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
The Scooby-Doo Show in the United Kingdom until 2015. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. When television executive Fred Silverman moved from CBS to ABC in 1975, the "Scooby-Doo" gang followed him, making their ABC debut in 1976 as part of "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour". This hour-long package show featured 16 new half-hour adventures in the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" format, with Scooby's country cousin, the Mortimer Snerd-inspired Scooby-Dum joining the gang as a semi-regular character. In addition, Pat Stevens replaced Nicole Jaffe as the voice of Velma. The