Product Description

Studio: Hanna Barbera Release Date: 02/08/2005 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36936 in DVD
• Brand: HANNA BARBERA
• Released on: 2003-05-06
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 87 minutes

Amazon.com
Timeless, captivating fun for children and fine nostalgic nonsense for adults, the Harlem Globetrotters episodes from the Scooby-Doo canon border on goofy anarchy. During the four-year run of The New Scooby-Doo Movies on 1970s television, the Mystery, Inc. gang of Fred, Velma, Daphne, Shaggy, and the preternaturally skillful canine hero Scooby-Doo hooked up with cartoon versions of many real-life celebrities (who provided their own voices).

The Harlem Globetrotters, a traveling comedy act showcasing basketball tricks and unsportsmanlike high jinks, had a core team of well-known performers, led by Meadowlark Lemon, who were naturally funny partners in Scooby's ghostbusting investigations. This disc contains two of the three HG programs, "The Mystery of Haunted Island" and "The Loch Ness Mess," the former a somewhat creaky, run-of-the-mill Scooby haunting, while the latter features a more interesting conspiracy for Shaggy and the others to crack. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Scooby Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters DVD
My daughter loves Scooby Doo, just like her mom did. I was surprised to see two movies with the Globetrotters because I remember only one. If you love Scooby Doo, this is a good one to buy. I have watched Scooby for years and cannot remember ever seeing the lock ness globetrotter movie, a real bonus for me and maybe for you.

Good Movie
Who would have thouhgt Scooby-Doo and the Harlem Globetrotters
could go together so well. This Movie is very entertaining.
This is the kind of movie you could watch over and over again.
And still get A few lahgs in. This truly is a Classic Scooby-Doo Movie. Well Worth Buying.

Well, it's not the greatest Scooby Doo ever.
Scooby Doo was still in it's early phases back when these 2 hour long episodes were made. So expect it to be very 70's and yet without the charm of the 1969 series. The New Scooby Doo Show at the time had 40 minutes of animation and 20 minutes commercials. This gave the writers a chance to have a bigger story and more mysteries and clues. The Harlem Globetrotters (who?) showed up some of these episodes and this DVD features 2 of them.

Unfortunately too much time is devoted to them being rather unfunny than any plot development. And why oh why are they not a natural brown color? Instead the Globetrotters are an un-nervingly vague Michael Jackson greyish color. Either the animation is very old and sun-bleached or that was just bad coloring.

The DVD is in 1.33:1 full frame, as originally broadcast with Dolby Mono sound. Some slight extras are included.