Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! 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
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost features real ghosts instead of traditional crooks in masks, giving the film a darker tone. The film has been adapted into a book. It is the second of the first four Scooby Doo direct-to-video film to be animated overseas by Japanese animation studio Mook Animation. The film marks the first time voice actor and radio-personality Scott Innes voiced Shaggy, as Billy West (who voiced Shaggy in "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island") needed time for his roles as Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth and Dr. John Zoidberg on "Futurama". After Ben Ravencroft, a famous horror writer of whom Velma Dinkley is a