Wednesday is Missing

"Wednesday is Missing", also known as "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family", is the third episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies season one. It aired on September 23, 1972 on CBS. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

While Gomez and Morticia plan on leaving for their second honeymoon, the gang gets tricked into being house sitters in the Addams family house. But when Wednesday goes missing, it leaves room for the group to solve another mystery.

Characters

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Organizations

 * Mystery Incorporated

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Addams residence
 * Okefenokee Swamp
 * China (mentioned)
 * France (indirectly mentioned)
 * Paris (indirectly mentioned)
 * Eiffel Tower (mentioned)

Objects

 * Scooby Snack

Vehicles

 * The Mystery Machine
 * Addams' car

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as musical director, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: September 23, 1972 on CBS

Behind the scenes

 * This episode features the first animated appearance of the Addams Family, who previously appeared from 1964 to 1966 on the live-action televison adpatation of the same name, which itself is based on Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons.

Everlasting influence

 * A year after this episode aired, Hanna-Barbera produced a cartoon of the Addams Family in 1973. Jackie Coogan and Ted Cassidy reprised their roles as Uncle Fester and Lurch in this series, respectively.
 * Following the commercial success of the 1991 live-action film, Hanna-Barbera made another animated adaptation of the characters from 1992 to 1993. John Astin reprised as Gomez in that series.

Home availability

 * In Australia:
 * Late 1980s(?): Rainbow's Children Video releases Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family on VHS.
 * Except for the aforementioned fluke release, in later years, legal clearances have since prevented this to be released onto VHS, DVD, or Blu-ray. This is one of the reasons why Warner Home Video had to release the series as The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies on DVD on March 22, 2005, and was the sole reason Warner Home Video had to call their new DVD and Blu-ray restoration of the series The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection on July 1, 2019.