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 |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Creator(s) | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Voices of | Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe Heather North |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Original run | September 9, 1972 – October 27, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Scooby-Doo, Where are You! (1969–1970) |
| Followed by | The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1978) |
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| IMDb profile | |
| TV.com summary | |
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (sometimes called The New Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies) was the second incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS as the only Scooby-Doo series to be an hour long show. Twenty-four episodes were ultimately produced (sixteen in 1972 and eight more in 1973).
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[edit] 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).
After the cancellation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies in August 1974, repeats of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! aired on CBS for the next 2 years. No new Scooby-Doo cartoons would be produced until the show defected to ABC in September 1976 on the highly-publicized The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. 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.
[edit] DVD release
Upon attempting to release The New Scooby-Doo Movies on DVD in 2005, Warner 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.
Furthermore, the images of The Addams Family, Batman & Robin, The Globetrotters, The Three Stooges, and Laurel & Hardy were voluntarily removed from The New Scooby-Doo Movies' opening titles, as their rights were controlled by their copyright owners. In Batman and Robin's case -- this is despite the fact that they and their comics publisher, DC Comics, are part of the same Warner Bros. family as Scooby-Doo and the Hanna-Barbera library.
| Cover Art | DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
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Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies | 15 | March 22, 2005 |
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[edit] Episode guide
The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records and TV Guide listings. Episodes included on the 2005 Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies DVD set are annotated as such.
[edit] Season one (1972)
| # | Episode title | Guest star(s) | Original airdate | Released on DVD |
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| 1 | "Ghastly Ghost Town" | The Three Stooges | September 9, 1972 | Yes |
| 2 | "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" | Batman and Robin | September 16, 1972 | Yes |
| 3 | "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (aka "Wednesday is Missing") |
The Addams Family | September 23, 1972 | |
| 4 | "The Frickert Fracas" | Jonathan Winters | September 30, 1972 | Yes |
| 5 | "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" | Don Knotts | October 7, 1972 | Yes |
| 6 | "A Good Medium is Rare" | Phyllis Diller | October 14, 1972 | |
| 7 | "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde" | Sandy Duncan | October 21, 1972 | |
| 8 | "The Secret of Shark Island" | Sonny & Cher | October 28, 1972 | |
| 9 | "The Spooky Fog" | Don Knotts (2nd appearance) |
November 4, 1972 | Yes |
| 10 | "Scooby Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy" (aka "The Ghost of Bigfoot") |
Laurel and Hardy | November 11, 1972 | Yes |
| 11 | "The Ghost of the Red Baron" | The Three Stooges (2nd appearance) |
November 18, 1972 | Yes |
| 12 | "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep" | the cast of The Harlem Globetrotters | November 25, 1972 | Yes |
| 13 | "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" | Davy Jones | December 2, 1972 | |
| 14 | "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" | Jerry Reed | December 9, 1972 | |
| 15 | "The Caped Crusader Caper" | Batman and Robin (2nd appearance) |
December 16, 1972 | Yes |
| 16 | "The Lochness Mess" | the cast of The Harlem Globetrotters (2nd appearance) |
December 30, 1972 | Yes |
[edit] Season two (1973)
| # | Episode title | Guest star(s) | Original airdate | Released on DVD | ||
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| 17 | "The Mystery of Haunted Island" | the cast of The Harlem Globetrotters (3rd appearance) |
September 8, 1973 | Yes | ||
| 18 | "Scooby-Doo Meets Jeannie" (aka "Mystery in Persia") |
the cast of Jeannie | September 15, 1973 | |||
| 19 | "The Haunted Showboat" | the cast of Josie and the Pussycats | September 22, 1973 | |||
| 20 | "The Weird Winds of Winona" | the cast of Speed Buggy | September 29, 1973 | Yes | ||
| 21 | "The Spirited Spooked Sports Show" | Tim Conway | October 6, 1973 | |||
| 22 | "The Exterminator" | Don Adams | October 13, 1973 | Yes | ||
| 23 | "The Haunted Candy Factory" | Cass Elliot | October 20, 1973 | Yes | ||
| 24 | "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke" (aka "The Haunted Carnival")1 |
Dick Van Dyke | October 27, 1973 | Yes | ||
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[edit] 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 (impairing his speech), Moe Howard was available to provide his own voice. (Daws Butler filled in as the voices of both Larry and Curly-Joe DeRita, who was also unavailable.)
- "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. The only other guest stars to appear more than once were Don Knotts, Batman and Robin, and the Three Stooges, who all appeared twice.
- For the episodes in which they appear, Davy 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", originally from the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! episode "Mystery Mask Mix-Up".
- In "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall", Reed repeatedly performs "Pretty Mary Sunlite", originally from the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! episode "Don't Fool with a Phantom".
- 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] See also
- The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (another Saturday morning "movie" series, on ABC)
