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176-513: A Scrappy and Yabba-Doo short featuring Scrappy-Doo and his Western deputy uncle Yabba-Doo, and The Puppy's New Adventures , based on characters from a 1977 Ruby-Spears TV special. Despite the popularity, this was negatively hated by fans for how it dropped the mystery format and other main characters like Fred, Daphne, and Velma. Beginning in 1980, a half-hour of reruns from previous incarnations of Scooby-Doo were broadcast on ABC Saturday mornings in addition to first-run episodes. Airing under
264-688: A Clue! (2006–08) Mystery Incorporated episodes (2010–13) Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! (2015–18) Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2019–21) Velma (2023–24) Package shows and programming blocks The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–77) Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics/Scooby's All-Stars (1977–78) The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (1980–81) The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour (1982) Scary Scooby Funnies (1984–85) Scooby's Mystery Funhouse (1985–86) Television films and specials Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978) Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979) Scooby-Doo Meets
352-428: A Great Dane instead of a sheepdog. During the design phase, lead character designer Takamoto consulted a studio colleague who was 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. Ruby and Spears' second pass at
440-913: A Million Drums " " Don't Wanna Think About You " (2004) Scoob! (2020) Miscellaneous Lego Scooby-Doo " Scoobynatural " Related " Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery " (1999) " Shaggy Busted " (2002) " One Hundred " (2010) Saturday Morning Mystery (2012) " Saturday Morning Fun Pit " (2013) The Demon Road Trilogy (2016) Meddling Kids (2017) Lost Mysteries [REDACTED] Category Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lost_Mysteries&oldid=1249525354 " Categories : Parodies of Scooby-Doo Parodies of horror Hidden categories: All articles lacking reliable references Articles lacking reliable references from September 2024 Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo
528-419: A ghost, they decide to investigate. The kids split up to look for clues and suspects, while being chased at turns by the monster. Eventually, the kids come to realize the paranormal activity is actually an elaborate hoax, and—often with the help of a Rube Goldberg -like trap designed by Fred—they capture the creature suit -wearing villain and unmask him or her. Revealed usually as a flesh and blood crook who used
616-553: A large cowardly dog or a small feisty one. When the former was chosen, Ruby and Spears wrote Too Much as a Great Dane but revised the dog character to a large sheepdog (similar to the Archies' sheepdog, Hot Dog ) just before their presentation to Silverman, as Ruby feared the character would be too similar to the comic strip character Marmaduke . Silverman rejected their initial pitch, and after consulting with Barbera on next steps, got Barbera's permission to go ahead with Too Much being
704-473: A large stake in the company. Cinedigm intends to expand Bloody Disgusting on a large scale. In October 2021, Cinedigm assigned management of their subsidiary streaming service Screambox, to the Bloody Disgusting team. The collaboration will reinvent the streaming service, with intent to expand its content and original releases. In November 2022, the relaunch of the new "Bloody Disgusting approved" Screambox
792-531: A new Hanna-Barbera show, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder , to create The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (the show became The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show when a bonus Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! rerun was added to the package in November 1976). Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, now working for Silverman as supervisors of the ABC Saturday-morning programs, returned the program to its original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! format, with
880-456: 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 now consisted of three seven-minute comedic adventures starring Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy instead of one half-hour mystery. 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
968-848: A separate half-hour under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! banner. After nine weeks, the separate Where Are You! broadcast was cancelled, and the remainder of the 16 new 1978 episodes debuted during the Scooby's All-Stars block. The 40 total Scooby-Doo episodes produced from 1976 to 1978 were later packaged together for syndication as The Scooby-Doo Show , under which title they continue to air. 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 attempting to convince
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#17330926716531056-588: A series of syndicated television films 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 films: Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987), Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988), and Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988). These three films took their tone from
1144-670: A series of antics and missteps, while traveling using a brightly colored van called the "Mystery Machine". The franchise has several live-action films and shows. Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to ABC . ABC aired various versions of Scooby-Doo until canceling it in 1986, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children called A Pup Named Scooby-Doo from 1988 until 1991. Two Scooby-Doo reboots aired as part of Kids' WB on The WB and its successor The CW from 2002 until 2008. Further reboots were produced for Cartoon Network beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2018. Repeats of
1232-446: A strict vegetarian, relinquished the role of Shaggy after having to provide the voice for a 1995 Burger King commercial. Therefore, Scott Innes took over as both Scooby-Doo and Shaggy ( Billy West voiced Shaggy in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island ). B.J. Ward took over as Velma, and Mary Kay Bergman voiced Daphne until her death in November 1999, and was replaced by Grey DeLisle . These first four direct-to-video films differed from
1320-522: A teenage rock group, this time featuring teens who solved mysteries between gigs. Silverman envisioned the show as a cross between the popular I Love a Mystery radio serials of the 1940s and the Archie characters or the popular early 1960s television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis . After attempting to develop his version of the show, called House of Mystery , Barbera, who developed and sold Hanna-Barbera shows while Hanna produced them, passed
1408-534: A variety of guest stars to solve mysteries. Guest stars included Halsey , Sia , Bill Nye , Mark Hamill , Neil deGrasse Tyson , Ricky Gervais , Kenan Thompson , and Chris Paul . The series also includes fictional guest stars, including Steve Urkel (played by Jaleel White ), Batman (played by Kevin Conroy ), Wonder Woman (played by Rachel Kimsey ), the Flash , and Sherlock Holmes . The remaining eleven episodes of
1496-655: A year, beginning in 1998. These films featured a slightly older version of the original five-character cast from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! days. The first four DTV entries were 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). Frank Welker was the only original voice cast member to return for these productions. Don Messick had died in 1997 and Casey Kasem,
1584-410: Is a reboot of the franchise, re-establishing the characters' relationships, personalities, and locations, and expanding their world to feature their parents, high school, and neighbors. The series also borrowed pieces from many parts of Scooby-Doo's long history, as well as characters and elements of other Hanna-Barbera shows to form its back story and the bases of some of its episodes. Matthew Lillard
1672-1110: Is a series of artworks by artist Travis Falligant. The series functions as both a parody of Scooby-Doo and horror films . The early artworks simply portray the Scooby Gang coming across classic horror film characters (mostly slasher killers ) drawn as to look like screenshots from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! show, later images sometimes feature The New Scooby-Doo Movies style title screens with guest star like appearances from horror film personalities. A few pieces do not feature horror themes but instead controversial or provocative figures of entertainment , such as persons associated with exploitation films . See also [ edit ] List of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes List of The New Scooby-Doo Movies episodes Lists of horror film characters Notes [ edit ] ^ Attributed to multiple sources. References [ edit ] ^ Joey Paur (2014). "Scooby-Doo Lost Mysteries Art Series by IBTrav" . GeekTyrant. Archived from
1760-501: Is an American media franchise owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment and created in 1969 by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears through their animated series , Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! , for Hanna-Barbera (which was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001). The series features four teenagers: Fred Jones , Daphne Blake , Velma Dinkley , and Shaggy Rogers , and their talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo , who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through
1848-482: Is the intelligent analyst, Daphne is danger-prone, Shaggy is a coward more motivated by hunger than any desire to solve mysteries, and Scooby is similar to Shaggy, save for a Bob Hope -inspired tendency towards temporary bravery. Later versions of the show made slight changes to the characters' established roles, such as showing the Daphne in 1990s and 2000s Scooby-Doo productions as knowing many forms of karate and having
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#17330926716531936-496: The New Movies format from 1972 to 1973, CBS began airing reruns of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! series until its option on the series expired in 1976. Now president of ABC , Fred Silverman made a deal with Hanna-Barbera to bring new episodes of Scooby-Doo to the ABC Saturday-morning lineup, where the show went through almost yearly lineup changes. For their 1976–77 season, 16 new episodes of Scooby-Doo were joined with
2024-544: 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 Cartoon Network. With Turner Broadcasting purchasing Hanna-Barbera in 1991, in 1994 the Scooby-Doo franchise became exclusive to the Turner networks: Cartoon Network, TBS Superstation, and TNT . Canadian network Teletoon began airing Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in 1997, with
2112-470: The ABC lineup the following March, no new Scooby series aired on the network for the next two years. Hanna-Barbera reincarnated the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cast as elementary school students (a common trope in 1980s children's TV) for a new series titled A Pup Named Scooby-Doo , which debuted on ABC in 1988. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was an irreverent re-imagining of the series, heavily inspired by
2200-582: The Beach Beastie (2015) Lego Scooby-Doo! Knight Time Terror (2015) Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now! (2021) Direct-to-video animated 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 (2003) Scooby-Doo! and
2288-481: The Beach Beastie , the sixth direct-to-video special, was released on the Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Surf's Up Scooby-Doo DVD. Bloody Disgusting Bloody Disgusting is an American independent multi-media company, which began as a horror genre -focused news website specializing in information services that covered various horror media. The company expanded into other media including podcast networking, entertainment, and streaming media. Bloody Disgusting
2376-567: 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) Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights (1994) The Scooby-Doo Project (1999) Night of the Living Doo (2001) Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays (2012) Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace (2013) Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals (2014) Scooby-Doo! and
2464-683: The Chan Clan (1972–73), Speed Buggy (1973–74), Goober and the Ghost Chasers (1973–74), Jabberjaw (1976–78), and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977–80). In the fall of 1972, new one-hour episodes under the title The New Scooby-Doo Movies were created; each episode featuring a real or fictitious guest star helping the gang solve mysteries, including characters from other Hanna-Barbera series such as Harlem Globetrotters , Josie and
2552-776: The Cyber Chase (2001) Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights (2002) Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem (2004) Scooby-Doo! Unmasked (2005) Scooby-Doo! Who's Watching Who? (2006) Scooby-Doo! First Frights (2009) Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Swamp (2010) Lego Dimensions (2015) MultiVersus (2022) Amusement rides The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990) Scooby's Ghoster Coaster (1998) Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion (2001) Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster (2002) Comic books Scooby Apocalypse (2016–19) Music Scooby-Doo's Snack Tracks: The Ultimate Collection (1998) Scooby-Doo (2002) " Land of
2640-476: The Galaxy Trio , and virtually all of them were canceled by 1969 because of pressure from the parent groups. Members of these watch groups served as advisers to Hanna-Barbera and other animation studios to ensure that new programs would be safe for children. Fred Silverman , an executive for daytime programming at CBS , was then looking for a show that would both revitalize his Saturday-morning line and please
2728-603: The Lake Monster (2010) Direct-to-video Daphne & Velma (2018) Animated theatrical films Scoob! (2020) Scoob! Holiday Haunt (unreleased) Video games Scooby-Doo (1986) Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1991) Scooby-Doo Mystery (1995) Scooby-Doo! Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom (1999) Scooby-Doo! Mystery Adventures (2000) Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers (2000) Scooby-Doo and
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2816-707: 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) Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010) Scooby-Doo! Legend of
2904-658: The Network Stars -esque parodies of Olympic sporting events. Scooby was seen as the team captain of the Laff-a-Lympics "Scooby-Doobies" team, which also featured Shaggy and Scooby-Dum among its members. Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics was retitled Scooby's All Stars for the 1978–79 season, reduced to 90 minutes when Dynomutt was spun off into its own half-hour and the 1969 reruns were dropped. Scooby's All-Stars continued broadcasting reruns of Scooby-Doo from 1976 and 1977, while new episodes of Scooby-Doo aired during
2992-641: The October 2012 release Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Holiday Chills and Thrills , and Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Scarecrow and Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace , from the September 2013 DVD releases Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Run for Your 'Rife! and Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Ruh-Roh Robot! . On May 13, 2014, another episode, Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals was released on the Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Field of Screams DVD. On May 5, 2015, Scooby-Doo! and
3080-630: The Phantosaur (2011) Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire (2012) Big Top Scooby-Doo! (2012) Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2013) Scooby-Doo! Adventures: The Mystery Map (2013) Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright (2013) Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014) Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014) Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness (2015) Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery (2015) Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood (2016) Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of
3168-558: The Pussycats and Speed Buggy , the comic book characters Batman and Robin (adapted into their own Hanna-Barbera series, Super Friends , a year later), and celebrities such as Sandy Duncan , The Addams Family , Cass Elliot , Phyllis Diller , Don Knotts and The Three Stooges . Hanna-Barbera musical director Hoyt Curtin composed a new theme song for this series, and Curtin's theme remained in use for much of Scooby-Doo's original broadcast run. After two seasons and 24 episodes of
3256-505: The Scoob (2021) Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021) Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! (2022) Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too! (2023) Live action films Theatrical Scooby-Doo (2002) Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004) TV movies Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009) Scooby-Doo! Curse of
3344-616: The Speed Demon (2016) Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017) Lego Scooby-Doo! Blowout Beach Bash (2017) Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018) Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018) Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019) Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019) Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! (2020) Scooby-Doo! The Sword and
3432-478: The Speed Demon . Beginning in 2012, Warner Bros. Animation began producing direct-to-video special episodes in the style of the concurrently produced films for inclusion on Scooby-Doo compilation DVD sets otherwise including episodes from previous Scooby series. These include Scooby-Doo! Spooky Games , included on the July 2012 release Scooby-Doo! Laff-A-Lympics: Spooky Games , Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays , from
3520-443: The ability to defend herself, and reducing her tendency towards being kidnapped. Scooby-Doo itself influenced many other Saturday-morning cartoons of the 1970s. During that decade, Hanna-Barbera and its rivals produced several animated programs also featuring teenage detectives solving mysteries with a pet or mascot of some sort, including Josie and the Pussycats (1970–71), The Funky Phantom (1971–72), The Amazing Chan and
3608-480: The addition of Scooby's dim-witted country cousin Scooby-Dum , voiced by Daws Butler , as a recurring character. The voice cast was held over from The New Scooby-Doo Movies save for Nicole Jaffe, who retired from acting in 1973. Pat Stevens took over her role as the voice of Velma. Then Joe Ruby and Ken Spears left again to start their own studio in 1977 as competition for Hanna-Barbera. They would remain away for
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3696-543: The basic mystery-solving format of its predecessors, was broadcast as a 52-chapter animated televised novel and included elements similar to live-action mystery/adventure shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lost . An overarching mystery surrounding the gang's hometown of Crystal Cove, California became the series' main story arc , with pieces to the mystery unfolding episode by episode. Also featured were romantic entanglements and interpersonal conflict between
3784-472: The character until 1997. The TV influences of I Love a Mystery and Dobie Gillis were apparent in the first episode. Of the similarities between the Scooby-Doo teens and the Dobie Gillis teens, the similarities between Shaggy and Maynard are the most noticeable; both characters share the same beatnik -style goatee , similar hairstyles, and demeanors. The core premise of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
3872-422: The classic cartoons of Tex Avery and Bob Clampett , and eschewed the realistic aesthetic 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". At the same time, the series returned to its original formula in that the group unmasked human villains in costume, as opposed to the supernatural monsters of
3960-542: The context of the series. This version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo first aired from 1980 to 1982 as part of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show , an hour-long program also featuring episodes of Hanna-Barbera's new Richie Rich cartoon, adapted from the Harvey Comics character. From 1982 to 1983, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo were part of The Scooby-Doo/Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour , a co-production with Ruby-Spears Productions which featured two Scooby and Scrappy shorts,
4048-531: The costume to cover up their crimes, the villain is arrested and taken to jail, often with the catchphrase "if it weren't for those pesky/meddling kids". A few times though, the "villain" turns out to be innocent, such as a haywire robot or the owner disguised to scare away thieves. Scheduled opposite another teenage mystery-solving show, ABC's The Hardy Boys , Scooby-Doo became a ratings success, with Nielsen ratings reporting that as many as 65% of Saturday-morning audiences were tuned in to CBS when Scooby-Doo
4136-487: The debut of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo , which featured Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, and new characters Flim-Flam (voiced by Susan Blu ) and Vincent Van Ghoul (based upon and voiced by Vincent Price ) traveling the globe to capture "thirteen of the most terrifying ghosts upon the face of the earth." The final first-run episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo aired in December 1985, and after its reruns were removed from
4224-433: The direct-to-video series while also producing new Scooby-Doo series for television. The direct-to-video productions continued to be produced concurrently with at least one entry per year. Two of these entries, Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (both 2003) were produced in a retro-style reminiscent of the original series, and featured Heather North and Nicole Jaffe as
4312-426: The early to mid-1980s. The series also established "Coolsville" as the name of the gang's hometown; this setting was retained for several of the later Scooby productions. The retooled show was a success, remaining in production for four seasons and on ABC's lineup until 1991. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo was developed and produced by Tom Ruegger , who had been the head story editor on Scooby-Doo since 1983. Following
4400-545: The early-1980s Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo entries, and featured the characters encountering actual monsters and ghosts rather than masqueraded people. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy later appeared as the narrators of the television film Arabian Nights , originally broadcast by TBS in 1994, Don Messick 's final outing as the original voice of Scooby-Doo. Reruns of Scooby-Doo 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
4488-969: The end of his recording of " Strangers in the Night " on a red-eye flight to one of the development meetings, and decided to rename the dog " Scooby-Doo " and retitled the show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The revised show was re-presented to CBS executives, who approved it for production. The first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! "What a Night for a Knight" debuted on the CBS network Saturday, September 13, 1969, at 10:30 AM Eastern Time. The original voice cast featured Don Messick as Scooby-Doo, Casey Kasem as Shaggy, Frank Welker as Fred, actress Nicole Jaffe as Velma, and Indira Stefanianna as Daphne. Scooby's speech patterns closely resembled an earlier cartoon dog, Astro from The Jetsons (1962–63), also voiced by Messick. Seventeen episodes of Scooby-Doo Where Are You! were produced in 1969–70. The series theme song
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#17330926716534576-542: The first season of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo , Ruegger and much of his unit defected from Hanna-Barbera to Warner Bros. Animation to develop Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures and later Animaniacs , Pinky and the Brain , and Freakazoid! . In 2002, following the successes of the Cartoon Network reruns, the direct to video franchise, and the first feature film, Scooby-Doo returned to Saturday morning for
4664-493: The first time in a decade with What's New, Scooby-Doo? , which aired on Kids' WB from 2002 until 2006. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the show follows the format of the original series but places it in the 21st century, featuring a heavy promotion of modern technology (computers, DVD, the Internet, cell phones) and culture. Beginning with this series, Frank Welker took over as Scooby's voice actor, while continuing to provide
4752-547: The gang, to find out that an event is being haunted by the author's dead ancestor Sarah, who was an actual witch. The Witch's Ghost introduced a goth rock band known as The Hex Girls, who became recurring characters in the Scooby-Doo franchise. Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase was the final production made by the Hanna-Barbera studio, which was absorbed into parent company Warner Bros. Animation following William Hanna's death in 2001. Warner Animation continued production of
4840-438: The lead characters. The series ran for 52 episodes over two seasons, with a three-part finale airing across April 4 and 5, 2013—exactly three years from the debut. On March 10, 2014, Cartoon Network announced several new series based on classic cartoons, including a new Scooby-Doo animated series titled Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! . The show features the gang "living it up" the summer after the gang's senior year of high school. Along
4928-766: The main franchise, taking place before the formation of Mystery Inc., and does not include Scooby-Doo himself. Unlike in the previous series and films, the main characters (and main voice cast) in Velma are multi-racial. On April 29, 2024, Deadline reported that a live action Scooby-Doo! series is in development by Berlanti Productions on Netflix titled Scooby-Doo! The Live-Action Series , with Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg writing; and Greg Berlanti , Sarah Schechter , Leigh London Redman, André Nemec , Jeff Pinkner , Jonathan Gabay and Midnight Radio's Adrienne Erickson executive producing. From 1987 to 1988, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 ,
5016-413: The movies were distributed by the conglomerate through The Collective's partnership with Vivendi Universal and on DVD, Blu-ray and VOD platforms. In October 2021, Cineverse (then named Cinedigm) purchased Bloody Disgusting from co-owners/co-founders Brad Miska and Tom Owen, business partners Peter Lutrell and Heather Lutrell, and part-owner Michael Green whose company The Collective had previously owned
5104-436: The network to move Scooby out of Saturday morning and into a prime-time series, and featured spoofs of then-current television series and films such as Happy Days , Superman: The Movie , Laverne & Shirley and Charlie's Angels . 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 1979–80 episodes, aired under
5192-483: The new premise, Shaggy inherits 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
5280-552: The new title Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo as an independent half-hour show, succeeded in regenerating interest in the show. Lennie Weinrib voiced Scrappy in the 1979–80 episodes, with Don Messick assuming the role thereafter. Marla Frumkin replaced Pat Stevens as the voice of Velma mid-season. 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
5368-453: The original on 2024-08-07 . Retrieved 2019-04-20 . ^ Ryan Turek (August 28, 2014). "New Scooby-Doo Lost Mysteries Include The Burning, Fright Night, Sleepaway Camp and More" . Comingsoon.net . Archived from the original on October 12, 2022 . Retrieved April 20, 2019 . ^ Turek, Ryan (September 1, 2014). "Scooby-Doo Lost Mysteries Continue! Hatchet! Chainsaw 2! Deadly Friend!" . Comingsoon.net . Archived from
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5544-999: The original on April 23, 2019 . Retrieved April 23, 2019 . External links [ edit ] Lost Mysteries on IBTrav.com v t e Scooby-Doo List of media film Characters Scooby-Doo Shaggy Rogers Velma Dinkley Daphne Blake Fred Jones Scrappy-Doo The Hex Girls Television series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes (1969–70; 1978) The New Scooby-Doo Movies episodes (1972–73) The Scooby-Doo Show episodes (1976–78) Laff-A-Lympics (1977–78) Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–80) Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980–82) The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show/The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–84) The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) A Pup Named Scooby-Doo episodes (1988–91) What's New, Scooby-Doo? episodes (2002–06) Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get
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5896-479: The original series format by placing the characters in plots with a darker tone and pitting them against actual supernatural forces. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island , 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 (voice of Tim Curry ) returning to his Massachusetts hometown with
5984-491: 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 . With Scooby-Doo's restored popularity in reruns on Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation and Hanna-Barbera (by then a subsidiary of Warner Bros. following the merger of Time Warner and Turner Entertainment in 1996) began producing one new Scooby-Doo direct-to-video film
6072-556: 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. Scott Menville voiced Shaggy in the series, with Casey Kasem appearing as the voice of Shaggy's Uncle Albert. Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! ran for two seasons on The CW. The next Scooby series, Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated , premiered on Cartoon Network on April 5, 2010. The first Scooby series produced for cable television, Mystery Incorporated
6160-573: The rest of the 1980s. For the 1977–78 season, The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show became the two-hour programming block Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (1977–78) with the addition of Laff-a-Lympics and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels . In addition to eight new episodes of Scooby-Doo and reruns of the 1969 show, Scooby-Doo also appeared during the All-Star block's Laff-a-Lympics series, which featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters competing in Battle of
6248-462: The same, decided to pass on it. Now without a centerpiece for the upcoming season's programming, Silverman had Ruby, Spears, and the Hanna-Barbera staff revise the treatments and presentation materials to tone down the show and better reflect its comedy elements. The rock band element was dropped, and more attention was focused on Shaggy and Too Much. According to Ruby and Spears, Silverman was inspired by Frank Sinatra 's scat "doo-be-doo-be-doo" at
6336-441: The second season were released through the streaming service on October 1, 2021. Velma is an adult-oriented animated series which premiered on HBO Max on January 12, 2023. It ran for two seasons, and marked the first full original Scooby Doo related show on HBO Max since the previous series Guess Who? was picked up by it at the end of its run (originating on Boomerang). The series is an alternate reality prequel and spinoff to
6424-697: The show used Dobie Gillis as the template for the teenagers rather than Archie . The treatment retained the dog Too Much, while reducing the number of teenagers to four, removing the Mike character and retaining Geoff, Kelly, Linda, and W.W. As their personalities were modified, so were the characters' names: Geoff became "Ronnie" —later renamed " Fred " (at Silverman's behest), Kelly became " Daphne ", Linda " Velma ", and W.W. " Shaggy ". The teens were now based on four teenage characters from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis : Dobie Gillis , Thalia Menninger, Zelda Gilroy and Maynard G. Krebs , respectively. The revised show
6512-472: The successful V/H/S franchise . In 2011, Bloody Disgusting partnered with The Collective and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. to create a distribution company named Bloody Disgusting Selects. The new subsidiary specialized in providing a wider release for independent filmmakers. The company purchased distribution rights from movies that were initially released at film festivals, with locations at AMC Theatres handling exclusive theatrical release. After this,
6600-593: The task along to story writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears , as well as artist/character designer Iwao Takamoto . Their treatment, based in part on The Archie Show , was titled Mysteries Five and featured five teenagers: Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, and Linda's brother W.W., along with their bongo -playing dog, Too Much, who collectively formed the band Mysteries Five. 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
6688-467: The titles Scooby-Doo Classics , Scary Scooby Funnies , The Best of Scooby-Doo , and Scooby's Mystery Funhouse , the rerun package remained on the air until the end of the 1986 season. Scooby-Doo was restored to a standalone half-hour in 1983 with The 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. Heather North returned to
6776-827: The various Scooby-Doo series are frequently broadcast on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang in the United States and other countries. The most recent Scooby-Doo series, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? , premiered on June 27, 2019, as an original series on Boomerang's streaming service and later HBO Max . In 2013, TV Guide ranked Scooby-Doo the fifth-greatest TV cartoon of all time. In 1968, parent-run organizations , particularly Action for Children's Television (ACT), began protesting what they perceived as excessive violence in Saturday-morning cartoons. Most of these shows were Hanna-Barbera action cartoons such as Space Ghost , The Herculoids , and Birdman and
6864-470: The voice cast as Daphne, who in this incarnation solved mysteries with Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy while working undercover as a reporter for a teen magazine. This version of the show lasted for two seasons, with the second season airing under the title The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries . The 1984–85 season episodes featured semi-regular appearances from Fred and Velma, with Frank Welker and Marla Frumkin resuming their respective roles for these episodes. 1985 saw
6952-475: The voice of Fred as well. Casey Kasem returned as Shaggy, on the condition that the character be depicted as a vegetarian like Kasem himself. Grey DeLisle continued to voice Daphne, and former Facts of Life star Mindy Cohn voiced Velma. The series was produced by Chuck Sheetz , who had worked on The Simpsons . In September 2006 a new show entitled, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! , debuted on The CW 's Kids' WB Saturday-morning programming block. In
7040-488: The voices of Daphne and Velma, respectively. Later entries produced between 2004 and 2009 were done in the style of What's New, Scooby-Doo , using that show's voice cast. Entries from 2010 on use the original 1969 designs and feature Matthew Lillard as the voice of Shaggy, the character Lillard portrayed in the live-action theatrical Scooby-Doo films. Two Scooby-Doo! movies were released in 2016, named Lego Scooby-Doo! Haunted Hollywood and Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of
7128-453: The watch groups. The result was The Archie Show from Filmation , based on 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). Eager to build upon this success, Silverman contacted producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera about creating another show based on
7216-511: The way, they run into monsters and mayhem. The series premiered October 5, 2015 on Cartoon Network and concluded on March 18, 2018. The Scooby-Doo series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? premiered on the Boomerang streaming service and app on June 27, 2019. It ran for two seasons, with the second half of the second season airing on HBO Max . The series features the Mystery Inc. gang teaming up with
7304-456: Was also similar to Enid Blyton 's Famous Five books. Both series featured four youths with a dog, and the Famous Five stories often revolved around a mystery which invariably turned out not to be supernaturally based, but simply a ruse to disguise the villain's true intent. The role of each character was strongly defined in the series: Fred is the leader and the determined detective, Velma
7392-485: Was being broadcast. The show was renewed for a second season in 1970, for which eight episodes were produced. Seven of the second-season episodes featured chase sequences set to bubblegum pop songs recorded by Austin Roberts , who also re-recorded the theme song for this season. With Stefanianna Christopherson having married and retired from voice acting, Heather North assumed the role of Daphne, and she continued to voice
7480-505: Was brought over from the live-action theatrical series as the new voice of Shaggy, while Welker, Cohn, and DeLisle continued in their respective roles. Patrick Warburton , Linda Cardellini , Lewis Black , Vivica A. Fox , Gary Cole , Udo Kier , Tim Matheson , Tia Carrere , and Kate Higgins were added as new semi-regular cast members. Casey Kasem appeared in a recurring role as Shaggy's father, one of his last roles before retiring due to declining health. The series, while still following
7568-471: Was founded in 2001 by Brad Miska (under the pseudonym "Mr. Disgusting") and Tom Owen, who run the site along with current managing editor John Squires. By 2007, the site had 1.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month. In September 2007 a minority stake was purchased by The Collective, a Beverly Hills –based management company. In 2011 Bloody Disgusting began distributing and producing films that have gone on to win awards and spawned
7656-416: Was re-pitched to Silverman, who liked the material but, disliking the title Mysteries Five , decided to call the show Who's S-S-Scared? Silverman presented Who's S-S-Scared? to the CBS executives as the centerpiece for the upcoming 1969–70 season's Saturday-morning cartoon block. CBS president Frank Stanton felt that the presentation artwork was too scary for young viewers and, thinking the show would be
7744-460: Was written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh, and performed by Larry Marks. Each of these episodes features Scooby and the four teenage members of Mystery, Inc.— Fred , Shaggy , Daphne , and Velma —arriving at a location in the Mystery Machine, a van painted with psychedelic colors and flower power imagery. Encountering a purportedly supernatural monster terrorizing the local populace, such as
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