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The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The opening title from The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Format	Animation
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Voices of	Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe Heather North
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	24
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 9, 1972 – October 27, 1973
Chronology
Preceded by	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1972)
Followed by	The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1979)
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (sometimes called The New Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies) was the second incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. It premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series. Twenty-four episodes were ultimately produced (sixteen in 1972 and eight more in 1973).

Contents 1 Overview 2 DVD releases 3 Episode guide 3.1 Season one (1972) 3.2 Season two (1973) 3.3 Notes 4 References 5 See also 6 External links

Each of the episodes of this series featured a special guest star, who would help the gang solve the mystery of the week. Some of these guest stars were living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jonathan Winters , Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, and Sonny and Cher, among others); some were dead celebrities whose voicing was done by imitators (The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy), and the rest were present or future Hanna-Barbera characters: the characters from Harlem Globetrotters (1970), Josie and the Pussycats (also 1970), Jeannie (1973), and Speed Buggy (also 1973) 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 SuperFriends, (both 1973).

After the cancellation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies in August 1974, repeats of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! aired on CBS for the next 2 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. Later, on the USA Network, the New Movies returned to their original broadcast format.

Upon attempting to release The New Scooby-Doo Movies on DVD in 2005, Warner Home Video was unable to negotiate agreements with several of the episodes' guest stars to have those episodes included in the DVD set. As a result, the DVD was released under the title The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies, and features fifteen episodes culled from both seasons.

Furthermore, the images of The Addams Family, Batman & Robin, The Globetrotters, The Three Stooges, and Laurel & Hardy were voluntarily removed from The New Scooby-Doo Movies' opening titles, as their rights were controlled by their copyright owners. In Batman and Robin's case, this is despite the fact that they and their comics publisher, DC Comics, are part of the same Warner Bros. family as Scooby-Doo and the Hanna-Barbera library.

DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date	Additional Information
Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies	15	March 22, 2005	Featurette: The Hanna-Barbera Kennel Club Roasts Scooby-Doo Featurette: Uptown With Scooby-Doo and The Harlem Globetrotters Featurette: The Girls Rock!

The episode titles given reflect Hanna-Barbera studio records and TV Guide listings. Episodes included on the 2005 Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies DVD set are annotated as such.

#	Episode title	Guest star(s)	Original airdate	Released on DVD
1	"Ghastly Ghost Town"	The Three Stooges	September 9, 1972	Yes
2	"The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" (aka "The Crooked Counterfitters")	Batman and Robin	September 16, 1972	Yes
3	"Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family" (aka "Wednesday is Missing")	The Addams Family	September 23, 1972
4	"The Frickert Fracas"	Jonathan Winters	September 30, 1972	Yes
5	"Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?"	Don Knotts	October 7, 1972	Yes
6	"A Good Medium is Rare"	Phyllis Diller	October 14, 1972
7	"Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde"	Sandy Duncan	October 21, 1972
8	"The Secret of Shark Island"	Sonny & Cher	October 28, 1972
9	"The Spooky Fog"	Don Knotts (2nd appearance)	November 4, 1972	Yes
10	"Scooby Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy" (aka "The Ghost of Bigfoot")	Laurel and Hardy	November 11, 1972	Yes
11	"The Ghost of the Red Baron"	The Three Stooges (2nd appearance)	November 18, 1972	Yes
12	"The Ghostly Creep from the Deep"	the cast of Harlem Globetrotters	November 25, 1972	Yes
13	"The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall"	Davy Jones	December 2, 1972
14	"The Phantom of the Country Music Hall"	Jerry Reed	December 9, 1972
15	"The Caped Crusader Caper" (aka "The Sying Fluit-- er Flying Suit")	Batman and Robin (2nd appearance)	December 16, 1972	Yes
16	"The Lochness Mess"	the cast of Harlem Globetrotters (2nd appearance)	December 30, 1972	Yes

#	Episode title	Guest star(s)	Original airdate	Released on DVD
17	"The Mystery of Haunted Island"	the cast of Harlem Globetrotters (3rd appearance)	September 8, 1973	Yes
18	"The Haunted Showboat"	the cast of Josie and the Pussycats	September 15, 1973
19	"Scooby Doo meets Jeannie( aka Mystery in Persia")	the cast of Jeannie and Babu	September 22, 1973
20	"The Spirit Spooked Sports Show"	the cast of Tim Conway	September 29, 1973
21	"The Exterminator"	Don Adams	October 6, 1973	Yes
22	"The Wierd Winds of Winona"	Speed Buggy	October 13, 1973	Yes
23	"The Haunted Candy Factory"	Cass Elliot	October 20, 1973	Yes
24	"Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke" (aka "The Haunted Carnival")1	Dick Van Dyke	October 27, 1973	Yes
25	"Night of the Living Doo"	Gary Coleman David Cross	October 31, 2001	Notes: Following the final first run episode on October 27, reruns of the first season were broadcast alongside those from the second season.

• The voices of the Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy are provided by voice actors for the episodes in which they appear, not the actual comedians. At the time of production and broadcast, Laurel & Hardy were both deceased. Although the Three Stooges were on hiatus after Larry Fine suffered a stroke in 1970 (impairing his speech), Moe Howard was available to provide his own voice. (Daws Butler filled in as the voices of both Larry and Curly-Joe DeRita, who was also unavailable.)

• "Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family" features the actual voices of the 1964-66 Addams Family television series cast members John Astin (Gomez), Carolyn Jones (Morticia), Ted Cassidy (Lurch) and Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester), though Astin and Jones would not return for the Addams Family cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera a year later. The Addams Family was drawn to the specifications of the original cartoons by Charles Addams, rather than how they appeared on their television series.

• The Harlem Globetrotters appear as the animated versions of themselves from Hanna-Barbera's 1970 Harlem Globetrotters animated series. The Harlem Globetrotters were also the most frequent guest stars on The New Scooby-Doo Movies, appearing three times in the series. The only other guest stars to appear more than once were Don Knotts, Batman and Robin, and the Three Stooges, who all appeared twice.

• For the episodes in which they appear, Davy Jones and Jerry Reed both perform songs originally recorded as "chase songs" for the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.
  • In "The Haunted Horseman in Hagglethorn Hall", Jones performs "I Can Make You Happy", originally from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Mystery Mask Mix-Up".
  • In "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall", Reed repeatedly performs "Pretty Mary Sunlite", originally from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Don't Fool with a Phantom".

• Batman and Robin were voiced by Olan Soule and Casey Kasem respectively, both reprising their roles from the Filmation-produced The Adventures of Batman & Robin.

• "Hanna-Babera Studios" (and subarticles). The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved from http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/index.html on September 3, 2005.

• The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (another Saturday morning "movie" series, on ABC)

• Cartoon Network: Dept. of Cartoons: The New Scooby-Doo Movies - cached copy from Internet Archives

Scooby-Doo characters
Scooby-Doo • Shaggy Rogers • Fred Jones • Daphne Blake • Velma Dinkley • Scrappy-Doo • Scooby-Dum • Yabba-Doo
Scooby-Doo television shows
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1972) • The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1974) • The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976–1977) • The Scooby-Doo Show (1976–1979) • Laff-A-Lympics (1977–1979) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1980) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980–1983) • The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show / The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–1985) • The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985–1986) • Scooby's Mystery Funhouse (1985–1986) • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991) • What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002–2006) • Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006– )
Scooby-Doo programming blocks
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics / Scooby's All-Stars (1977–1979) • The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (1980–1982) • The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour (1982–1983) •
Scooby Doo television films and specials
Scooby Goes Hollywood (TV special, 1979) • Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987) • Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988) • Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988) (Scooby-Doo in) Arabian Nights (1994)
Scooby Doo direct-to-video films
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) • Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost (1999) • Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000) • Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001) • Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (2003) • Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico (2003) • Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster (2004) • Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005) • Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005) • Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy! (2006)• Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! (2007)
Scooby Doo theatrical films
Scooby-Doo (2002) • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
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