Product Details

• Actors: Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, Frank Welker, Stefanianna Christopherson
• Directors: Howard Swift
• Writers: Larz Bourne, Tom Dagenais
• Producers: Alex Lovy, Lewis Marshall
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: 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 (38 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000063K5T
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,726 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
"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

Product Description
See how your favorite snack-munching canine super-sleuth got his start as the first five Scooby-Doo episodes ever unleashed-the series pilot What a Night for a Knight, plus Hassle in the Castle, A Clue for Scooby-Doo, Mine Your Own Business and Decoy for a Dognapper - constitute Scooby's first-ever dynamite DVD! Special Features: Jukebox with 4 Sampler Songs from the Snack Tracks Album. Take the Scooby Challenge Trivia Game. Original Recipes from Mystery Inc.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	M. B Evans "Fusionman" (Madison, Mississippi United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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....

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Gabriel Fernandez "Book Addict" (Canoga Park, CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries (DVD)

I will give you a description

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.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great compilation, May 13, 2003

By	Garrett Aja (North Las Vegas, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Scooby-Doo's Original Mysteries (DVD)

Scooby-Doo is one of the great TV cartoon stars, and the show, while cartainly fairly flimsy in the plot department (although pretty strong compared some of the other H-B cartoons), is still as entertaining as ever.

This disc has the first five episodes in order (unlike most of the other discs, which are just random collections of episodes), which is a welcome change to the compilation discs and tapes. However, as always, the special features basically stink if you're above the age of like 8, and there still hasn't been any sort of series (or season) box set, so if you want the episodes in order, this is it.