Scooby Doo, Where Are You! 

A group of teenage friends and their Great Dane (Scooby-Doo) travel in a bright green van solving strange and hilarious mysteries, while returning from or going to a regular teenage function.

Creators:

Joe Ruby, Ken Spears, Joseph Barbera

Stars:

Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe

Cast

Series cast summary:
Casey Kasem	...	Shaggy / ... 25 episodes, 1969-1970
Nicole Jaffe	...	Velma 25 episodes, 1969-1970
Don Messick	...	Scooby Doo 25 episodes, 1969-1970
Vic Perrin	...	Additional Voices / ... 25 episodes, 1969-1970
Hal Smith	...	Big Ben / ... 25 episodes, 1969-1970
Frank Welker	...	Fred / ... 25 episodes, 1969-1970
Jean Vander Pyl	...	Candy Mint / ... 25 episodes, 1969-1970
John Stephenson	...	Additional Voices / ... 25 episodes, 1969-1970
Stefanianna Christopherson	...	Daphne 17 episodes, 1969-1970
Rosalinda Galli	...	Velma Dinkley 15 episodes, 1969-1970
Emanuela Fallini	...	Daphne Blake 14 episodes, 1969
George A. Robertson	...	Bluestone / ... 11 episodes, 1969-1970
Barry Richards	...	Geronimo / ... 10 episodes, 1969-1970
Heather North	...	Daphne 8 episodes, 1970
Susan Stewart	...	Helga 8 episodes, 1970
Michael Stull	...	Wax Phantom 8 episodes, 1970

Storyline

Popular animated series featuring Scooby-Doo, a Great Dane who joins four California high school students (Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy) on many quests to solve strange mysteries. Each mystery is current and unusual and involves the group stopping someone from wreaking certain havoc on the world. The gang were always driving in the Mystery Machine, returning from or going to a regular teenage function, when their van develops engine trouble or breaks down for a variety of reasons. Their (unintended) destination turns out to be suffering a monster problem, and the gang volunteers to investigate the case. Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost or monster was a villain. Invariably, the ghost or monster was apprehended and revealed to be an apparently blameless authority figure or otherwise innocuous local who uses the disguise to cover up a crime or scam. After proclaiming "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!", ...

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Plot Keywords:

villain | scooby doo | monster | van | mystery machine | 

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Mystery

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Certificate:

TV-G

Details

Official Sites:

Boomerang [Germany] Cartoon Network Dept. of Cartoons

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 September 1969 (USA)

Also Known As:

Mysteries Five

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hanna-Barbera Productions,Taft Broadcasting

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min 30 min (25 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording) Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Shaggy's real name is Norville.

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Quotes

[repeated line]
Assorted villains: ...and I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

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Alternate Versions

The re-run prints that first aired on CBS in 1971 feature standardized opening title music for all first season episodes. A number of the first season episodes feature alternate opening (and/or closing) theme music (see trivia). Excepting prints aired on cable between between 1990 and 1998 (which were time-compressed copies of the original broadcast prints, all but the first two missing their laugh tracks), all re-runs of this show use the 1971 prints.

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Connections

Referenced in Best of the Worst: Playing Dangerous 2, the Exterminator, and the Deadliest Prey (2013)

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Soundtracks

Recipe For My Love
Episode: {"Nowhere To Hyde" (1970) (ep. 2.1)} 9/12/1970
Words and Music by Danny Janssen

User Reviews

A Classic Cartoon

This is definitely one of the classic series in animation. You had four kids (the hunk, the beauty, the nerdy chick and the supposed stoner) joined by a huge cowardly dog who go around solving mysteries all over the country in a green, flower covered van. This show was so funny that it still watchable today. Forget the latter versions with all the stupid members of Scooby's family (Scooby Dum and of course that insufferable brat Scrappy). This will always be a classic.

Also, check out some of the earliest episodes. In those you will see that Shaggy wasn't the coward he became later on. He was actually quite brave in the first four or five episodes.