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 Aired: 1983 - 1984
Show Type: Animated
Country of Origin: US
Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (also known as simply The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show) was the sixth incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 10, 1983 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program made up of two eleven-minute short cartoons. In 1984, the name of the show was changed to The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, with the actual show format remaining the same. The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries ran for another season on ABC.
Thirteen half-hour episodes, composed of twenty-six 11-minute episodes (two of which were double-part episodes) were produced under the New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo title in 1983., and thirteen more 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.
For this incarnation of the show, Hanna-Barbera attempted to combine the most successful elements of both the original Scooby-Doo, Where are You! format and the newer Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo format. Daphne was added back to the cast after a four-year absence, and she, Shaggy, 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.
The second season of this format, broadcast as The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries in 1984, continued the same format, and, as an added bonus, included six two-part episodes featuring 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.
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