The New Scooby-Doo Movies
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| The New Scooby-Doo Movies | ||
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The opening title from The New Scooby-Doo Movies | ||
| Run time | 60 minutes | |
| Starring the voices of | Don Messick as Scooby-Doo Casey Kasem as Shaggy Frank Welker as Fred Nicole Jaffe as Velma Heather North as Daphne | |
| Network | CBS | |
| Original run | September 9, 1972–October 27, 1973 | |
| No. of episodes | 24 | |
| Scooby-Doo chronology | ||
| Scooby-Doo, Where are You! (1969–1971) | The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1974) | Scooby-Doo (1976–1979) |
Contents
Overview
Each of the episodes of this series featured a special guest star, who would help the gang solve the mystery of the week. Some of these guest stars were living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, and Sonny and Cher, among others); some were dead celebrities whose voicing was done by imitators (The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy), and the rest were present or future Hanna-Barbera characters (the characters from The Harlem Globetrotters (1970), Josie and the Pussycats (also 1970), Jeannie (1973), and Speed Buggy (also 1973) all appeared on the show during or after their own shows' original runs; The Addams Family and Batman and Robin both appeared on the show a year before they were incorporated into Hanna-Barbera shows of their own -- The Addams Family and SuperFriends, both 1973).When the various Scooby-Doo series entered syndication in 1980, each New Movies episode was halved and run as two half-hour parts. Later, on the USA Network, the New Movies returned to their original broadcast format.
Episode guide
The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records and TV Guide listings. No on-screen titles were given for the episodes of this series, save for the "Today, Scooby-Doo meets..." title card and introduction read by Casey Kasem (in character as Shaggy). In syndication, the first half of each episode ended with the title displayed on screen, with a still drawing of Scooby-Doo, and read by Don Messick.Season one (1972–1973)
| # | Episode title | Guest star(s) | Original airdate |
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| 1.1 | "Ghastly Ghost Town" | The Three Stooges | September 9, 1972 |
| 1.2 | "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" | Batman and Robin | September 16, 1972 |
| 1.3 | "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (aka "Wednesday is Missing") | The Addams Family | September 23, 1972 |
| 1.4 | "The Frickert Fracas" | Jonathan Winters | September 30, 1972 |
| 1.5 | "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" | Don Knotts | October 7, 1972 |
| 1.6 | "A Good Medium is Rare" | Phyllis Diller | October 14, 1972 |
| 1.7 | "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde" | Sandy Duncan | October 21, 1972 |
| 1.8 | "The Secret of Shark Island" | Sonny and Cher | October 28, 1972 |
| 1.9 | "The Spooky Fog" | Don Knotts (2nd appearance) | November 4, 1972 |
| 1.10 | "Scooby Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy" (aka "The Ghost of Bigfoot") | Laurel and Hardy | November 11, 1972 |
| 1.11 | "The Ghost of the Red Baron" | The Three Stooges (2nd appearance) | November 18, 1972 |
| 1.12 | "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep" | the cast of The Harlem Globetrotters | November 25, 1972 |
| 1.13 | "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" | Davy Jones | December 2, 1972 |
| 1.14 | "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" | Jerry Reed | December 9, 1972 |
| 1.15 | "The Caped Crusader Caper" | Batman and Robin (2nd appearance) | December 16, 1972 |
| 1.16 | "The Lochness Mess" | the cast of The Harlem Globetrotters (2nd appearance) | December 30, 1972 |
Season two (1973–1974)
| # | Episode title | Guest star(s) | Original airdate | |||
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| 2.1 | "The Mystery of Haunted Island" | the cast of The Harlem Globetrotters (3rd appearance) | September 8, 1973 | |||
| 2.2 | "Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie" (aka "Mystery in Persia") | the cast of Jeannie | September 15, 1973 | |||
| 2.3 | "The Haunted Showboat" | the cast of Josie and the Pussycats | September 22, 1973 | |||
| 2.4 | "Weird Winds on Winona" | the cast of Speed Buggy | September 29, 1973 | |||
| 2.5 | "The Spirited Spooked Sports Show" | Tim Conway | October 6, 1973 | |||
| 2.6 | "The Exterminator" | Don Adams | October 13, 1973 | |||
| 2.7 | "The Haunted Candy Factory" | Cass Elliot | October 20, 1973 | |||
| 2.8 | "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke" (aka "The Haunted Carnival") 1 | Dick Van Dyke | October 27, 1973 | |||
Notes:
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Notes
- The voices of The Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy are provided by voice actors for the episodes in which they appear, not the actual comedians. At the time of production and broadcast, Laurel & Hardy were both deceased, although The Three Stooges were on hiatus after Larry Fine suffered a stroke in 1970.
- "Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family", features the actual voices of the 1964-66 Addams Family television series cast members John Astin (Gomez), Carolyn Jones (Morticia), Ted Cassidy (Lurch) and Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester), though Astin and Jones would not return for the Addams Family cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera a year later. The Addams Family was drawn to the specifications of the original cartoons by Charles Addams, rather than how they appeared on their television series.
- The Harlem Globetrotters appear as the animated versions of themselves from Hanna-Barbera's 1970 Harlem Globetrotters animated series. The Harlem Globetrotters were also the most frequent guest stars on The New Scooby-Doo Movies, appearing three times in the series; Don Knotts, Batman and Robin, and The Three Stooges all appeared twice.
- For the episodes in which they appear, Davey Jones and Jerry Reed both perform songs originally recorded as "chase songs" for the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where are You!. In "The Haunted Horseman in Hagglethorn Hall", Jones performs "I Can Make You Happy" from the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! episode "Mystery Mask Mix-Up", during a chase. Reed repeatedly performs "Little Mary Sunshine", from the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! episode "Don't Fool with a Phantom", in the New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall".
- Batman and Robin were voiced by Olan Soule and Casey Kasem respectively, both reprising their roles from the Filmation-produced The Adventures of Batman & Robin.
2005 DVD release (The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies)
Upon attempting to release The New Scooby-Doo Movies on DVD in 2005, Warner Bros. Home Video was unable to negotiate agreements with several of the episodes' guest stars to have those episodes included in the DVD set. As a result, the DVD was released under the title The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies, and features fifteen episodes culled from both seasons:
- Episode 1.1: "Ghastly Ghost Town"
- Episode 1.2: "The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair"
- Episode 1.4: "The Frickert Fracas"
- Episode 1.5: "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner"
- Episode 1.9: "The Spooky Fog"
- Episode 1.10: "Scooby-Doo Meets Laurel & Hardy"
- Episode 1.11: "The Ghost of The Red Baron"
- Episode 1.12: "The Ghostly Creeps from the Deep"
- Episode 1.15: "The Caped Crusader Caper"
- Episode 1.16: "The Lochness Mess"
- Episode 2.1: "The Mystery of Haunted Island"
- Episode 2.4: "The Weird Winds of Winona"
- Episode 2.6: "The Exterminator"
- Episode 2.7: "The Haunted Candy Factory"
- Episode 2.8: "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke"
Quotes
(Fred and Daphne are walking through a desert).
Fred: This desert reminds me of a woman
Daphne: Why's that?
Fred: It goes on and on and on
Daphne (not amused): Men!
Fred: Come on Daph. Where's your sense of humour?
Daphne: Shrivelled up in this heat
References
- "Hanna-Babera Studios" (and subarticles). The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved from http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/index.html on September 3 2005.
External links
- [extensive Scooby-Doo guide including history, episode guide, and character bios]
- [Hanna-Barbera's very own laugh track]
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