Scooby-Doo
A scene from "What a Night for a Knight", the first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!; clockwise from top: Shaggy, Fred, Scooby, Velma, and Daphne
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Original work	Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–70)

Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present, as well as its derivative media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! for Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured teenagers Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers and their talking brown Great Dane^[1] named Scooby-Doo who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and mis-steps.^[2]

Following the success of the original series, Hanna-Barbera and its successor Warner Bros. Animation have produced numerous follow-up and spin-off animated series and several related works, including television specials and made-for-TV movies, a line of direct-to-video films, and two Warner Bros.–produced theatrical feature films. Some versions of Scooby-Doo feature variations on the show's supernatural theme and include characters such as Scooby's cousin Scooby-Dum and nephew Scrappy-Doo in addition to some of the original characters.

Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to ABC. ABC aired variations of the show until canceling it in 1985, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children called A Pup Named Scooby-Doo from 1988 until 1991. Two Scooby-Doo reboots aired as part of Kids' WB on The WB and its successor The CW from 2002 until 2008. Further reboots were produced for Cartoon Network beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2018. Repeats of the various Scooby-Doo series are frequently broadcast on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang in the United States as well as other countries. The newest series Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? premiered on June 27, 2019 on Boomerang.

In 2013, TV Guide ranked Scooby-Doo the fifth greatest TV cartoon.^[3]

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Genre	Animation Comedy horror Mystery Adventure Children's television series[1][2]
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Developed by	Joseph Barbera William Hanna Iwao Takamoto Fred Silverman
Directed by	Joseph Barbera William Hanna
Voices of	Don Messick Casey Kasem Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe Stefanianna Christopherson (1969–70) Heather North (1970)
Theme music composer	David Mook Ben Raleigh
Opening theme	"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" performed by Larry Marks (1969–70)[3] George A. Robertson, Jr. (1970)
Composer(s)	Ted Nichols (1969–70)
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	41 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Joseph Barbera William Hanna
Running time	21 minutes approx
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	DFS Program Exchange (1980–81) Turner Program Services (1992–98)[4] Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1999–present)
Release
Original network	CBS (1969–70) ABC (1978)
Picture format	Film 4:3 480i
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	Original series: September 13, 1969 – October 31, 1970 Revival series: September 9, 1978 –December 23, 1978
Chronology
Followed by	The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–73)

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!^[5] is an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969 and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. In 1978, a selection of episodes from the later series Scooby's All-Stars and The Scooby-Doo Show were aired on ABC under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! name, and they were released in a DVD set marketed as its third season.^[6]

The series centers on a group of characters consisting of teenagers Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and the title character, a semi-anthropomorphic Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in the Mystery Machine, a blue and green van decorated with orange flowers, solving mysteries involving local legends; in doing so, they discover that the perpetrator is almost invariably a disguised person who seeks to exploit the legend for personal gain.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of a long-running media franchise primarily consisting of animated series, several films, and related merchandise.