Scooby-Doo and "Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf" (1988). These three films took their tone from the early-1980s "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" entries, and featured the characters encountering actual monsters and ghosts rather than masqueraded people. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy later appeared as the narrators of the made-for-TV movie "Arabian Nights", originally broadcast by TBS in 1994, Don Messick's final outing as the original voice of Scooby-Doo. Reruns of "Scooby-Doo" have been in syndication since 1980, and have also been shown on cable television networks such as TBS Superstation (until 1989) and USA Network (as part of the USA Cartoon Express from 1990 to
Scooby-Doo (character) a famous (and much parodied) speech impediment. His catchphrase is "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!" Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original "Scooby-Doo" series, "Scooby-Doo, Where are You!", for Hanna-Barbera for CBS's 1969–70 Saturday morning cartoon schedule. Originally titled "Mysteries Five", the dog who later became Scooby was originally more of a sidekick character – a bongo-playing dog named "Too Much" whose breed varied between Great Dane and sheepdog between treatments. By the time the series was pitched to the network as "Who's S-S-Scared?" in early 1969, Too Much was solidified as a cowardly Great Dane. Both the dog and the series