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Fun Fact of the Week #387

2/7/2022

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The original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You instrumental theme by Ted Nichols aired during the opening titles for "What a Night for a Knight" and "A Clue for Scooby-Doo" when they originally aired in 1969, instead of the theme song with lyrics. After the original airings, the theme song with lyrics that was used for the other 23 episodes replaced the instrumental intro in all rerun airings of "What a Night for a Knight" and "A Clue for Scooby-Doo." The instrumental theme for those two episodes was not heard again until 1990 when the episodes aired on the USA Network. The copy of those two episodes that used the instrumental was shown again during reruns throughout the 90s. In 1998, Turner remastered all of the Where Are You episodes, but used the copies that used the theme song with lyrics for those two episodes. Since then, the instrumental intro for those two episodes has not been used in any airings. All home media releases for those two episodes include the theme song with lyrics. 

Despite this, the original instrumental theme is not completely lost. The instrumental theme 
was repurposed as the music that plays during the title card. It was also repurposed (and extended) for background music in two episodes of season 2, "Mystery Mask Mix-Up" and "Jeepers It's the Creeper."
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Matt
2/7/2022 12:14:29 pm

I knew about the instrumental, but I didn’t know they played it on the reruns for so long

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WildwindVampire link
2/7/2022 05:42:59 pm

I wasn't aware of that either until recently. I wonder why they suddenly decided to air the two episodes with the instrumental theme in the 90s, when those versions of the episodes hadn't been played in over 20 years at that point.

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Carson Maitland - Smith link
2/7/2022 09:48:07 pm

Next week's my birthday 💜

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Shadowscooby
2/8/2022 06:36:18 am

Happy Early Birthday

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Carson Maitland - Smith link
2/8/2022 11:56:30 pm

Thanks 💙💜🧡💚🤎




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