Scooby Doo

Scooby Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American franchise based on a kids' animated show launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera. The series features 4 teenagers: Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, and their talking dog named Scooby, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to ABC. ABC aired various versions of Scooby-Doo until canceling it in 1985, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children called A Pup Named Scooby-Doo from 1988 until 1991. Two Scooby-Doo reboots aired as part of Kids' WB on The WB and its successor The CW from 2002 until 2008. Further reboots were produced for Cartoon Network beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2018. Repeats of the various Scooby-Doo series are frequently broadcast on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang in the United States and other countries. The most recent Scooby-Doo series, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, premiered on June 27, 2019, as an original series on Boomerang's streaming service and later HBO Max. In 2013, TV Guide ranked Scooby-Doo the fifth-greatest TV cartoon of all time.

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