What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed – 16 Jan 2010

The first recording today starts with the end of Sportsround. There’s a trail for Hai! Karate! Journey to Japan. Then it’s an episode of What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Space Ape at the Cape. NASA are preparing for another space shuttle mission when a researcher spots that an alien egg is hatching, glowing and growing bigger until it explodes. The Scooby Gang are piloting a space shuttle. Except it’s a simulator, of course, as they’re visiting the Cape. They’re there because Velma is a finalist in a young scientist competition. She wins, much to the annoyance of the young boy who is also a finalist, Elliot Blinder. This seemed a bit weird to me because he looks about twelve, and I’ve always thought of Velma and the gang as pretty much adults, so it doesn’t seem fair. Velma meets Janet Lawrence, a scientist working for ETIS (I guess they didn’t want to use SETI) who was monitoring the Alien egg at the start. She’s Velma’s hero. As they’re talking, there’s some panic and they spot an alien…