror genres is often noted as the reason for its widespread success.[29] As Fred Silverman and the Hanna-Barbera staff had planned when they first began producing the series, Scooby-Doo's ghosts, monsters, and spooky locales tend more towards humor than horror, making them easily accessible to younger children. "Overall, [Scooby-Doo is] just not a show that is going to overstimulate kids' emotions and tensions," offered American Center for Children and Media executive director David Kleeman in a 2002 interview. "It creates just enough fun to make it fun without getting them worried or giving them nightmares.[30]

In recent years, Scooby-Doo has received recognition for its popularity by placing in a number of top cartoon or top cartoon character polls. The August 3, 2002, issue of TV Guide featured its list of the 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time, in which Scooby-Doo placed twenty-second[31] Scooby also ranked thirteenth in Animal Planet's list of the 50 Greatest TV Animals.[32] Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ranked forty-ninth in the UK network Channel 4's 2005 list of the 100 Greatest Cartoons of All Time.[33] For one year from 2004 to 2005, Scooby-Doo held the Guinness World Record for having the most episodes of any animated television series ever produced, a record previously held by and later returned to The Simpsons. Scooby-Doo was published as holding this record in the 2006 edition of the Guinness Book of Records.[34]

Subsequent television shows and films often make reference to Scooby-Doo, for example Wayne's World and the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which Buffy and her monster-slaying friends refer to themselves as the "Scooby Gang" or "Scoobies", a knowing reference to Scooby-Doo (coincidentally, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy, later played Daphne in the live-action movies). A plethora of other media properties have referenced or parodied Scooby-Doo, among them the TV Funhouse segment of NBC's Saturday Night Live, the online comic Sluggy Freelance, the Fox animated series, The Simpsons, and the Cartoon Network program Johnny Bravo and Adult Swim's The Venture Bros., and Adult Swim's Robot Chicken

In January 2009, entertainment website IGN named Scooby-Doo twenty fourth in its list of the Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows.[35].
[edit] Merchandising
A 1966 Chevrolet Sportvan 108, painted to look like the Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo. A number of Scooby fans have decorated vans in this fashion.

The first Scooby-Doo-related merchandise came in the form of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! comic books by Gold Key Comics, which initially contained adaptations of episodes of the cartoon show when publication began in December 1969. The book soon moved to all-original stories, and continued publication until December 1974. It ran for 30 issues. Charlton published Scooby comics, many drawn by Bill Williams, from February 1975 to October 1975, with a total of 11 issues. Since then, Scooby-Doo comics have been published by Marvel Comics (9 issues, written by Mark Evanier and drawn by Dan Spiegle), Harvey Comics (reprints of Charlton, 3 regular issues, 2 Giant size, and 2 big book), Archie Comics (Ran for 21 issues, 1-13 were the only Scooby comics in US to ever feature Scrappy in stories, Archie also made a one shot of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo (Hanna-Barbera Presents #5)), and DC Comics, who continue to publish a monthly Scooby-Doo series. One comic featured references to Hanna, Barbera, Don Messick (the original voice of Scooby), Nicole Jaffe (the original voice of Velma), Frank Welker (current voice of Scooby-Doo and Fred), and Casey Kasem (former/current voice of Shaggy)

Other early Scooby-Doo merchandise included a 1973 Milton Bradley board game, decorated lunch boxes, iron-on transfers, coloring books, story books, records, underwear, and other such goods.[36] When Scrappy-Doo was introduced to the series in 1979, he, Scooby, and Shaggy became the sole foci of much of the merchandising, including a 1983 Milton-Bradley Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo board game. The first Scooby-Doo video game appeared in arcades in 1986, and has been followed by a number of games for both home consoles and personal computers. Scooby-Doo multivitamins also debuted at this time, and have been manufactured by Bayer since 2001.

Scooby-Doo merchandising tapered off during the late 1980s and early 1990s, but increased after the series' revival on Cartoon Network in 1995. Today, all manner of Scooby-Doo-branded products are available for purchase, including Scooby-Doo breakfast cereal, plush toys, action figures, car decorations, and much more. Real "Scooby Snacks" dog treats are produced by Del Monte Pet Products. Hasbro has created a number of Scooby board games, including a Scooby-themed edition of the popular mystery board game Clue. In 2007, the Pressman Toy Corporation released the board game Scooby-Doo! Haunted House. Beginning in 2001, a Scooby-Doo children's book series was authorized and published by Scholastic. These books, written by Suzanne Weyn, include originals stories and adaptations of Scooby theatrical and direct-to-video features.

From 1990 to 2002, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo appeared as characters in the Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida.[37] The ride was replaced in the early 2000s with a Jimmy Neutron attraction, and The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera instead became an attraction at several properties operated by Paramount Parks. Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are costumed characters at Universal Studios Florida, and can be seen driving the Mystery Machine around the park.
[edit] Scooby-Doo filmography
[edit] TV series
Series number Title Broadcast run Original network # of episodes # of seasons
1 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 1969–1972 CBS 25 3
2 The New Scooby-Doo Movies 1972–1974 24 2
3 The Scooby-Doo Show 1 1976–1979 ABC 40 3
4 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo 1979–1980 16 1
5 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo 2 1980–1983 33 3
6 The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show/The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries 3 1983–1985 26 2
7 The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo 1985–1986 13 1
8 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo 1988–1991 30 3
9 What's New, Scooby-Doo? 2002–2006 Kids' WB on The WB 42 3
10 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! 2006–2008 Kids' WB on The CW 26 2
11 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 2010– Cartoon Network[38] TBA TBA
Notes:

1. Aired as part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976), The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show (1976–1977), Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977–78), and Scooby's All-Stars (1978–79). Nine of the sixteen new Scooby episodes from Scooby's All-Stars originally aired under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! banner, although they were repackaged and aired as part of Scooby's All-Stars for the rest of the 1978–79 alongside the other eight new 1978 Scooby-Doo episodes. The 1976–79 Scooby-Doo episodes are now broadcast under the title The Scooby-Doo Show.

2. Aired as part of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (1980–82) and The Scooby-Doo/Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour (1982–83). The Scooby-Doo episodes from these years are now broadcast under the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo title, distinguished from the thirty-minute 1979 episodes of the show by a slightly different opening credits sequence.

3. Aired as The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries from September 1984 to September 1985.

[edit] TV specials and animated telefilms

* Scooby-Doo Goes Hollywood (1979)
* Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987)
* Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)
* Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1989)
* Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)
* Arabian Nights (1994)
* Night of the Living Doo (2001)

[edit] Direct-to-video films

* Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
* Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
* Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000)
* Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001)
* Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2002)
* Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003)
* Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004)
* Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005)
* Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005)
* Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)
* Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007)
* Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King (2008)
* Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword (2009)
* Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2010)

[edit] Live-action films

* Scooby-Doo (2002)
* Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
* Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009, telefilm)
* Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010, telefilm)

[edit] Video games

* Scooby-Doo, a 1986 arcade computer game published by Elite Systems (later re-released on Elite's budget label Encore) and developed by Gargoyle Games for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.
* Scooby-Doo Mystery, two separate games of the same title created in 1995; one for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the other for the Sega Genesis.
* Scooby Doo! Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom, a 1999 mystery computer game developed by Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI) and published by SouthPeak Interactive. The game was released for Microsoft Windows.
* Scooby Doo! Classic Creep Capers, a 2000 console game published by THQ and released for Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color.
* Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, A 2001 console game produced by THQ.
* Scooby-Doo. A 2002 action/puzzle game produced by THQ. The game is based on the 2002 film and was made for the Game Boy Advance.
* Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights, a 2002 console game published by THQ.
* Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem, a 2004 console game developed by A2M and published by THQ.
* Scooby-Doo! Unmasked, a 2005 console game published by THQ.
* Scooby-Doo! Mystery Adventures, created in 2000 by The Learning Company as a CD-ROM for Microsoft Windows. It contained 3 different adventures on three CD-ROMS (sold separately): Scooby-Doo: Showdown in Ghost Town, Scooby-Doo: Phantom of the Knight, and Scooby-Doo: Jinx at the Sphinx.
* Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, a game based on the movie
* Scooby-Doo Case Files, created in 2003 by The Learning Company as a CD-ROM for Microsoft Windows. This is the second version set created by The Learning Company The three games are: Scooby-Doo, Case File No. 1: The Glowing Bug Man, Scooby-Doo Case File #2: The Scary Stone Dragon, and Scooby Doo Case File #3 Frights, Camera, Mystery!
* Scooby-Doo! First Frights (2009)

[edit] Stage plays

* "Scooby-Doo in Stagefright" (2005; world tours in 2005, 2007, 2009)
* "Scooby-Doo and the Pirate Ghost" (2009)

[edit] Voices

* Scooby-Doo
o Don Messick (1969–1997)
o Hadley Kay (1997)
o Scott Innes (1998–2001)
o Neil Fanning (2002 & 2004 live-action films)
o Frank Welker (2002–present)

* Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers
o Casey Kasem (1969–1997, 2002–2009)
o Billy West (1998)
o Scott Innes (1999–2001)
o Scott Menville (Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! 2006–2008)
o Matthew Lillard (live actor 2002 & 2004 live-action films, 2010–present as voice actor)
o Nick Palatas (live actor in the 2009 & 2010 live-action films)

* Fred Jones
o Frank Welker (1969–present)
o Carl Stevens (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, 1988–1991)
o Freddie Prinze, Jr. (live actor in the 2002 & 2004 live-action films)
o Robbie Amell (live actor in the 2009 & 2010 live-action films)

* Daphne Blake
o Indira Stefanianna Christopherson (1969–1970)
o Heather North (Kenney) (1970–1997, 2003)
o Kellie Martin (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, 1988–1991)
o Mary Kay Bergman (1998–2000)
o Grey DeLisle (2001–present)
o Sarah Michelle Gellar (live actor in the 2002 & 2004 live-action films)
o Kate Melton (live actor in the 2009 & 2010 live-action films)



* Velma Dinkley
o Nicole Jaffe (1969–1973, 2003)
o Pat Stevens (1976–1979)
o Marla Frumkin (1979–1980, 1984)
o Christina Lange (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, 1988–1991)
o B. J. Ward (1998–2001)
o Mindy Cohn (2002–present)
o Linda Cardellini (live actor in the 2002 & 2004 live-action films)
o Hayley Kiyoko (live actor in the 2009 & 2010 live-action films)
* Scrappy-Doo
o Lennie Weinrib (1979–1980)
o Don Messick (1980–1986)
o Scott Innes (2002 live-action film)

* Other regular characters
o Daws Butler as Scooby-Dum (recurring, 1976–1978)
o Vincent Price as Vincent Van Ghoul (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, 1985–1986)
o Susan Blu as Flim-Flam (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, 1985–1986)
o Howard Morris as Bogel (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, 1985–1986)
o Arte Johnson as Weerd (The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, 1985–1986)
o Scott Menville as Red Herring (A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, 1988–1991)

[edit] See also

* List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
* Five-College folklore – A campus legend about the show.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ a b CD liner notes: Saturday Mornings: Cartoons’ Greatest Hits, 1995 MCA Records
2. ^ (March 25, 2009). "ADDING MULTIMEDIA Cartoon Network Continues Its Evolution With Largest, Most Diverse Development Slate in Network History" [Press Release]. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
3. ^ William Richter "Action for Children's Television". Museum of Broadcast Communications. Retrieved from http://www.Museum.TV/Archives/etv/A/htmlA/actionforch/actionforch.htm on June 9, 2006.
4. ^ Laurence Marcus & Stephen R. Hulce (October, 2000). "Scooby Doo, Where Are You". Television Heaven. Retrieved from http://www.Televisionheaven.co.uk/scooby.htm on June 9, 2006.
5. ^ a b c Ruby and Spears (2002).
6. ^ Ignacio, Cynthia Quimpo (2002). "Iwao Takamoto: Scooby-Doo and Iawo, Too". Yolk 2.0., vol. 9, issue 3. Los Angeles, CA: Informasian Media Group, Inc.
7. ^ (2006). Interview with Iwao Takamoto. Eerie Mystery of Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt's History [documentary featurette from The Scooby-Doo/Dynomut Hour: The Complete Series DVD bonus features]. New York, Los Angeles, CA: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Excerpt: "The Great Dane was supposed to be the biggest dog around... and there was a woman [at the studio] who actually bred and reared Great Danes. So, she came over, and spent a solid hour describing all of the positive things that makes a prize-winning Great Dane. And I selected about five things, I think, and went in the opposite direction. For instance, a good, strong straight back, so I sloped his back. A strong chin, so I under-swung his chin... and I think straight hind legs she mentioned. So I bowed them..."
8. ^ (2006). Interview with Ken Spears. Eerie Mystery of Scooby-Doo and Dynomutt's History. Excerpt: "That character [Fred] started out... I think his name was 'Geoff'... and then he became 'Harvey'. And then all of a sudden, Fred [Silverman] came in and said [the character] was going to be 'Fred'. So, I guess he had something to do with that."
9. ^ (2008). "Full cast and credits for Scooby-Doo, Where are You! IMDb.com.
10. ^ Evanier, Mark. (July 10, 2002). Post on "News from Me" blog for Povonline.com. Retrieved from http://povonline.com/2002/News060902.htm on March 27, 2006.
11. ^ Burke and Burke, pp 110–111.
12. ^ [1]
13. ^ The Stage review
14. ^ Chris Suellentrop. (March 26, 2004). "Hey Dog! How do you do that Voodoo That You Do So Well?". Slate.com. Retrieved from http://www.Slate.com/id/2097818/ on June 9, 2006.
15. ^ Review of Scooby-Doo. Retrieved on December 19, 2006.
16. ^ (January 27, 2006). "Weekend Box Office preview". Variety. Retrieved from on June 9, 2006.
17. ^ Scooby-Doo: No Big Mystery, Third Live-Action Movie in the Works TVSeriesFinale.com. Retrieved from http://tvseriesfinale.com/articles/scooby-doo-third-live-action-movie-in-the-works-no-big-mystery/ on August 4, 2008
18. ^ a b Burke, Timothy and Burke, Kevin (1998). Saturday Morning Fever : Growing up with Cartoon Culture. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-16996-5. p 106.
19. ^ From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century By David Mansour [2] p. 252.
20. ^ a b Iwao Takamoto: my life with a thousand characters By Iwao Takamoto, Michael Mallory, Willie Ito p. 127-128 [3]
21. ^ Packaging girlhood: rescuing our daughters from marketers' schemes By Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown [4]
22. ^ Saturday morning fever By Timothy Burke, Kevin Burke
23. ^ Spliffs: A Celebration of Cannabis Culture By Nick Jones, Howard Marks [5]
24. ^ The concise new Partridge dictionary of slang and unconventional English By Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor [6]
25. ^ Malanowski, Jamie (May 12, 2002). "One for the Scooby Cognoscenti". The New York Times.
26. ^ Burke and Burke, p 108.
27. ^ Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World (1997). New York: Ballantine Books, p 374.
28. ^ Berardinelli, James (June 2002). Review for Scooby-Doo [feature film]. James Berardinelli's Movie Reviews. Retrieved from http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/s/scooby-doo.html on August 13, 2006. Excerpt: "Unfortunately, there is an audience out there for Scooby-Doo. It is comprised primarily of Generation X'ers, who wax nostalgic about the "classic" cartoon series, and their children, who are too young to know any better."
29. ^ Elias, Justine (Feb. 24, 2002). "Scooby-Doo Forever: The Curious Cachet of a Cowardly Dog." The New York Times. Excerpt: "Both the [Cartoon Network] and children's TV critics point to Scooby's mix of thrills, gas and reassurance as the key to its longevity."
30. ^ Review for Scooby Doo's Original Mysteries DVD. Film Freak Central. Retrieved from http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/scoobydoo.htm on August 13, 2006.
31. ^ (Aug. 22, 2002). 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time". TV Guide.
32. ^ (Jun 20, 2003). "Animal Planet Picks Top 50 TV Animals". Scoop. Retrieved from http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=2787&si=121 on August 13, 2006.
33. ^ (2005). "The 100 Greatest Cartoons of All Time". Channel4.com. Retrieved from http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/G/greatest/cartoons/results.html on August 13, 2006.
34. ^ (25 Oct. 2004). "Scooby-Doo breaks cartoon record". BBC News. Retrieved from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3949579.stm on March 27, 2006.
35. ^ http://tv.ign.com/top-100-animated-tv-series/24.html
36. ^ "Scooby-Doo according ot Wingnut: Collectibles". Wingnuttoons.com. Retrieved from http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Scooby-Doo_Collection2.html on August 12, 2006. Contains an extensive illustrated list of Scooby-Doo-related merchandise, from the 1970s to the present.
37. ^ Stokes, Trey (2002). "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera". Retrieved from http://www.trudang.com/simulatr/hbsim.html on August 12, 2006. Article on the creation of the ride, written by one of its programmers.
38. ^ [7]

[edit] References

* Banks, Clive. "Scooby-Doo". Retrieved from http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/Scooby-Doo%20Intro.htm on September 4, 2005.
* Baxter, Joel (2003). The Complete Scooby-Doo Episode Guide. Originally retrieved from http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/doobydoo.htm on September 3, 2005. Archive of page retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20050311090933/http://www.execulink.com/~joelb/scooby/doobydoo.htm on October 23, 2006.
* Burke, Timothy and Burke, Kevin (1998). Saturday Morning Fever : Growing up with Cartoon Culture. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-16996-5.
* Handy, Aaron III. "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour Episode Guide". Retrieved from http://www.angelfire.com/la/aaronh3d/SDDH.html on September 4, 2005.
* "Hanna-Babera Studios" (and sub-articles). The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved from http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/index.html on September 3, 2005.
* McNeil, Alex (4th ed., 1996). Total Television: The Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-024916-8.
* Ruby, Joe and Spears, Ken (2002). "Scooby Doo...The History of a Classic". Rubyspears.com. Retrieved from http://www.rubyspears.com/scooby.html on March 27, 2006.

[edit] External links

* Official Warner Bros. site
* Scooby-Doo at Cartoon Network
* Scooby-Doo at the Internet Movie Database

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v • d • e
Scooby-Doo!
Main characters
Scooby-Doo · Shaggy Rogers · Daphne Blake · Fred Jones · Velma Dinkley
Minor characters
Scrappy-Doo · Scooby-Dum · Scooby-Dee · Yabba-Doo · The Hex Girls · Vincent Van Ghoul · Flim Flam
Television
shows
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1972) · The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1974) · The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1979) · Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1980) · Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980–1982) · The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show/The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–1985) · The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985-1986) · A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991) · What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002–2006) · Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006–2008) · Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-present)
Package shows
and
programming
blocks
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1977) · Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977–1978) · Scooby's All-Stars (1978–1979) · The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show and Scrappy Too! (1980–1982) · The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour (1982–1983) · Scooby's Mystery Funhouse (1985–1986)
Television films
and specials
Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1977) · Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979) · Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) · Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) · Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) · Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989) · Arabian Nights (1994) · Night of the Living Doo (2001)
Direct-to-video
films
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) · Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999) · Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000) · Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) · Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2002) · Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003) · Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) · Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) · Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy? (2005) · Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006) · Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007) · Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King (2008) · Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword (2009) · Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo (2010)
Live-action
films
Scooby-Doo (theatrical, 2002) · Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (theatrical, 2004) · Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (television, 2009) · Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (television, 2010)
Video games
Scooby-Doo (1986) · Mystery (1995) · Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom (1999) · Mystery Adventures (2000) · Classic Creep Capers (2000) · Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) · Scooby-Doo (2002) · Night of 100 Frights (2002) · Mystery Mayhem (2004) · Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) · Unmasked (2005) · First Frights (2009)
Amusement
rides
Scooby-Doo's Ghoster Coaster (1984) · The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990) · Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster (2002) · Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Mansion (2004)
See also: List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
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