A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | |
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Developed by | Tom Ruegger |
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Theme music composer | John Debney |
Opening theme | "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo!" |
Composer | John Debney |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 27 (30 segments) (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 22 minutes approx. |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions[a] |
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Network | ABC |
Release | September 10, 1988 August 17, 1991 | –
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is an American animated mystery comedy series produced by Hanna-Barbera.[1] It is the eighth incarnation of the studio's Scooby-Doo franchise and depicts younger versions of the title character and his human companions as they solve mysteries, similar to the original television series.[2] The series was developed by Tom Ruegger and premiered on September 10, 1988, airing for three seasons on ABC as well as during the syndicated block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera until August 17, 1991.[3]
Along with most of Hanna-Barbera's production staff, Ruegger departed from the studio after the first season (to create Tiny Toon Adventures for Warner Bros. Animation) and Don Lusk, a longtime animator for the Disney and Bill Melendez animation studios, took over as director. A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is the final television series in the franchise in which Don Messick portrayed Scooby-Doo before his death in 1997 and the first in which Fred Jones is voiced by someone other than Frank Welker (child actor Carl Steven took on the role for this animated series), though he voiced other characters in the show. Messick and Casey Kasem, the latter of whom voiced Shaggy Rogers, were the only two voice actors from other Scooby-Doo series to reprise their roles and both received starring credits for their work.
Episodes
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 13 | September 10, 1988 | December 10, 1988 | |
2 | 8 | September 9, 1989 | November 4, 1989 | |
3 | 6 | September 8, 1990 | August 17, 1991 |
Characters
Main
- Scooby (voiced by Don Messick) – The main character of the series and the mascot of the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency. Messick also voiced several other characters in the show.
- Shaggy Rogers (voiced by Casey Kasem) – Scooby-Doo's best friend. Kasem also voices Shaggy's Dad and additional voices.
- Fred Jones (voiced by Carl Steven) – The scatterbrained leader of the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency.
- Daphne Blake (voiced by Kellie Martin) – A wealthy child with a haughty and sarcastic personality and wears white go-go boots.
- Velma Dinkley (voiced by Christina Lange) – An intelligent, but shy and soft-spoken girl.
Supporting
- Red Herring (voiced by Scott Menville) – The town bully who Freddie almost always wrongly accused of being the villain. Herring was the villain in only one episode, "Night of the Boogey Biker," but Freddie did not accuse him due to Daphne betting he couldn't go 24 hours without accusing Herring. He often torments the gang but is always thwarted. Among his catchphrases are "Hah! What a weenie!" "That's not very funny" and "I didn't do it, Jones!" His name is a reference to the idiom "red herring."
- Sugie (voiced by B. J. Ward) – Sugie is Shaggy's baby sister with her name being pronounced "shoogy." She only appeared in two episodes. She is Shaggy's favorite "non-puppy person" in the world. She has a baby bag which contains her favorite boulder, a crib, her string collection, a refrigerator containing her baby food among various other items. Sugie appeared in The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show episode "Wedding Bell Boos" as the bride-to-be in 1983, using her given name of Maggie Rogers.
- Gus – Gus is the janitor of Coolsville Junior High. He is an inventor. It is shown that he also works at Coolsville Mall (and possibly for the Blakes). He has a fondness for Velma and will do anything to help her.
- O'Greasy (voiced by Charlie Adler) – O'Greasy is the owner of O'Greasy restaurants, a fast food chain which serves every meal in a bucket. O'Greasy once had competitor named Arnie Barney who used to serve his fast food in bags until O'Greasy blew his business out of the water. The gang helps him when a burger monster threatened to close his restaurants down.
- Carol Colossal – Carol Colossal is the owner of Colossal Toys and later the Coolsville Wrestling Federation (CWF). She also is the creator of Commander Cool. The gang helps her when her business and the Commander Cool toyline is in danger.
- Barbara Simone – Barbara Simone is Carol Colossal's secretary. She tried to destroy Colossal's business by stealing and selling blueprints for its Commander Cool toyline, but was foiled by the Scooby-Doo Detective Agency in "The Return of Commander Cool". She is so efficient as a secretary that Carol Colossal got her a license to leave prison to resume her work in "Wrestle Maniacs" where she appears wearing the traditional black-and-white stripped prison uniform and has an officer following her wherever she goes. With that, she became the only character (other than Red) to reappear in another episode after being unmasked.
- Jenkins (voiced by Don Messick) – Jenkins is Daphne's butler, whom she calls in to do various tasks. He responds whenever his name is called (He once showed up after thinking Velma said "Jenkins," when she really said "Jinkies"). The one time he didn't respond to Daphne's call, a butler named Dawson responded for him and told Daphne that Jenkins was busy doing her shopping, which she deemed an acceptable excuse. Dawson seems to be as efficient as Jenkins.
Production
The new format follows the trend of the "babyfication" of older cartoon characters, reducing the original
Comparisons between character incarnations
- Shaggy is similar to his older incarnation. He is often seen eating and uses the terms "Like" and "Zoinks!" constantly. He sometimes agrees with other members of the gang, considering the monster of the week.
- Scooby-Doo behaves like the older version of the character, but when given a Scooby Snack, this incarnation of Scooby often says "mmmm!" or similar in an exaggerated manner, rocket into the air, then floats back down to the ground, similar to Snuffles' reaction after consuming a dog biscuit in Quick Draw McGraw.
- Daphne is a vain young girl who is skeptical and sarcastic, especially towards Fred. Being born into money, she often calls to her butler, Jenkins, for help, usually for nonsensical reasons ("be scared for me"), something she does not do while older, despite still being fabulously wealthy. She often accuses the wrong person of the crime only by her intuition. She has a deep infatuation with the color pink, preferring most of her clothes and personal possessions in said color and treats fashion as life and death. She hates getting her new boots dirty and absolutely refuses to believe in the supernatural.
- Fred is an outspoken young boy who always jumps to the wrong conclusion. His runaway imagination often annoys the rest of the gang (his favorite magazine is the National Exaggerator, which his uncle gains ownership of during the course of the series). Before accusing Red Herring for absolutely no reason, he often offers a ludicrous hypothesis for the mystery in question, which usually involves anything from non-fiction. However, he can get the point at times. As a polar opposite of Daphne, the young Fred believes in ghosts whereas his adult counterpart usually does not.
- Mystery Machine, which all the characters can ride on. She has a distinctive gait during longer walks or runs (rapidly-shuffling feet), and a distinctive dance style borrowed from Peanuts character 5 (as she appears during the dance scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas).
The
Music
Rock and roll-styled songs (specifically about the monster of the week) play during the chase scene in each episode, similar to the second-season episodes of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! However, unlike previous versions of the show, the kids are often aware of the music being played (having turned it on themselves in many occasions) and will dance for a bit along with the ghosts and monsters before continuing with the chase (Glen Kennedy would often animate the characters' dance cycles himself). The show's theme song, featuring lyrics by series creator Tom Ruegger and music by composer John Debney, also bares a similarity to the "Intro Song" from Little Shop of Horrors, which had recently been adapted into a successful feature film. The music is almost always in a 1950s rock and roll style, possibly to indicate their younger age, as the original show takes place in 1969.
Home media
Season | Volume | Episodes | Release date | ||
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1 | 1988 | 1 | 4 ("A Bicycle Built for Boo!" – "The Schnook Who Took My Comic Book") | July 19, 2005[4][5] | |
2 | 4 ("For Letter or Worse" – "Snow Place Like Home") | ||||
3 | 4 ("Scooby Dude" – "Robopup") | July 18, 2006[6][7] | |||
4 | 4 ("Lights... Camera... Monster" – "The Spirit of Rock'n Roll") | ||||
2 | 1989 | ||||
5 | 4 ("Chickenstein Lives" – "Dog Gone Scooby") | January 9, 2007[8] | |||
6 | 4 ("Terror, Thy Name Is Zombo" – "Wrestle Maniacs") | May 15, 2007[9] | |||
3 | 1990 | ||||
4 | 1991 | 7 | 3 ("The Were-Doo of Doo Manor" – "Mayhem of the Moving Mollusk") | August 14, 2007[10] | |
Volumes 1–3 Triple Feature Box Set |
12 ("A Bicycle Built for Boo!" – "Robopup") | April 13, 2010[11] | |||
4 Kid Favorites Quadruple Feature Box Set |
16 ("A Bicycle Built for Boo!" – "The Spirit of Rock'n Roll") | September 27, 2011[12] | |||
January 17, 2012[13] |
Season | Set | Episodes | Release date | Extras | ||
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1 | 1988 | 1 | 13 | March 18, 2008[14] |
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2 | 1989 | 2 | 14 | March 17, 2009[15] |
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3 | 1990 | |||||
4 | 1991 |
Title | Episodes | Release date |
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Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: For the Love of Snacks | 2 ("Wanted Cheddar Alive" and "Night of the Living Burger") | January 7, 2014 |
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery | 1 ("Wrestle Maniacs") | March 25, 2014 |
Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Surf's Up, Scooby-Doo! | 1 ("Scooby Dude") | May 5, 2015 |
See also
Notes
- ^ Animation outsourced to Wang Film Productions and Fil-Cartoons.
References
- ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 1: Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Christina Lange, Kellie Martin, Carl Steven, Scott Menville, Lewis Arquette, George Ball, Dehl Berti, Earl Boen, Arthur Burghardt, Cathy Cahn: Movies & TV". Amazon. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 2: Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Christina Lange, Kellie Martin, Carl Steven, Scott Menville, Lewis Arquette, George Ball, Dehl Berti, Earl Boen, Arthur Burghardt, Cathy Cahn: Movies & TV". Amazon. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 3: Scott Menville, Jackie Joseph, Dehl Berti, Dan Gilvezan, Jim Cummings, Cindy McGee, Arthur Burghardt, Lynne Marie Stewart, Kath Soucie, David Mendenhall, Leslie Speights, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Della Reese, Cathy Cahn, Lynne Moody, Darryl Hickman, Kenneth Mars, Linda Dangcil, Paul Lukather, Jerry Houser: Movies & TV". Amazon. 9 January 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 4: Scott Menville, Jackie Joseph, Dehl Berti, Dan Gilvezan, Jim Cummings, Cindy McGee, Arthur Burghardt, Lynne Marie Stewart, Kath Soucie, David Mendenhall, Leslie Speights, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Della Reese, Cathy Cahn, Lynne Moody, Darryl Hickman, Kenneth Mars, Linda Dangcil, Paul Lukather, Jerry Houser: Movies & TV". Amazon. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 5: Scott Menville, Jackie Joseph, Dehl Berti, Dan Gilvezan, Jim Cummings, Cindy McGee, Arthur Burghardt, Lynne Marie Stewart, Kath Soucie, David Mendenhall, Leslie Speights, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Della Reese, Cathy Cahn, Lynne Moody, Darryl Hickman, Kenneth Mars, Linda Dangcil, Paul Lukather, Jerry Houser: Movies & TV". Amazon. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 6: Artist Not Provided: Movies & TV". Amazon. 15 May 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 7: Artist Not Provided: Movies & TV". Amazon. 14 August 2007. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "Pup Named Scooby-Doo 1–3: Artist Not Provided: Movies & TV". Amazon. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "4 Kid Favorites: A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (Volumes 1–4): Movies & TV". Amazon. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "4 Kids Favorites: A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: Artist Not Provided: Movies & TV". Amazon. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: Complete 1st Season: Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Michael Bell, Christina Lange, Kellie Martin, Scott Menville, Carl Steven, Charles Adler, Chuck McCann, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Cummings, Arthur Davis, Bob Goe, Don Lusk, Oscar Dufau, Paul Sommer, Ray Patterson, William Hanna, Bill Matheny: Movies & TV". Amazon. 18 March 2008. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: Complete 2nd, 3rd & 4th Seasons: Artist Not Provided: Movies & TV". Amazon. 17 March 2009. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
External links
- A Pup Named Scooby-Doo at IMDb