Product Details

• Actors: Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, Frank Welker, Stefanianna Christopherson
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Turner Home Ent
• VHS Release Date: June 4, 2002
• Run Time: 30 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000063K5T
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,863 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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"Well, gang, it looks like we're up to our armor plates in another mystery." Oddly enough, this line comes from the very first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, the part-mystery, part-haunted house animated series that premiered in 1969. The first five episodes are featured on Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries, in which Freddy, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and of course the practical-joking Great Dane Scooby-Doo drive around the country in their lime-green van "The Mystery Machine" investigating haunted castles, ghost towns, and a host of alleged otherworldly beings. Ventriloquist, gymnast, and resident hippie Shaggy and fraidy-cat canine Scooby provide the comic relief between clues, and can usually be bribed into anything with a yummy Scooby snack (the ingredients of which remain the show's real mystery). Sure, the animation is flat, the music receptive, and the jokes not nearly as funny as the laugh track would have you think, but that's par for Saturday morning animation. If you grew up with Scooby and the gang, these original episodes are like a nostalgia train to Saturday morning yesteryear, yet after 30 years the shows have hardly aged (even beatnik Shaggy could pass for modern grunge). The DVD also features an abbreviated music video (not as good as Matthew Sweet's rendition of the theme song on Saturday Morning Cartoons) and a trivia quiz. The episodes: "What a Night for a Knight," "Hassle in the Castle," "A Clue for Scooby Doo," "Mine Your Own Business," and "Decoy from a Dognapper." --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Return to Childhood with the Original Scooby Doo!, November 7, 2002

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Gary F. Taylor "GFT" (Biloxi, MS USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries (DVD)

Scooby Doo and the gang may have hit the big screen, but this is the real stuff: the original Saturday morning cartoon series that so many of us grew up with. And although we might say we got this for our kids, the truth is that even as grown-ups we're addicted to these cartoon Scooby snacks ourselves!

This particular DVD offers the first five episodes in the series, each one running just under half an hour. "What a Night for a Knight" finds the gang investigating a suit of armor that comes to life during the full moon. When their ship run aground on a spooky island, the gang visits a creepy castle in "Hassle in the Castle"--and encounters a ghost! "A Clue for Scooby Doo" concerns a ghostly scuba diver; "Mine Your Own Business" has the gang investigating 'the miner forty-niner' that haunts an old gold mine; and "Decoy for a Dognapper" finds Scooby himself dognapped and the gang searching an abandoned Indian village to find him. And you'll find all the stereotypes here: crazy clues, frantic chases, and the "ghosts" are NEVER real!

The animation is pretty flat, the music is 1969 wannabe funky, the plots are loose and pretty silly--no one would ever accuse the series of being great art. But it has tremendous nostalgic appeal. The episodes seen here have not been restored, but to my mind the scratches, blips, and dust spots just add to the sense of watching an old favorite. The DVD includes a number of extras that the kids will enjoy... if you ever decide to share it with them!

27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Scooby-Doo At Its Best, March 14, 2000

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M. B Evans "Fusionman" (Madison, Mississippi United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries (DVD)

If you grew up on Scooby-Doo like I did as a child in the 70's, then you will love this DVD. I own alot of Scooby videos, but when I surfed over to Amazon.com one night, and typed in Scooby-Doo in the DVD-video section and saw this DVD, I ordered it on the spot. Its about time they put the best cartoon that has ever graced Saturday morning tv on DVD format. If you love Scooby and the gang, and want the original classics(FIRST FIVE EPISODES) then, get this DVD, you will love it....

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PERFECT DVD!, February 8, 2005

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Gabriel Fernandez "Book Addict" (Canoga Park, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries (DVD)

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What A night for a knight-An Old legend come true and a vanished archaeologist is in this episode

Hassle In The Castle-When the gang's boating stops they realizes that they are stuck in haunted isle and meet a ghost.

A Clue For Scooby Doo-The ghost of Captain Cutler stole many yatchs so the gang decides to solve the mystery.

Mine Your Own Business-The miner that Hank, the caretaker said the miner was looking for gold. Is this for real?

Decoy For A Dognapper-When Scooby was feeling bad about the kidnapped dog, he tells it to the dog. They listened to the radio and said "Dognappers Have strike Again". So Freddy says they have a mystery to solve.