The Origins of Scooby-Doo

this mystery series stars a group of
adventure seeking teens and a talking
dog welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’ll be taking a look at the origins of
scooby-doo it sure looks like someone is
trying to scare us off this island but
who and why
I don’t know again that looks like we
found ourselves a mystery and maybe
we’ll find the answer at that old pirate
castle come on let’s go
whoa this series was created by the
American animation company hanna-barbera
and was introduced to generations of
children on September 8 1969 as
scooby-doo where are you
prior to its debut the show was pitched
as a humorless and scary cartoon filled
with terrifying haunted houses and
monsters what is even more surprising is
that the stark canine was presented as a
mere supporting character of course this
concept was deemed too frightening for
young children under pressure from
parent run media watchdogs it was
reworked by the head of the CBS
children’s television division the
revised show placed a greater focus on
the dog companion who starred as an
easily frightened and always hungry
great game called scoobert or Scooby for
short this name originated from the
famous Frank Sinatra album strangers in
the night and more specifically from the
musical phrase dooby dooby doo well I
guess that wraps up the mystery and The
Mummy too
Scooby’s voice characteristics were
developed and performed by voice actor
Don Messick from the very first episode
until his retirement in 1996 please
he made Scooby famous for his use of
broken English and for starting words
with the letter R
Farouk parachute Scooby was a major
success due to his comedic personality
and became an animated icon around the
world
his brown coloured body with black spots
dexterous tail and simple blue collar
all made him recognizable Scooby was
also dramatically different from his
real-world dog breed as he had a humped
back curved legs and a small chin of
course
Scooby didn’t go out on adventures alone
he was accompanied by a team of
teenagers these included the confident
ascot wearing leader Fred the
accident-prone Daphne bookish Velma and
the snack loving slacker named shaggy
together they formed mystery Inc
and embarked on countless journeys to
seek an adventure in their Chevy van
dubbed the Mystery Machine
while visiting ghost towns abandoned
amusement parks and other paranormal
sites they sought out the truth
surrounding various mysteries
predictably
the monsters always turned out to be
greedy humans in disguise like its mr.
Beaman the real estate agent mr. William
by the late 70s scooby-doo and his team
scarred in countless specials and
made-for-tv movies and even teamed up
with the likes of Batman and Robin it’s
Batman and Robin holy 1979 marked a
major shift for the series that was the
year the show introduced Scooby’s young
nephew scrappy-doo
soon after this character and his
ability to get into trouble became the
series central focus the show then
temporarily retired many of the other
characters and caused the series to
re-emerge as the Scooby and scrappy-doo
show thankfully the team eventually
reassembled without the little pup in
1988 for the prequel series a pup named
scooby-doo in the years that followed
the original gang appeared in more
direct-to-video films several
live-action movie adaptations as well as
a new string of shows which included
what’s new scooby-doo and Shaggy and
Scooby get a clue we have to do whatever
it takes to save him oh like Lizzie but
first we have to eat scooby-doo is one
of the longest-running animated series
of all time it has endeared itself to
countless fans over the decades with its
unique mix of adventure or and comedy
hey let’s go guys we found another
haunted house to investigate