What Are the Missing Scenes from The New Scooby-Doo Movies?

I've been gradually rewatching The New Scooby-Doo Movies throughout the year. While rewatching, I was thinking about the recent revelation that there were missing scenes from a handful of the episodes. A little background for anybody who doesn't know: when CBS originally reran the season 1 episodes, the episodes were edited from the usual 43 minute runtime down to 41 minutes. This was to make time for additional commercials. These edited versions of the episodes were mostly what aired in syndication. However, in the 1980s, some networks split each episode into a two-part episode, so it would fit in a half-hour timeslot. When they were split, the original 43-minute version was used. Other than "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair," the 2005 DVD The Best of The New Scooby-Doo Movies used the full versions of each episode. However, the six season 1 episodes missing from that set never had their missing scenes recovered. This is evident from that fact that they are all 41 minutes in runtime, whereas all other episodes in the series are 43 minutes. They were not included on The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The (Almost) Complete Collection DVD or Blu-Ray released in 2019. This is the only series in the franchise that has missing footage, and was affected by any sort of issue like this.

Last year, three of these missing segments were found by Chorake. (Credit for all the above info about how the episodes were edited is from a comment they left on this blog last year) The missing segments from "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" and "The Secret of Shark Island" can be watched below.

Update 4/27/26: A group of fans on Reddit have been searching for the missing scenes from Fox-owned broadcasts of the episodes between 1972-1992. Through this effort, they've discovered the missing footage from "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall."

I've never watched this series before thinking about where the missing scenes could be from. However, since we know they almost certainly exist, I tried to see if I could spot where a scene might have been taken out of those six episodes. I thought it would be fun to put together a post of my guesses of where the missing scenes are. If we ever get them someday, it will be super fun to refer back to this post and see if I was right!

For "Wednesday Is Missing," Velma mentions they encounter a mummy, but we never see this happen. The mummy is also referred to again later by the culprit. Given this, it seems only logical to guess that the missing scene involves a mummy. There is a choppy transition between Daphne asking Fred "I wonder what's next?" when they are split up, which suddenly shifts to the whole gang being reunited in the next scene. I would guess that there's a missing scene here, where one of the groups encounter a mummy before the gang reunites. It's probably Velma, Shaggy and Scooby, since the previous scene featured Fred and Daphne, and the usual format is to switch back and forth between the groups.

The obvious guess for "A Good Medium Is Rare" would be something related to the gargoyle, who is captured mid-way through the episode but never unmasked or explained. After rewatching the episode, I no longer think the missing scene is anything to do with the part with the gargoyle. In hindsight, this scene is early in the episode. The gang clearly doesn't know who the culprits are until the end, so it wouldn't make sense to have an unmasking be the missing scene. I think it's possible that the missing scene explains who the gargoyle is at a later part in the episode, but I don't think anything's missing right after that chase.

Rewatching the episode, there's another scene where there is a weird jump in the animation. There is a scene where the Masked Men look side to side for Fred and Daphne down the hall. Then, suddenly, they are already standing against the wall when Shaggy and Scooby come up to them. It could be just an animation error, but the music also suddenly changes at that exact moment, leading me to believe there should have been a scene in between. I'm admittedly unsure what exactly the scene would involve. I'll make a wild guess that it's another scene where the Masked Men find Fred, Daphne and Velma, but they manage to escape.

It's pretty clear what the missing scene in "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde" is. There's clearly a scene with King Kong, since he's mentioned multiple times. I'd guess it's cut from the scene right before the gang reunites.

I did also take note of the scene where Sandy and Scooby are looking for clues, and Sandy starts her sentence with "Well, Scooby, you did it again! I don't know what you did, but you did it!" It's not really clear what she's talking about here. If "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" had two, it's possible that there's another missing scene here too.

Update 6/19/26: One of the two missing scenes has been found. It's funny I mentioned "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair," because there was another 30-second missing scene here beyond the main one! The missing scene shows Fred and Daphne splitting up from Velma. Previously, it had never been explained how they got separated from each other.

The scene from "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" seemed quite obvious to me. I'd never thought about it before, but when Creech lets Fred, Shaggy and Scooby into the secret passage, the audience never actually sees them exploring the passage at all. The scene switches to Daphne, Velma and Davy in the cavern, and then jumps back to Fred, Shaggy and Scooby in one of the main parts of the castle again. It seems certain that there's a missing scene where they explore that passage. It would be odd to have the writers set up that they're about to explore it, and then never actually show it. Similarly to "The Secret of Shark Island" scene, it would provide additional context to a scene that something that's mentioned but never shown.

Update 4/27/26: The missing scene has been found! It's unclear whether the bedroom they explore is the secret passage. I'm assuming it is though, so it appears I was spot on in my prediction about this one!

"The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" was a tougher one. There isn't any clear spot for a missing scene, and I have no idea what the content of it would be. I'll make three rough guesses, though.

• I think there could be a missing scene during the first split-up, when Shaggy tells Scooby "Come on now and stay close." The transition between scenes seems a bit abrupt, and it seems like there may have been something that came before that line.
• Similarly, while Fred and Daphne are exploring the stage alone, the scene starts with "Maybe the others had better luck." This also seems slightly abrupt.
• I think this one is the most likely option. The bit where Shaggy and Scooby are looking for the xylophone (where Scooby bumps into the headless statue) seems like it could have been abbreviated in some way. It's very short, and just features Shaggy and Scooby running until they find the xylophone. Watching it from the lens of a potential missing scene, it seems incomplete to me.

A lot of my sleuthing came from the fact that the scene being taken out "The Secret of Shark Island" led to a transition where Shaggy started a scene by saying "However." Anything that seemed abrupt or unexplained was what guided my feelings about there being a potential missing scene here. In actuality, I have nothing to base any of my predictions in, but it was fun to try to see if I could sleuth out where the missing scenes might be.

I think this is a super fun subject, so if anybody else has any guesses on where these missing scenes might be, I'd love to hear about it in the comments!