The New Scooby-Doo Movies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2009) |
| The New Scooby-Doo Movies | |
|---|---|
 The opening title from The New Scooby-Doo Movies |
|
| Format | Animated Series Mystery Comedy |
| Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Voices of | Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe Heather North |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 40 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | CBS |
| Picture format | Widescreen |
| Original run | September 9, 1972 – October 27, 1973 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1970) |
| Followed by | The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1978) |
The New Scooby-Doo Movies (sometimes called The New Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies) is the second incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. It premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series. Twenty-five episodes were ultimately produced (sixteen in 1972 and nine more in 1973). This was the last incarnation to feature Nicole Jaffe as the voice of Velma Dinkley due to her marriage and retirement from acting.
Contents |
[edit] Overview
Each of the episodes of this series featured a special guest star, who would help the gang solve the mystery of the week. Some of these guest stars were living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, Jeannie, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, and Sonny & Cher, among others); some were dead or retired celebrities whose voicing was done by imitators (The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy), and the rest were present or future Hanna-Barbera characters: the characters from Harlem Globetrotters, Josie and the Pussycats, Jeannie, and Speed Buggy all appeared on the show during or after their own shows' original runs; The Addams Family and Batman and Robin both appeared on the show a year before they were incorporated into Hanna-Barbera shows of their own, The Addams Family and Super Friends.
After the cancellation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies in August 1974, repeats of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! aired on CBS for the next two years. No new Scooby-Doo cartoons would be produced until the show defected to ABC in September 1976 on the highly-publicized The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. When the various Scooby-Doo series entered syndication in 1980, each New Movies episode was halved and run as two half-hour parts. Beginning in September 1990, on the USA Network Cartoon Express, the New Movies returned to their original broadcast format; they were rerun on Sunday mornings until August 1992. In 1994, Turner restored the episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies from the original negatives for broadcasts on TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.
[edit] DVD releases
Upon attempting to release a Complete Series set of The New Scooby-Doo Movies on DVD in 2005, Warner Home Video was unable to negotiate agreements with several of the episodes' guest stars to have those episodes included in the DVD set. As a result, the DVD was released under the title The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies, and features only 15 episodes culled from both seasons.
Furthermore, the images of The Addams Family, Batman & Robin, The Globetrotters, The Three Stooges, and Laurel & Hardy were voluntarily removed from The New Scooby-Doo Movies' opening titles, as their rights were controlled by their copyright owners. In Batman and Robin's case, this is despite the fact that they and their comics publisher, DC Comics, are part of the same Warner Bros. family as Scooby-Doo and the Hanna-Barbera library.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies | 15 | March 22, 2005 |
|
[edit] Episode guide
The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records and TV Guide listings. Episodes included on the 2005 Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies DVD set are annotated as such.
[edit] Season One (1972)
| # | Episode title | Guest star(s) | Villain | Original airdate | Released on DVD in USA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDC-1 | "Ghastly Ghost Town" | The Three Stooges | Amos Crunch as The Robot Gunslinger, Rhino as The Cigar Store Indian | September 9, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-2 | "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair"(aka "The Crooked Counterfeiters"; working title: "Dynamic Duo Affair") | Batman and Robin | Mrs. Baker as The Hooded Figure, Joker, Penguin | September 16, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-3 | "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (aka "Wednesday is Missing") |
The Addams Family | The housekeepers as The Giant Vulture | September 23, 1972 | No |
| SDC-4 | "The Frickert Fracas" | Jonathan Winters | Simon Shakey as The Scarecrow | September 30, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-5 | "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" | Don Knotts | Captain Moody's crooked nephews as The Ghost(s) of Captain Moody | October 7, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-6 | "A Good Medium is Rare" | Phyllis Diller | Alberto the Magic Mansion receptionist and an unnamed partner as The Phantoms. | October 14, 1972 | No |
| SDC-7 | "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde" | Sandy Duncan | Shelby as Mr. Hyde, The Phantom, The Pirate, The Freaky Sheik, The Dragon, The Grizzly Bear, The Mummy, Chief Blood-in-the-Eye, and The Wolfman. | October 21, 1972 | No |
| SDC-8 | "The Secret of Shark Island" | Sonny & Cher | Mr. Meekly as Piscado Diabolico, the Shark God | October 28, 1972 | No |
| SDC-9 | "The Spooky Fog of Juneberry" | Don Knotts (2nd appearance) |
Gene Haltrey as the Cackling Skeleton | November 4, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-10 | "Scooby Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy" (aka "The Ghost of Bigfoot") |
Laurel and Hardy | Mr. Jonathan Crabtree as the ghost of Bigfoot | November 11, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-11 | "The Ghost of the Red Baron" | The Three Stooges (2nd appearance) |
Siegfried as The Ghost of the Red Baron | November 18, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-12 | "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep" | the cast of Harlem Globetrotters | Oil pirates as Redbeard and crew | November 25, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-13 | "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" | Davy Jones | The Duke of Strathmore as The Haunted Horseman, Cyrus Wheatley as The Moat Monster | December 2, 1972 | No |
| SDC-14 | "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" | Jerry Reed | Ben Bing as The Possessed Viking Mannequin, Bertha aka "The Phantom" as The Possessed Davy Crockett Manequin | December 9, 1972 | No |
| SDC-15 | "The Caped Crusader Caper" (aka "The Sying Fluit-- er Flying Suit") |
Batman and Robin (2nd appearance) |
Joker and Penguin | December 16, 1972 | Yes |
| SDC-16 | "The Lochness Mess" | the cast of Harlem Globetrotters (2nd appearance) |
Morgan as The Ghost of Paul Revere, Winslow and Selby as The Minuteman Ghost and The Redcoat Ghost | December 30, 1972 | Yes |
[edit] Season Two (1973)
| # | Episode title | Guest star(s) | Villain | Original airdate | Released on DVD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDC-17 | "The Mystery of Haunted Island" | the cast of Harlem Globetrotters (3rd appearance) |
The owner, coach, and trainer of the Scorpions as The Three Hooded Ghosts | September 8, 1973 | Yes | |
| SDC-18 | "The Haunted Showboat" | the cast of Josie and the Pussycats | Jack Canna aka Captain Canaby and partner as The Ghosts of Captain Scavenger and Injun Joe | September 15, 1973 | No | |
| SDC-19 | "Scooby Doo meets Jeannie (aka Mystery in Persia") | the cast of Jeannie | Jadal the Evil Djinn, Uncle Abdula | September 22, 1973 | No | |
| SDC-20 | "The Spirit Spooked Sports Show" | Tim Conway | Jesse Finster and Mr. Griffiths's brother as The Spirit(s) of Fireball McPhain | September 29, 1973 | No | |
| SDC-21 | "The Exterminator" | Don Adams | Lorne Chumley as The Creatures | October 6, 1973 | Yes | |
| SDC-22 | "The Weird Winds of Winona" | the cast of Speed Buggy | Mr. Peabody and 3 henchmen as The Windmakers | October 13, 1973 | Yes | |
| SDC-23 | "The Haunted Candy Factory" | Cass Elliot | Mr. Crink and Sterling Smith as The Cotton Candy Globs | October 20, 1973 | Yes | |
| SDC-24 | "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke" (aka "The Haunted Carnival")1 |
Dick Van Dyke | The Masked Marvel as The Ghostly Strongman | October 27, 1973 | Yes | |
Notes:
|
||||||
[edit] References
- "Hanna-Barbera Studios" (and subarticles). The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved from http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/index.html on September 3, 2005.
[edit] See also
- The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (another Saturday morning "movie" series, on ABC)
[edit] External links
- Cartoon Network: Dept. of Cartoons: The New Scooby-Doo Movies - cached copy from Internet Archives
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies at the Internet Movie Database
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies at TV.com
