Scooby-Doo is an American animated media franchise comprised many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present, as well as their derivative media.
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23 Facts About Scooby-Doo
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Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to ABC.
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ABC aired various versions of Scooby-Doo until canceling it in 1985, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children called A Pup Named Scooby-Doo from 1988 until 1991.
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Repeats of the various Scooby-Doo series are frequently broadcast on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang in the United States and other countries.
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Scooby-Doo itself influenced many other Saturday-morning cartoons of the 1970s.
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The voice cast was held over from The New Scooby-Doo Movies save for Nicole Jaffe, who retired from acting in 1973.
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The 40 total Scooby-Doo episodes produced from 1976 to 1978 were later packaged together for syndication as The Scooby-Doo Show, under which title they continue to air.
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Pup Named Scooby-Doo was developed and produced by Tom Ruegger, who had been the head story editor on Scooby-Doo since 1983.
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Reruns of Scooby-Doo have been in syndication since 1980, and have been shown on cable television networks such as TBS Superstation and USA Network .
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In 1993, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, having just recently ended its network run on ABC, began reruns on the Cartoon Network.
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When TBS and TNT ended their broadcasts of H-B cartoons in 1998, Scooby-Doo became the exclusive property of both Cartoon Network and sister station Boomerang.
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Scooby-Doo, voiced by Neil Fanning, was created on-screen by computer-generated special effects.
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Scooby-Doo was a financially successful release, with a domestic box office gross of over US$130 million.
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In 2013, DC began a digital bi-monthly comic book titled Scooby-Doo Team-Up, crossing over Mystery Inc with other DC and Hanna-Barbera characters.
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Early Scooby-Doo merchandise included a 1973 Milton Bradley board game, decorated lunch boxes, iron-on transfers, coloring books, story books, records, underwear, and other such goods.
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Scooby-Doo multivitamins debuted at this time, and have been manufactured by Bayer since 2001.
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Today, all manner of Scooby-Doo-branded products are available for purchase, including Scooby-Doo breakfast cereal, plush toys, action figures, car decorations, and much more.
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From 1990 to 2002, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo appeared as characters in the Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida.
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Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are currently costumed characters at Universal Studios Florida, and can be seen driving the Mystery Machine around the park.
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Scooby-Doo has maintained a significant fan base, which has grown steadily since the 1990s due to the show's popularity among both young children and nostalgic adults who grew up with the series.
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For one year from 2004 to 2005, Scooby-Doo held the Guinness World Record for having the most episodes of any animated television series ever produced, a record previously held by and later returned to The Simpsons.
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Scooby-Doo was published as holding this record in the 2006 edition of the Guinness Book of Records.
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