Arabian Nights

Arabian Nights is an American animated anthology television special based on the book One Thousand and One Nights. It aired on September 3, 1994 on TBS. It was written by Gordon Kent and Glenn Leopold, and produced and directed by Joanna Romersa, Jun Falkenstein, and Kent.

Scooby and Shaggy have gotten jobs as food testers for a young caliph, but get in trouble when they eat all the food. Shaggy disguises himself as a harem to avoid certain death, which only makes matters worse as the caliph immediately falls in love and wants to marry the cross-dressed Shaggy, so Shaggy tries to put him to sleep by telling him two stories; one of the street urchin Ali-yah Din and her magic lamp (containing Yogi and Boo Boo as genies), and Sinbad the Sailor (aka Magilla Gorilla).

When Time Warner bought Turner Entertainment in the late 1990s, they retitled the special as Scooby-Doo's Arabian Nights for home media, even though all of Scooby (and Shaggy)'s scenes amount to five minutes.

Memorable quotes
Boo Boo: But how do you know it's what she wants? Yogi: Because I'm smarter than the average genie.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Casey Kasem
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Flying carpet cab driver
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Cummings
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Royal guard #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Royal chef
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Greg Burson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Royal dish washer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Nick Jameson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Caliph
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Eddie Deezen
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Royal guard #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Cummings
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Haman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Kassir
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Princess
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kath Soucie
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sultan
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Brian Cummings
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Prince
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Rob Paulsen
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Scribe
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Paul Eiding
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Lord of the Amulet
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Tony Jay
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ali-yah Din
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jennifer Hale
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Female townsfolk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Kath Soucie
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Yogi Bear
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Greg Burson
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Boo Boo Bear
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Allah
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Royal dressmaker
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Nick Jameson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Captain
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Magilla Gorilla
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Alan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ruhk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Marty
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| M. Cyclops
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Maurice LaMarche
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Baby ruhk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Boo Boo Bear
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Allah
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Royal dressmaker
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Nick Jameson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Captain
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Magilla Gorilla
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Alan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ruhk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Marty
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| M. Cyclops
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Maurice LaMarche
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Baby ruhk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Marty
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| M. Cyclops
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Maurice LaMarche
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Baby ruhk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Baby ruhk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker

Locations

 * Earth
 * Asia
 * Arabia
 * Caliph's residence
 * Sultan's residence
 * Tomb of Riches
 * Aliyah-Din's
 * Stream of Precious Gems
 * The Moon

Objects

 * 1001 Arabia Math Problems
 * Magic lamp
 * Animatronic dragon head (voiced by Frank Welker)
 * Golden toothbrush

Vehicles

 * Queen Murray
 * Captain's boat

Music
The music was composed by Steve Bernstein. The director of music production was Bodie Chandler.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: September 3, 1994 on TBS

Behind the scenes

 * Shaggy says "Zoinks" twice.
 * Cats is a real musical that the cyclops wants to see.
 * Magilla breaks the fourth wall by mentioning that he's in a cartoon.

Errors

 * It's unclear if Shaggy is specifically telling the stories with Yogi, Boo, and Magilla in them, or if they're just for the home-viewing audience.
 * In the present, Ali-yah Din and the Prince look about the same age, but in the flashback, he is a child while she is a baby.
 * The Tomb of Riches is pretty empty.

Home availability

 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
 * May 22, 1995: First Independent Films releases Arabian Nights on VHS.
 * In the United States:
 * 1996: Turner Home Entertainment releases Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights on VHS.
 * May 6, 2003: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights on DVD.