Scooby Doo has been created in 1969, being aired at first in CBS and later passing to ABC hands. It has filled the place of an animated Saturday morning show, which is a category left to a special type of cartoons. In this category we find detectives and police investigators that need to solve mysteries and crimes.
That is exactly where Scooby Doo fits in. This animated show tells us the story of a group of young friends that with the company of a truly scary, goofy and fearful Great Dane dog named Scooby Doo have to deal with the apparition of ghosts and supernatural creatures. The funniest situation of all is that while sometimes Scooby Doo occupies the center of the group’s attention, both his owner –named Shaggy- and him get profoundly scared and terrified when having to deal with situations.
This show was very typical of the time in which was created, and characters, their clothes and looks, as well as the settings and the ideas that gave birth to the plots show the audience a clear period of time.
Scooby Doo is definitely one of the most famous dogs of all time, along with Pluto, Snoopy, Odie and Droopy among many others. The TV show was cancelled in the year of 1986, but permanent spin offs (that is to say, variations of the original idea) were developed to maintain this amazing cartoon at work. But Scooby Doo does not stop there! Video games, comic books, DVD’s and music has been released under his name and merchandising is one proof of Scooby Doo’s success.
Two Hollywood movies have been made with real people working at them and the existing link between these movies and their success is definitely related to the importance that this TV show has had for ever and that will also have in the future. Lots of generations of children have been able to enjoy Scooby Doo and his gang’s most adventurous quests and results have always been great because Scooby Doo is tremendously loved in America; so much, that many already consider him an icon of American society.
