A Pup Named Scooby-Doo studio after the first season. "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" is the final television series in the franchise in which Don Messick portrayed Scooby-Doo before his death in 1997, and one of the few in the franchise in which someone other than Frank Welker voiced the character of Fred Jones (child actor Carl Steven took on the role for this series; Welker voiced other bit roles in the series, including as Fred's uncle). Messick and Casey Kasem, the latter of whom voiced Shaggy Rogers, were the only two voice actors from other "Scooby-Doo" series to reprise their roles, and both received
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is a 1998 direct-to-video animated comedy horror film based on Hanna-Barbera's "Scooby-Doo" Saturday-morning cartoons. In the film, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Velma, and Daphne reunite after a year-long hiatus from Mystery, Inc. to investigate a bayou island said to be haunted by the ghost of the pirate Morgan Moonscar. However, the five find not only a deeper mystery on the island, but their first encounter with a genuine, deadly supernatural threat. It is the first in a long-running series of direct-to-video "Scooby-Doo" films; succeeded by "Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost" (1999). Production started