I hope you are having a good week!
Today I would love to chat about one of my favorite TV dogs -- Scooby Doo. Scooby Doo was a Great Dane who appeared in the Scooby Doo cartoon series as well as several movies. The cartoons first ran on CBS (1969 - 1975): Scooby Doo, Where Are You? and The New Scooby Doo Movies. Later there were a number of Scooby Doo cartoons on ABC (1976 - 1991). The original cartoons were created by Hanna-Barbera.
Scooby Doo helped his teenage friends solve mysteries. The human members of Mystery, Inc. were Shaggy, Fred, Velma, and Daphne. Scooby spoke - and he sounded a lot like Astro from The Jetsons. That is not a coincidence -- Scooby Doo and Astro were both voiced by actor Don Messick. Scooby is often hungry and gets scared easily - just like his human buddy, Shaggy.
Of course, Scooby inspired lots of merchandise, like lunch boxes:
Comic books:
Toys, like this View-Master reel:
A few fun tidbits of Scooby Doo trivia:
- When the show was in the planning stages, the dog was originally a Sheepdog named Too Much.
- Scooby Doo's full name is Scoobert "Scooby" Doo.
- Scooby Doo's nickname came from a line in the Frank Sinatra song "Strangers in the Night."
- Scooby's catch phrase is "Scooby Dooby Doo!"
- Scooby has a nephew named Scrappy Doo.
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| Scrappy Doo |
Here is the opening of the Scooby Doo cartoon (1970).
Do you remember Scooby Doo? I'd love to hear from you in the comments, below.
Love,
Abby xoxoxo
