Scooby-Doo! and the Mystery Gang is a live-action American-Fantasy Mystery-Adventure Television Series based off of the group of the same name, created by Hanna Barbera. The series premiered on the CW Television Network on September 13, 2014, and stars Ross Lynch, Liliana Mumy, Emilia McCarthy, and Jonny Gray, as a group of teenagers, along with their talking dog, that solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures, through a series of antics and mis-steps.
Premise
Four unlikely teenage friends, geeky outcast, Shaggy Rogers, High School quarterback, Fred Jones, drama queen, Daphne Blake, and science nerd, Velma Dinkley, along with their talking dog, Scooby-Doo, form a mystery solving team, that usually deal with mysteries involving supernatural creatures terrorizing a town, that often turn out to be normal people in costumes.
Series Overview
The first four seasons, much like the original show, focus on the gang's High School years, while establishing their team, and sees the teenagers solving everyday mysteries about normal people dressed up as supernatural creatures.
In season 5, the Gang's work becomes more dangerous when their mystery solving habits lead them to the work of a seriel killer mimicking the Widow's Son Folktale, in which a killer took one different bone from each of his victims to replace the ones on a skeleton statue, until turning the statue into a complete skeleton.
Seasons 6 and 7 reveals the mysteries behind Crystal Cove and Fred's father's involvement in them. The gang also discovers that they were not the first team of mystery solvers in Crystal Cove and discover that the original Mystery Gang are planning something, as the Gang begans to tear apart.
Season 8 returns the series to their original daily mysteries of people dressed up in supernatural creatures, but must now go against a super computer virus that's toying with the team.
The ninth and final season of the series see the group go up against real supernatural ghouls and creatures with powers and discover an ancient evil using the darkness within people to corrupt them.
Cast
Mystery Gang
- Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo, a unique dog that can talk. He is a brown great dane, with black spots, and has a blue collar with a diamond shaped dog tag. Though he first spoke broken english, often mumbling and adding the letter "R" to the beginning of his words, he began to learn better english, even learning to speak full sentences. He often acts cowardly, running from mysteries, and is always hungry, especially for scooby snacks, a treat that Shaggy created.
- Jonny Gray as Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, a slacking member of the gang and Scooby-Doo's best friend, whome he shares many traits with, including the fact that he would rather eat than solve mysteries, often trying to avoid mysteries. He has romantic feelings, and later a relationship, with Velma. Like his original iterations, he often wears green shirts or jackets, and brown pants.
- Ross Lynch as Fred "Freddie" Jones, the leader of the Mystery Gang and the quarterback of the Football team. Fred is strong and smart, and is often the one that comes up with the traps used to capture the creatures. In this iteration, Fred wears a blue shirt and a white jacket with an orange stripe on the left side and two orange strips on the sleeves.
- Liliana Mumy as Daphne Blake, a red-headed fashion drama queen, that comes from a wealthy family. She has romantic feelings for Fred, who is often oblivious of her feelings. She often wears a purple jacket, skirt, and headband, with a green belt and shirt.
- Emilia McCarthy as Velma Dinkly, a science wiz and computer nerd. She is highly intelligent and is often the one to solve the mystery of the people behind the masks. In season 7, she began dating Shaggy. She often wears orange, with red skirts, and has glasses that she is very prone to losing.
Recurring Cast
- Allesandra Juliani as Dr. Steven Rykes, a scientist from A.T.O.M. Labs that the team often goes to for help, and multiple gadgets for the gang to use.
- Jada Pinkette Smith as Cassidy Williams/Angel Dynamite, a radio DJ on K-Ghoul Radio station, and an ally to the team, as she is very smart and knows her way around a computer. In Season 6, the team discovered she was a member of the original Mystery Gang and is Velma's counterpart.
- Motchell Kosterson as Bronson Stone, the sheriff of Crystal Cove, who openly welcomed the gangs help, but betrayed them and dressed up as a monster to kill Fred's father.
- Camille Mitchell as Sheriff Sally Adams, the sheriff of Crystal Cove that replaced Bronson, but unlike the previous Sheriff, Adams didn't appreciate the Gang's tendancy to get involved.
- Jack Coleman as Mayor Fred Jones Sr., Fred's father and the mayor of Crystal Cove, who doesn't approve of Fred's obsession with mysteries. After Fred proved him to be the creep of Crystal Crove, he discovered that Mayor Jones stole him from Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves.
- Anne Hathaway as Mayor Janet Nettles, Fred Jones Sr.'s successor as Mayor of Crystal Cove, who like Angel and Sheriff Stone, openly welcomed the Gang's help, and helped bring them together after they seperated.
- Chris Gauthier as Ricky Owens/Mr. E, one of the members of the original Mystery gang and Shaggy's counterpart, who has been secretly helping the team solve mysteries.
- Udo Kier as Professor Pericles, a highly intelligent parrot that can speak perfect english and the mascot of the original Mystery gang, and is Scooby's counterpart. He is the main antagonist of Seasons 6 and 7.
- Chip Ester and Christina Moore as Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves, former members of the original Mystery Gang, and the counterparts of Fred and Daphne, as well as the biological parents of Fred.
Episodes
Season 1
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| The Mystery Begins | After a ghost attacks Crystal Cove High, four very different students, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma, along with a talking dog, form an unlikely team to solve the mystery. |
| The Ogre in the Forest | While the group ponders the possibility of becoming a team, as Fred, Daphne, and Velma are reluctant, they do decide to get involved of a mystery involving an ogre wandering the forest. |
| The Troll Under the Bridge | When people begin disappearing around a mysterious bridge, the group decide to solve the mystery, while coming to the decision of staying together and becoming a formal team. |
| The Worms in the Road |
The gang decide that they're going to need wheels to help in their mystery solving, escpecially to keep up with worms that are travelling through the ground, and Daphne's able to help with that, introducing the Mystery Machine. |
| The Grass in the Garden | The gang investigates the mystery of living plants in a haunted garden. |
| The Pumpkin on the Body | On Halloween, the gang must solve the mystery of a man with a pumpkin head |
| The Wasp in the Library | The gang investigates the appearance of a wasp-like creature at a library, but are having a hard time keeping up with School due to their late night mysteries. |
| The Zombie in the Sewers | After construction workers are attacked by a Zombie in the sewers, the gang investigates. Meanwhile, Fred must decide if he should give up his position in Football for the gang. |
| The Creeper in the Bank | A green-monster called the Creeper begins stealing from the Crystal Cove Bank and the Mystery gang plans to stop him. |
| The Pteradactyl in the Sky | The Mystery Gang chases after a pteradactyl that begins abducting important peopl in Crystal Crove, including Fred's father. |
| The Meat in the Kitchen | A meat-like creature terrorizes the School Cafeteria and the group must rely on Scooby and Shaggy's appetites to eat their way through the mystery. |
| The Birthday in the Cellar | Velma obliviously avoids many birthday attempts by her friends, and things get worse when a mystery leads the gang, besides Scooby, trapped in a storm cellar. |
| The Furball on the Arm | A small hairy creature is shipped in a box to Fred's locker and attatches itself to Fred, leaving it to the others to discover what it is and who sent it. |
| The Medusa at the Dance | The Mystery Gang must stop a creature from turning students at a dance to stone. Meanwhile, Daphne hopes for Freddie to ask her to the Dance. |
| The Robot at the Convention | A robot created by somone at a School Science Fair goes missing and reappears attacking students. |
| The Invisible Man in the Locker Room | Jocks at Crystal Crove High, including Fred, are being attacked by an invisible nerdy boy. Now the Gang must figure out his secret and stop him. |
| The Snowman on Christmas | On Christmas Eve, the Gang must solve the mystery of a living snowman destroying Christmas all over Crystal Cove |
| The Siren in the Music | When a new singer arrives in town, the students of Crystal Crove begin turning violent and rebellious at the sound of her musical tone. |
| The Third Eye on the Forehead | A third-eyed creature stumbles through a jewelry store and wrecks it, but doesn't take anything. Now the gang must get to the bottom of it. |
| The Haunting of Town Hall | Fred's father begins being terrorized by a ghoul haunting City Hall, so Fred and the gang decide to investigate. |
Season 2
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| The Dwarf at the Hotel | |
| The Thing at the Swamp | |
| The Wolf in the Woods | |
| The Hostages at the Factory | |
| The Pig at the Date | |
| The Gators at Gatortown | |