The legendary Scooby-Doo turns 50

Scooby-Doo turns 50 on September 13, the day it was broadcast for the first time in 1969, immediately achieving great success.

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Fifty years, this is the age of the mythical Scooby-Doo and the September 13 celebrates his birthday. Precisely on this date, back in 1969, it was broadcast for the very first time on CBS.

The first animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera was titled "Scooby-Doo - Where are you?", And the first episode aired was "What A Night For A Knight!", The beginning of an extraordinary success, so much so that still today the alano detective conquers the hearts of small and large spectators.

To think that it even earned the Guinness Book of Records in 2004 as the animated series with the most episodes ever produced.

Beloved both on TV and in the cinema together with his bungling team formed by Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy, he will be celebrated by Boomerang, just the 13 September, with the first episode of the new animated series produced by Warner Bross Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, which among the guest stars hosted in each episode sees Wonder Woman, Whoopi Goldberg and Batman. The long-awaited episode will air at 20.10.

The whole day of Boomerang scheduled for 13 will be themed and in 2020 the Great Dane will make a new appearance on the big screen with the 3D cartoon "Scoob!" by Tony Cervone.

Scooby-Doo history and curiosities

The legendary Scooby-Doo turns 50

It was Fred Silverman who launched Scooby-Doo way back in 1968, when he asked Hanna Barbera to produce a new animated series that could intercept the public's favor, as other CBS cartoons, for which he was responsible for programming for children, had been eliminated. due to some protests that deemed them too violent.

Thus it was that Hanna Barbera gave life to the animated series whose protagonists were some boys interested in mysteries. The series was deemed too scary and it was then that Scooby-Doo, the cowardly dog, created by Joe Ruby, Ken Spears and Iwao Takamoto, the Japanese animator who owes his clumsy and funny physique, entered the scene.

Since then, the adventures of Scooby and her team have taken the world by storm and returned to ben 15 serie cartoon, in the form of Puppet Movie, Lego animated film, in cinematic and live action format.

And speaking of curiosity, Did you know that its name is due to Frank Sinatra? It was in fact taken from the syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" sung by Frank Sinatra in the finale of the song Strangers in the Night.