BW Media Spotlight

The New Scooby-Doo Movies is a show I grew up with only because it was part of the Scooby-Doo syndicated reruns. (Remember when you could watch cartoons on normal television after school before all-kids channels and parent groups putting Saturday morning out of business and local networks showed something other than talk shows and infomercials?) It was an hour-long mystery that had the gang meeting various celebrities (usually voiced by those celebrities) or other Hanna-Barbera characters–or just licensed in the case of Batman and Robin or Josie And The Pussycats. The animation was bad even by what the internet thinks is HB quality and sometimes the celebrities were doing odd things like Tim Conway being a sports coach or Don Knotts having a side gig as an exterminator. Overall the mysteries were good and the guest appearances allowed the show to do something different.

The comics did something like this with Scooby-Doo Team-Up, one of the comics I miss being able to pick up every month, but the idea hasn’t been on television until recently. On Boomerang’s streaming service (that used to be the channel for classic toons and now you can only find them on the streaming service because the lady in charge of Cartoon Network and their various projects has some odd views about cartoons and the internet) they premiered the show’s spiritual successor, no pun intended, Scooby-Doo And Guess Who, which again features the gang meeting celebrities and other Hanna-Barbera or Warner Brothers characters. The show is now starting to air on Cartoon Network and I’ve seen the first three shows. I pretty much already told you the premise so let’s get right into the review.

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