The New Scooby Doo Mysteries was the sixth incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered in 1984 on ABC as the second season of the show, whereas the first version was known as "The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show" which premiered in 1983. Thirteen half-hour episodes, composed of twenty-six 11-minute episodes (six of which were double-part episodes) were produced under the The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries name in 1984. The second season of this format, broadcast as The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries in 1984, continued the same format as the first season, combining elements of both the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" format and the newer "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" format. Daphne Blake was added back to the cast after a four-year absence. The plots of each episode feature her, Shaggy Rogers, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo solved supernatural mysteries under the cover of being reporters for a teen magazine. Each half-hour program was made up of two 11-minute episodes, which would upon occasion be two parts of one half-hour long episode. As an added bonus, six two-part episodes featured Fred and Velma, both absent from the series for five years. Also notable is the opening sequence: the theme song (which can be heard here in MP3 format) is sung in the style of Michael Jackson, and a row of monsters dance like the zombies in Thriller. The two-part episode "A Nutcracker Scoob" was included in the DVD Scooby-Doo: Winter Wonderdog. As of this writing, no DVD box sets of this series have been released.