A Selection of Hallmark Ornaments: Scooby-Doo

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Hallmark revolutionized Christmas decorating with its annual release of holiday ornaments beginning in 1973. The ornaments appealed to customers' tastes and interests and often followed popular consumer trends. Hallmark began producing ornaments featuring Scooby-Doo in 1999, thirty years after the easily frightened and always-hungry animated Great Dane premiered in the popular Saturday morning cartoon series "Scooby-Doo Where Are You!"

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Hallmark "Scooby-Doo" Miniature Christmas Ornament, 2001

Christmas tree ornament

Scooby-Doo first appeared in the cartoon series "Scooby-Doo Where Are You!" which debuted in 1969. In the series, Scooby accompanies a group of mystery-solving teenagers--Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy--as they foil criminals disguised as monsters, ghosts, or other supernatural villains.