Scooby-Doo: The Movie [DVD] [2002]

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These three films took their tone from the early-1980s Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo entries, and featured the characters encountering actual monsters and ghosts rather than masqueraded people. With Stefanianna Christopherson having married and retired from voice acting, Heather North assumed the role of Daphne, and she continued to voice the character until 1997.

Sarah Michelle Gellar appears as Daphne in the live-action theatrical films and as Daphne's voice in the Robot Chicken parodies.When The Mysteries Five were not performing at gigs, they were out solving spooky mysteries involving ghosts, zombies, and other supernatural creatures. After two seasons and 24 episodes of the New Movies format from 1972 to 1973, CBS began airing reruns of the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Each of the episodes of this series featured a special guest star, who would help the gang solve the mystery of the week. In the new premise, Shaggy inherits money and a mansion from an uncle, an inventor who has gone into hiding from villains trying to steal his secret invention. The series also established "Coolsville" as the name of the gang's hometown; this setting was retained for several of the later Scooby productions.

Writing in 2020, Christopher Orr of The Atlantic queried why the franchise had remained popular for several decades, concluding that it was primarily due to the many differing ways in which the relationship between the main characters could be interpreted or used as a metaphor. Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics was retitled Scooby's All Stars for the 1978–79 season, reduced to 90 minutes when Dynomutt was spun off into its own half-hour and the 1969 reruns were dropped. Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, featured the original 1969 gang, reunited after years of being apart, fighting voodoo-worshiping cat creatures in the Louisiana bayou. Reggae artist Shaggy and rock group MxPx performed different versions of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Batman teams up with the Scooby Doo gang when villains from both of their worlds unite to wreak havoc on the city. appears as Fred in the live-action theatrical films and voiced the character in the Robot Chicken parodies. Hanna-Barbera musical director Hoyt Curtin composed a new theme song for this series, and Curtin's theme remained in use for much of Scooby-Doo's original broadcast run. Scooby-Doo was parodied on Futurama episode " Saturday Morning Fun Pit", where the characters from Planet Express take on the roles of the gang ( Bender as Scooby, Hermes as Fred, Leela as Daphne, Amy as Velma and Fry as Shaggy). Pat Stevens assumed the role from 1976 to 1979, with Marla Frumkin taking over midseason on Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo in the latter year.

Although Scooby-Doo falls far short of becoming the Blazing Saddles of Generations X, Y and Z, it is hard to resist in its charms.Consumer Products by Snow Commerce, which is soley responsible for the site's content and all aspects of your purchase. Contains an extensive illustrated list of Scooby-Doo-related merchandise, from the 1970s to the present.

Scooby-Doo' Animated Special, 'The Waltons: Homecoming,' Holiday Special 'Beebo Saves Christmas' Set at CW". When Daphne becomes the star of a vampire film, the production is thrown into chaos by a real vampire, forcing the Scooby-Doo team to investigate who's behind this monstrous mayhem. Aired as part of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (1980–82) and The Scooby-Doo/Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour (1982–83). The first installment in the Scooby-Doo live-action film series, the film was directed by Raja Gosnell from a screenplay by James Gunn, and stars Freddie Prinze Jr. According to Ruby and Spears, Silverman was inspired by Frank Sinatra's scat "doo-be-doo-be-doo" at the end of his recording of " Strangers in the Night" on a red-eye flight to one of the development meetings, and decided to rename the dog " Scooby-Doo" and retitled the show Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!A video game based upon the film was released for Game Boy Advance shortly before the film was released. Members of these watch groups served as advisers to Hanna-Barbera and other animation studios to ensure that new programs would be safe for children.