<p>What&#8217;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.</p>
<p><em>Scooby-Doo</em></p>
<p>Glenn Fleishman   with David J. Loehr and Shannon Sudderth</p>

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<li>If you&#8217;re really into exhaustive accounts of TV series, check out the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo">very, very, very long Wikipedia entry</a> on the show.</li>
<li>Fred Silverman was a programming boss at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/05/business/the-fall-and-rise-of-fred-silverman.html?pagewanted=all">ABC, CBS, and NBC at various times</a>, and <a href="http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/fred-silverman">shaped our childhoods</a>.</li>
<li>Harvey Birdman episode with Shaggy look-alikes, &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk5p2EJod3E">Identity Theft</a>.&#8221;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166792/"><em>Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island</em></a></li>
<li>John Belushi appeared as Fred Silverman on several episodes of <em>Saturday Night Live</em>.</li>
<li><em>Venture Brothers</em> Scooby-Doo episode, &#8220;<a href="http://teamventure.org/vbwiki/¡Viva_los_Muertos!">¡Viva los Muertos!</a>&#8221;</li>
<li>You can get Travis Pitts&#8217; zombie-apocalypse (?) <a href="https://www.threadless.com/product/2094/We_ve_Got_Some_Work_To_Do_Now">Velma and Scooby-Doo design on clothing</a> via Threadless.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHSZ3QuECEI">Speed metal version</a> of the Jabber Jaw theme song.</li>
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