# Was Scooby-Doo based on Enid Blyton's Famous Five?

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> This lead me to look up The Famous Five, which I’d never heard of before. It’s a series of books written by British author Enid Blyton from 1942-1963 and published in Britain, about – well, four kids and their dog, etc. ( [The Famous Five - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Famous_Five_(novel_series)) )
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> Blyton’s books were published in Britain and Europe, and turned into movies, comics, TV series, cartoons, etc. in Britain and Europe. I’d never encountered them before, but they were obviously a Very Big Deal.

I’ve never read any of them, but I did read at least one of Blyton’s [“Adventure” Series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_Series) books when I was a kid. (Instead of four kids and a dog, they feature four kids and a parrot.)

I observed in another thread:

> [@Poll: your favorite Chronicles of Narnia book?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-your-favorite-chronicles-of-narnia-book/825880/73):
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> British literature seems to have had a fairly strong tradition of books involving groups of boys and girls (often siblings) having adventures together, as in the works of E. Nesbit, Arthur Ransome, and Enid Blyton; and I think Lewis was thinking along those lines when he wrote _The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe_.

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