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The New Scooby-Doo Movies

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The New Scooby-Doo Movies (sometimes called The New Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies) was the second incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. 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) and eight more in 1973.

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[edit] Overview

Each of the episodes of this series featured a special guest star, who would help the gang solve the mystery of the week. Some of these guest stars were living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters , Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, and Sonny and Cher, among others); some were dead celebrities whose voicing was done by imitators (The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy), and the rest were present or future Hanna-Barbera characters: the characters from Harlem Globetrotters (1970), Josie and the Pussycats (also 1970), Jeannie (1973), and Speed Buggy (also 1973) all appeared on the show during or after their own shows' original runs; The Addams Family and Batman and Robin both appeared on the show a year before they were incorporated into Hanna-Barbera shows of their own -- The Addams Family and SuperFriends, (both 1973).

After the cancellation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies in August 1974, repeats of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! aired on CBS for the next 2 years. No new Scooby-Doo cartoons would be produced until the show defected to ABC in September 1976 on the highly-publicized The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. When the various Scooby-Doo series entered syndication in 1980, each New Movies episode was halved and run as two half-hour parts. Beginning in September 1990, on the USA Network, the New Movies returned to their original broadcast format; they were rerun on Sunday mornings until August 1992. In 1994, Turner restored the episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies from the original negatives for broadcasts on TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

[edit] DVD releases

Upon attempting to release a Complete Series set of The New Scooby-Doo Movies on DVD in 2005, Warner Home Video was unable to negotiate agreements with several of the episodes' guest stars to have those episodes included in the DVD set. As a result, the DVD was released under the title The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies, and features only 15 episodes culled from both seasons.

Furthermore, the images of The Addams Family, Batman & Robin, The Globetrotters, The Three Stooges, and Laurel & Hardy were voluntarily removed from The New Scooby-Doo Movies' opening titles, as their rights were controlled by their copyright owners. In Batman and Robin's case, this is despite the fact that they and their comics publisher, DC Comics, are part of the same Warner Bros. family as Scooby-Doo and the Hanna-Barbera library.

DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information
Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies 15 March 22, 2005

[edit] Episode guide

The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records and TV Guide listings. Episodes included on the 2005 Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies DVD set are annotated as such.

[edit] Season One (1972)

# Title Guest star(s) Original airdate
1 - "Ghastly Ghost Town" The Three Stooges Sep. 9, 1972
2 - "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair"
(aka "The Crooked Counterfeiters") 		Batman and Robin Sep. 16, 1972
3 - "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family"
(aka "Wednesday is Missing") 		The Addams Family Sep. 23, 1972*
4 - "The Frickert Fracas" Jonathan Winters Sep. 30, 1972
5 - "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" Don Knotts Oct. 7, 1972
6 - "A Good Medium is Rare" Phyllis Diller Oct. 14, 1972*
7 - [[Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde {Scooby Doo Meets Sandy Duncan)]]* Sandy Duncan Oct. 21, 1972*
8 - "The Secret of Shark Island" Sonny & Cher Oct. 28, 1972*
9 - "The Spooky Fog of Juneberry" Don Knotts
(2nd appearance) 		Nov. 4, 1972
10 - "Scooby Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy"
(aka "The Ghost of Bigfoot") 		Laurel and Hardy Nov. 11, 1972
11 - "The Ghost of the Red Baron" The Three Stooges
(2nd appearance) 		Nov. 18, 1972
12 - "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep" Harlem Globetrotters Nov. 25, 1972
13 - "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" Davy Jones Dec. 2, 1972*
14 - "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" Jerry Reed Dec. 9, 1972*
15 - "The Caped Crusader Caper"
(aka "The Sying Fluit-- er Flying Suit") 		Batman and Robin
(2nd appearance) 		Dec. 16, 1972
16 - "The Lochness Mess" Harlem Globetrotters
(2nd appearance) 		Dec. 30, 1972

[edit] Season Two (1973)

# Title Guest star(s) Original airdate
17 - "The Mystery of Haunted Island" the cast of Harlem Globetrotters
(3rd appearance) 		Sep. 8, 1973
18 - "The Haunted Showboat" the cast of Josie and the Pussycats Sep. 15, 1973*
19 - "Scooby Doo meets Jeannie"
(aka Mystery in Persia") 		cast of Jeannie Sep. 22, 1973*
20 - "The Spirit Spooked Sports Show" Tim Conway Sep. 29, 1973*
21 - "The Exterminator" Don Adams Oct. 6, 1973
22 - "The Weird Winds of Winona" Speed Buggy Oct. 13, 1973
23 - "The Haunted Candy Factory" Cass Elliot Oct. 20, 1973
24 - "Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke"
(aka "The Haunted Carnival")1 		Dick Van Dyke Oct. 27, 1973
Notes:
  1. Following the final first run episode on October 27, reruns of the first season were broadcast alongside those from the second season.
  • Those marked with * after the date is to signify which where not released to DVD

[edit] Notes

  • The voices of the Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy are provided by voice actors for the episodes in which they appear, not the actual comedians. At the time of production and broadcast, Laurel & Hardy were both deceased. Although the Three Stooges were on hiatus after Larry Fine suffered a stroke in 1970 (impairing his speech), Moe Howard was available to provide his own voice. (Daws Butler filled in as the voices of both Larry and Curly-Joe DeRita, who was also unavailable.)
  • The Harlem Globetrotters appear as the animated versions of themselves from Hanna-Barbera's 1970 Harlem Globetrotters animated series. The Harlem Globetrotters were also the most frequent guest stars on The New Scooby-Doo Movies, appearing three times in the series. The only other guest stars to appear more than once were Don Knotts, Batman and Robin, and the Three Stooges, who all appeared twice.
  • For the episodes in which they appear, Davy Jones and Jerry Reed both perform songs originally recorded as "chase songs" for the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
    • In "The Haunted Horseman in Hagglethorn Hall", Jones performs "I Can Make You Happy", originally from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Mystery Mask Mix-Up".
    • In "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall", Reed repeatedly performs "Pretty Mary Sunlite", originally from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Don't Fool with a Phantom".
  • Batman and Robin were voiced by Olan Soule and Casey Kasem respectively, both reprising their roles from the Filmation-produced The Adventures of Batman & Robin.

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