The New Scooby-Doo Movies is an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. It is the second animated television series in the studio's Scooby-Doo franchise, and follows the first incarnation, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! It premiered on September 9, 1972, and ended on October 27, 1973, running for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series. Twenty-four episodes were produced, 16 for the 1972–73 season and eight more for the 1973–74 season.
Aside from doubling the length of each episode, The New Scooby-Doo Movies differed from its predecessor in the addition of a rotating special guest star slot; each episode featured real world celebrities or well-known animated characters joining the Mystery, Inc. gang in solving mysteries.
The New Scooby-Doo Movies was the last incarnation of Scooby-Doo airing on CBS, and also the franchise's final time to feature Nicole Jaffe as the regular voice of Velma Dinkley, due to her marriage and retirement from acting.
A spin-off titled Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? was released in 2019 in which features guest stars like The New Scooby-Doo Movies including Bill Nye, Halsey, Chris Paul, Wanda Sykes, Sia, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mark Hamill.
Many of the guest stars who appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies were living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, Cass Elliot, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, and Sonny & Cher, among others); some episodes featured celebrities who were retired or deceased, whose voicing was done by imitators (The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy), and the rest were crossovers with present or future Hanna-Barbera characters.
The characters from other Hanna Barbara shows Harlem Globetrotters, Josie and the Pussycats, Jeannie, and Speed Buggy 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 Super Friends, respectively. Many of the supporting voice roles were done by several celebrities who were famous elsewhere, such as Don Adams (Get Smart).
After The New Scooby-Doo Movies ended its original network run in August 1974, repeats of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! aired on CBS for the next two 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. The USA Network Cartoon Express began running the New Movies in their original format beginning in September 1990; they were rerun on Sunday mornings until August 1992.
In 1994, The New Scooby-Doo Movies began appearing on three Turner Broadcasting networks: TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. The first season of the series was animated at Hanna-Barbera's main studio in Los Angeles, while the second season was animated at their newly formed studio in Australia.
Cast[]
| Image | Character | USA | Mex | Bra | Mex(2005) | Fra | Pol | Nor | Den | Russ |
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Scooby-Doo | Don Messick | Jorge Arvizu | Orlando Drummond | Jorge García | Jacques Torrens | Hallvard Lydvo | Timm Mehrens | ||
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Shaggy Rogers | Casey Kasem | Jorge SánchezFogarty | Mário Monjardim | Javier Rivero | Francis Lax | Johannes Joner | |||
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Fred Jones | Frank Welker | José Lavat | Luis Manuel | Óscar Flores | Jacek Kopczyński | Anders Bye | |||
| JoséAntonioMacías | ||||||||||
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Daphne Blake | Heather North | Azucena Rodríguez | Juraciára Diácovo | Yolanda Vidal | Claude Chantal | Beata JankowskaTzimas | Trine Svensen | Olga Golovanova | |
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Velma Dinkley | Nicole Jaffe | Gloria Rocha | Nair Amorim | Elsa Covián | Laurence Badie | Lena Meieran | |||
| Gaby Willer | ||||||||||
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Larry | Daws Butler | Ángel Aragón | Orlando Prado | José Luis Orozco | Helge WintherLarsen | ||||
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Moe | Pat HarringtonJr. | José María Iglesias | Guálter França | Martín Soto | Ove Christian Owe | ||||
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Curly Joe | Daws Butler | José Lavat | Humberto Vélez | Rune Alstedt | |||||
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Don Knotts | Don Knotts | Luis Rizzo | Orlando Prado | Wojciech Paszkowski | Trond Teigen | ||||
| CarlosRotzinger |