What’s more appropriate for Halloween than Scooby-Doo? Join Afoot as we recount the nearly 50-year history of the show, talk about our favorite and least-favorite eras, praise voice actors, and dissect the problem with the show switching from old men in rubber masks to real ghosts, zombies, and monsters.

Scooby-Doo

Glenn Fleishman with David J. Loehr and Shannon Sudderth

Show Notes & Links

• If you’re really into exhaustive accounts of TV series, check out the very, very, very long Wikipedia entry on the show.
• Fred Silverman was a programming boss at ABC, CBS, and NBC at various times, and shaped our childhoods.
• Harvey Birdman episode with Shaggy look-alikes, “Identity Theft.”
• Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
• John Belushi appeared as Fred Silverman on several episodes of Saturday Night Live.
• Venture Brothers Scooby-Doo episode, “¡Viva los Muertos!”
• You can get Travis Pitts’ zombie-apocalypse (?) Velma and Scooby-Doo design on clothing via Threadless.
• Speed metal version of the Jabber Jaw theme song.