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“They could run into a spooky tunnel that suddenlycloses behind them. a giant hand comes up out ofthe ground and lifts the mystery van high into theair. a canary changes into a twenty-foot bat thatpicks them up and flies to a mountain cave. amysterious ray shrinks the group down to insect sizeand they are chased by an enormous beastly beetle!"Weird sounding phrases? Something from asleepless night? A fhodem Tower of Babel? . Noneof these things! It’s bits of conversation you might hearcoming from a Scooby-Doo story session at theHanna-Barbera cartoon studio.Putting a script together for a Saturday morningshow does not just happen by giving a writer a storyassignment. It is a result of a number of peopleworking together as a creative team. At HannaBarbera, Bill Hanna is the production executive, whileJoe Barbera spearheads the "idea group" whose job itis to put Scooby into new exciting, mysterioussituations once a week. Barbera, his story editors,writers, and network producers have to coordinate thestory material to achieve a diversity in plots and avariety of action situations.A story conference may begin with a review of anumber of script ideas. Someone suggests thatScooby. and his friends have not had a vacation.Perhaps they could be on a busman’s holiday and runinto a mystery."Sounds possible,” says Barbera. "But where dothey go? We could fly the van in one of those bigcargo planes, but I think we ought to try to keep themin a more plausible location.""How about a museum?" a writer asks.“Another museum? Forget It, we've had them therebefore,” says the story editor, “but we could get thegang to the beach ."Hey! A surfing contest!” Someone breaks in. \“No way, surfing is too limited for your deep darkmystery, unless the van turns into a submarine,” saysBarbera."We haven’t gone south of the border,” a voicepipes up. “They could be driving to Mexico for avacation."“Sounds good," says the network representative,"and there’s possibility for a lot of mystery."“Maybe they could stop off at a fiesta. That couldadd all kinds of fun situations.""Fred shows interest in the beautiful wide Opencountry, beautiful scenery and fascinating Aztectemples they will be seeing.”"Scooby can do a wild version of the Mexicafl HatDance, or pretend to battle a bull!"“We need a mystery situation,” says Barbera.“Maybe a professor and his wife are really smugglersof Mexican artifacts."“Why not? . And they could set up a ghost toscare away the nosey tourists.”"Okay,” says Barbera. "Let’s get a first draft puttogether. a title? . oh, let’s call it The Fiesta Hostis an Aztec Ghost.’ Maybe we’ll come up with a betterone . by the way, start thinking of adding anothercharacter to the Scooby-Doo Show . no, not a cat,but maybe another dog . . could be a relative ofScooby-Doo . . . Dinky-Doo, a cousin who isn’t alwaysplaying with a full deck of dog biscuits, just a littledull. maybe sorta dumb . yeah, Scooby-Dum.Hey! That’s it! Give it some thought. He could be afunny companion for Scooby-Doo. It would give theshow a whole new look!”That is a sample of a typical story session inbrainstorming a Scooby-Doo show at Hanna-Barbera sFuntastic World. It is an exchange of ideas thateventually puts things into focus and results in afinished script complete with scene direction anddialogue.But this is just the beginning. The animatedproduction process takes about sixteen more weeks ofeffort by many more creative people who add theirtouches, until the final product is a print, ready forSaturday morning viewing on national television.It’s a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun in HannaBarbera’s Funtastic World of Scooby-Doo!