This started with me trying to place Scooby-Doo in the Television Crossover Universe. Once the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia was completed, it was clear that there was more than one reality with Scooby-Doo in existence. My current work with the Cartoon Crossover Encyclopedia has further led me to that conclusion.
Recently, Ivan and I recorded our first episode of the new Random Fandom podcast which focused on Scooby-Doo Team-Up, and this inspired Ivan and I to work on the Five Scoobies Project. Over the next few weeks or months, Ivan and I will be working on separate timelines for the various Scooby Universes.
RF Episode 1: Scooby-Doo Team-Up
Click here for a list of all the other Scooby timelines with links.
Tonight, I begin on the final of the timelines, ironically going back to the beginning.
Tonight we'll be discussing the original Scooby-Doo timeline. This we'll call the Scooby-Prime Universe. It's not the TVCU or Cartoon Universe, but it's certainly part of the same multiverse.
Here, all the original Saturday morning cartoons are canon, as well as the animated films of the 1980s. This is the era of Scrappy, Scooby-Dum and Scooby-Dee, Vincent Van Ghoul, Dynomutt, the Boo Brothers, and lots of stars of the 1970s.
What we will not include in this timeline is Laff-A-Lympics, nor will we cover Scooby's appearances outside of the regular Scooby series, which wouldn't be part of the series canon. So none of the Kids All-Stars to the Rescue type stuff.
Even though this timeline only runs through two decades, it's still a timeline which operates in "cartoon time" based on the slower aging of the kids. But in this timeline, the kids do eventually grow up.
1942--As Raclaw, Ivan publically defeats a demon at the Arkham Train Depot using his Tillinghast Generator, creating a bit of a sensation. Several people start trying to build their own 'spirit box' devices. Ultimately Ivan accidentally founds a Ghostbusters franchise in 1942, though he is careful not to use that name; he refers to them as Ghost Breakers and his many recruits, most of whom are Miskatonic University students, set up their headquarters on campus. Alarmed that he might draw the attention of the real Raclaw Schablotski's still-living relatives in Massachusetts, Ivan insists on making engineering professor Basil Dinkley the public head of the "Ghost Breakers Club". After they've been active for about a month, the group is contacted by Larry Lawrence who claims to represent the 'official' Ghost Breakers and threatens to sue, prompting Ivan and Raymond to rename their group "The Real Ghost Breakers". Tillinghast Generator and Miskatonic University are elements of Lovecraft's Mythos Cycle of stories, specifically FROM BEYOND(1920) and HERBERT WEST-REANIMATOR(1922). Basil Dinkley is related to Velma Dinkley from SCOOBY DOO, WHERE ARE YOU (1969) and other cartoons, though he cannot be the same Dr. Basil Von Dinkenstein Velma claims was her great great uncle in SCOOBY DOO! FRANKENCREEPY (2014) as that Basil was said to be the monster maker who inspired Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN novel in the 1800s. Larry Lawrence is from the 1940 film GHOST BREAKERS, an adaptation of an earlier play The Ghost Breaker (1909). The Real Ghost Breakers is a play on the animated Ghostbusters cartoon titled THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS due to an already existing Ghostbusters television property. Ghostbusters, of course, reflects both the Filmation GHOST BUSTERS property and the Sony GHOSTBUSTERS property.
1964?--A PUP NAMED SCOOBY-DOO--I'm not sure if this should be included. It is a Saturday Morning cartoon, and the final Scooby series of the 1980s, running from 1988 to 1991. There is a TVCU divergent timeline for the trend of the "babyfication" of older cartoon characters, and perhaps I should do a future post about that timeline.
BATMAN (TELEVISION SERIES)--Batman and Robin protect Gotham City from various bizarre criminals. For this timeline's purposes, this dynamic duo is Bruce Wayne as Batman and Dick Grayson as Robin. The Batusi was seen in two episodes of the original Batman TV series. The first, "Hi Diddle Riddle," was the series' first episode and originally aired January 12, 1966. The second, "The Pharaoh's in a Rut," was the 28th episode and originally aired April 14, 1966. It has reappeared in many television shows, including two episodes of The Simpsons, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Everybody Loves Raymond, and Shaggy refers to the dance in an episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! It has also been in movies such as Pulp Fiction, Antz, and Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt. The cover of the DC comic Solo #7 featured a drawing of Wonder Girl in mid-Batusi. The cover (by writer/artist Mike Allred) was originally meant to be one of the Adam West TV Batman in the same pose. However, due to unspecified tensions regarding DC's relationship with the company that produced the 1960s TV show, Allred was forced to submit a different cover for the issue. The Batusi is mentioned in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Mayhem of the Music Meister!" during the song "Drives us bats!". The Batusi is performed by character Fox Mulder in the 2016 episode of The X-Files, "Babylon".
SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? - THE BEGINNING OF MYSTERY, INC. AND THE TREND OF MYSTERY SOLVING TEENS AND THEIR MASCOTS
September 13, 1969 - November 4, 1978--SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU! (ANIMATED SERIES)--A group of teenagers and their talking dog go around solving mysteries which always involves debunking a fake haunting. For the purposes of this timeline, most Scooby series from 1969 to 1989 are all part of the main Scooby-Doo! series. This series is followed by The New Scooby-Doo Movies in 1972. It was remade as a live action movie in 2002. The series has been referenced and spoofed numerous times in film and television. Note that the series was cancelled in 1970 after its second season, replaced by its next incarnation, but was revived in its original form for a third season in 1978.
September 13, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 1--"What a Night for a Knight"--Villain: Black Knight/Mr. Wickles
September 20, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 2--"Hassle in the Castle"--Villain: Phantom of Vasquez/Bluestone the Great
September 27, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 3--"A Clue for Scooby-Doo"--Villain: Ghost of Captain Cutler/Captain Cutler
October 4, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 4--"Mine your Own Business"--Villain: Miner 49er/Hank
October 11, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 5--"Decoy for a Dognapper"--Villains: Indian Witch Doctor & Ghost of Geronimo/Buck Masters
Oceober 18, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 6--"What the Hex Going On?"--Villain: Ghost of Elias Kingston/Stuart Weatherby
October 25, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 7--"Never Ape an Ape Man"--Villain: Ape Man/Carl
November 1, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 8--"Foul Play in Funland"--Villain: Charlie the Funland Robot controlled by Sarah Jenkins
November 8, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 9--"The Backstage Rage"--Villain: Phantom Puppeteer/Mr. Pietro
November 15, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 10--"Bedlam in the Big Top"--Villain: Ghost Clown/Harry the Hypnotist
November 22, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 11--"A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts"--Villains: Count Dracula, Werewolf, Frankenstein's Monster & Carlotta the Gypsy/Big Bob Oakley
November 29, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 12--"Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too"--Villain: Mummy of Ankha/Dr. Najib
December 6, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 13--"Which Witch is Which?"--Villains: Swamp Witch/Zeb Perkins, Zombie/Zeke Perkins
December 13, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 14--"Go Away Ghost Ship"--Villains: Ghost of Redbeard/C.L. Magnus, Ghosts of Redbeard's Crew/Hired Henchmen
December 20, 1969--SEASON 1 EPISODE 15--"Spooky Space Kook"--Villain: Space Kook/Henry Bascombe
Late 1960s--BATMAN'66--From Matt Hickman: The Batman 66 Story The Joker's Layoff Riot! Has a Cameo By the Scooby Doo Gang waiting in line to get their copies of Winterdale's Compedium of Jokes signed
January 10, 1970--SEASON 1 EPISODE 16--"A Night of Fright is No Delight"--Villains: Phantom Shadows (Giggling Green Ghosts)/Cosgoode Creeps and Cuthbert Crawls
January 17, 1970--SEASON 1 EPISODE 17--"That's Snow Ghost"--Villain: Snow Ghost/Mr. Greenway
September 12, 1970 to October 16, 1971--HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS--"The New Scooby-Doo Movies" aka "Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters" was a Hanna-Barbera show that featured the animated Harlem Globetrotters
September 12, 1970--SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 “NOWHERE TO HYDE”--Crosses: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The gang pursue the alleged ghost of Mr. Hyde, a jewel thief and search for clues to the culprit, and clues point to the great-grandson of Dr. Jekyll. This episode places the original Jekyll and Hyde as real, and thus we must assume a version of the original novel also took place in the Scooby-Prime Universe.
September 19, 1970--SEASON 2 EPISODE 2--"Mystery Mask Mix-Up"--Villains: Ghost of Zen Tuo/Mr. Fong, Scare Pair/Mr. Fong's Henchmen
September 26, 1970--SEASON 2 EPISODE 3--"Jeepers, It's the Creepers"--Villain: Creeper/Mr. Carswell
October 3, 1970--SEASON 2 EPISODE 4--"Scooby's Night With a Frozen Fright"--Villain: Caveman/Professor Wayne
October 10, 1970--SEASON 2 EPISODE 5--"Haunted House Hang-Up"--Villains: Headless Spectre/Penrod Stillwall, Phantom/Asa Shanks
October 17, 1970--SEASON 2 EPISODE 6--"A Tiki Scare is No Fair"--Villains: Witch Doctor/John Simms, Mano Tiki Tia/A giant robot controlled by John Simms's henchman
October 24, 1970--SEASON 2 EPISODE 7--"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?"--Villain: Ghost of Silas Long the Werewolf/Sheep Rustler
October 31, 1070--SEASON 2 EPISODE 8--"Don't Fool With a Phantom"--Villain: Wax Phantom/Roger Stevens. Note: This is initially the series finale and, thus, the last episode under the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! name until September, 1978.
THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES -- SCOOBY STARTS CROSSING OVER
September 9, 1972 - October 27, 1973 --THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES (ANIMATED SERIES)--Mystery, Inc. continues to solve mysteries, but now they meet a lot of interesting people. This series is a continuation of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! It continues in 1976 as The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour. It was remade in 2002 as a live-action film. This series also spun off the animated Harlem Globetrotters series. The series has been referenced several times in other series and films. It has also been spoofed in Gremlins 2, Night of the Living Doo, and Family Guy.
September 8, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 “THE GHASTLY GHOST TOWN”--Animated Series Crosses: Three Stooges (Animated). The gang find their way to a theme park that is owned by the Three Stooges. This is a crossover with the animated cartoon based on the Three Stooges shorts. And for those not sure, the Stooges are characters. They are not real, even if the actors and the characters have the same names.
September 8, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 “THE GHASTLY GHOST TOWN”--Animated Series Crosses: Three Stooges (Animated). The gang find their way to a theme park that is owned by the Three Stooges. This is a crossover with the animated cartoon based on the Three Stooges shorts. And for those not sure, the Stooges are characters. They are not real, even if the actors and the characters have the same names.
September 29, 1972 --SEASON 1 EPISODE 4 “THE FRICKERT FRACAS”--Crosses: Maude Frickert. The gang stays at a farm with Jonathan Winters and Maude Frickert, and are menaced by a scarecrow. Maude Frickert was a popular character played by comedian Jonathan Winters in his stand-up and on sketch comedy shows. This crossover only brings in an animated version of the character and not her live-action appearances.
October 7, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 5--"Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?"--Guest Starring Don Knotts
October 14, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 6--"A Good Medium is Rare"--Guest Starring Phyllis Diller
October 21, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 7--"Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde"--Guest Starring Sandy Duncan
October 28, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 8--"The Secret of Shark Island"--Guest Starring Sonny & Cher
November 4, 1972--THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES--"The Spooky Fog of Juneberry"--The gang goes to MAYBERRY and helps out Deputy Barney Fife. (Or so James Bojaciuk has convinced me.)
November 11, 1972--THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES--"Scooby-Doo Meets Laurel and Hardy (aka the Ghost of Bigfoot)"--The Mystery Inc. gang meets and works with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
November 18, 1972 --SEASON 1 EPISODE 11 “THE GHOST OF THE RED BARON”--Animated Series Crosses: Three Stooges (Animated). Curly is a dust cropper who has to deal with the ghost of the Red Baron with the help of the other Stooges and Mystery, Inc. This episode aired on the day I was born.
December 2, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 13--"The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall"--Guest Starring Davy Jones
December 9, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 14--"The Phantom of the Country Music Hall"--Guest Starring Jerry Reed
December 15, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 15 “THE CAPED CRUSADER CAPER”--Animated Series Crosses: Adventures of Batman. When a Professor is kidnapped by the Joker and Penguin in order to obtain his flying suit, Mystery, Inc. once more teams with Batman and Robin. The two teams will team-up a third time on Batman: the Brave and the Bold. Recently, they have teamed again in DC Comics’ Scooby-Doo Team-Up.
December 22, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 16 “THE LOCH NESS MESS”--Animated Series Crosses: Harlem Globetrotters (Animated). Once more, the Globetrotters help Mystery, Inc, when Shaggy’s uncle’s house appears to be haunted and menaced by a sea serpent. This occurs in Massachusetts despite the title. The ghosts are of Paul Revere, a redcoat and a Minuteman.
September 8, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 “THE MYSTERY OF HAUNTED ISLAND”--Animated Series Crosses: Harlem Globetrotters (Animated). Mystery, Inc. and the Globetrotters end up being diverted from their trip to Picnic Island to Haunted Island.
December 9, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 14--"The Phantom of the Country Music Hall"--Guest Starring Jerry Reed
December 15, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 15 “THE CAPED CRUSADER CAPER”--Animated Series Crosses: Adventures of Batman. When a Professor is kidnapped by the Joker and Penguin in order to obtain his flying suit, Mystery, Inc. once more teams with Batman and Robin. The two teams will team-up a third time on Batman: the Brave and the Bold. Recently, they have teamed again in DC Comics’ Scooby-Doo Team-Up.
December 22, 1972--SEASON 1 EPISODE 16 “THE LOCH NESS MESS”--Animated Series Crosses: Harlem Globetrotters (Animated). Once more, the Globetrotters help Mystery, Inc, when Shaggy’s uncle’s house appears to be haunted and menaced by a sea serpent. This occurs in Massachusetts despite the title. The ghosts are of Paul Revere, a redcoat and a Minuteman.
September 8, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 “THE MYSTERY OF HAUNTED ISLAND”--Animated Series Crosses: Harlem Globetrotters (Animated). Mystery, Inc. and the Globetrotters end up being diverted from their trip to Picnic Island to Haunted Island.
September 15, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 2 “THE HAUNTED SHOWBOAT”--Animated Series Crosses: Josie and the Pussycats (Animated). Mystery, Inc. find themselves aboard a showboat where Josie and the Pussycats are booked to perform. When ghosts appear, the two groups of teens join together to solve the mystery. This brings in the animated version of Josie and the Pussycats (and Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space) but not necessarily the comic books from which the characters originate.
September 22, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 3 “SCOOBY-DOO MEETS JEANNIE (AKA MYSTERY IN PERSIA)”--Animated Series Crosses: Jeannie (Animated). Jeanie transports Mystery, Inc. back to ancient Egypt to solve a mystery. This crossover brings the animated Jeanie into the Scooby-Prime Universe. This Jeanie was not the same from I Dream of Jeannie.
September 29, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 4--"The Spirit Spooked Sports Show"--Guest Starring Tim Conway
October 6, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 5--"The Exterminator"--Guest Starring Don Adams
October 13, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 6 “THE WEIRD WINDS OF WINONA”--Animated Series Crosses: Speed Buggy. Two groups of teens and their talking dog and car try to determine why people are fleeing their town. This brings in the animated Speed Buggy, which is about a living, talking, intelligent, animate car.
October 20, 1973--SEASON 2 EPISODE 7--"The Haunted Candy Factory"--Guest Starring Cass Elliot
October 27, 1973--NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES--"Scooby-Doo Meets Dick Van Dyke"--Apparently, there was a plan to reuse footage from this episode as a dream sequence where Doctor Sloan (DIAGNOSIS MURDER) meets Scooby-Doo. That would imply that the Dick Van Dyke seen in this episode isn't the actor, but is instead Doctor Sloan.
BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD (ANIMATED SERIES)--Seasoned hero Batman teams with all the other heroes of his world. This series in not, I repeat not, part of the Scooby-Prime Universe. But it is included for a story below that I do consider part of the canon. In a few episodes of the series, Bat-Mite has demonstrated how there is a large number of alternate timelines. One of those, in which Batman teams up with Scooby-Doo, is more likely the Scooby-Prime Universe timeline, while this series is a divergent timeline which seems to be designated “Earth-23”.
SEASON 2 EPISODE 25 “BAT-MITE PRESENTS: BATMAN’S STRANGEST CASES!”--Animated Series Crosses: Scooby-Doo!; Mad; Adventures of Batman. Other Crosses: Bat-Manga. Bat-Mite presents three tales from alternate realities. In this instance, the Scooby-Prime Universe is one of those alternate realities. As explained in the previous entry, the Brave and the Bold series is a divergent timeline to the Scooby-Prime Universe. But from their perspective, the Scooby-Prime Universe is the divergent timeline. The Scooby-Prime Universe story is a sequel to the Batman appearances in the New Scooby-Doo Movies in the 1970s. The other two stories take place in the world of Mad Magazine parodies and the world of Manga. It’s likely those are also divergent realities in the Scooby-Doo Multiverse.
LOST ISSUES--Included just for fun, as they fit the theme of the New Scooby-Doo Movies. Check out the links section in the right hand column for more Lost Issues.
1976 to 1978--THE SCOOBY-DOO SHOW--This show was part of a Scooby-Doo two hour block that included Laff-A-Lympics and Dynomutt. The show introduced Scooby-Dum and Scooby-Dee and also Scooby guest-starred on Dynomutt in three episodes of Dynomutt's series. Preceded by The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–1973) and Followed by Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1980)
1976 to 1978--THE SCOOBY-DOO/DYNOMUTT HOUR--Scooby Doo and the gang solve mysteries; then Blue Falcon and Dynomutt fight crime in each two-part episode of this animated series. This series follows The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) (TV Series) and is followed by Dynomutt Dog Wonder (1976) (TV Series).
1976 to 1977--DYNOMUTT, DOG WONDER--This series was part of the Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour and later part of the larger Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics block. Scooby guest appeared in three episodes. This is part of why the newer animated movies are not part of the same canon. In the newer movies, Dynomutt and other HB talking animals are fictional. This series follows The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976) (TV Series) and is followed by Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979) (TV Series).
You know Scooby-Doo and Mystery, Incorporated. And you know Josie and the Pussycats. But in the 1970s, there were several groups of teenagers with mascots running around the country solving mysteries. Most can attribute Mystery, Inc. as the starter of the trend.
You know Scooby-Doo and Mystery, Incorporated. And you know Josie and the Pussycats. But in the 1970s, there were several groups of teenagers with mascots running around the country solving mysteries. Most can attribute Mystery, Inc. as the starter of the trend.
September 9, 1978--SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? revived--SEASON 3 EPISODE 1--"Watch Out! The Willawaw!"--Villain: The Williwaw & Owl Men/Grey Fox & henchmen
September 16, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 2--"A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle"--Villain: Skeleton Men/Dr. Grimsley
September 23, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 3--"A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright"--Villain: Snow Beast/Dr. Bapiste
September 30, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 4--"To Switch a Witch"--Villains: Millisa Wilcox/Arlene's twin & Gar Mooney
October 7, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 5--"The Tar Monster"--Villain: The Tar Monster/Mr. Stoner
October 14, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 6--"A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing"--Villains: The Loch Ness Monster & The Ghost of Finnyan McDuff/Jamie Craigmore
October 21, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 7--"The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face"--Villain: Old Iron Face/Mama Mione
October 28, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 8--"Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro"--Villains: Jaguaro/Barney & Luis
November 4, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 9--"Make a Beeline Away From That Feline"--Villain: Cat Creature/Dr. Bell. Note: This is the last episode in season 3 broadcast under the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! banner, as the revival series was cancelled. Only the first nine episodes of the sixteen episode 1978 season of Scooby-Doo, listed above, were broadcast under the Scooby-Doo, Where are You! name. The revival series was canceled afterward, and the remaining seven episodes, that were intended for the revival, were instead broadcast during the Scooby's All-Stars block, and all sixteen were rerun during this block and later syndicated as part of The Scooby-Doo Show. See List of The Scooby-Doo Show episodes for the entire season run and The Scooby-Doo Show for proper production credits.
November 11, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 10--"The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw"--Villain: Mantis Creature/Professor Greer
November 18, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 11--"The Diabolical Disc Demon"--Villain: The Phantom/Ace Decade
November 25, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 12--"Scooby's Chinese Fortune Cookie Caper"--Villain: Moon Monster/Uncle Chin
December 2, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 13--"A Menace in Venice"--Villain: Ghostly Gondolier/Mario
December 9, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 14--"Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear"--Villain: Ghost of Juan Carlos/Captain Eddie
December 16, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 15--"The Warlock of Wimbledon"--Villain: Warlock Anthos/Nick Thomas and his brother John the Gatekeeper
December 23, 1978--SEASON 3 EPISODE 16--"The Beast is Awake at Bottomless Lake"--Villain: Beast of Bottomless Lake/Julie and her two henchmen. Note: This episode in essence is the series finale of three shows (the Scooby-Doo segments of Scooby's All-Stars, The Scooby-Doo Show, and - unofficially - Scooby-Doo, Where are You!).
November 8, 1980 – December 18, 1982--SCOOBY-DOO AND SCRAPPY-DOO--The series was cancelled and replaced with another series of the same name. This incarnation is different than the last one in that in the previous one, Mystery Inc was still part of the show, and now it's just Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy. Also, we start seeing real monsters instead of men in masks.
September 10, 1983 – December 1, 1984--THE NEW SCOOBY AND SCRAPPY-DOO SHOW--Daphne returns, now a journalist.
September 7 - December 7, 1985--THE 13 GHOSTS OF SCOOBY-DOO (ANIMATED SERIES)--Scooby and Shaggy are tricked by two ghosts into opening the Chest of Demons, which releases 13 of the worst demons and ghosts. They are then tasked to recapture the ghosts. They are assisted by Scooby’s nephew Scrappy, old friend Daphne (now a journalist), the warlock Vincent Van Ghoul, and a young thief named Flim Flam. Scooby-Doo, Where are Are You! and the New Scooby-Doo Movies took place when the kids were in high school, but this series features Daphne having graduated from college and having a job as a journalist. Vincent Price was the voice of Van Ghoul, and the character was modeled after the actor. Also, it should be noted that this is the first series where the Scooby bad guys were real supernatural beings rather than men in masks. This is the first Scooby series that has an ongoing storyline throughout the series with a conclusion. This series is a continuation of the previous New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. Following this series, Scooby appears next in Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers. This particular series gets referenced in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase.
October 26, 1985--THE 13 GHOSTS OF SCOOBY-DOO--"When You Witch Upon a Star"--In this episode, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You is playing on a TV, indicating that a television series was made about Scooby and Mystery Inc within the Scooby-Prime Universe. Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo is also heard on the TV.
December 1985--THE 13 GHOSTS OF SCOOBY-DOO--"It's a Wonderful Scoob"--After Scooby-Doo quits the gang, Vincent Van Ghoul (Vincent Price) shows him what life for the gang would be like without him.
1986--HOWARD THE DUCK--Police Lieutenant Welker is a nod to voice actor Frank Welker, who played various cops and sheriffs on the series.
October 26, 1985--THE 13 GHOSTS OF SCOOBY-DOO--"When You Witch Upon a Star"--In this episode, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You is playing on a TV, indicating that a television series was made about Scooby and Mystery Inc within the Scooby-Prime Universe. Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo is also heard on the TV.
December 1985--THE 13 GHOSTS OF SCOOBY-DOO--"It's a Wonderful Scoob"--After Scooby-Doo quits the gang, Vincent Van Ghoul (Vincent Price) shows him what life for the gang would be like without him.
1986--HOWARD THE DUCK--Police Lieutenant Welker is a nod to voice actor Frank Welker, who played various cops and sheriffs on the series.
September 13, 1986 - December 19, 1987--POUND PUPPIES (ANIMATED SERIES)--The Puppies live at a pound where they can come and go through a secret tunnel. Aided by their friend Holly, they constantly try to outwit their evil guardian and her equally evil daughter. The 1980s, more than any other decade, was the era of children’s entertainment created for the purposes of selling toys. In that tradition, the Pound Puppies were based on a line of popular stuffed animals.
November 8, 1986--SEASON 1 EPISODE 9 “SECRET AGENT PUP”--Animated Series Crosses: Scooby-Doo! When Bright Eyes is kidnapped by foreign spies, the others must go to the rescue. One of the heads on Mount Muttmore is Scooby-Doo.
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May 14, 1994--SEASON 4 EPISODE 22 “‘TEERS IN THE HOOD”--Animated Series Crosses: Scooby-Doo! The Planeteers go undercover to stop a gang war. At the school the kids are going “21 Jump Street” at, Velma and Shaggy from Mystery, Inc. are seen at the school in the background of one scene. It’s not likely they are students, as at this point Mystery, Inc. has split up and gone off to college. Perhaps they reunited, as they sometimes did during this period, and are there solving their own independent mystery.
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| Deep Ones in the streets of Salem |
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| Ivan and Brian J Cano |
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| Ghostbusters (Ivan, Ark Gearheart, Rocky Modifier) and John Zaffis |
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| Highly authentic recreation of skirmish between Xenomorph aliens, Predator aliens, and Ghostbusters |
AUG 26-31 -ALIENS VS PREDATORS VS GHOSTBUSTERS: THE OVERNIGHTER-- Hazel Dinkley, archaeology grad student (and teacher's aid) at Miskatonic University, uncovers a Xenomorph nest in a hidden chamber within an excavation under Sentinel Hill in Dunwich MA. She gets the university to sponsor an expedition to study the unusual eggs and their surroundings, and the Ghostbusters are hired to provide esoteric expertise (and extermination, if necessary). The Yutani Corporation loans advanced weaponry and gear for the mission in exchange for full access to all data collected. When the clutch proves to be incubating, producing xenomorph spawn, an alien race of Predators arrive to hunt both humans and xenomorphs. Hazel works with N.E.G.A.T.E.'s Ark Gearheart, Ivan Schablotski, and Victor and Vincent Venkman in combating the aliens and predators. The infestation is contained and human casualties are kept to a minimum, but several of the Yautja escape. Dinkley expressed an interest in joining the Ghostbusters after this, and is tentatively recruited to the Arkham franchise. |
| N.E.G.A.T.E. and the Miskatonic Sentinel Hill Archaeological expedition |
OCT 15 - GHOSTFACERS - Ivan Shablotski, Hazel Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers meet at Miskatonic University and travel to Woodsboro CA to deal with a new Ghostface killer, though this one turns out to be a relative of a previous victim, trying to shut down production of the latest STAB film. Shaggy mentions that Woodsboro has become the new Crystal Cove when it comes to creepy towns, which is why he thought this case may require real Ghostbusters, but he wanted to avoid the California-based groups, on the chance it wasn't really supernatural.
ALTERNATE REALITIES: Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, The Muppets, Beetlejuice, Earthworm Jim, Robot Chicken and Phineas and Ferb and many others have all played their own versions of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Scooby's Trip to Ahz, Wizard of Ooze, The Wizard of Ooze, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Wizard of Odd, Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry and Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz respectively)
So that's it for the Scooby timelines... But wait! There is another! Coming soon... JOHNNY BRAVO! A spiritual sequel to the original Saturday morning Scooby-Doo! This timeline may also include other Cartoon Network uses of Scooby, which seem to draw more from the original Saturday morning version rather than the more modern versions.
There are also parody appearances in such shows as Drawn Together, Harvey Birdman, Family Guy and Robot Chicken, which draw from the original Saturday morning cartoons but include more adult themes. I don't consider those part of the original timeline. I do reference those crossovers in other blog posts on this website and in the upcoming Cartoon Crossover Encyclopedia.
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