Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire
Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire is a 2003 American direct-to-video animated adventure film, and the fifth in a series of direct-to-video films based upon the Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was completed in 2002, and released on March 4, 2003, and it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation, but included a copyright for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc..
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| Directed by | Scott Jeralds |
| Written by | Mark Turosz |
| Based on | Scooby-Doo by Hanna-Barbera, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears |
| Produced by | Margaret M. Dean Scott Jeralds |
| Starring | Casey Kasem Frank Welker Nicole Jaffe Heather North Kenney |
| Edited by | Joe Gall |
| Music by | Rich Dickerson |
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| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
It is the first Scooby-Doo direct-to-video film to have the flatter, bright art style and visuals of the What's New, Scooby-Doo? series, departing from the darker shading and effects used in the four prior released films, the first to return to the original format where the monster is not real and the first to return to a lighter tone than that of the prior and darker Scooby made-for-video films.
This film served as Joseph Barbera's first solo animated production effort without longtime partner William Hanna (who died on March 22, 2001, due to throat cancer) and is one of two direct-to-video films to reunite the surviving classic 1969–73 voice cast consisting of Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, and Heather North. Since Don Messick (the original voice of Scooby) died on October 24, 1997, Welker provides Scooby's voice (in addition to voicing Fred Jones).