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The New Scooby-Doo Movies (sometimes called The New
Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies) is the second incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday
morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!. It
premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS as the only hour-long Scooby-Doo series.
Twenty-five episodes were ultimately produced (sixteen in 1972 and nine
more in 1973).
This was the last incarnation to feature Nicole Jaffe as the voice of Velma Dinkley due to her
marriage and retirement from acting. Each of the episodes of this series featured a special guest star, who would
help the gang solve the mystery of the week. Some of these guest stars were
living celebrities who provided their own voices (Don Knotts, Jerry Reed, Jonathan Winters, Sandy Duncan, Tim Conway, Dick Van Dyke, and Sonny & Cher, among others); some were dead
or retired celebrities whose voicing was done by imitators (The Three Stooges
and Laurel and
Hardy), and the rest were present or future Hanna-Barbera characters: the
characters from 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.
After the cancellation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies 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. Beginning in September 1990, on the USA Network Cartoon Express, the New Movies
returned to their original broadcast format; they were rerun on Sunday mornings
until August 1992. In 1994, Turner restored the episodes of The New
Scooby-Doo Movies from the original negatives for broadcasts on TNT, Cartoon
Network and Boomerang. |
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Season One (1972)
| Episode title |
Guest star(s) |
Original airdate |
| "Ghastly Ghost Town" |
The Three
Stooges |
September 9, 1972 |
| "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair"(aka "The Crooked Counterfeiters"; |
Batman and Robin |
September 16, 1972 |
"Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family"
(aka "Wednesday is
Missing") |
The Addams Family |
September 23, 1972 |
| "The Frickert Fracas" |
Jonathan
Winters |
September 30, 1972 |
| "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?" |
Don Knotts |
October 7, 1972 |
| "A Good Medium is Rare" |
Phyllis
Diller |
October 14, 1972 |
| "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde" |
Sandy Duncan |
October 21, 1972 |
| "The Secret of Shark Island" |
Sonny &
Cher |
October 28, 1972 |
| "The Spooky Fog of Juneberry" |
Don Knotts
(2nd appearance) |
November 4, 1972 |
"Scooby Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy"
(aka "The Ghost of
Bigfoot") |
Laurel and
Hardy |
November 11, 1972 |
| "The Ghost of the Red Baron" |
The Three Stooges
(2nd appearance) |
November 18, 1972 |
| "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep" |
the cast of Harlem Globetrotters |
November 25, 1972 |
| "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" |
Davy
Jones |
December 2, 1972 |
| "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" |
Jerry Reed |
December 9, 1972 |
"The Caped Crusader Caper"
(aka "The Sying Fluit-- er Flying
Suit") |
Batman and Robin
(2nd appearance) |
December 16, 1972 |
| "The Lochness Mess" |
the cast of Harlem Globetrotters
(2nd appearance) |
December 30, 1972 |
Season Two (1973)
| Episode title |
Guest star(s) |
Original airdate |
| "The Mystery of Haunted Island" |
the cast of Harlem Globetrotters
(3rd
appearance) |
September 8, 1973 |
| "The Haunted Showboat" |
the cast of Josie and the
Pussycats |
September 15, 1973 |
| "Scooby Doo meets Jeannie (aka Mystery in Persia") |
the cast of Jeannie |
September 22, 1973 |
| "The Spirit Spooked Sports Show" |
Tim Conway |
September 29, 1973 |
| "The Exterminator" |
Don Adams |
October 6, 1973 |
| "The Weird Winds of Winona" |
the cast of Speed
Buggy |
October 13, 1973 |
| "The Haunted Candy Factory" |
Cass Elliot |
October 20, 1973 |
"Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke"
(aka "The Haunted
Carnival")1 |
Dick Van Dyke |
October 27, 1973 |
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