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Scooby- Doo - Wikipedia. Scooby- Doo. Created by. Joe Ruby. Ken Spears. Original work. Scooby- Doo, Where Are You!

Films and television. Film(s)Animated series. Scooby- Doo is an American animated cartoonfranchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1. The original series, Scooby- Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna- Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1.

This Saturday- morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane[3] named Scooby- Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.[4]Following the success of the original series, Hanna- Barbera and its successor Warner Bros. Animation have produced numerous follow- up and spin- off animated series and several related works, including television specials and made- for- TV movies, a line of direct- to- video films, and two Warner Bros.–produced theatrical feature films. Some versions of Scooby- Doo feature different variations on the show's supernatural theme, and include characters such as Scooby's cousin Scooby- Dum and nephew Scrappy- Doo in addition to or instead of some of the original characters. Scooby- Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1. ABC. ABC aired the show until canceling it in 1. A Pup Named Scooby- Doo, from 1. New Scooby- Doo series aired as part of Kids' WB on The WB Network and its successor, The CW Network, from 2.

Scooby- Doo! Mystery Incorporated aired on Cartoon Network from 2. Be Cool, Scooby- Doo!

Cartoon Network in 2. Repeats of the various Scooby- Doo series are broadcast frequently on Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang in the United States as well as other countries. In 2. 01. 3, TV Guide ranked Scooby- Doo the fifth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time.[7]Development[edit]In 1. Action for Children's Television (ACT), began to protest about what they perceived as excessive violence in Saturday morning cartoons.[8] Most of these shows were Hanna- Barbera action cartoons such as Space Ghost, The Herculoids and Birdman and the Galaxy Trio, and virtually all of them were canceled by 1. Members of these watchgroups served as advisers to Hanna- Barbera and other animation studios to ensure that their new programs would be safe for children. Fred Silverman, executive in charge of daytime programming for the CBS network at the time, was looking for a show that would revitalize his Saturday morning line and please the watch groups at the same time. The result was The Archie Show, based upon Bob Montana's teenage humor comic book Archie.

Also successful were the musical numbers The Archies performed during each program (one of which, "Sugar, Sugar", was the most successful Billboardnumber- one hit of 1. Silverman was eager to build upon this success, and contacted producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera about possibly creating another show based on a teenage rock group, this one featuring teens who solved mysteries in between gigs. Silverman envisioned the show as a cross between the popular I Love a Mysteryradioserials of the 1. Archie characters or the popular early 1.

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.[1. After attempting to develop his own version of the proposed show called House of Mystery,[3] Barbera, who handled the development and sale of Hanna- Barbera shows while Hanna handled production,[3] passed the task along to story writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and artist/character designer Iwao Takamoto. Their original treatment, based in part on The Archie Show, was titled Mysteries Five and featured five teenagers: Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, Linda's brother W. W. and their bongo- playing dog, Too Much, who were all members of the band Mysteries Five. When The Mysteries Five were not performing at gigs, they were out solving spooky mysteries involving ghosts, zombies, and other supernatural creatures.

Ruby and Spears were unable to decide whether Too Much would be a large cowardly dog or a small feisty dog.[3] When the former was chosen, Ruby and Spears wrote Too Much as a Great Dane but revised the dog character to a large sheepdog (similar to the Archies' sheepdog, Hot Dog) just before their presentation to Silverman, as Ruby feared the character would be too similar to the comic strip character Marmaduke.[3] Silverman rejected their initial pitch, and after consulting with Barbera on next steps, got Barbera's permission to go ahead with Too Much being a Great Dane instead of a sheepdog.[3][1. Lead character designer Takamoto, while designing the characters, consulted a studio colleague who happened to be a breeder of Great Danes. After learning the characteristics of a prize- winning Great Dane from her, Takamoto proceeded to break most of the rules and designed Too Much with overly bowed legs, a double chin, and a sloped back, among other abnormalities.[1. Ruby and Spears' second pass at the show used Dobie Gillis as the template for the teenagers rather than Archie.

The treatment retained the dog Too Much, while reducing the number of teenagers to four, removing the Mike character and retaining Geoff, Kelly, Linda, and W. W.[1. 1] As their personalities were modified, so were the characters' names: Geoff became "Ronnie"[1.

Fred" (at Silverman's behest),[1. Kelly became "Daphne", Linda "Velma", and W. W. "Shaggy". The teens were now based on four teenage characters from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Dobie Gillis, Thalia Menninger, Zelda Gilroy and Maynard G. Krebs, respectively.[3][1. Watch You Kill Me Online Metacritic. The revised show was re- pitched to Silverman, who liked the material but, disliking the title Mysteries Five, decided to call the show Who's S- S- Scared?[1.

Silverman presented Who's S- S- Scared? CBS executives as the centerpiece for the upcoming 1.

Saturday morning cartoon block. CBS president Frank Stanton felt that the presentation artwork was too scary for young viewers and, thinking the show would be the same, decided to pass on it.[1. Now without a centerpiece for the upcoming season's programming, Silverman had Ruby, Spears, and the Hanna- Barbera staff revise the treatments and presentation materials to tone down the show and better reflect its comedy elements.

The rock band element was dropped, and more attention was focused upon Shaggy and Too Much. According to Ruby and Spears, Silverman was inspired by Frank Sinatra's scat "doo- be- doo- be- doo" at the end of his recording of "Strangers in the Night" on a flight to one of the development meetings, and decided to rename the dog "Scooby- Doo" and re- rechristen the show Scooby- Doo, Where Are You![1.

The revised show was re- presented to CBS executives, who approved it for production. Original television series run[edit]The CBS years (1. Every episode of the original Scooby- Doo format contains a penultimate scene in which the kids unmask the ghost- of- the- week to reveal a real person in a costume, as in this scene from "Nowhere to Hyde", an episode of Scooby- Doo, Where Are You! September 1. 2, 1. Scooby- Doo, Where Are You![edit]Scooby- Doo, Where Are You! CBS network debut on Saturday, September 1. What a Night for a Knight".

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 4. 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.[1. Scooby's speech patterns closely resembled an earlier cartoon dog, Astro from The Jetsons (1. Messick.[4] Seventeen episodes of Scooby- Doo Where are You!

The series theme song was written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh, and performed by Larry Marks. Each of these episodes features Scooby and the four teenage members of Mystery, Inc., Fred, Shaggy, Daphne and Velma, arriving at a location in the "Mystery Machine", a van painted with psychedelic colors and flower power imagery.