A Pup Named Scooby-Doo 3-Disc Box Set DVD

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is the late-1980s and early-1990s Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning revival of the long-running Scooby-Doo franchise, set in Scooby's puppyhood when the dog and his friends Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma were all elementary-school kids in Coolsville, solving small-scale mysteries between classes. The series aired on ABC and later resurfaced on Cartoon Network and Boomerang across the late 1980s and into the early 1990s.

The format is the appeal: each episode pairs a fresh Coolsville mystery (a sludge monster, a comic-book thief, a museum prowler, a robo-pup, a chickenstein) with the kid versions of the Mystery Inc. gang, holding the franchise's signature blend of haunted-monster comedy and kid-detective storytelling as the engine. Episode titles like "A Bicycle Built For Boo!," "The Sludge Monster From The Earth's Core," "Night Of The Living Burger," "Wrestle Maniacs," and "Mayhem Of The Moving Mollusk" telegraph the show's commitment to genre-pun storytelling.

For late-1980s and early-1990s ABC Saturday morning programming, this was a piece of the studio's deep run of Scooby-Doo continuities, sitting in the long lineage of franchise revivals. Suited for longtime Scooby fans, viewers with affection for the era's particular brand of kid-version-of-classic-characters programming, and anyone with a soft spot for the broader Scooby-Doo tradition.

Memorable installments include "A Bicycle Built For Boo!" (the opener), "Now Museum, Now You Don't" (a fan-favorite early classic), "Curse Of The Collar" (a Season 2 opener), "Chickenstein Lives" (a parody peak), and "Mayhem Of The Moving Mollusk" (the closer). This 3-DVD collection brings 27 episodes of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo into one place, the complete kid-Scooby run in one set, ready for a long Saturday morning marathon with the youngest version of Mystery Inc.