The original Scooby-Doo cartoon first came out on September 13, 1969 , when the TV series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiered on CBS as a Saturday-morning show.

Quick Scoop

  • The franchise began with the animated series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! featuring Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma solving spooky mysteries.
  • The very first episode, “What a Night for a Knight,” aired on that same premiere date: September 13, 1969.
  • The show ran on CBS in the 1969–1970 season and went on to spawn many later Scooby-Doo series, movies, and specials that kept the brand alive for decades.

In short: when people ask “when did Scooby-Doo come out,” they almost always mean that first TV debut in 1969, which kicked off the entire mystery- solving franchise.

TL;DR: Scooby-Doo came out on September 13, 1969, with the premiere of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! on CBS.

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