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Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising
several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present
day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for
Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969.
This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred
Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and
their talking brown Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries
involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics
and missteps.
Following the success of the original series, Hanna-Barbera and its
successor Warner Bros. Animation have produced numerous follow-up and
spin-off animated series and several related works, including
television specials and telefilms, a line of direct-to-video films,
and two Warner Bros.–produced theatrical feature films. Some versions
of Scooby-Doo feature different variations on the show's supernatural
theme, and include characters such as Scooby's cousin Scooby-Dum and
nephew Scrappy-Doo in addition to or instead of some of the original
characters.
Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it
moved to ABC. ABC aired the show until canceling it in 1986, and
presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children, A Pup Named
Scooby-Doo, from 1988 until 1991. New Scooby-Doo series aired as part
of Kids WB on The WB Network and its successor, The CW Network, from
2002 until 2008. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, aired on Cartoon
Network from 2010 to 2013, and, Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, debuted on
Cartoon Network in 2015. Repeats of the various Scooby-Doo series are
broadcast frequently on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the United
States as well as other countries.