Scooby-Doo Week: Day One

On Friday, September 13th, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang will be in media and the public eye for 50 years, with their first episode airing back in 1969 on CBS titled “What a Night for a Knight.”

What astounds me so much is how relevant this character still is today. Even if people haven’t seen every iteration of the show, they still know who the characters are.

I can definitely say that I grew up with Scooby-Doo. I definitely did not watch every single show or movie with the characters, but when it was on television, I always switched to it. I remember many sick days when I was younger and “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo” was on, or one of the movies, or even the original television show sometimes.

It’s something that I still enjoy doing today.

My goal this week is hopefully to get you, the reader of this, to understand more about the cultural and some of the historical impact that Scooby-Doo has, and why he and the gang are still important today.

I plan on writing a different thing each day celebrating these meddling kids, so plan on coming back to read things like:

• The canonical timeline of every single Scooby-Doo iteration
• Trying to understand exactly why people hated Scrappy Doo
• A brief dissection/analysis of “What a Night for a Knight”
• And more things!

(I don’t want to spoil the ‘mystery’ of everything I’m going to talk about)

Be sure to check back tomorrow for the almost complete list of Scooby-Doo iterations in canonical order!