Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
| Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Developed by |
Joseph Barbara
William Hanna |
| Directed by | |
| Voices of |
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| Theme music composer | David Mook Ben Raleigh |
| Opening theme | "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" performed by
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| Composer(s) |
Ted Nichols (1969–1970) Hoyt Curtin (1978) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 41 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera (1978) |
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| Running time | 21 minutes approx |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor |
Taft Broadcasting (original) The Program Exchange (former) Turner Entertainment (former) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (current) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
CBS (1969–1970) ABC (1978) |
| Picture format |
Film 4:3 480i |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release |
Original series
September 9, 1978 – November 4, 1978 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1973) |
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series Scooby-Doo. Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, it premiered on CBS, on September 13, 1969. It ran for three seasons for a total of 41 episodes. Its final first-run episode aired on October 31, 1970.
Eight years later, nine episodes from the 1978 season of a later Scooby-Doo incarnation, first run on ABC, were originally broadcast using the 1969 Scooby Doo, Where Are You! opening and closing sequences (in an attempted stand-alone series revival that was pulled and eventually retooled a season later as Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo when Scrappy-Doo was added to the cast). The entire 1978 season (which completed its run as part of Scooby's All-Stars and was later syndicated as part of The Scooby-Doo Show) is sometimes marketed as the third season of the original Where Are You! series.
Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program that would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled Mysteries Five, and later Who's S-S-Scared?, Scooby Doo, Where Are You! underwent a number of changes from script to screen (the most notable of which was the downplaying of the musical group angle borrowed from The Archie Show). However, the basic concept—four teenagers (Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a cowardly, clumsy Great Dane (Scooby-Doo) solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place.
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