Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1969.
Production designer Iwao Takamoto designed Scooby with a sloping chin, spots, a long tail, a sloped back, and bow legs -- all traits in direct opposition to those of a prize-winning purebred Great Dane.
Scooby was named after a nonsense lyric ("dooby-dooby-doo") in Frank Sinatra's hit song "Strangers in the Night".
The Harlem Globetrotters appeared in three episodes: "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep", "The Loch Ness Mess", and "The Mystery of Haunted Island".
In "What a Night for a Knight", the very first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Velma loses her glasses and mistakes the Black Knight for Shaggy. She offers him cough syrup to help his voice.
As the only heir still on the mansion grounds at the end of the episode, Scooby inherits the million dollars, only to learn it's all worthless Confederate money.
Charlie was designed by Mr. Jenkins, to help run Funland but went haywire and left a path of destruction when Jenkins's sister, Sarah, messed with his programming.
Daphne gets hypnotized to ride a unicycle while she's in the clothes wagon.
Shaggy and Scooby escape in their barrel onto the river, but the werewolf chases them in a canoe. The chase ends with all three going over a waterfall.
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