At first, it was discussed to make it a large cowardly dog and then perhaps a small, feisty dog that was too courageous for its small size. The challenge was not to make the dog “too much” like the sheepdog Hot Dog who appeared on The Archie Show.
When the teenagers weren’t performing at gigs, they were out solving spooky mysteries involving actual ghosts, zombies, and other supernatural creatures. It featured five teens (Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, and Linda’s brother “W.W.”) and their dog (since Silverman liked dog characters), Too Much, who were all in a band called “The Mysteries Five”. Joe Barbera and William Hanna pitched the show as Mysteries Five.
Scooby doo dog costume series#
It was the success of this series that led to them opening their own studio. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears from Hanna-Barbera came up with the idea of a group of teenagers traveling the country solving supernatural mysteries. CBS’s head of children’s programming, Fred Silverman decided that success could be duplicated with teenagers who solved mysteries like the old radio series I Love A Mystery and like Archie’s gang were part-time musicians. When The Archie Show debuted on CBS in September 1968, the musical antics of the characters from the popular comic book series were immediately popular. None garnered the same ratings and attention as the earlier shows. Soon the networks were switching over to softer shows that toned down even physical slapstick. The trouble was parent groups were getting upset about the violence on television that they associated with the superhero-type cartoon shows. For several years, the networks had done well in the ratings with such action shows as Space Ghost, Superman, and The Herculoids among others.
Comic book advertisement for the first season of “Scooby Doo, Where Are You”?In 1968, Saturday morning, the home for cartoon shows, was in trouble.
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