The New Scooby-Doo Movies

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

The opening title from The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Genre Mystery
Adventure
Comedy
Format Animated series
Created by 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 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 48 minutes
Distributor Taft Broadcasting (1972-1986)
Great American Broadcasting (1988-1991)
Turner Program Services (1992-1998)
Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1999-present)
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run September 9, 1972 – October 27, 1973
Chronology
Preceded by Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1970)
Followed by The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1978)

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (sometimes called The New Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies) is the second incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. It premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series. Twenty-four episodes were ultimately produced (sixteen in 1972-73 and eight more in 1973-74).

Aside from doubling the length of each episode, The New Scooby-Doo Movies differed from its predecessor in the addition of a rotating special guest star slot; each episode featured real-life celebrities or fictitious characters joining the Mystery, Inc. gang in solving the mystery of the week. Some episodes, in particular the episodes guest-starring the characters from The Addams Family and Jeannie, deviated from the established Scooby-Doo format of presenting criminals masquerading as supernatural beings by introducing real ghosts, monsters, and other such characters into the plots. The New Scooby-Doo Movies was the last incarnation of Scooby-Doo to feature Nicole Jaffe as the regular voice of Velma Dinkley, due to her marriage and retirement from acting.

Contents

Overview

Some of these guest stars who appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, were living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, Cass Elliot, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, and Sonny & Cher, among others); some had dead or retired 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 Harlem Globetrotters, Josie and the Pussycats, Jeannie, and Speed Buggy 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 Super Friends.[1]

After The New Scooby-Doo Movies ended its original network run in August 1974, repeats of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! aired on CBS for the next two 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. The USA Network Cartoon Express began running the New Movies in their original format beginning in September 1990; they were rerun on Sunday mornings until August 1992. In 1994, The New Scooby-Doo Movies began appearing on three Turner Broadcasting networks: TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an abridged, inferior laugh track created by the studio.

For details on the Hanna-Barbera-created laugh track, see Hanna Barbera laugh track.

DVD releases

Upon attempting to release a Complete Series set of 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 only 15 episodes culled from both seasons. The opening titles on this release were edited to remove the images of The Addams Family, Batman & Robin, The Harlem Globetrotters, The Three Stooges, and Laurel & Hardy. The two episodes featuring Batman & Robin, and the three featuring the Harlem Globetrotters, were later repackaged as separate releases, Scooby-Doo Meets Batman and Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters. It is therefore unknown whether Warner Home Video will plan on releasing a Volume 2 for the remaining episodes.

DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information
The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies 15 March 22, 2005
  • Featurette: The Hanna-Barbera Kennel Club Roasts Scooby-Doo
  • Featurette: Uptown With Scooby-Doo and The Harlem Globetrotters
  • Featurette: The Girls Rock!
The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies Volume 1 4 2005
  • Contents: Four episodes.
  • Note: This is the only DVD released from the 'Best Of' collection in the United Kingdom
Scooby-Doo Meets Batman 2 2002
  • Contents: episodes "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" and "The Caped Crusader Caper"
Scooby-Doo Meets The Harlem Globetrotters 2 2003
  • Contents: episodes "The Mystery of Haunted Island" and "The Loch Ness Mess,"

Episodes

Main article: List of The New Scooby-Doo Movies episodes

Cast

Special guest cast

Additional voices

See also

References

  1. ^ "A History of Batman on TV". IGN. http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/891/891807p3.html. Retrieved 2010-08-15. 

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