Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
TV Flash files “Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear” as hour 14 of 16 in the TV Flash guide — Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–1970) on CBS, season 1, episode 14, aired 1978-12-09, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E14: listed hour 14 of 16 in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! guide, hour 14 of 16 in season 1. It aired 1978-12-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Menace in Venice” (S01E13). Next is “The Warlock of Wimbledon” (S01E15).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The gang head to Puerto Rico for a holiday. They visit an ancient fortress where the ghost of General Juan Carlos, who guards the El Moro Fortress, warns them to stay away.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear sit in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! guide?
S01E14 is listed hour 14 of 16 — hour 14 of 16 in season 1, season 1 episode 14.
When did Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! S01E14 air?
Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear aired 1978-12-09 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…