Scooby-Doo Creator Ken Spears Passes Away Page all

KOMPAS.com – One of the creators Scooby-Doo, Ken Spears, die.

Spears died at the age of 82, as reported The Hollywood Reporter, Monday (9/11/2020).

According to Kevin, his son, who won four Daytime Emmy nominations, died in Brea, California, due to complications from Lewy body dementia.

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In addition to being known as the author of the Scooby-Doo story, Ken Spears is the director of children’s programs on CBS and ABC.

Ken Spears died less than three months after his death Joe Ruby, his creative partner.

Spears and Ruby met while they were still working as sound editors and writers at Hanna-Berbera, one of the largest cartoon production houses in the US.

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Together, they created Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! which then premiered on CBS in September 1969.

Of the initial 25 episodes, only four they did not write about.

“We are worried that this cartoon only lasts one season, it turns out to be 38 years,” said Spears in an interview.

“(Scooby-Doo) competed with The Hardy Boys on NBC and we thought we would be crushed in the ratings,” he continued.

Spears and Ruby also created characters like Dynomutt, Dog Wonder and Jabberjaw in Hanna-Barbera.

In the early 1970s, then president of CBS, Fred Silverman, assigned the duo to lead the Saturday morning cartoon program.

Ken Spears and Joe Ruby followed Ken Silverman to ABC and brought Scooby-Doo to the US national television network.

Two years later, ABC founded Ruby-Spears Productions as a sub-division of Filmways.

The production house produces a number of animated series for the Saturday morning program.

From Ruby-Spears Production, characters such as Fangface, Plastic Man, Mister T, and Alvin and the Chipmunks were born.

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