The New Scooby-Doo Movies

***The New Scooby-Doo Movies*** is an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. 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. Twenty-four episodes were produced, 16 for the 1972–73 season and eight more for the 1973–74 season.

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 world celebrities or well-known animated characters joining the Mystery, Inc. gang in solving mysteries.

*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.

A spin-off titled *Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?* was released in 2019 in which features guest stars like *The New Scooby-Doo Movies* including Bill Nye, Halsey,

nda Sykes, Sia, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mark Hamil

## Overview

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, 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 characters from *Harlem Globetrotters*, includes cartoon crossovers with other Hanna Barbara shows *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 supporting voice roles were done by several celebrities who were famous elsewhere, such as Don Adams (*Get Smart*).

After *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. 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. The USA Network *Cartoon Express* began running the *New Movies* in their original format beginning in September 1990; they were rerun on Sunday mornings until August 1992.

In 1994, *The New Scooby-Doo Movies* began appearing on three Turner Broadcasting networks: TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. The first season of the series was animated at Hanna-Barbera's main studio in Los Angeles, while the second season was animated at their newly formed studio in Australia.

## Releases

### VHS releases

* *Hanna Barbera Personal Favorites – Scooby-Doo* (compilation of various episodes, including "The Secret of Shark Island") (available in US and UK)
* "The Secret of Shark Island" (UK)
* "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (Australia)