What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series, Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 a.m. EST and ran for three seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Twenty-five episodes were produced . The reruns can be seen in syndication and on such channels as Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans... to create a non-violent Saturday morning program which would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled Mysteries Five, and later Who's S-S-Scared?, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underwent a number of changes from script to screen . However, the basic concept—four teenagers and a cowardly, clumsy Great Dane dog solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place. Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series.
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