Tricks, Treats and "31 Days of Scooby-Doo" Featured at CartoonNetwork.com Throughout October

Business Wire, Oct 7, 1998

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1998--CartoonNetwork.com, the online headquarters for cartoons, is celebrating Halloween and the month of October with "31 Days of Scooby-Doo," which will not only feature themed games and activities and a chat involving the famous mystery-solving Great Dane, but will also include online trick-or-treating.

CartoonNetwork.com will help pass each day until Halloween with the "Countdown Clock," which will grow spookier on a daily basis as the month goes on. The site will also introduce a month of "Creepy 2 Cent" interactive polls and "Who's Skull Is This?," a new Scooby-Doo game where players need to guess what cartoon character matches up with each skeleton.

In another "31 Days of Scooby-Doo" activity, kids will be able to download pumpkin patterns and with their parents' help, carve their favorite cartoons onto their Halloween pumpkins.

Beginning Oct. 26 the CartoonNetwork.com site will go "dark" as an invitation for users to trick or treat online. Doors of many shapes, sizes and styles will appear throughout the site, daring users to "knock" and bear the consequences.

Treats will include cool CartoonNetwork.com downloadables such as Scooby sounds, monster/villain character icon sets, Scooby-Doo wallpaper, and Scooby-Doo online trading cards -- a set of six collectibles featuring the real names, ages, height, weight, "likes" and famous catch-phrases of the main characters from the series.

Tricks will involve notorious Scooby-Doo characters as well as Cartoon Network favorites ranging from Cow of "Cow and Chicken" to Mr. Spacely from "The Jetsons."

On Oct. 27, Scooby-Doo himself will answer fans' questions in a chat on Cartoon Network's AOL site (Keyword: Cartoon).

The "31 Days of Scooby-Doo" coincides with Cartoon Network's "Scooby-Doo Month," which will culminate in a 25-hour "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" marathon on Oct. 24-25; "Scooby-Doo Movie Week" from Oct. 26-30; an 8-hour "A Pup Named Scooby-Doo" marathon from noon-8 p.m. Oct. 31; and the world television premiere of "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" at 8 p.m. on Oct. 31, a brand new, feature-length motion picture from Hanna Barbera and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment.

About Cartoon Network Online

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The company also oversees its popular area on America Online (Keyword: Cartoon) which, established in 1994, is among the top three kids sites on the service.

Cartoon Network, currently seen in 52 million U.S. homes, is Turner Broadcasting System Inc.'s 24-hour, basic cable service offering the best in animated entertainment. Drawing from the world's largest cartoon library, Cartoon Network also creates and showcases innovative original programming such as "Dexter's Laboratory," "Johnny Bravo," "Cow and Chicken," "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" and "Cartoon Cartoons."

Since its launch in 1992, Cartoon Network has remained one of basic cable's fastest-growing highest-rated networks.

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