The New Scooby-Doo Movies
| The New Scooby-Doo Movies | |
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The opening title from The New Scooby-Doo Movies
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| Genre |
Comedy Mystery Adventure Children's television series |
| 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) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor |
Taft Broadcasting (original)
Worldvision Enterprises (syndication through 1992))
Turner Program Services (1992-1998)
Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1998-current)
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| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | 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 is the second incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series. Twenty-four episodes were ultimately produced (sixteen in 1972–73 and eight more in 1973–74).
Aside from doubling the length of each episode, The New Scooby-Doo Movies differed from its predecessor in the addition of a rotating special guest star slot; each episode featured real-life celebrities or well known animated characters joining the Mystery, Inc. gang in solving the mystery of the week. Some episodes, in particular the episodes guest-starring the characters from The Addams Family, Batman, and Jeannie, deviated from the established Scooby-Doo format of presenting criminals masquerading as supernatural beings by introducing real ghosts, witches, monsters, and other such characters into the plots.
The New Scooby-Doo Movies was the last incarnation of Scooby-Doo to feature Nicole Jaffe as the regular voice of Velma Dinkley, due to her marriage and retirement from acting.
Some of these guest stars who appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, were living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, Cass Elliot, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, and Sonny & Cher, among others); some had died or retired celebrities whose voicing was done by imitators (The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy); and the rest were crossovers with present or future Hanna-Barbera characters.
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