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"Scooby-Doo" is the eponymous character and protagonist of
the Scooby-Doo animated television series created by the popular American
animation company Hanna-Barbera. Scooby-Doo is the male dog and lifelong
companion of Shaggy Rogers and in much iteration, including the original
series, is regarded as a unique Great Dane dog who is able to speak in broken
English, unlike most other dogs in his reality, and usually puts the letter R
in front of words spoken. Other incarnations, such as A Pup Named Scooby-Doo,
present talking dogs like Scooby as quite common.
The head of children's
programming at CBS, Fred Silverman, came up with the character's name from the
syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" in Frank Sinatra's hit song "Strangers
in the Night".
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A scene
from "What a Night for a Knight",
the first episode of
Scooby-Doo,
Where Are You!
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Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise,
comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present
day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera
Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday-morning
cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley
and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane dog
named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural
creatures through a series of antics and missteps.
