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 similar series 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, Chris Paul, Wanda Sykes, Sia, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mark Hamill. 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 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 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. Home media. U.S. sets. Upon attempting to release a complete DVD set of the 24-episode series in 2005, Warner Home Video was unable to negotiate agreements with several of the episodes' guest stars to have those episodes included. As a result, the DVD was released under the title "The  Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies", and featured only 15 episodes culled from both seasons. The opening titles on this release were edited to remove the images of the Addams Family, Batman and Robin, the Harlem Globetrotters, the Three Stooges, and Laurel and Hardy. On April 4, 2019, Warner Bros. announced plans to release eight more episodes, both as part of a package with the 15 previously released episodes and as a standalone release. This release was planned for the 50th anniversary of Scooby-Doo. No explanation for the previous appearances' rights issues was provided. The only episode that  has not been released or announced for release on DVD is "Wednesday Is Missing", which features the Addams Family. Season set Volume sets Other releases The two episodes featuring Batman and Robin and two of the three episodes featuring the Harlem Globetrotters were also included in two separate releases: "Scooby-Doo Meets Batman" and "Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters". The Addams Family episode "Wednesday is Missing" was released to VHS in Australia under the title "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" and was also released in the U.K. on VHS, along with the Three Stooges episode "Ghastly Ghost Town  under the title Scooby-Doo Meets the Three Stooges". "The Secret of Shark Island" (featuring Sonny and Cher) episode was released in the U.S. and the U.K. on VHS on a video called "Hanna-Barbera Presents: The Best of Scooby-Doo".