Scooby-Doo grew out of a late-1960s clash over violence in Saturday-morning cartoons. Parent groups, led by Action for Children's Television, pressured networks, and many action cartoons were cancelled by 1969. CBS executive Fred Silverman wanted a show that would please those groups, and he asked producers to build on the success of the teen band in The Archie Show. The first concept was a teen rock band that solved supernatural mysteries with a dog named Too Much, inspired partly by the Dobie Gillis characters. CBS found the presentation artwork too scary, so the rock band element was dropped and the focus moved to the comedy of the cast and the dog. The dog was renamed Scooby-Doo and the show became Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which CBS approved for production.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.