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Query: What is the name of the first Scooby-Doo episode?
The first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! "What a Night for a Knight" debuted on the CBS network Saturday, September 13, 1969. The original voice cast featured veteran voice actor Don Messick as Scooby-Doo, radio DJ Casey Kasem (later host of radio's syndicated American Top 40) as Shaggy, actor Frank Welker (later a veteran voice actor in his own right) as Fred, actress Nicole Jaffe as Velma, and musician Indira Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne.[17] Scooby's speech patterns closely resembled an earlier cartoon dog, Astro from The Jetsons (1962–63), also voiced by Messick.[2] Seventeen episodes of Scooby-Doo Where are You! were produced in 1969–70. The series theme song was written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh, and performed by Larry Marks.
Scooby-Doo's Snack Tracks: The Ultimate Collection is the first and only soundtrack to the popular Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon franchise, "Scooby-Doo". The soundtrack consist of songs and theme songs from the incarnations produced from 1969 to 1985, from "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" to "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo". Three songs, "Move Over", "Ruby Cool Guy" and "Gotta Have Time", were taken from the 1979 animated telefilm "Scooby Goes Hollywood". A bonus track, called "Scooby's Mystery Mix", takes a majority of the sound bites included on the soundtrack as a musical mix. The sound bites featured on the soundtrack were heavily taken from the second season of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!", as well as a few episodes from "The New Scooby-Doo Movies", and features the entire cast from both series. Two guest stars, Jerry Reed and Davy Jones, from "The New Scooby-Doo Movies", appeared on the soundtrack singing the songs they performed in their guest appearance episodes. The soundtrack was released on CD and cassette tape on September 15, 1998. It was later discontinued.
The first half-hour consisted of a 7-minute "Scrappy & Yabba-Doo" episode placed between two 7-minute "Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo" episodes followed by a 30-minute episode of "The Puppy's New Adventures" in the second half-hour. The Scooby/Scrappy-related shorts were written, storyboarded and voiced at Hanna-Barbera, but animated and edited by Ruby-Spears.
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 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.[21] 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.
On July 4, 2002, Warner Home Video released four episodes from the series on a compilation DVD in Region 1 entitled "Scooby-Doo's Creepiest Capers". They later released all 25 episodes on DVD in Region 1 on March 16, 2004 under the title "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The Complete First and Second Seasons". A DVD entitled "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The Complete Third Season" was released on April 10, 2007, made up of episodes produced in 1978, added to the "Scooby's All-Stars" package, and later syndicated as part of "The Scooby-Doo Show".
The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo shorts represents the fifth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon "Scooby-Doo" series. A total of 33 half-hour episodes, each of which included three 7-minute shorts, were produced over three seasons, from 1980 to 1982 on ABC. Thirteen episodes were produced for the 1980–81 season, and seven more for the 1981–82 as segments of "The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show". The remaining thirteen episodes were produced as segments of "The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour" for the 1982–83 season. Out of the 99 shorts that were produced, 86 of them feature Scooby-Doo, his nephew Scrappy-Doo and Shaggy without the rest of the Mystery Inc gang, and the other 13 only feature Scrappy-Doo and Yabba-Doo.
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 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.[23]
The group was first referred to as the Scooby Gang by Xander Harris in the Season Two episode "What's My Line, Part One" as a reference to the group of monster-hunting teenagers from the Hanna-Barbera animated series "Scooby-Doo" that is otherwise known as Mystery Inc., who investigate and solve supernatural/occult monsters mysteries much like The Scoobies in Buffy. The first visible sign was in Season 1, Episode 11, where Willow is seen wearing a Scooby Doo T-shirt, Buffy sports the Daphne trademark neck scarf, and later Xander responds, "Can you say, 'Gulp'?" as Shaggy often does. Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who plays Buffy, would later also appear as Daphne Blake in the films "Scooby-Doo" and "".
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, 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.
All songs by John Bunkley, except where indicated"Man with the Hex" saw use in multiple entries in the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, appearing in both "Big Scare in the Big Easy", the fourth episode of the first season of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?", as well as the 2002 feature-length film "Scooby-Doo" and its accompanying soundtrack album.
In the "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated" episode "The Siren's Song", Fred and Daphne come across a statue of Flim Flam in the Crystal Cove Haunted Museum among the statues of their defeated foes. Daphne remarks that Flim Flam was arrested and received a harsh sentence of 25 years to life for being a juvenile con-artist (this was an inside joke; 25 years had passed between "13 Ghosts" in 1985 and "Mystery Incorporated" in 2010). It is also referenced that Fred was away at trapping camp during the events of "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo".Bogel is a fat, dimwitted ghost while Weerd is a tall, skinny ghost. Weerd is the mastermind of the two. They both are recurring characters in the "13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo" and are first seen in the episode "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before". Weerd comes up with a scheme to lure Shaggy and Scooby to open the Chest of Demons so he and Bogel can gain some glory with the 13 ghosts. In nearly every episode, Weerd and Bogel attempt to help out one of the chest escapees in fulfilling their master plan. Throughout the series, Weerd and Bogel try to get into S.A.P.S., a legion of high honor for the most terrifying ghosts and ghouls.The Hex Girls are an eco-goth rock band consisting of members Thorn (Sally McKnight), Dusk, and Luna. Thorn is voiced by Jennifer Hale, Dusk is voiced by Jane Wiedlin and Luna is voiced by Kimberly Brooks. They are first seen as suspects of the mystery that is going on in their hometown, Oakhaven, later becoming the gang's friends. They first appeared in "Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost", and reappeared in "Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire", "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated".
Don Messick originated the character's speech patterns and provided Scooby-Doo's voice in every "Scooby-Doo" production from 1969 until 1994's "Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights". Voice actor Hadley Kay voiced the character for a brief period in 1997, for two episodes of "Johnny Bravo", and a few television commercials. Scott Innes (also the then-voice of Shaggy) voiced Scooby-Doo in four late 1990s/early 2000s direct-to-video films and continued to voice the character regularly for toys and video games (such as "Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights") until 2008. Neil Fanning provided the voice of the computer-generated Scooby-Doo in the 2002 live-action film and its . Frank Welker (also the voice of Fred since 1969) has voiced Scooby since 2002, taking over beginning with "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and other spin-offs including the live-action prequels "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" and "Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster". Dave Coulier and Seth Green have both voiced the character in "Robot Chicken".
The Scooby-Doo Show is an American animated mystery comedy series. The title of the series is an umbrella term for episodes of the third incarnation of Hanna-Barbera's "Scooby-Doo" franchise. A total of 40 episodes ran for three seasons, from 1976 to 1978, on ABC, marking the first "Scooby" series to appear on the network. Sixteen episodes were produced as segments of "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour" in 1976, eight episodes were produced as segments of "Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics" in 1977 and sixteen episodes were produced in 1978, with nine of them running by themselves under the "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" name and the final seven as segments of "Scooby's All-Stars".
Scooby-Dee is a female Great Dane, with white fur, first appearing in "The Scooby-Doo Show". She was a character in the episode titled "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller", as a distant cousin of Scooby's, who helped them solve the mystery. She also has a cameo appearances in the second-season episode of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?", "Homeward Hound", where she is one of many dogs seen at the dog show the gang is attending. She is seen walking past the screen in two separate scenes in the beginning.
Scooby-Dee was meant to return to "The Scooby-Doo Show" as a girlfriend to Scooby-Doo, but the show ended before that could happen.
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,[44][45] Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, from 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![46] and Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Ruh-Roh Robot!.[47] On May 13, 2014, another episode, Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals was released on the Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Field of Screams DVD.[48] On May 5, 2015, Scooby-Doo! and the Beach Beastie, the sixth direct-to-video special, was released on the Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Surf's Up Scooby-Doo DVD.[49]
"Scooby-Doo" creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series. Ruby, Spears, and Bill Lutz wrote all of the scripts for the seventeen first-season episodes, while Lutz, Larz Bourne, and Tom Dagenais wrote the eight second-season episodes with Ruby and Spears as story editors. The plot varied little from episode to episode. The main concept was as follows:The second season featured bubblegum "chase scene" songs produced by La La Productions (which had originally been contracted to create the music for "Josie and the Pussycats", the first of many animated series made from the same mold as "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"). These songs were written by Danny Janssen and Austin Roberts, and were performed by Roberts, who also made a new recording of the "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" theme song for the second season. The series' theme song has been covered by several subsequent artists, including Matthew Sweet for the 1995 TV special and album ""; Third Eye Blind for the 1998 film "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island"; Billy Ray Cyrus for "Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost" (1999); Jennifer Love Hewitt for "Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders" (2000); the B-52's (Cindy, Kate and Fred) for "Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase" (2001); MxPx for the live-action "Scooby-Doo" film (2002); and Krystal Harris for "Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire" (2003).
In 1977, ABC had a programming block called "Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics". The "Scooby-Doo" segment of this two-hour block included 8 new episodes of "Scooby-Doo" (two of which featured Scooby-Dum and one of which, "The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller", guest-starred Scooby-Doo and Scooby-Dum's distant female cousin, Scooby-Dee), plus reruns from the 1976–1977 season. The name of the block was changed to "Scooby's All-Stars" for the 1978–1979 season, when the program was shortened to an hour and a half, after the cancellation of "Dynomutt". 16 half-hours of "Scooby-Doo" (featuring just the original five characters) were produced this season, and began airing earlier in the morning before the "Scooby's All-Stars" block as a third season of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" in September. "Scooby's All-Stars" instead aired reruns of the 1976 and 1977 episodes for the first nine weeks of the 1978–79 season. By November, the early-morning airing of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" had been cancelled, and the new 1978 episodes began airing during the "Scooby-Doo" segment of "Scooby's All-Stars".
The following contains a list of episodes from the American animated television series "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" which ran on ABC from 1988 until 1991. This is the eighth incarnation of the long running "Scooby-Doo" Saturday morning series following the "Scooby-Doo Detective Agency's" adventures as adolescents.
Season one began on September 10, 1988 and ended on December 10, 1988. With 13 episodes, this is the longest season to date.
Only the first nine episodes of the sixteen episode 1978 season of "Scooby-Doo", listed below, were broadcast under the "Scooby-Doo, Where are You!" name. The revival series was canceled afterward, and the remaining seven episodes, that were intended for the revival, were instead broadcast during the "Scooby's All-Stars" block, and all sixteen were rerun during this block and later syndicated as part of "The Scooby-Doo Show". See List of "The Scooby-Doo Show" episodes for the entire season run and "The Scooby-Doo Show" for proper production credits.
"Scooby-Doo" creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, by 1976 working at ABC for Silverman as production supervisors for the Saturday morning lineup, were involved in the development and production of the 1976–77 and 1977–78 episodes (in 1977, they formed their own animation studio, Ruby-Spears Productions, as a competitor to Hanna-Barbera).The 1976 episodes were released on DVD by Warner Home Video (via Hanna-Barbera Productions and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment) with the Dynomutt episodes they originally aired with as "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series" on March 7, 2006. The 1977 season has not been released in a season set, but some episodes have appeared on DVD. This leaves five of the eight 1977 episodes that ran as part of "Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics" as the only episodes not yet released on DVD from this 40-episode incarnation. The 1978 episodes were released on DVD as "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - The Complete Third Season" from Warner Home Video, H-B Cartoons and WBFE on April 10, 2007, although only nine of those originally aired under the title "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" in their initial run, and none of the 1978 episodes were presented under the "Where are You!" title for twenty-eight years following their broadcast debuts (the cartoons on the DVD set still feature the syndicated "Scooby-Doo Show" opening and closing credits). All forty "Scooby-Doo Show" episodes are available for purchase and download from the iTunes Store, as either individual episodes or a season set. The 1976 and 1977 episodes are grouped under "The Scooby-Doo Show", while the 1978 episodes are listed under "Scooby-Doo, Where are You!"
"What's New, Scooby-Doo?" is an American animated mystery-comedy series. The show was broadcast from September 14, 2002 to July 21, 2006 on Kids' WB, a Saturday morning children's programming block on The WB Television Network. This is the ninth incarnation of the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, and features the main characters - Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers and Scooby-Doo - investigating appearances of supernatural creatures.
Some monsters from "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!", "The New Scooby-Doo Movies", "The Scooby-Doo Show", "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo", "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and "Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire" are sighted in this movie:
What's New, Scooby-Doo? is an American animated mystery comedy series produced by Warner Bros. Animation for The WB television network; it is the ninth incarnation of the "Scooby-Doo" franchise that began with Hanna-Barbera's "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" and the first of such since the previous incarnation, "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo", ended in 1991. The series revives the format of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!", in which the title character and his companions, Fred Jones; Daphne Blake; Velma Dinkley and Shaggy Rogers, travel to varying locations solving mysteries; this format is modernized for "What's New, Scooby-Doo?", in which the characters utilize technology that did not exist at the time "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" first aired. It is the first television series in the franchise in which Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle and Mindy Cohn respectively portrayed the voices of Scooby-Doo, Daphne and Velma, as well as the final one in which Casey Kasem portrayed Shaggy, having originally quit the role following a dispute regarding the portrayal of the character.
The "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" episode "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown" featured a flashback to Velma's fifth birthday, using the character designs from "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo", albeit with some modifications, such as Daphne wearing purple rather than pink. Fred and Velma were the only returning characters to speak in the flashback and were voiced by their normal voice actors Frank Welker and Mindy Cohn. The live-action film "Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins" establishes the team meeting in their teens. However, it can be seen as a prequel to the theatrical films.
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo have a mission: armed with an updated Mystery Machine, a loyal robot servant named Robi, their new riches, and the new and improved Scooby Snacks, they must stop the evil plans of Phineas Phibes and save the world. In episode 2, Shaggy upgrades the Mystery Machine from its original form, to a high-tech transforming vehicle. However, it usually transforms into machines inappropriate for the tasks at hand (however, in episode 11, it does transform into vehicles appropriate to finish the Polar Bear 3000). In their spare time, Shaggy and Scooby are fans of the show "Chefs of Steel", and the famous mystery solver Chad Chaddington.
This is the first Scooby-Doo animated series since 1991 to make extensive use of the Castle Thunder sound effect, which Hanna-Barbera began to stop using around 1994, and was very rarely used on "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and on none of the post-2003 direct-to-video Scooby-Doo movies, to be replaced with new digitally-recorded thunderclaps.