Afoot, the mystery podcast! What makes a mystery a mystery? It’s a genre with a puzzle at the middle, but which takes many forms across all media. We talk books, comics, TV, movies, audio plays, theatre, and more, and stretch boundaries while staying true to the form. Find us on Twitter @afootcast and our reading recommendations and upcoming books at Goodreads.
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episode 8: And We Would Have Recorded Away with It, Too
What’s more appropriate for Halloween than Scooby-Doo? Join Afoot as we recount the nearly 50-year history of the show, talk about our favorite and least-favorite eras, praise voice actors, and dissect the problem with the show switching from old men in rubber masks to real ghosts, zombies, and monsters.
Scooby-Doo
Glenn Fleishman with David J. Loehr and Shannon Sudderth
Show Notes & Links- If you’re really into exhaustive accounts of TV series, check out the very, very, very long Wikipedia entry on the show.
- Fred Silverman was a programming boss at ABC, CBS, and NBC at various times, and shaped our childhoods.
- Harvey Birdman episode with Shaggy look-alikes, “Identity Theft.”
- Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
- John Belushi appeared as Fred Silverman on several episodes of Saturday Night Live.
- Venture Brothers Scooby-Doo episode, “¡Viva los Muertos!”
- You can get Travis Pitts’ zombie-apocalypse (?) Velma and Scooby-Doo design on clothing via Threadless.
- Speed metal version of the Jabber Jaw theme song.