The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries 2-Disc Box Set DVD

The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries aired on ABC across the mid-1980s, a continuation of the long-running Scooby-Doo franchise that brought the Mystery Inc. team back together to investigate haunted estates, supposedly supernatural threats, and the assorted kooky-character mysteries that defined the property. The premise stayed loyal to the formula: Scooby and Shaggy bumbled through frightening situations while the rest of the gang built the case until the inevitable mask-pulling finale revealed the human culprit behind the haunting.

What stands out is the show's place in the broader Scooby-Doo tradition. By the mid-1980s, the franchise had cycled through multiple iterations, and this one returned to the more classic template after a few experimental detours. The animation kept the warmly familiar color palettes and chase-music rhythms that defined the property, the voice work stayed loyal to the established characterizations, and the recurring crossover with other Hanna-Barbera properties gave the show a particular variety across the run.

In the broader era of mid-1980s Saturday-morning programming, this kind of long-franchise continuation was a particular fixture, with multiple animated series of the period continuing properties that had been on the air for over a decade. It suited household morning viewing for families with multi-generational Scooby-Doo familiarity, young viewers encountering the gang for the first time, and Saturday-morning audiences who liked the dependable mystery-and-laugh structure. It is the kind of show whose theme music stayed in viewers' heads.

Favorite chapters include the franchise-launching "Happy Birthday / Scooby-Doo," the spooky-classic "The Hand Of Horror," the meta-comedy of "Scoo-Be Or Not Scoo-Be?," the hotel-mystery "Doom Service," the alien-flavored "Ghosts Of The Ancient Astronauts," the polar-adventure "South Pole Vault," the holiday-themed "A Halloween Hassle At Dracula's Castle," and the literary-detective two-parter "Sherlock Doo." The Christmas-flavored "The Nutcracker Scoob" rounds out a perfect rotation. This 2-disc set gathers 21 episodes, a tidy archive of mid-1980s Hanna-Barbera mystery-cartoon continuation that disc ownership keeps available.