The New Scooby-Doo Movies

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The New Scooby-Doo Movies
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On-screen title card.
Network CBS
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Original release September 9, 1972October 27, 1973
Starring Don Messick
Casey Kasem
Frank Welker
Nicole Jaffe
Heather North
Producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Director(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies, also sometimes known as The New Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies, is an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera (H-B) for CBS' Saturday morning children's programming. It ran from 1972 to 1973, airing 24 episodes that spanned two seasons. It was the second Scooby-Doo series after Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

The format is essentially the same, with the title character, Scooby-Doo, solving mysteries with his four teenage friends, who are collectively known as Mystery Inc., only this time they are joined by a variety of b-level celebrities of the time who were mostly voiced by themselves, including those who are deceased such as Laurel & Hardy (voiced by imitators). In addition to real-life people being animated, they were also aided by fictional characters licensed to Hanna-Barbera, such as Batman and Robin, the Addams Family, and Josie and the Pussycats, and Speed Buggy. Some of these had already been animated for TV by Hanna-Barbera, like Josie and the Pussycats, and Speed Buggy, while the Addams Family were given their own show, while Batman and Robin were the co-stars of Super Friends, by the time The New Scooby-Doo Movies was nearing its end. While most only appeared once, others were popular enough to appear a couple of times, whereas the Harlem Globetrotters appeared in three episodes that spanned across the two seasons made.

Production

Development

Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, the creators of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, were not involved with this incarnation. The name seems to come from the fact that it is longer in length and inspired by the movies of Abbott & Costello going up against monsters such as Frankenstein's monster.

The first season was animated in the United States, while the second season was animated in Hanna-Barbera's then-new Australian-based studio.

Music

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

Episodes

Title Original air date
1x01 September 9, 1972
1x02 September 16, 1972
1x03 September 23, 1972
1x04 September 30, 1972
1x05 October 7, 1972
1x06 October 14, 1972
1x07 October 21, 1972
1x08 October 28, 1972
1x09 November 4, 1972
1x10 November 11, 1972
1x11 November 18, 1972
1x12 November 25, 1972
1x13 December 2, 1972
1x14 December 9, 1972
1x15 December 16, 1972
1x16 December 23, 1972
2x01 September 8, 1973
2x02 September 15, 1973
2x03 September 22, 1973
2x04 September 29, 1973
2x05 October 6, 1973
2x06 October 13, 1973
2x07 October 20, 1973
2x08 October 27, 1973

Release

Dates are in order of release:

Cast

Celebrity guests

Credits

These identical credits appeared at the end of every episode.

Season one

Season two

Legacy

In the 2002 live-action movie Scooby-Doo, it is mentioned that the gang went to Don Knott's Christmas party, implying that two the Knotts episodes (as well as the entire series) had happened in that world, too.

From 2013 to 2019, DC Comics published Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, with the first issue making direct ties, therefore acting as an homage in the beginning. From 2019 to 2021, Warner Bros. Animation began airing an unrelated sequel called Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (featuring contemporary real-life celebrities and other WB-owned fictional characters) on Boomerang SVOD and later HBO Max. Sandy Duncan and Cher also reprise their roles.

The series may have inspired the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman," and the direct-to-video films, Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery, Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery, Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon, and Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold, although the latter featured a different Batman from the unrelated TV series Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

In popular culture

WARNING: The following section contains content that may be seen as mature or offensive to some readers. Reader discretion is advised.
Main article: List of pop culture references to Scooby-Doo
  • In the Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures episode "Don't Touch That Dial," a boy watches Ring-A-Ding, Where Are You! Ring-A-Ding's friends call out for him the same way Scooby's friends do in the theme song. Ring-A-Ding and Scuzzy also spin around in a Speed Buggy-like car the same way Scooby spins around in a toy car in "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair," which also featured in the theme song.
  • In the Spaced episode "Beginnings," Daisy wanders into Tim's bedroom after hearing a noise and is spooked by his alien mask. Tim finds her and she keeps on saying she heard a noise, so Tim says she was playing Scooby-Doo. She says she used to play as Daphne when she was little, as did Tim play as Freddie when he was younger, but now Tim and Daisy look more like Shaggy and Velma. When the scene transitions and the outside of their flat is shown, the music to the beginning of The New Scooby-Doo Movies plays, instead of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
  • In the Saturday Night Live episode "Rob Lowe/Eminem," there is a skit about a fictional Crime TV program called Pros & Cons, wherein Scooby and Shaggy are interviewed about sending Mr. Montgomery to jail because it is their American right to send "dirtbags" to jail with the occasional help from the likes of Phyllis Diller and the Harlem Globetrotters.
  • In episodes one and three (season 5) of the BBC 4 Radio show Dead Ringers, parts of The New Scooby-Doo Movies theme song sets up sketches involving impressionists in the roles of Mystery Incorporated solving a case.
  • In the Robot Chicken episode "Operation Rich in Spirit," there is a skit called "A Scooby Friday," in which Mystery Inc. goes sleuthing at Camp Crystal Lake, where they all (except for Velma, the virgin) eventually get killed by Jason Voorhies. During the case, Phyllis Diller and Don Knotts (played by themselves) pop up as the camp counselors.
  • In the Family Guy episode "Excellence in Broadcasting," John McCain and Rush Limbaugh, joined by a Scooby-like dog called Hot Dog, are tipped off by the groundskeeper of a mummy burning the American flag at the swamp, but after investigating they don't find what they're looking for. They set some crazy trap involving a pig, which catches the mummy, who they unmask to be "Old Man" Barney Frank, who yells, "And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling Republicans!" McCain then suddenly turns to celebrity guests, the Harlem Globetrotters, for the help. One of them tries to give McCain a high five, but McCain being the racist he is, turns him down.
  • In the Futurama episode "Saturday Morning Fun Pit," the head of Richard Nixon and the headless body of Spiro Agnew watch Bendee-Boo and the Mystery Crew on a Saturday morning, with an intro that ends the same way as the intro to The New Scooby-Doo Movies, along with a title card that introduces the guest, although in this case the monster, even though random, non sequitur celebrity guests show up such as George Takei (voiced by himself) and the Harlem Globetrotters.
  • In the Regular Show episode "The Dream Warrior," Mordecai and Rigby introduce a cartoon to Pops called Funkie Wunky and the Groovy Gang, which is like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, but turns into The New Scooby-Doo Movies by the end, when the Oklahoma Mud Pigeons randomly pop up out of nowhere on the pirate ship that the Groovy Gang is on.
  • In the Sugar and Toys episode "Cribfest," In a segment called "The Scoobidy-Doobidy Basketball Variety Mystery Show," parodying the episodes that had the Globetrotters, Lakers coach Luke Walton has hired the Scoobidy Gang to find LeBron James's missing hairline, which he claims the Barber Fairy took after a story that Kobe Bryant told him when joining the Lakers. After a short investigation, the gang discover that the Barber Fairy is really Kobe who didn't want LeBron to play better than him. Scooby and Shaggy's doppelgangers are called Scoobidy and Shaky, respectively.

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