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All the celebrity guest stars on ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies''
Did your favorite '70s celebrity make an appearance?
Let's be real, the main attraction of The New Scooby-Doo Movies was the celebrity and fictional guest stars. Yes, we love the mystery solving and schenanigans with Scooby and the gang, but what sets this cartoon apart is the fact that you could turn on an episode and see Cher or Mama Cass or another real Hollywood celebrity. No cartoon at the time had delivered that much star power with each and every episode. Or, if there wasn't a celebrity guest star, there usually was a cartoon guest star from another Hanna-Barbera show like Josie and the Pussycats or Speedbuggy. Each episode had the promise of an exciting addition to the entertainment for fans to look forward to.
The theme song literally says "All the stars are here, waiting for you. Couldn't have a show without ya." Let's take a look into which '70s celebrities made it into the Scooby-Doo universe!
Cass Elliot
THE Cass Elliot, also known as Mama Cass of the band The Mamas & the Papas, made her Scooby-Doo debut in "The Haunted Candy Factory". Elliot provided her own voice for the episode and played a version of herself that owned (and was trapped in) a haunted candy factory. She sends a message for help to Mystery, Inc. by hiding it in a candy bar - a Cass Elliot Golden Caramel Bar, to be specific.
Sonny and Cher
Sonny and Cher voiced themselves as they stayed in a hotel with the Scooby-Doo gang on Shark Island. The spooky island turns out to be haunted by the legend of Pescado Diabolico, a secret giant shark man who only comes out at night.
Sandy Duncan
The actress and comedian played herself starring in a movie adaptation of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The production is seemingly haunted by a ghost and Duncan recruits Mystery, Inc. to assist. Funnily enough, Duncan and her stunt double have a spare wig which they put on Daphne to help confuse and capture the supposed ghost.
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller's appears in "A Good Medium is Rare". After Scooby and Shaggy help rescue her dog, Diller invites the whole gang to a seance where they learn someone is trying to steal Diller's jewels.
Tim Conway
Tim Conway played himself, but as a coach dealing with the ghost of a former student athlete haunting the school. He later voiced Fred Jones' father, Skip Jones, in Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!.
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke was the last celebrity guest star of the show. He played himself as a carnival owner struggling with a ghost scaring away his customers.
Jonathan Winters
Comedian Jonathan Winters was the first celebrity guest to voice himself! He invites the gang to a farm where the farmer needs help finding a secret formula before a spooky Scarecrow.
Don Knotts
Don Knotts is the only celebrity guest to appear on the show twice. The first episode he appeared in was "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner?", where he played Homer Pipsqueak, which turns out to be a disguise and he's actually just playing himself as a detective. Knotts' second appearance was "The Spooky Fog of Juneberry", where he played a local police officer helping the gang investigate a skeleton man haunting this parody of Mayberry. Fun fact: Don Knotts was supposed to be the original villain of James Gunns' Scooby-Doo movie, but instead they went with Scrappy.
Don Adams
Don Adams played himself as an exterminator. The gang helps him with an extermination job that turns out to be monsters instead of pests.
Davey Jones
Teen hearththrob and singer, The Monkees star also played himself in "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall". Jones was the heir to Hagglethorn Hall but a ghostly phantom knight and a frog monster do not want him to take over. He recruits Mystery, Inc. to help solve the mystery...and does plenty of flirting with Daphne and Velma as they investigate.
The Three Stooges
Some celebrities were unable to voice themselves. The Three Stooges appear as the trio of Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe in The New Scooby-Doo Movies, but they are played by voice actors. Daws Butler voiced Larry and Curly Joe while Pat Harrington voiced Moe. But, because the show wasn't working with real celebrities, they were able to use these fictional stooges for multiple episodes: "Ghastly Ghost Town" and "The Ghost of the Red Baron".
Laurel and Hardy
The comedic duo were another celebrity "guest" that did not voice themselves. Hanna-Barbera had created an animated Laurel and Hardy show in 1966, so they recruited Larry Harmon and Jim MacGeorge to voice the comedians once again. They appear in the episode "The Ghost of Bigfoot" where they help Mystery, Inc. search for the ghost of Bigfoot.
The Harlem Globetrotters
The real Harlem Globetrotters were too busy with their professional basketball schedules to play themselves, so instead they were voiced by the cast of the Hanna-Barbera animated series Harlem Globetrotters. This show featured animated versions of the real basketball players and they were featured in three episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies: "The Ghostly Creep from the Deep", "The Loch Ness Mess", and "The Mystery of Haunted Island".
Batman and Robin
In addition to celebrity guest stars, there were fictional celebrity guest stars which included Batman and Robin! Casey Kasem voiced Robin on Batman and Robin and Super Friends, so he reprised the character for this special appearance while also voicing Shaggy. The heroes help Mystery, Inc. solve crimes in "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" and "The Caped Crusader Caper". Batman's adversaries, the Joker and Penguin, also make appearances in these episodes.
Jerry Reed
In "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall", the gang go to a Jerry Reed concert but he has mysteriously vanished. Mystery, Inc. investigate his disappearance.
Speed Buggy
The cast of another classic Hanna-Barbera show, Speed Buggy, team up with Mystery, Inc. to investigate a supernatural wind in "The Weird Winds of Winona".
The Addams Family
The Mystery Machine gets stuck in the mud and leaves Mystery, Inc. stranded at the Addams house, where their services are needed because Wednesday has gone missing and there's a giant scary vulture. Fun fact - most of the original cast of The Addams Family live action series voiced their characters in this episode, including John Astin (Gomez), Carolyn Jones (Morticia), Ted Cassidy (Lurch), and Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester). One of the new additions to the group was Golden Globe winning actress Jodie Foster, who was then a child actor and the voice of Pugsley Addams.
Jeannie and Babu
Another Hanna-Barbera show tie-in, the cast of Jeannie take Scooby and the gang time traveling to stop Jadal the Evil Djinn from interfering with the ascension of a young sultan. Jeannie is an animated series inspired by I Dream of Jeannie.
Josie and the Pussycats
The gang is traveling down the Mississippi River en route to a festival when they get stuck on a dock where they run into Josie, Melody, Valerie, Alexandra, Alan, and Alexander. Together, both teams investigate a haunted showboat. Like the Batman and Robin episodes, Casey Kasem voiced both Shaggy and Alexander Cabot III, leading to some funny moments of the characters noticing they sound alike.
