"Bros. Animation following William Hanna's death in 2001. Warner Animation would continue production of the direct-to-video series while also producing new ""Scooby-Doo"" series for television. The direct-to-video productions continued to be produced concurrently with at least one entry per year. Two of these entries, ""Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire"" and ""Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico"" (both 2003) were produced in a retro-style reminiscent of the original series, and featured Heather North and Nicole Jaffe as the voices of Daphne and Velma, respectively. Later entries produced between 2004 and 2009 were done in the style of ""What's New,"
"Where Are You!"". Daphne was portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the film ""Scooby-Doo"" and its sequel, """" and voiced in the animated series ""Robot Chicken"". Her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. played Fred in the same films. In these movies, Daphne and Fred began a relationship in the first that followed on through the second. Unlike the previous incarnation of the character, Gellar's version of Daphne is trained in martial arts during Mystery Inc.'s 2-year-long departure in the first film, as she is tired of being a damsel in distress on every case that she is involved in with the"
"to be December 25 to create a personal conflict for her regarding Christmas overshadowing her birthday. Together with her other teenage companions, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers, and Shaggy's Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, Daphne would engage in solving various mysteries. In the first series, Daphne was portrayed as the beautiful and enthusiastic but clumsy and danger-prone member of the gang (hence her nickname, ""Danger-prone Daphne"") who always follows her intuition. She serves as the damsel in distress and would occasionally get kidnapped, tied up, gagged, and then left imprisoned. But as the franchise went on, she became a stronger, more"
"as Fred, actress Nicole Jaffe as Velma, and musician Indira Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne. Scooby's speech patterns closely resembled an earlier cartoon dog, Astro from ""The Jetsons"" (1962–63), also voiced by Messick. Seventeen episodes of ""Scooby-Doo Where are You!"" were produced in 1969–70. The series theme song was written by David Mook and Ben Raleigh, and performed by Larry Marks. Each of these episodes features Scooby and the four teenage members of Mystery, Inc.—Fred, Shaggy, Daphne and Velma—arriving at a location in the Mystery Machine, a van painted with psychedelic colors and flower power imagery. Encountering a ghost, monster, or"
"Scooby-Doo (film) Scooby-Doo (also known as Scooby-Doo: The Movie) is a 2002 American live-action/computer-animated family adventure film based on the long-running Hanna-Barbera animated television series of the same name. It is the first installment in the ""Scooby-Doo"" live-action film series, directed by Raja Gosnell, written by James Gunn, and starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini and Rowan Atkinson. The plot revolves around Mystery Incorporated, a group of four young adults and a dog who solve mysteries, who reunite after a two-year disbandment, to investigate a mystery on a popular horror resort. Filming took place in"
"for two 2003 direct-to-video movies, ""Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire"" and ""Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico"". Nicole Jaffe Nicole Jaffe David (born May 23, 1941) is a Canadian talent agent and former actress and voice actress, best known as the original voice actress for Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's ""Scooby-Doo"" Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1970. A life member of The Actors Studio, David – under her maiden name Nicole Jaffe – had previously appeared in ""The Trouble with Girls"" (1969) with Elvis Presley (and ""Scooby-Doo"" voice actor Frank Welker) and in Disney's ""The Love Bug"""
"Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School is a 1988 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the ""Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10"" series. Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and Scrappy-Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ""ghouls"". The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenstein's monster, Winnie, the daughter of the Wolfman; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short), the daughter of a phantom,"
"the regular curriculum including science and history"". Stevens died from breast cancer on May 26, 2010, at the age of 64 in Rutland, Massachusetts. She was surrounded by her husband, Jess Nadelman, their children, Sara and David, and her six siblings. Pat Stevens Patricia Stevens (née Szczepaniak September 16, 1945 – May 26, 2010) was an American actress and voice actress. She is perhaps best known for her various nurse roles, particularly as Nurse Baker on ""M*A*S*H"" and her role as the second voice of the character Velma Dinkley on two Saturday morning cartoon series ""The Scooby-Doo Show"" and ""Scooby-Doo"
"Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo is an American animated franchise, comprising many animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"", for Hanna-Barbera Productions 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 named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps. Following the success of the original series, Hanna-Barbera and its successor Warner Bros. Animation have produced numerous follow-up and spin-off animated series and several related"
"Daphne Blake Daphne Blake is a fictional character in the long-running American animated series ""Scooby-Doo"". Daphne, depicted as coming from a wealthy family, is noted for her red hair, lavender heels, fashion sense, and her knack for getting into danger, hence the nickname ""Danger Prone Daphne"". Daphne has appeared in more adaptations than the other characters, aside from Shaggy Rogers and Scooby-Doo. The Daphne character was inspired by the sophisticated and money-hungry teen character Thalia Menninger, as played by Tuesday Weld, from the late 50s/early 60s American sitcom ""The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"". ""Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!"" shows her birthday"
"Daphne trademark neck scarf, and later Xander responds, ""Can you say, 'Gulp'?"" as Shaggy often does. Sarah Michelle Gellar, the actress who plays Buffy, would later also appear as Daphne Blake in the films ""Scooby-Doo"" and """". The Scooby Gang usually take an unimpressed, flippant attitude towards extraordinary events and supernatural occurrences. Originally a group of teenage friends attending Sunnydale High in a town built on top of a Hellmouth, the group gradually expanded, eventually merging with the Watchers' Council to become a global organization dealing with demonic threats worldwide and training thousands of Slayers. In the beginning, Buffy often"
"Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost is a 1999 direct-to-video animated supernatural horror-comedy film, and the second of the direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's ""Scooby-Doo"" Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on October 5, 1999, and it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation (although it contained a ""Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc."" copyright and logo). The Mystery Inc. gang (Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne and Velma) travel to a New England town called Oakhaven after being invited by horror writer Ben Ravencroft. Like a number of direct-to-video ""Scooby-Doo"" animated films released in the late-1990s and early-2000s, ""The Witch's Ghost"""
"her innocence. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy Rogers are chased by a witch and run into Ben and the gang. They find broken tree branches at the scene and are drawn to an all-female gothic rock band, The Hex Girls, led by Sally ""Thorn"" McKnight. The gang then decides to split up; Fred and Daphne stay to watch the Hex Girls, Velma and Ben go explore an old barn and Shaggy and Scooby follow the Mayor. Fred and Daphne see Thorn doing some sort of ritual and are convinced the Hex Girls are witches. Velma and Ben find a cherry picker truck"
"married and retired from voice acting, Heather North assumed the role of Daphne, and would continue to voice the character until 1997. The TV influences of ""I Love a Mystery"" and ""Dobie Gillis"" were apparent in the first episodes. Of the similarities between the ""Scooby-Doo"" teens and the ""Dobie Gillis"" teens, the similarities between Shaggy and Maynard are the most noticeable; both characters share the same beatnik-style goatee, similar hairstyles, and demeanors. The core premise of ""Scooby-Doo, Where are You!"" was also similar to Enid Blyton's ""Famous Five"" books. Both series featured four youths with a dog, and the Famous"
"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. Produced for CBS, the series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. In 1978, a selection of episodes from the later series ""Scooby's All-Stars"" and ""The Scooby-Doo Show"" were aired on ABC under the ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" name and, as such, is sometimes marketed as its third season. The series centers on a group of characters consisting of four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley,"
"Collette Sunderman Collette Marie Sunderman (née Bennett) is an American director principally involved with voice direction for animated television, film productions and video games. Her credits include ""The Powerpuff Girls"", ""Samurai Jack"", ""What's New, Scooby-Doo"", """", ""Duck Dodgers"", ""Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends"", ""Chowder"", and ""Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated"". Sunderman began her career in animation in the early 1990s for Hanna-Barbera, where she worked as a talent coordinator. Several years later, she did the casting and, on some occasion, co-directed with Kris Zimmerman on ""Dexter's Laboratory"", ""The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest"" and ""Johnny Bravo"". However, the first show she directed"
"characters utilize technology that did not exist at the time ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" first aired. It is the first television series in the franchise in which Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle and Mindy Cohn respectively portrayed the voices of Scooby-Doo, Daphne and Velma, as well as the final one in which Casey Kasem portrayed Shaggy, having originally quit the role following a dispute regarding the portrayal of the character. The series premiered on September 14, 2002, and ran for three seasons before ending on July 21, 2006. The title song was performed by Canadian band Simple Plan. Reruns of the"
"Scooby-Doo (character) Scoobert ""Scooby"" Doo is the eponymous character and protagonist of the animated television franchise of the same name created in 1969 by the American animation company Hanna-Barbera. Scooby-Doo is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits. Named after a nonsense vocal line in Frank Sinatra's hit song ""Strangers in the Night"", he features a mix of both canine and human behaviors (reminiscent of other funny animals in the Golden age of American animation), treated by his friends more or less as an equal while speaking in"
"was Jack's former body) by heading across a covered bridge which he cannot cross. The three of them arrive at the Witches' Hut where they meet the Grand Witch (voiced by Lauren Bacall) and her two fellow witches (voiced by Grey DeLisle and Russi Taylor). The witches send Shaggy and Scooby on a ride on their flying broomstick nicknamed ""Broomy"" towards the Goblin King's castle, but they are shot down by Glob and Glum by a goblin gun-like cannon. Crash-landing in a small fairy village, Shaggy and Scooby find three fairies named Sparkplug, Honeybee and Tiddlywink, who help them to"
"Velma Dinkley Velma Dinkley is a fictional character in the ""Scooby-Doo"" franchise. She is usually seen wearing a baggy orange turtleneck, short pleated skirt (or in later episodes an A-line skirt, or sometimes shorts), knee socks, Mary Janes, and most prominently, a pair of square glasses, which she frequently loses. She is seen as the brains of the group. Throughout her various incarnations, Velma is usually portrayed as a highly intelligent young woman with highly specific interests in science (which in the ""Scooby and Scrappy Doo"" series leads her to pursue a career as a NASA research scientist) or merely"
"Nicole Jaffe Nicole Jaffe David (born May 23, 1941) is a Canadian talent agent and former actress and voice actress, best known as the original voice actress for Velma Dinkley in Hanna-Barbera's ""Scooby-Doo"" Saturday morning cartoon series from 1969 to 1970. A life member of The Actors Studio, David – under her maiden name Nicole Jaffe – had previously appeared in ""The Trouble with Girls"" (1969) with Elvis Presley (and ""Scooby-Doo"" voice actor Frank Welker) and in Disney's ""The Love Bug"" (1968). Jaffe starred in a 1969 stage production of ""You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"" as Patty, where she"
"What's New, Scooby-Doo? What's New, Scooby-Doo? is an American animated mystery comedy series produced by Warner Bros. Animation for The WB television network; it is the ninth incarnation of the ""Scooby-Doo"" franchise that began with Hanna-Barbera's ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" and the first of such since the previous incarnation, ""A Pup Named Scooby-Doo"", ended in 1991. The series revives the format of ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"", in which the title character and his companions, Fred Jones; Daphne Blake; Velma Dinkley and Shaggy Rogers, travel to varying locations solving mysteries; this format is modernized for ""What's New, Scooby-Doo?"", in which the"
"season, they are shown to be actively dating, showing more of his feelings toward Daphne. In the first live-action ""Scooby-Doo"" movie, the two initially are just friends with but as the film progresses they begin to develop a romantic interest in each other and briefly kiss after saving Spooky Island. In the sequel """", they are in a relationship. In ""Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!"", Daphne is portrayed as being an eccentric nonconformist, usually having a different odd obsession each episode (such as puppets, false facial hair, etc.) Her usual appearance in the franchise consists of a purple mini dress, pink pantyhose,"
"friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles. This group was also called the ""slayerettes"". The group was first referred to as the Scooby Gang by Xander Harris in the Season Two episode ""What's My Line, Part One"" as a reference to the group of monster-hunting teenagers from the Hanna-Barbera animated series ""Scooby-Doo"" that is otherwise known as Mystery Inc., who investigate and solve supernatural/occult monsters mysteries much like The Scoobies in Buffy. The first visible sign was in Season 1, Episode 11, where Willow is seen wearing a Scooby Doo T-shirt, Buffy sports the"
"and Shaggy Rogers—and the title character, a semi-anthropomorphic Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in a blue and green van with two orange flowers named the Mystery Machine, solving mysteries involving several local legends; in doing so, they discover that the perpetrator is almost invariably a disguised person who seeks to exploit the legend for their personal gain. ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" is the first incarnation of what would eventually become a long-running media franchise, which primarily consists of subsequent animated series, several films, and related merchandise. ""Scooby Doo, Where Are You!"" was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's"
"gang. Coincidentally, this subversion of the damsel in distress to a strong female fighter almost mirrors Gellar's widely recognized role of the title character in the TV series ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"". Though in the first movie, she is captured by the masked wrestler Zarkos, she beats him in a fight at the end. Daphne is portrayed by Kate Melton in the third film ""Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins"" (released as a TV movie in 2009) and its sequel ""Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster"" (which premiered on October 16, 2010). These two movies are prequels to the first two live-action"
"Pat Stevens Patricia Stevens (née Szczepaniak September 16, 1945 – May 26, 2010) was an American actress and voice actress. She is perhaps best known for her various nurse roles, particularly as Nurse Baker on ""M*A*S*H"" and her role as the second voice of the character Velma Dinkley on two Saturday morning cartoon series ""The Scooby-Doo Show"" and ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo"" during the same period (1976–1979). Stevens voiced the character of Velma Dinkley from 1976 to 1979, leaving the show midway through ""Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo"". She appeared on the long-running television series ""M*A*S*H"" from 1974 through 1978 as various nurses"
"""Scooby-Doo"", Cheetah disguised herself as a ghost to attack the Hall of Justice alongside the rest of the Legion of Doom. Together, the Legion captured and shrunk each member of the Super Friends until only Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo were left. Scooby and his gang were able to hold off the Legion of Doom until the miniature Super Friends broke free from their captivity. After Scooby and Shaggy became Yellow Lanterns and restored the Super Friends to their normal size, Cheetah and the rest of the Legion of Doom were defeated. Cheetah appears in several stories in the"
"of Scooby-Doo"", and ""Scooby's Mystery Funhouse"", the rerun package remained on the air until the end of the 1986 season. ""Scooby-Doo"" was restored to a standalone half-hour in 1983 with ""The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show"" in 1983, which comprised two 11-minute mysteries per episode in a format reminiscent of the original ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" mysteries. Heather North returned to the voice cast as Daphne, who in this incarnation solved mysteries with Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy while working undercover as a reporter for a teen magazine. This version of the show lasted for two seasons, with the second season"
"Indira Stefanianna Indira Stefanianna (born Indira Stefanianna Christopherson; December 15, 1946), also credited as Indira Danks, Stefanianna Christopherson, and Indira Stefanianna, is an American singer and actress of Icelandic heritage, perhaps best known for her role as the original voice of Daphne Blake on ""Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!"" during its first (1969) season. Christopherson was born and raised in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Lorne Christopherson, who was from Manitoba, and her mother, Hrafnhildur (née Snorradóttir), who was born in Iceland. She and her mother would sing nursery rhymes together when Christopherson was a little girl, and she aspired"
"four-year absence. The plots of each episode feature her, Shaggy Rogers, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo solving supernatural mysteries under the cover of being reporters for a teen magazine. Each half-hour program was made up of two 11-minute episodes, which would upon occasion be two parts of one half-hour-long episode. The second season of this format, broadcast as ""The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries"" in 1984, continued the same format, and included six two-part episodes featuring original ""Scooby-Doo"" characters Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley, both absent from the series for five years. Fred's last name is given as ""Rogers"" initially in his return appearance"
"video game and ""Robot Chicken"". Lauren Kennedy portrayed young Velma in a flashback sequence in """". Velma is portrayed by Hayley Kiyoko in the 2009 live-action movie ""Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins"" and its 2010 sequel ""Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster"". Sarah Gilman portrayed the young Velma in the 2018 direct-to-video film ""Daphne & Velma"". Although the ""Scooby-Doo"" series and direct-to-video films depict her as heterosexual, the character has a fan base among lesbian viewers due to an interpretation that she is a depiction of a smart, self-possessed lesbian. Velma Dinkley Velma Dinkley is a fictional character in the ""Scooby-Doo"""
"Kate Micucci Kate Micucci ( ; born March 31, 1980) is an American actress, voice actress, comedian, singer, songwriter and artist that is one half of the musical comedy duo ""Garfunkel and Oates"". Some of her well known roles include Stephanie Gooch in ""Scrubs"", Shelley in ""Raising Hope"", Lucy in ""The Big Bang Theory"", Sadie in ""Steven Universe"", Sara Murphy in ""Milo Murphy's Law"", Daisy in ""Nature Cat"", Clayface in ""The Lego Batman Movie"", Velma Dinkley in ""Scooby-Doo"", Webby Vanderquack in ""DuckTales"", and Dr. Fox in ""Unikitty!"". Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, of Italian ancestry, Micucci was raised in"