Hanna-Barbera Voice Actors on TV: Scooby-Doo Edition

 It's been a minute since I did a new entry in my "Hanna-Barbera actors on TV" series, but I'm back, and this time around, I thought I'd get a little festive. Since Halloween is today, and the franchise recently celebrated its 55th anniversary, this installment will be all about a certain group of meddling kids and their dog. You all know by this point that I'm not the biggest Scooby guy, but it felt wrong to have October go by and not do something related to the series. Let's look at the actors behind the original Scooby-Doo, and some of their onscreen TV appearances!

I'll start with Casey Kasem. Between his work in radio and animation, Kasem didn't make a whole lot of appearances in live-action TV roles, but that's not to say they were nonexistent. One of them is from the Hawaii Five-O episode "Steal Now Pay Later." This is probably the angriest Kasem has ever been in a role I've seen. I certainly couldn't see Shaggy getting this upset!

I couldn't find a clip of this particular appearance online, but when it comes to the original Daphne voice actor Indira Stefanianna, there's no live-action role more notable than her appearance in M*A*S*H. She appeared in the episode "Love Story" as Lieutenant O'Brien, and was credited as Indira Danks.

Velma's original voice actor, Nicole Jaffe, never appeared in a live-action TV role (though she did appear in a film with none other than Frank Welker!), so I'll instead look at her second voice, the late Pat Stevens. And just like Stefanianna, her most notable role was in the series M*A*S*H. She played a nurse character in over a dozen episodes between 1974 and 1978.

I've already looked at Scooby himself, Don Messick, in another entry in this series. But what if I told you his only starring role in a live-action series, The Duck Factory, also featured an appearance from Fred Jones himself, Frank Welker? This occurred in the episode "The Duck Stops Here," where Welker plays a voice actor trying to take Messick's most famous character voice after he loses it. Though we don't see them interact in the episode, it's great fun to see the two onscreen doing what they do best. It also feels like a bit of foreshadowing, as Welker would eventually inherit many of Messick's characters after his retirement. 

And that's everything for October, folks! I'll wrap this up by congratulating Scooby-Doo on 55 years, and I hope you all have an especially spooky Halloween!