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scoobydoofashion · 1 year

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SDWAY #118

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cometcrystal · 3 years

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by god i am going to finish dc sdway comics TODAY!! or at least get very far through them. im speaking it into existence

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ayellowbirds · 6 years

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Keshet Rewatches All Of Scooby-Doo: SDWAY to TNSDM Transitional Bonus Post

After starting as a rip on some popular mystery fiction with more than a bit of the most beloved teenager-focused sitcom of the time thrown in for characterization, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! wrapped up new episodes in October of 1970, the final episode airing on the morning of the 31st. If there had never been another new episode, it would’ve been very appropriate for everything to conclude on Halloween.

But it didn’t end there. Scooby was a ratings hit. As character designer Iwao Takamoto recounts in his memoir Iwao Takamoto: My life With a Thousand Characters:

All we knew is that our ratings numbers were tremendous. If we ever dropped below a 50 or 60 share, Fred [Silverman, head of CBS daytime programming at the time] would have a fit! That’s how successful the show was.

...The fact that Scooby and Shaggy were always hungry was simply an attempt on the part of Joe Ruby and Ken Spears to insert certain idiosyncrasies into their characters (and for the record, drugs of any kind were anathema to Joe Ruby; he hated them). There wasn’t any slyness to it at all; they were just a couple of teenagers with bottomless pits for stomachs. Any parents who have had teenagers in the house can relate.

That relatable character and ratings success went on to spawn hordes of imitators, most of them deliberate attempts by Hanna-Barbera and CBS to build on a good thing. As SDWAY went into reruns, viewers had their mystery-solving meddling kids itch scratched by Josie and the Pussycats, an adaptation of the Archie Comics characters with more than a bit of Scooby influencing the plot.

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Shockingly, although Scooby would eventually meet the Pussycats, he has yet to meet any other Archie Comics characters—doubly odd when Archie himself is notable for bizarre crossovers, as well. We’re talking about a gag comic that has crossed over with the Punisher and Predator.

The following year saw the formula even more closely followed, with the Funky Phantom with a group of kids traveling around for no particular reason with an amusing nonhuman companion.

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This was not to be the end of Scooby-Doo, remembered only through imitators, no. Not long after the final episode of the Funky Phantom aired—a mere week, in fact—The New Scooby-Doo Movies premiered.

Now, what exactly the title meant has always been the real mystery, to me, since these double-length 43-minute episodes were the first Scooby-Doo “movies”. But whatever the meaning, they added a new variation to the plot to hook audiences: guest stars drawn from film and television, from favorite characters like Batman and Robin, to real-life celebrities like Sonny and Cher or the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Unfortunately, the estates and rights-owners of some of those special guests have not granted the owners of the episodes the rights to redistribute them in recent years, and a number of episodes have been cut from syndication and cannot be found on newer recordings; it’s almost impossible to view them legally. Even the intro had to be modified, and the poor-resolution version i’ve included above is the best quality i could find of the original cut that leaves in characters like the Addams Family.

Running for twice the length of a normal cartoon, these episodes could easily fill a couple time slots, and were a boon even when several of them had to be removed from syndication. As a result, the crossovers became a firmly-established part of the Scooby-Doo franchise, and the notion that the gang might meet up with all kinds of characters from other media has become so firmly entrenched that it wasn’t at all unusual that there would eventually be crossovers with the band KISS, two movies featuring WWE wrestlers and Scooby, or a longrunning DC comic featuring everything from Batmite to Angel and the Ape.

And with a bit of hunting, i’m going to find a way to view every episode in sequence, and recap them here....

(like what i’m doing here? It’s not what pays the bills, so i’d really appreciate it if you could send me a bit at my paypal.me or via my ko-fi. Click here to see more entries in this series of posts, or here to go in chronological order)

#scooby doo #long post #KRAOSD

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