Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
A Menace in Venice
TV Flash files “A Menace in Venice” as a desk essential hour — Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1970) on CBS, season 1, episode 13, aired 1978-12-02, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E13: listed hour 13 of 16 in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! guide, hour 13 of 16 in season 1. It aired 1978-12-02 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper” (S01E12). Next is “Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear” (S01E14).
Essential hour: “A Menace in Venice”. A Menace in Venice — location gag as the week's monster, Hanna-Barbera mystery travel without leaving the van's rules.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The gang visit their friend, Antonio, in Venice, Italy, and find that he's haunted by the spirit of an ancestor, the Ghostly Gondolier, who seeks to steal the ancient necklace Antonio wears.
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Menace in Venice sit in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! guide?
S01E13 is listed hour 13 of 16 — hour 13 of 16 in season 1, season 1 episode 13.
When did Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! S01E13 air?
A Menace in Venice aired 1978-12-02 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any original 1969–1970 mystery is the formula: van, fake monster, snack, unmask. The first series is the template; later franchise decades are clones.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! locked Saturday morning into a van, a Great Dane, and four meddling kids who always unmask the caretaker. Hanna-Barbera's 1969 mystery cartoon is formula as comfort: chase, snack, trap, rubber mask. The template still clones itself, and cowardice plus Scooby Snacks became a franchise language that never left the air.
The silhouette is a van, a Great Dane, and four meddling kids who treat a rubber mask as the week's costume change. *Mystery-machine paint, snack as accessory, caretaker waiting under the latex.* Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! arrived on CBS September 13, 1969 — Joe Ruby and Ken Spears locking Saturday morning into a look: chase, snack, trap, unmask. Don Messick's Scooby, Casey Kasem's Shaggy, Frank Welker's Fred, Nicole Jaffe's Velma, and Stefanianna Christopherson's Daphne set the voices. **This was…
Filed against
- Don Messick as Scooby-Doo
Don Messick’s Scooby-Doo locked Saturday morning into a van and a snack — Hanna-Barbera’s 1969 mystery cartoon, four meddling kids, chase, trap, rubber mask, cowardice plus a Great Dane as comfort formula. The template still clones…
- Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
Casey Kasem’s Shaggy Rogers made Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! a coward’s poetry — 1960s catalog van, snacks, rubber masks, then Super Friends keeping the countdown voice in the Hall of Justice. TV Flash files him as the hunger that unmasked…
- Frank Welker as Fred Jones
Frank Welker’s Fred Jones drove Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! like a van with a plan — 1960s catalog rubber-mask religion, then The Transformers stretching the throat into robots in disguise. TV Flash files him as the meddler who became a…
- Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley
Nicole Jaffe’s Velma Dinkley locked Saturday morning into glasses, a van, and a rubber mask — Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Hanna-Barbera’s 1969 mystery cartoon, four meddling kids, a Great Dane, chase-snack-trap as comfort formula. TV…
- Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake
Stefanianna Christopherson voiced Daphne Blake on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! — the purple-dress meddler in Hanna-Barbera's 1969 van, a Great Dane, four kids who always unmask the caretaker. Chase, snack, trap, rubber mask. TV Flash files…