Author's Note: Here's my revision of the series premiere of the original series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? where I do some revisions to fix the storyline to make it more realistic while still maintaining the humour and style from the original episode.
Many of the inconsistencies, goofs and oddities are based on what I've read on the Scooby wiki page on the episode, and here's a tentative list of SDWAY episodes that will be revised as part of my Dimension Four series:
- This episode What a Night for a Knight!
- Jeepers, it's the Creeper! (The Scooby wiki mentioned that the events of the episode were poorly executed)
I don't own Scooby-Doo. Hanna-Barbera Productions and Warner Bros. does.
If I do own Time-Warner, then Hanna-Barbera will still be an animation studio instead of being a name-only unit within Time-Warner (In other words, WB Animation won't be producing HB animated works today), you all won't be reading most of my stories on this site, many of the post-HB Scooby works, primarily the post-2010 Scooby works and the live-action films, will never have been produced in their original forms.
Instead, you all will be watching quality Scooby and other HB cartoons on television and on YouTube, the latter through an official YouTube channel.
Chapter 1: Prologue, walking home from the movies and an abandoned convertible
September 12, 1969
It was a typical evening at the Coolsville County Museum, a museum displaying many treasured artifacts, relics and art pieces, as the museum was closed for the night.
As the caretakers tidy and clean up the displays in the museum, a certain brown-haired man with a mustache and wearing a light-brown suit with a white dress shirt and black tie was in his office gathering some files and placed them in his black leather briefcase.
The man in question is Professor Jameson Hyde White, a professor of archaeology exchanged from London, England and is teaching archaeology in Big City University, and he was preparing to head home to call it a night.
Armed with his briefcase, he locked his office door and then made his way to the rear entrance of the museum where he passed by Jeremiah Wickles, the museum curator, who was on his way to the medieval section of the museum with a duster on hand.
"Have a wonderful evening, Mr. Wickles." The professor said.
"Same to you, professor." Mr. Wickles nodded before the professor took his leave.
Arriving at his convertible parked in the deserted parking lot in front of the museum, the professor was about to get on when he remembered something and snapped his fingers.
"Now, how could I have left that in my office?" He wondered as he quickly made his way back to the museum.
Back in his office, the professor sorted through his desk until he found what he was looking for and placed it in his briefcase.
During that time, a dark figure made it's way to the convertible and climbed onto the back.
After returning from his office, the professor got onto his car and then drove off, unaware that a figure was hiding in the back row of seats of his car.
Soon, the man was driving down a deserted stretch of main road.
At that moment, the figure, which turned out to be a dark-armoured knight, got up, and with a balloon and an air pump, it started inflating the balloon.
The professor was still driving when there was a loud pop coming from the back, which sounded like a blowout.
"Uh, oh. Sounds like a blowout. I better go check." Professor Hyde White thought as he pulled over and then got off the car to check the tires.
After checking the front tires, he noticed nothing of interest and moved to check the rear tires.
At that moment, the dark suit of armour quietly got off the car and moved closer to the unsuspecting professor.
The professor carefully checked the back wheel tires, unaware that a dark figure is towered over him behind him.
A short while later in a nearby park, sixteen-year old Norville "Shaggy" Rogers and his dog Scoobert "Scooby" Doo were walking down a path on their way home from the movies.
"Boy, what a nervous night to be walking home from the movies, Scooby-Doo." Shaggy commented as they walked through the dark park. "And all because you had to stay and see Star: Dog Ranger and the North Woods twice."
"Reah!" Scooby replied excitedly, clearly having had enjoyed the movie. "Reah, reah, reah!"
The duo carried on walking down the path until they were stopped by some rustling and what sounded like a croak coming from the nearby bushes.
"Like, what's that?" Shaggy asked nervously as the croaking continued.
"Ri don't know." Scooby replied.
"Go see what it is, Scooby." Shaggy suggested.
Scooby swallowed nervously. "Ruh?"
"Don't worry." Shaggy said. "I'm right behind you."
"Ranks re lot." Scooby replied before sticking his nose into the bush. A minute later, he emerged with a frog on his nose.
Shaggy felt the tension inside him loosening up. Scared by a frog hiding in the bushes. Can they help it if they were watching a suspenseful movie twice earlier?
The frog did a few more croaks before it unexpectedly leaped off Scooby's nose, leading him to say, "Ruh?"
Finding his nose still shaking from the leap, Scooby became annoyed and started growling before giving chase to the frog.
"Scooby, wait!" Shaggy exclaimed as Scooby took off, but the Great Dane ignored him, forcing him to go after Scooby and the frog.
The frog soon made a turn at a sharp corner, followed by Scooby and eventually, Shaggy.
After a while, Scooby lost the frog. He quickly stopped himself before looking around.
"Ruh?" Scooby remarked as he looked around. "Rhere did rit go? Rhere did rit go?"
Just then, Shaggy came and unable to stop himself in time, ended up tripping over Scooby and fall to the ground.
"Like, next time, signal." Shaggy said as he turned to Scooby.
"Rokay." Scooby nodded.
Just then, Shaggy looked around and his eyes settled on something. "Hey, what's that?"
Scooby looked towards where Shaggy was looking as the latter got up. They were looking at a convertible parked on the side of the nearby two-lane highway.
What made the sight unusual was that a knight was seated in the driver's seat, or more to the point, a suit of armour.
Shaggy and Scooby walked over to the convertible as the former continued, "It looks like a deserted type of convertible."
He then went to the driver's door and knocked on it, asking, "Hello? Anybody home?"
Then, unexpectedly, the knocking caused the helmet to come loose, shake a bit before falling from the rest of the armour and landed on the road right in front of them.
Shaggy and Scooby both swallowed at the sight before looking at each other and laughed nervously.
The laugh was short-lived as the duo were quick to take off and run, heading towards a certain direction.
A short while later, Shaggy and Scooby were back at the abandoned convertible. This time, though, they were accompanied by their friends Frederick "Fred" Jones, Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley.
The Mystery Machine is parked nearby as the trio examined the convertible.
"You're right, Shaggy." Daphne said. "This sure is strange."
"Yeah." Fred agreed. "What's this empty suit of armour doing in this deserted convertible?"
"Like, maybe he went out for the night." Shaggy said before elbowing Scooby and added, "Get it?"
"Reah." Scooby smiled before he and Shaggy burst out laughing about the pun in Shaggy's joke.
"Very funny." Velma remarked.
"Gosh, I wonder who this creepy hunk of tin belongs to." Daphne asked.
"And more like, who's convertible is this." Fred said as they walked around the convertible.
It was Daphne who noticed some papers on the passenger seat, probably had fallen off from the glove compartment during whatever had happened on the convertible earlier.
"The papers here all have the name Jameson Hyde White on it." Daphne said as she scanned through the papers.
"Like, I heard of hide and seek before, but I never heard of 'Hyde White'." Shaggy remarked before elbowing Scooby and they bursted out laughing, once again about the pun in the joke.
"That's an English name, you comedians." Velma said to Shaggy.
"So we know that this convertible belongs to Professor Hyde White." Fred said, noting the papers that indicated that the man is a professor of archaeology at Big City University. "But we don't know who does this hunk of armour belongs to."
Velma made a close look at the armour before saying, "I think I recognize this armour. It's the recently-unearthed Black Knight that was delivered to the County Museum for display just last week. I've read about it in the paper."
"And it also says here that Professor Hyde White works at the County Museum and only started working there and at Big City University early last week." Daphne added. "Which could mean that he may be the archaeologist involved in the archaeological expedition that unearthed the Black Knight."
"That's using the good old noodle." Shaggy complimented. "But now the question is, what happened to our mysterious professor?"
"By the looks of it, it seems like he has vanished." Velma said. "Though another question is, what is tall, tin and creepy doing here in the convertible?"
"Well, gang." Fred announced. "It looks like we're up to our armour plates for another mystery."
First story to be published in 2017, folks! Happy New Year, and please read and review!