Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo

Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo
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Network	ABC
Premiere date	September 8, 1984
Starring	Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Frank Welker Marla Frumkin Michael Kenneth Williams
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Tom Ruegger
Director(s)	Oscar Dufau Rudy Zamora
Voice director(s)	Gordon Hunt
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"Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo" is the first episode of The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries season one. It aired on September 8, 1984 on ABC. It was written by Tom Ruegger, directed by Oscar Dufau and Rudy Zamora, and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor

Organizations

• Scooby-Doo Detective Agency
• NASA (mentioned)

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Station ZPOP
    • Vandereel residence
    • Graveyard

Objects

• Crazy rubber
• Here Is Your Life, Scooby-Doo book
• Scooby's birthday cake
• Last Hope Diamond
• Fred's ascot
• Scrappy's watch computer

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine

Music

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

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 8, 1984 on ABC
• United Kingdom and Ireland:

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Greek	Χρόνια Πολλά, Σκούμπι-Ντου	Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo

Home availability

• In Poland:
  • April 9, 2012: Warner Home Video releases Happy Spook-Day, Scooby-Doo! on DVD.
• In the United States:
  • August 29, 2017: Warner Home Video releases Happy Spook-Day, Scooby-Doo! on DVD.
  • August 13, 2019: Warner Home Video releases Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Scooby-Doo! on DVD.
• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • September 23, 2019: Warner Home Video releases Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Scooby-Doo! on DVD.