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https://nypost.com/2019/09/12/jeepers-scooby-doo-is-turning-the-big-5-0/


Earlier this week, marked the 50th anniversary since the premiere of the Scooby Doo Where are You TV series and the start of the franchise consisting of numerous iterations and reboots.

1 of (if not) my favourite TV shows as a child.

Top 5 episodes (in no particular order):
1. A Night of Fright is No Delight https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907026/?ref_=ttep_ep16
2. Go Away Ghost Ship- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907032/?ref_=ttep_ep14
3. Which Witch is Which- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907046/?ref_=ttep_ep13
4. What a Night for a Knight- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907045/?ref_=ttep_ep1
5. Hassle in the Castle- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0907033/?ref_=ttep_ep3
 
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Other Scooby Doo trivia.
Scooby got his name, as one of the creators was a big Frank Sinatra fan. He particularly liked "Strangers In The Night", and the scat section where Frank sang "dooby dooby doo".
The characters are based on characters from the show "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis". While it is easy to see Shaggy is based on Maynard G Krebs (played by Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island fame), and not a stretch to see Zelda (Sheila Kuehl) as Velma, it is possible she was named from another role that Kuehl played, Selma in the tv series Broadside. Fred was based on Dobie (Dwayne Hickman), but they are really nothing like each other. Daphne was based on Thalia Menninger. Thalia was Dobie's dreamgirl, and was played by Tuesday Weld. (Trivia in trivia Wednesday Addams from The Addams family was a play on Tuesday Weld's name!)
 
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Rowsus said:
Other Scooby Doo trivia.
Scooby got his name, as one of the creators was a big Frank Sinatra fan. He particularly liked "Strangers In The Night", and the scat section where Frank sang "dooby dooby doo".
The characters are based on characters from the show "The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis". While it is easy to see Shaggy is based on Maynard G Krebs (played by Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island fame), and not a stretch to see Zelda (Sheila Kuehl) as Velma, it is possible she was named from another role that Kuehl played, Selma in the tv series Broadside. Fred was based on Dobie (Dwayne Hickman), but they are really nothing like each other. Daphne was based on Thalia Menninger. Thalia was Dobie's dreamgirl, and was played by Tuesday Weld. (Trivia in trivia Wednesday Addams from The Addams family was a play on Tuesday Weld's name!)
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Thanks. Wasn’t aware of the above.

Some interesting trivia on IMDB regarding the show: (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063950/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv)

Velma's famous line, "My glasses; I can't see without them!" was not originally scripted for the show. During a table read for the voice artists, Velma's voice-over actress Nicole Jaffe, who was near-sighted as well, lost her glasses and uttered a variation of what became Velma's famous catchphrase. The writers liked the line so much that Velma losing her glasses became one of the show's trademark gags. Velma loses her glasses in the first episode, Scooby Doo, Where Are You!: What a Night for a Knight (1969), but the actual line is first spoken in Scooby Doo, Where Are You!: Decoy for a Dognapper (1969).

Frank Welker wanted to audition for the role of Shaggy since he had always been cast as the straight man and wanted to do a comedic character. Casey Kasem wanted to audition for the role of Fred because he claimed he was not a comedic actor.

The original names for the characters during the show's development, when it was known as "Mystery Five" or "Mysteries Five," and later "W-Who's S-S-Scared?"
  • Freddy: "Geoff", later "Ronnie" (Freddy was actually identified as Ronnie on the final storyboards for the first few episodes of the series)
  • Daphne: "Kelly"
  • Velma: "Linda"
  • Shaggy:"W.W."
  • Scooby-Doo: "Too Much" (as in: "That's just too much!" a popular catchphrase of the time)

Dr. Steven Long, associate professor in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Marquette University, was asked to identify Scooby-Doo's speech impediment were it real. Scooby (voiced by Don Messick ) does not so much mangle words as add letters or replace letters, usually an R in front of a beginning-vowel, or one for another consonant. Dr. Long calls this process "rhoticization", and diagnosed Scooby with the previously-unknown disorder of "Rhotic Replacement".
 
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