The Long Spooky History Scooby-Doo is a long running cartoon series that follows a group of kids and their dog hunt down and solve mysteries. The first ever episode aired on CBS on september 13 1969. The first series Scooby-Doo Where Are You lasted 17 episodes where the gang would go around finding monsters and other ghouls and solve mysteries. The five gang members were Fred, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma and of course Scooby-Doo. The cast started with very few characters but as the shows went on they became more advanced and added many more.
In 1972 the New Scooby-Doo movies were created where the gang teamed up with other famous celebrities and solved mysteries. These one hour shows lead to a new T.V show being created. In 1976 a 16 episode season titled “The Scooby-Doo Show was released on saturdays. This show had many of the same voice actors except the voice of Velma was new because the old one retired. This show would last 2 years from 1976-1978 and would produce 40 total episodes which is now compiled together from the Scooby-Doo Show. In 1979 a show started entitled Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo. Scrappy was Scooby’s nephew and this show was used to try and boost ratings. The original show was the same with half hour mysteries but a second spinoff show was released called Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo shorts. These shows did not last long and Soon a third scooby and scrappy show was made but this time with Daphne returning. After several spin off series the gang went quiet for several years. In 1987 Hannah Barbera released several films starring Shaggy Scooby-Doo, and scrappy.
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