Second only to the SuperFriends, Scooby Doo is the second top favorite cartoon series that kept me watching the longest. I was shocked to find out that Scooby actually got started 3 years before I was even born, back in 1969, the same year the Brady Bunch came into existence.
I watched Scooby Doo from the late 70's until the mid 80's when old Scoob was finally taken off Saturday mornings. But of all the versions I've ever seen, this is by far the best. Hanna Barbera had a true jewel when they first brought this series to life and no other incarnation has ever come close to matching it.
Naturally what interested me was the fact that Scooby Doo was a dog that talked and he made me laugh when I was real little. And the four teen sleuths, they along with Scooby helped make that series a hit. I like how there were four stereotypes. Shaggy was by far the second most popular character on the show. Some say he was a beatnik, others say, hippie. I say, an unusual oddball, but hey! He and Scooby together were always quite the comical pair. Velma was the brains of the group and of the three actresses who voiced her over, I liked Nicole Jaffe the best. Daphne was the beauty of the group. The only stand out trait to her personality was when she picked a wrong door or pressed a wrong button and everyone replied, "Danger Prone Daphne " did it again and she always seemed to be the most popular member for getting kidnapped.
I may be different from most Scooby Doo fans in that aside from Scooby, my favorite of the teens was Freddy (or sometimes Fred), the hunk or I guess he was something of a jock and leader figure not to mention the designated driver of the Mystery Machine, the gang's hippie van. I liked how Freddy was portrayed, even though some say he had no personality. I also liked the hint that maybe Freddy and Daphne were secretly involved or at least interested in each other. If I were Freddy, I'd pair off with Daphne myself.
Anyway, the villains in these shows were classic as well as the animation style. It was a cartoon cartoon like Yogi Bear and the Flintstones but yet it wasn't a Super Heroish action cartoon either like Space Ghost or Birdman, but the style was somewhere in the middle.
Amazingly, Scooby Doo would launch a style of imitations in the 70's like the Clue Club, Speed Buggy, and Jabberjaw.
My favorite episode in the original series is a Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman all together. Also, episodes like What the Hex is Going On, A Clue For Scooby Doo, Jeepers it's the Creeper, Never Ape an Ape Man, Biglam Under the Big Top, and more are all excellent and should not be missed. Any Scooby fan I would highly recommend getting the original Scooby Doo Where Are You? series on DVD. It is well worth the purchase. I give this series two thumbs up!
I watched Scooby Doo from the late 70's until the mid 80's when old Scoob was finally taken off Saturday mornings. But of all the versions I've ever seen, this is by far the best. Hanna Barbera had a true jewel when they first brought this series to life and no other incarnation has ever come close to matching it.
Naturally what interested me was the fact that Scooby Doo was a dog that talked and he made me laugh when I was real little. And the four teen sleuths, they along with Scooby helped make that series a hit. I like how there were four stereotypes. Shaggy was by far the second most popular character on the show. Some say he was a beatnik, others say, hippie. I say, an unusual oddball, but hey! He and Scooby together were always quite the comical pair. Velma was the brains of the group and of the three actresses who voiced her over, I liked Nicole Jaffe the best. Daphne was the beauty of the group. The only stand out trait to her personality was when she picked a wrong door or pressed a wrong button and everyone replied, "Danger Prone Daphne " did it again and she always seemed to be the most popular member for getting kidnapped.
I may be different from most Scooby Doo fans in that aside from Scooby, my favorite of the teens was Freddy (or sometimes Fred), the hunk or I guess he was something of a jock and leader figure not to mention the designated driver of the Mystery Machine, the gang's hippie van. I liked how Freddy was portrayed, even though some say he had no personality. I also liked the hint that maybe Freddy and Daphne were secretly involved or at least interested in each other. If I were Freddy, I'd pair off with Daphne myself.
Anyway, the villains in these shows were classic as well as the animation style. It was a cartoon cartoon like Yogi Bear and the Flintstones but yet it wasn't a Super Heroish action cartoon either like Space Ghost or Birdman, but the style was somewhere in the middle.
Amazingly, Scooby Doo would launch a style of imitations in the 70's like the Clue Club, Speed Buggy, and Jabberjaw.
My favorite episode in the original series is a Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts with Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman all together. Also, episodes like What the Hex is Going On, A Clue For Scooby Doo, Jeepers it's the Creeper, Never Ape an Ape Man, Biglam Under the Big Top, and more are all excellent and should not be missed. Any Scooby fan I would highly recommend getting the original Scooby Doo Where Are You? series on DVD. It is well worth the purchase. I give this series two thumbs up!