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What is Scooby-Doo?

Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon series featuring the adventures of Scooby-Doo, a talking Great Dane, and his mystery-solving teenage companions.

What was the original Scooby-Doo series called?

The original Scooby-Doo-based cartoon series was Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–70), which established the basic template for more than 30 years of stories.

Who were the characters in Scooby-Doo?

Scooby-Doo characters include the cowardly and gluttonous but good-natured dog Scooby-Doo, who traveled around the United States in a van called the Mystery Machine with four young friends, the Mystery, Inc., gang: slacker Shaggy, shrewd ascot-wearing group leader Fred, beautiful but “danger-prone” Daphne, and brainy, tomboyish Velma. They were later joined by Scooby’s brash nephew, Scrappy-Doo.

When did the original Scooby-Doo make its debut?

The original Scooby-Doo series debuted in 1969 and quickly achieved great success. Joe Ruby and Ken Spears developed the series, which was conceived by CBS television executive Fred Silverman.

When was the first live-action Scooby-Doo film released?

The first live-action Scooby-Doo film was released in 2002, featuring a computer-animated Scooby. It was called Scooby-Doo.

Scooby-Doo, American animated cartoon series featuring the adventures of Scooby-Doo, a talking Great Dane, and his mystery-solving teenage companions.

The original Scooby-Doo-based cartoon series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–70), established the basic template for more than 30 years of stories. The dog—cowardly and gluttonous but good-natured—traveled around the United States in a van called the Mystery Machine with four young friends, the Mystery, Inc., gang: slacker Shaggy (voiced for most of the series by disc jockey Casey Kasem, longtime host of the countdown show American Top 40), shrewd ascot-wearing group leader Fred, beautiful but “danger-prone” Daphne, and brainy, tomboyish Velma (the group was later joined by Scooby’s brash nephew, Scrappy-Doo). Scooby and his owner, Shaggy (one of the first serial abusers of the word like), were generally afraid of their own shadows, but, ever motivated by insatiable hunger, they put themselves in harm’s way, provided they were compensated with Scooby Snacks. Everywhere they went, the quintet encountered some mystery with a seemingly supernatural origin—frequently a monster. Upon investigation by the amateur sleuths, though, the mystery proved to have a human origin, and the episodes invariably ended with the evildoers convinced that they would have gotten away with their nefarious deception “if it weren’t for those meddling kids.”

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The series was conceived by CBS television executive Fred Silverman, who was attempting to steer his network’s children’s programming away from the often-condemned violence of action and superhero shows and toward humour. The creative team of Joe Ruby and Ken Spears developed the series, which debuted in 1969 and quickly achieved great success. The program’s formula lent itself to seemingly endless variations, and new Scooby-Doo episodes were produced under different series titles into the early 1980s.

A number of spin-offs and reimaginings followed in the late 1980s and early ’90s, including A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–91), featuring younger versions of the main characters. The original formula was revived in 2002 with the new series What’s New, Scooby-Doo? That year also saw the premiere of the first live-action film featuring a computer-animated Scooby.

What year did Scooby

Scooby-Doo made his debut on Sept. 13, 1969, with the premiere of “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” The series joined CBS-TV's Saturday morning cartoon lineup and introduced four intrepid teenage detectives and a talking dog named Scooby-Doo.

When did Scooby

23 December 1978

Is there a new Scooby

Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! is a 2022 American animated direct-to-video supernatural comedy mystery film produced by Warner Bros. Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

Is there a new Scooby

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed is a 2023 comedy horror film directed by Shawn Levi, written by James Gunn and released by Warner Bros.