Question: Which original film was produced first, Herbie Rides Again or The Shaggy Dog?

Context articles: Richard X. Slattery
Shaggy dog story
The Shaggy Dog (2006 film)
The Shaggy Dog (1959 film)
Shah Guido G.
Herbie Rides Again
Zoom (2006 film)
The Shaggy D.A.
The Return of the Shaggy Dog
The Shaggy Dog (1994 film)

Richard Xavier Slattery (June 26, 1925 – January 27, 1997) was an American character actor in film, theater and television.
 Slattery appeared in such films as "A Distant Trumpet", "The Boston Strangler", "Walking Tall", "The No Mercy Man" and "Herbie Rides Again".
In its original sense, a shaggy dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax or a pointless punchline.
The Shaggy Dog is a 2006 American family comedy film directed by Brian Robbins and written by Geoff Rodkey, Jack Amiel, Michael Begler, Cormac Wibberley and Marianne Wibberley.
 It is the second remake of the 1959 film of the same name, which was first remade as a television film in 1994.
 Both the 1959 and 1994 features, as well as the 1976 theatrical sequel and the 1987 television sequel, had a character named Wilby Daniels transforming into an Old English Sheepdog, whereas this remake presents a character named Dave Douglas transforming into a Bearded Collie.
 It stars Tim Allen, Robert Downey, Jr., Kristin Davis, Danny Glover, Spencer Breslin, Jane Curtin, Zena Grey and Philip Baker Hall.
The Shaggy Dog is a black-and-white 1959 Walt Disney film about Wilby Daniels, a teenage boy who by the power of an enchanted ring of the Borgias is transformed into the title character, a shaggy Old English Sheepdog.
 The film was based on the story "The Hound of Florence" by Felix Salten.
 It is directed by Charles Barton and stars Fred MacMurray, Tommy Kirk, Jean Hagen, Kevin Corcoran, Tim Considine, Roberta Shore, and Annette Funicello.
 This was Walt Disney's first live-action comedy.
"Shah Guido G." is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
 It was first published in the November 1951 issue of "Marvel Science Fiction" and reprinted in the 1975 collection "Buy Jupiter and Other Stories", where Asimov explains his love of puns.
 It is an example of a shaggy dog story, as indicated by the title ("Shahgui Dog").
Herbie Rides Again is a 1974 American comedy film and a sequel to "The Love Bug," released six years earlier, and the second in a series of films made by Walt Disney Productions starring an anthropomorphic (and quite autonomous) 1963 Volkswagen racing Beetle named Herbie.
 The movie starred Helen Hayes, Stefanie Powers, Ken Berry, and Keenan Wynn reprising his villainous role as Alonzo Hawk (originated in the films "The Absent-Minded Professor" and "Son of Flubber").
Zoom is a 2006 American family adventure film based upon the children's book "Amazing Adventures from Zoom's Academy" by Jason Lethcoe.
 Directed by Peter Hewitt, the film stars Tim Allen, Courteney Cox, Chevy Chase, Ryan Newman, Kate Mara, Spencer Breslin, Michael Cassidy, Kevin Zegers, and Rip Torn.
 It was written by Adam Rifkin and David Berenbaum.
 It was theatrically released on August 8, 2006 by Columbia Pictures.
 The film received negative reviews from critics, earned $12.5 million on a $35 million budget and was a box office bomb.
 "Zoom" was nominated for one Razzie Award, Worst Actor for Tim Allen (also nominated for "" and "The Shaggy Dog"), but he lost to Marlon and Shawn Wayans for "Little Man".
 "Zoom" was released on DVD on February 13, 2007 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
The Shaggy D.A. is a 1976 American comedy film and a sequel to "The Shaggy Dog" (1959) produced by Walt Disney Productions.
 It was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Don Tait, based on the original film and inspired by the long out-of-print Felix Salten novel, "The Hound of Florence."
The Return of the Shaggy Dog is a 1987 American two-part made-for-television comedy film produced by Walt Disney Television.
 The film is set in the 17 years between the events portrayed in "The Shaggy Dog" (1959) and "The Shaggy D.A." (1976).
 It was broadcast on November 1 and 8, 1987 as a "Disney Sunday Movie" presentation on ABC.
The Shaggy Dog is a 1994 American made-for-television fantasy-comedy film and a remake of the 1959 film of the same name produced by Walt Disney Television which premiered on November 12, 1994 as part of "The Wonderful World of Disney".
 It is the first in a series of four remakes of classic Disney films produced for broadcast on ABC during the 1994–95 television season.