After the initial run of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ended in 1970, the mystery loving gang and their ever-hungry Great Dane reunited on the small screen for The New Scooby-Doo Movies in the early ’70s. Joining them each episode this time around were celebrities and pop culture icons ranging from The Three Stooges to the Harlem Globetrotters to Batman and Robin. With this year marking the 50th anniversary of Scooby-Doo and his sleuth solving pals, Warner Bros. is releasing The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection on Blu-ray/DVD and The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies - The Lost Episodes on DVD this June.
From Warner Bros.: "For the first time ever, nearly all episodes from The New Scooby-Doo Movies, the series that the lovable Great Dane and Mystery Inc. gang encounter some of pop culture’s most legendary names, including Johnathan Winters, Dick Van Dyke, The Three Stooges, Cass Elliot of the Mamas & the Papas, Laurel & Hardy, and many more, as they embark on their mystery-solving adventures, are coming to Blu-ray/DVD on June 4th!
Plus, The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies: The Lost Episodes come to DVD for the first time ever on June 4th! In these eight lost episodes, the gang joins forces with heartthrob Davey Jones as well as Josie and the Pussycats, and more stellar celebrity guest stars who help them solve the most intriguing cases.
Celebrate Scooby-Doo’s 50th anniversary and pre-order these brand-new collections!"
The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection Blu-ray: "Kids who fell in love with the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? TV series were growing up and could now enjoy more sophisticated plots and characters, so along came the hour-long The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and what sets them delightfully and hilariously apart is the marvelous lineup of celebrity guest stars - The Harlem Globetrotters, Dick Van Dyke, The Three Stooges, Jonathan Winters, Don Knotts, "Mama" Cass Elliot, and Laurel and Hardy, plus the participation of other animated action heroes like Batman and Robin and Speed Buggy. It's no mystery that you're in for a classic good time!"
The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies - The Lost Episodes (DVD): "Fans of Scooby-Doo can't get enough of the Mystery Inc. Gang teaming up with the most stellar, celebrity guest stars (of the time) to solve the spookiest cases. In The Best of the New Scooby-Doo Movies - The Lost Episodes, we see the gang join forces with the chart-topping couple, Sonny and Cher, heartthrob Davy Jones, and even Josie and the Pussycats. Watch as the magical duo of Jeannie and Babu help rescue the gang in an ancient pyramid. Even the hysterical Phyllis Diller gets in on the action to crack capers while cracking jokes. Help Scooby-Doo search high and low for all the fun and hijinks with the eight lost episodes."
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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