Scooby-Doo Where Are You!
| Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | |
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| Genre | |
| Created by |
Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| 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 an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. Produced for CBS, the series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. In 1978, a selection of episodes from the later series Scooby's All-Stars and The Scooby-Doo Show were aired on ABC under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! name and, as such, is sometimes marketed as its third season.
The series centers on a group of characters consisting of four teenagers - Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers - and the title character, a semi-anthropomorphic Great Dane. The group travel in a van named the Mystery Machine, solving mysteries involving several local legends; in doing so, they discover that the perpetrator is almost invariably a disguised person who seeks to exploit the legend for personal gain.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the first incarnation of what would eventually become a long-running media franchise, which primarily consists of subsequent animated series, several films, and related merchandise.
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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