Nowhere to Hyde

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Nowhere to Hyde
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Network CBS
Premiere date September 12, 1970
Music composed by Ted Nichols
Director(s) William Hanna
Voice director(s) Joseph Barbera
Animation director(s) Charles A. Nichols
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"Nowhere to Hyde" is the first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! season two, and the eighteenth overall. It aired on September 12, 1970 on CBS. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

A chance encounter with the ghost of Mr. Hyde leads the gang into the laboratory basement of a crazy scientist.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Daphne: He went into that spooky-looking old house.
Shaggy: They always do.

Characters

Legend
Character debut Speaking debut Ep. debut No lines Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character Actor
Ghost of Mr. Hyde/Doctor Jekyll John Stephenson
Security guard Don Messick
Waiter Don Messick
Fred Jones Frank Welker
Velma Dinkley Nicole Jaffe
Shaggy Rogers Casey Kasem
Scooby-Doo Don Messick
Daphne Blake Heather North
Helga Susan Steward
Mouse Don Messick
Alligator N/A
Sheriff John Stephenson


Organizations

Locations

Objects

Vehicles

Production

Development

Credited writers are Larz Bourne, Tom Degenais, and Bill Lutz, while Joe Ruby and Ken Spears story edited.[1]

Casting

Heather North replaced Stefanianna Christopherson as the voice of Daphne, when the latter moved to New York to start a family. North auditioned for the role at the suggestion of her then-roommate at the time, Nicole Jaffe, the voice of Velma.

Filming

Music

The theme song, "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" was performed by George Robertson, Jr., who replaced Larry Marks, with lyrics and music written by David Mook, while Ben Raleigh wrote the music, respectively. The rest of the music was composed by Ted Nichols, who was credited as the musical director.

Songs

The song below was produced by La La Productions.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

Behind the scenes

  • The episode is inspired by Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a graphic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886.
  • This episode acknowledges that the gang goes to high school, which had been ignored up until this point. Another reference occurs in "Jeepers, It's the Creeper."
  • Shaggy wants to watch a late night movie called I Was a Teenage Blob, which is a parody of the 1957 horror film I Was a Teenage Werewolf.
  • The Scooby Snacks box is labeled as "Scooby Snax."

Errors

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  • When there are close-ups of Scooby and Shaggy at the malt shop, their spoons are missing.
  • After he enters the basement, Dr. Jekyll's shadow vanishes. Later, Mr. Hyde's does, too.
  • While watching Shaggy and Scooby slide down the banister, Fred turns his head all the way around.
  • The mud on Jekyll's shoes wasn't there a moment before.
  • Shaggy runs right through the wall, leaving a Shaggy-shaped hole... complete with floating pieces of wood to delineate the negative space in the crook of Shaggy's arms.
  • As the gang flees the Mystery Machine after seeing the Ghost of Hyde, Scooby flees through the right side, only there isn't a door (at least, not one that's open) on the said side behind the seat-back.
  • The picture on the wall is just a solid blue. Modern art?
  • The muddy shoes that Scooby, Velma, and Shaggy find on the ironing board, aren't muddy.
  • Velma in the Hyde costume is considerably shorter than normal.
  • When Scooby is climbing the wall at the end of the episode, he has suction cups on all four of his paws and one on his tail, but when he is on the ceiling, his front paws have no suction cups on them with no time for him to take them off. When he catches himself on the ceiling with his tail, his rear paws also have no suction cups.
  • When Fred says "Now it's our turn to scare the Hyde off of Hyde," Daphne's pantyhose are missing.
  • When Freddie and the girls find a newspaper clipping about Helga in the fireplace, it reads she will give a special performance of her human fly act on Friday. However, the blurred-out letters actually read Monday.
  • Dr. Jekyll doesn't just become Mr. Hyde, he becomes the ghost of Mr. Hyde, and on top of that the ghost of his own great-grandfather. At no point does anybody make the distinction that Dr. Jekyll could've just become his own Hyde monster.
  • Fred says they ended up in Dr. Jekyll's lab when technically they ended up down in his lab.
  • The gang must've seen the stolen necklace in Dr. Jekyll's hand, yet they don't bother to mention that the sheriff (or someone from the jewel department) should be called to collect it. Maybe they thought they were doing Dr. Jekyll a favor, as he surely would've been arrested, without hearing his unbelievable story the same way the inquisitive, yet gullible kids would.
  • Dr. Jekyll managed to plant all of the clues extremely quickly and yet methodically; unless he was prepared beforehand that someone might follow him, which is not what the Gang believed, this is somewhat miraculous.
    • The fact that a trap door leads right into his lab, makes things more curious.
  • When Scooby and Shaggy meet Helga in the attic, she has the shadow of the slim and tall Ghost of Mr. Hyde, even though Helga has a bigger build, and isn't the Ghost of Hyde. Perhaps this was to make it tense, or frame Helga, or make it seem like Scooby and/or Shaggy's imagination.
  • When Shaggy and Scooby claim that "Dr. Jekyll must have changed again," Velma claims this is impossible as she, Fred and Daphne just saw him reading in his study. At this point the audience is being led to believe Helga is the Ghost of Mr. Hyde; but after it transpires that Jekyll is indeed the ghost, it means that Jekyll must indeed have moved impossibly quickly.

Legacy

The episode and characters have been referenced several other times in the Scooby-Doo media franchise:

  • In 2023, as part of Warner Bros.' 100th anniversary, they released a new Looney Tunes/Scooby-Doo mash-up short, which involved the Looney Tunes cast dressed as Mystery Inc. catching the ghost of Mr. Hyde.
  • Looney Tunes catch Hyde.png

Marketing and promotion

Critical reception

In other languages

Language Name Meaning
French Docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
Greek Ο Κύριος Χάιντ Mister Hyde
Hungarian Doktor Jekyll és Mister Hyde Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde
Polish W gościnie u doktora Jekylla The visit in doctor Jekyll's

Home availability

References

  1. ^ Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Scooby Addicts. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
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