The New Scooby-Doo Movies facts for kids
Quick facts for kids The New Scooby-Doo Movies |
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| Genre | Comedy Mystery Adventure |
| Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices of | Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe Heather North |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Taft Broadcasting |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 9, 1972 – October 27, 1973 |
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| Preceded by | Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–78) |
| Followed by | The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–78) |
The New Scooby-Doo Movies is an American animated TV show. It is a mystery and comedy series. Hanna-Barbera made the show for the CBS network.
This show was the second TV series in the Scooby-Doo cartoon family. It came after Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. The first episode aired on September 9, 1972. The show ran for two seasons on CBS. It was the only Scooby-Doo series that had hour-long episodes. A total of 24 episodes were made.
What made The New Scooby-Doo Movies special was its guest stars. In each episode, a real-life celebrity or another famous cartoon character joined the Mystery, Inc. gang. They helped Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma solve mysteries.
This show was the last Scooby-Doo series to air on CBS. It was also the last time Nicole Jaffe voiced Velma Dinkley regularly. She stopped acting after she got married.
A newer show called Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? came out in 2019. It also features guest stars, just like The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Some of these guests include Bill Nye, Halsey, Chris Paul, Wanda Sykes, Sia, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mark Hamill.
What the Show Was About
Many different guest stars appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies. Some were famous people who voiced themselves. These included Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, Cass Elliot, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, and Sonny & Cher.
Other episodes featured celebrities who were no longer alive or acting. Their voices were done by people who could imitate them. Examples include The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy.
The show also had crossover episodes with other Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Characters from Harlem Globetrotters, Josie and the Pussycats, Jeannie, and Speed Buggy appeared. These characters were on the show while their own cartoons were still running or after they had finished.
Some characters appeared on The New Scooby-Doo Movies before getting their own Hanna-Barbera shows. For example, The Addams Family and Batman and Robin appeared. They later got their own Hanna-Barbera shows: The Addams Family and Super Friends. Many other famous voice actors also helped with the show, like Don Adams from Get Smart.
After The New Scooby-Doo Movies finished its first run in August 1974, older Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes were shown again on CBS. No new Scooby-Doo cartoons were made until 1976. That's when the show moved to the ABC network. It became part of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour.
When the Scooby-Doo shows started being shown again on other channels in 1980, each New Movies episode was cut in half. They were then shown as two separate half-hour parts. Later, in 1990, the USA Network started showing the New Movies episodes in their original full-length format.
In 1994, The New Scooby-Doo Movies also began airing on three Turner Broadcasting networks. These were TNT, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang. Like many cartoons from the 1970s, this show had a laugh track. This was a sound effect of people laughing that was added to the show.
Episodes
List of The New Scooby-Doo Movies episodes
Voice Actors
Main Characters
- Don Messick – Scooby-Doo
- Casey Kasem – Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Frank Welker – Fred Jones
- Heather North – Daphne Blake
- Nicole Jaffe – Velma Dinkley
Special Guest Stars
- Don Adams – Himself (in "The Exterminator")
- John Astin – Gomez Addams (in "Wednesday Is Missing")
- Joe Besser – Babu (in "Mystery in Persia")
- Daws Butler – Larry and Curly Joe (in "Ghastly Ghost Town" and "The Ghost of the Red Baron")
- Ted Cassidy – Lurch (in "Wednesday Is Missing")
- Sonny & Cher – Themselves (in "The Secret of Shark Island")
- Tim Conway – Himself (in "The Spirit Spooked Sports Show")
- Jackie Coogan – Uncle Fester (in "Wednesday Is Missing")
- Phyllis Diller – Herself (in "A Good Medium Is Rare")
- Sandy Duncan – Herself (in "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde")
- Dick Van Dyke – Himself (in "The Haunted Carnival")
- Cass Elliot – Herself (in "The Haunted Candy Factory")
- Jodie Foster – Pugsley Addams (in "Wednesday Is Missing")
- Larry Harmon – Stan Laurel (in "The Ghost of Bigfoot")
- Pat Harrington – Moe (in "Ghastly Ghost Town" and "The Ghost of the Red Baron")
- Cindy Henderson – Wednesday Addams (in "Wednesday Is Missing")
- Casey Kasem – Robin (in "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" and "The Caped Crusader Caper")
- Don Knotts – Himself (in "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" and "The Spooky Fog of Juneberry")
- Carolyn Jones – Morticia Addams (in "Wednesday Is Missing")
- Davy Jones – Himself (in "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall")
- Jim MacGeorge as Oliver Hardy (in "The Ghost of Bigfoot")
- Jerry Reed – Himself (in "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall")
- Olan Soule – Batman (in "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" and "The Caped Crusader Caper")
- Janet Waldo – Grandmama Addams (in "Wednesday Is Missing")
- Jonathan Winters – Himself and Maude Frickert (in "The Frickert Fracas")
See also
In Spanish: Las nuevas películas de Scooby-Doo para niños
