Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the very first TV show of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo cartoon series and the first piece of Scooby-Doo Media. 
 	
 	
Genre 	
Mystery
Adventure
Comedy
Horror
Format 	Animated series
Created by 	
Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Developed by 	
Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
Iwao Takamoto
Fred Silverman
Directed and Produced by	
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Voices of 	
Don Messick
Casey Kasem
Frank Welker
Nicole Jaffe
Stefanianna Christopherson (Season 1)
Heather North (Season 2)
Music 	Music
Theme music composer 	
David Mook
Ben Raleigh
Opening theme   	"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" performed by:
Larry Markes (Season 1) and George A. Robertson, Jr. (Season 2)
Composer 	Ted Nichols
Country of origin 	United States
Language 	English
# of seasons 	2
# of Episodes 	25
First Episode: 	What a Night for a Knight
Last Episode: 	Don't Fool with A Phantom
Production 	Production
Running time 	
21 minutes
Production company 	Hanna-Barbera
Distributor 	Taft Broadcasting (1969-1986)
Great American Broadcasting (1988-1991)
Turner Program Services (1992-1998)
Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1999-present)
Broadcast 	Broadcast
Original channel 	CBS
Original run 	September 13th 1969 – October 31st 1970
Next Series: 	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1973)
It premiered on September 13th 1969 at 10:30 AM, starred the voices of  Don Messick as Scooby-Doo,  Casey Kasem as Shaggy, Frank Welker as Fred, Nicole Jaffe as Velma, and Stefanianna Christopherson and Heather North as Daphne and ran for two seasons: One Season in 1969 and Another in 1970. Although Part of the third season of The Scooby-Doo Show was originally broadcast with the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! opening and closing sequences.     
Origin
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program which 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 (Freddie, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a cowardly, clumsy Great Dane dog (Scooby-Doo) solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place.
==Development==
===Writing===
Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series. Ruby, Spears, and Bill Lutz wrote all of the scripts for the seventeen first-season Scooby episodes, while Ruby, Spears, Lutz, Larz Bourne, and Tom Dagenais wrote the eight second season episodes. The plot varied little from episode to episode. The main concept was as follows: 
#The Mystery, Inc. gang turn up in the Mystery Machine, en route to or returning from a regular teenage function, when their van develops engine trouble or breaks down for any of a variety of reasons (overheating, flat tire, out of gas, etc.), in the immediate vicinity of a large, mostly vacated property (ski lodge, hotel, factory, mansion, etc.).
#Their (unintended) destination turns out to be suffering from a monster problem (ghosts, Frankenstein, Yeti, etc.). The kids volunteer to investigate the case.
#The gang splits up to cover more ground, with Fred and Velma finding clues, Daphne finding danger, and Shaggy and Scooby finding food, fun, and the ghost/monster, who gives chase. Scooby and Shaggy in particular love to eat, including dog treats called Scooby Snacks which are a favorite of both the dog and the teenage boy.
#Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost/monster is a fake, and a trap is set to capture it. Or they will occasionally just call the local sheriff and get stopped by the villain half-way.
#The trap may or may not work (more often than not, Scooby-Doo and/or Shaggy falls into the trap and they accidentally catch the monster another way, usually if the plan is explained in detail beforehand, then the attempted execution fails). Invariably, the ghost/monster is apprehended and unmasked. The person in the ghost or monster suit turns out to be an apparently blameless authority figure or otherwise innocuous local who is using the disguise to cover up something such as a crime or a scam.
#After giving the parting shot of "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids" (sometimes adding "...and your stupid dog!"), the offender is then taken away to jail, and the gang is free to continue on their way to their destination.
===Voices===
These  are The original Scooby-Doo Voices. Don Messick, the voice of Astro the dog, Dr. Benton Quest, and Boo-Boo Bear—among others—provided the raspy, mumbling voice of Scooby-Doo using a similar (but slightly lower) voice he provided for Astro, the pet dog on The Jetsons. Radio DJ Casey Kasem voiced Shaggy, young actor Frank Welker voiced Fred    (which began Welker's long career in voice work and long carrer in the franchise), and actress Nicole Jaffe voiced Velma(Frank Welker and Nicole Jaffe also appeared together in the 1969 Elvis Presley film The Trouble with Girls.) Stefanianna Christopherson voiced Daphne during the first season, but moved to New York City to marry and start a family before production began on the second season. As a result, Nicole Jaffe's roommate, Heather North, took over the role of Daphne. The second season featured "chase scene" songs produced by La La Productions (which had originally been contracted to create the music for Josie and the Pussycats, the first of many shows made from the same mold as Scooby-Doo). These songs were written by Danny Janssen and Austin Roberts, and were performed by Roberts, who also made a new recording of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! theme song for the second season. Episodes contained a laugh track, one of the first Saturday morning cartoon shows to do so (a laugh track was even used in the main titles for "A Clue for Scooby-Doo"). It was removed for syndication in the 1980s. Not long after the Turner networks (TBS, TNT and Cartoon Network) began airing the show in 1994, the laugh track was reinstated in 1998.
===Music ===
==Episodes==
===Season 1 (1969-1970)===
===Season 2 (1970)===
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