A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
| A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | |
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| Genre |
Animation Mystery Comedy |
| Created by |
Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Developed by | Tom Ruegger |
| Directed by |
Don Lusk Art Davis (Season 1) Oscar Dufau (Season 1) Bob Goe (Season 1) Animation Directors: Robert Alvarez (Season 1) |
| Voices of |
Don Messick Casey Kasem Carl Steven Kellie Martin Christina Lange Scott Menville |
| Theme music composer | John Debney |
| Composer(s) | John Debney |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 27 (30 segments) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera Paul Sabella (executive producer, co-executive producer, Seasons 3–4) Mark Young (co-executive producer, Season 4 only) |
| Producer(s) | Tom Ruegger (Season 1) Lane Raichert (Season 2 and 3) Craig Zukowski (Season 4) |
| Editor(s) | Gil Iverson (Season 1 and 3) Tim Iverson (Season 3 and 4) |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | September 10, 1988 – August 17, 1991 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) |
| Followed by | What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002–2006) |
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is the eighth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. This spin-off of the original show was created by Tom Ruegger and premiered on September 10, 1988 and ran for four seasons on ABC and on The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera as a half-hour program, until August 17, 1991. Following the show's first season, much of Hanna-Barbera's production staff, including Tom Ruegger, left the studio and helped to revive the Warner Bros. Animation studio, beginning with Tiny Toon Adventures.
This was notable for being the last series to star Don Messick as the voice of Scooby-Doo before his death in 1997, and one of the few animated series in which someone other than Frank Welker voiced the character of Fred Jones (child actor Carl Steven took on the role for this series). Messick and Casey Kasem, the latter of whom voiced Shaggy Rogers, were the only two voice actors from other Scooby-Doo series to reprise their roles in this version, and both received starring credits for their work.
The new format followed the trend of the "babyfication" of older cartoon characters, reducing the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cast to junior-high age. (In doing so, the series reintroduced Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley to the show, both of whom had not appeared as regular characters since the 1970s, and erased Scrappy-Doo from the cast.) This new show also used the same basic formula as the original 1969 show: the "Scooby-Doo Detective Agency" (a forerunner of Mystery Inc.) solved supernatural-based mysteries in the town of Coolsville, where the villains (the ghosts and monsters) were always revealed as bad guys in masks and costumes.
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