Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera Productions. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured teenagers Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and their talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.
The first incarnation of what has become a franchise-of-sorts, Scooby-Doo is a large, loveable but cowardly Great Dane who hangs around four California high school students (Fred, Velma, Daphne and Shaggy). The four teen-agers are in constant search of mysteries and adventures, driving around in a bright green van known as the Mystery Machine. Many of the group's adventures involve villians who take on supernatural disguises (ghosts and monsters); the villians' activities usually involve blackmail, theft, fraud and other forms of corruption.
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo solve mysteries in the spooky town of Crystal Cove, a village boasting a long history of ghostly sightings, werewolves and glowing deep-sea divers. The townspeople of the hotspot don't appreciate the sleuths’ meddling, but the gang demands extraordinary proof for extraordinary claims.
Join Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and of course Scooby-Doo as they catch the bad guys behind the masks in the every episodes.
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang solve more mysteries while also accompanied by many celebrities.
The Scooby Doo Show premiered on ABC in September 1976 as part of The Scooby-Doo-Dynomutt Hour, in which new episodes of Scooby Doo shared an hour with a superhero dog named Dynomutt. It was a revamped version of Scooby Doo, Where Are You? which started on CBS in 1969.
Shaggy inherits "Like a Billion Dollars" from his Uncle Albert; an eccentric scientist and inventor who has suddenly disappeared. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy move into Uncle Albert's mansion and go from living "paw to mouth" to having everything and anything they've ever wanted -- including a pool, a massive home entertainment system and ROBI, their own comically inept robot butler. Just when Scoob and Shag kick back to enjoy their new digs, they stumble upon a secret lab, where they discover that Uncle Albert is actually hiding from a sinister villain named Dr. Phineus Phibes, who is after a secret nanotechnology formula that Uncle Albert recently invented. Scooby and Shaggy vow to work on their own until they bring down Phibes and make the world safe for Uncle Albert to come out of hiding.