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Television series and specials

• 1969 – Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premieres on CBS Saturday Morning. The animated show, about a cowardly Great Dane and his four teenage friends who travel around the country in a multi-colored van solving mysteries, would go on to become a major pop cultural icon, with numerous spin-offs, direct to video movies, and two live action films.
• 1969 – Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, an American animated television series begins airing on CBS
• 1969 – The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, an American animated television series begins airing on CBS
• 1986 – The Real Ghostbusters, an American animated television series begins airing on ABC
• 1993 – Animaniacs, an American animated television series begins airing on Fox Kids
• 1997 – Recess, an American animated television series begins airing on ABC
• 2002 – What's New, Scooby-Doo?, an American animated television series begins airing on The WB
• 2004 – Inuyasha, a Japanese anime television series finishes airing on Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
• 2008 – El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, an American animated television series finished airing on Nickelodeon

Births

• 1937 – Don Bluth, American animator, co-founded Sullivan Bluth Studios and Fox Animation Studios
• 1982 – J. G. Quintel, American animator, scriptwriter, and voice actor