#Scooby doo movie series#
When the various Scooby-Doo series entered syndication in 1980, each New Movies episode was halved and run as two half-hour parts. 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. Many of the supporting voice roles were done by several celebrities who were famous elsewhere, such as Don Adams ( Get Smart).Īfter The New Scooby-Doo Movies ended its original network run in August 1974, repeats of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! aired on CBS for the next two years. The characters from other Hanna-Barbara shows Harlem Globetrotters, Josie and the Pussycats, Jeannie, and Speed Buggy 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 Super Friends, respectively. Many of the 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, Davy Jones and Sonny & Cher, among others) some episodes featured celebrities who were retired or deceased, 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. The New Scooby-Doo Movies was the last incarnation of Scooby-Doo airing on CBS, and also the franchise's final time to feature Nicole Jaffe as the regular voice of Velma Dinkley, due to her marriage and retirement from acting. This concept was later revisited with a similar series titled Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, which premiered in 2019. Twenty-four episodes were produced, 16 for the 1972–73 season and eight more for the 1973–74 season.Īside 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 world celebrities or well-known animated characters joining the Mystery, Inc. It is the second animated television series in the studio's Scooby-Doo franchise, and follows the first incarnation, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! It premiered on September 9, 1972, and ended on October 27, 1973, running for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series. The New Scooby-Doo Movies is an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS.