A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

For more than a decade, it looked as if this would be the final weekly Scooby Doo series. Following the unsuccessful run of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, the creators went back to the drawing board and turned the original "Mystery Inc." characters into small children, who now worked under the title of "The Scooby Doo Detective Agency." Gone were the days of a pup named Scrappy-Doo, this series ushered in the age of a pup named Scooby-Doo! Although they would have been this age in the '50s or '60s, the kids were far more like kids of the '80s, with computers, skateboards, and gadgets that were popularized far later. As in the original series, the villains of this series were always bad guys in rubber masks, a concept that they had gotten away from when Scrappy entered the show and the ghosts became real. More cartoonish than the rest of the shows, the characters seemed to nod back to...

Series details

• Title: A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Children
• Premiere date: 1988-09-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 1991-08-17
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 27 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 5.7/10
• TVMaze ID: 4796

Cast and credited roles

• Casey Kasem — Shaggy Rogers
• Don Messick — Scooby-Doo
• Christina Lange — Velma Dinkley
• Kellie Martin — Daphne Blake
• Carl Steven — Freddie Jones

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1988-09-10; final listed air date 1988-12-10; episode order: 13.
• Season 2: premiered 1989-09-09; final listed air date 1989-11-04; episode order: 8.
• Season 3: premiered 1990-09-08; final listed air date 1990-11-03; episode order: 4.
• Season 4: premiered 1991-08-03; final listed air date 1991-08-17; episode order: 5.

Source and licence

Adapted from A Pup Named Scooby-Doo on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.