Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family

Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family
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Network	CBS
Premiere date	September 23, 1972
Starring	Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe John Astin Janet Waldo Ted Cassidy Carolyn Jones Jodie Foster Jackie Coogan Cindy Henderson John Stephenson
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor

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
• United Kingdom and Ireland: Part 1 on October 12, 1973 at 4:50 pm on BBC 1; part 2 on October 19, 1973 at 4:50 pm on BBC 1

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 television adpatation of the same name, which itself is based on Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons.

Legacy

• 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 his role as Gomez in that series.

In popular culture

Main article: List of pop culture references to Scooby-Doo

• In the April 20, 1999 episode of Jeopardy! had the "The Addams Family" category, with the $200 question as, "The Addams got their Saturday morning start when they guest-starred on this sleuth pooch's show," with the answer being, "Who is Scooby-Doo?"

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Hungarian	Scooby-Doo és az Addams Family	Scooby-Doo and the Addams Family

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 from being 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.
  • However, on September 14 2024, the streaming service Max added the episode to the series.