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Scooby Doo History
Scooby Doo, Where are You? in 1969
No cartoon has produced more episodes than Scooby Doo. The cartoon
featuring the loveable dog Scooby and the teenagers Shaggy, Velma,
Daphne, and Fred who solve mysteries has began in 1969. The cowardly
great dane and the mystery solving teens drove around in the Mystery
Machine van and found ghosts and ghouls wherever they stopped. Back in
the early days, the monsters always turned out to be a bad guy in a
costume. The recent cartoon movies have found Scooby Doo running into
real monsters at times. The original season usually included a cool
60's sounding pop song played as the Scooby gang is chased by the bad
guys usually in some sort of haunted looking building or environment.
The favorite line from Scooby Doo proclaimed by the bad guys at the end
of each episode is "I would have gotten away it if it weren't for
you meddling kids!"
New Scooby-Doo Movies 1972
Scooby Doo in 1972 went to the movies sort of. In the New Scooby-Doo
Movies a different guest star appeared in each episode. Guests included
Don Knotts, Batman, the Three Stooges, the Harlem Globe Trotters,
Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Sandy Duncan, Sonny Bono, Cher, the
Addams Family, etc. These episode were fun for the guest stars, but the
shows themselves weren't nearly as funny or as fast paced as Scooby
Doo, Where are You. Some of the guest star choices weren't all that
bright for a Saturday morning cartoon show either. Choices like Phyllis
Diller and Sandy Duncan I wouldn't think would be nearly as popular for
kids as the other guests like the Three Stooges, Globetrotters, Batman,
or the Addams Family. At least I know which ones stood out for me as a
kid.
Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Hour 1976
A half hour of Scooby Doo is backed by 30 minutes of Dynomutt the Dog
Wonder and the Blue Falcon. These two super heroes would occasionally
team up with the Scooby gang during this time. These Scooby episodes
increased in quality from the New Scooby-Doo Movies episodes.
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics 1977
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Scooby Doo teams up with Hong Kong Phooey, Blue Falcon, Dynomutt,
Captain Caveman, and Speed Buggy to compete in a Olympic style contests
against the Really Rottens (the bad guys), and the Yogi Yahooeys (old
school Hanna Barbera characters led by Yogi Bear).
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Scooby and Scrappy 1979
Joining the gang is Scooby's pint-sized nephew, Scrappy-Doo. A lot of fans have
issues with Scrappy and his war cry, " Puppy Power!". Still
the quality is a step up from the New Scooby-Doo Movies.
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Hour 1980
One hour sharing episodes between Scooby and Richie Rich. The thing I
never understood was these weird pairings of characters who never
actually meet on their individual episodes. I mean why Richie Rich and
Scooby Doo together. Wouldn't Casper and Richie Rich make better since
they often teamed up in the comic books.
Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy act goofy, and unlike its predecessors, this is not a mystery series. The gang is cut
down to Daphne, Shaggy, and Scooby with Scrappy of course. There is no
Fred or Velma. I guess the biggest mystery of Scooby Doo is where did
these guys go for a while.
The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour 1982
Half of the show is Scooby, Scrappy, and a new dog named Yabba Doo.
The other half is cartoon about a puppy named Petey who searches for
his master every episode.
The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show 1983
Scooby adventures with Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy.
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries 1984
More of the same with Scrappy Doo a few episodes feature Velma and
Fred.
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo 1985
The series takes a unique turn here. Scooby faces real monsters
with the aide of Daphne, Scrappy, an orphan named Flim Flam and warlock
Vincent Van Ghoul. Vincent is voiced by Vincent Price the classic
horror actor. Still no Fred or Velma where are they?
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo 1988
Scooby Doo adventures return except this time Scooby and the Mystery
gang are kids. Fred and Velma are back of course since this is supposed
to be in the past.
Scooby Doo DVD Movies 1998
"Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island -
11"" x 17"" Masterprint Poster - Style A"
1988
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Scooby reunites with the gang after a long Scoobyless decade on the
first of several straight to dvd video releases Scooby-Doo on Zombie
Island. This one shows where all the gang has been the whole
time. Daphne is now a talk show host, Fred is her producer and personal camera man, Velma runs a mystery book store and Shaggy and Scooby work at an airport checking
luggage.
What's New, Scooby-Doo? 2002
The whole gang is back after a long while with no Scooby Doo on tv.
This is the year of Doo has Scooby gets his own live action big budget
cgi movie. Movie ad line - "Throughout The Ages, One Hero Has
Cowered Above The Rest."
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