The ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' shorts represents the fifth incarnation of the
Hanna-Barbera
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Saturday morning cartoon
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''
Scooby-Doo
''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animation, animated media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative List of Scooby-Doo media, media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the orig ...
'' series.
The original format of four teenagers and their dog(s) solving faux-supernatural mysteries for a half-hour was eschewed for simpler, more comedic adventures that involved real supernatural villains (the villains in previous ''Scooby'' episodes were almost always regular humans in disguise).
A total of 33 half-hour episodes, each of which included three 7-minute shorts, were produced over three seasons, from 1980 to 1982 on
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** Disney–ABC Television ...
. Thirteen episodes were produced for the 1980–81 season, and seven more for the 1981–82 as segments of ''
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show
''The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (And Scrappy Too!)'' is a 60-minute Saturday morning animated package show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on ABC from November 8, 1980, to November 7, 1981. The program contained segments of ...
''. The remaining thirteen episodes were produced as segments of ''
The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
''The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour'' is a 60-minute Saturday morning animated package show co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Ruby-Spears Enterprises and broadcast on ABC from September 25, 1982 to December 18, 1982. The show contain ...
'' for the 1982–83 season. Out of the 99 shorts that were produced, 86 of them feature
Scooby-Doo
''Scooby-Doo'' is an American animation, animated media franchise based on an animated television series launched in 1969 and continued through several derivative List of Scooby-Doo media, media. Writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created the orig ...
, his nephew
Scrappy-Doo and
Shaggy
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without the rest of the Mystery Inc gang, and the other 13 only feature Scrappy-Doo and Yabba-Doo.
Cast
*
Don Messick
Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor. He was best known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
His best-remembered vocal creations include Scooby-Doo, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in ...
– Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, Yabba-Doo (1982)
*
Casey Kasem
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– Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
*
Frank Welker
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– Deputy Dusty (1982)
Episodes
The following guide only includes 30 minute ''Scooby-Doo'' segments from each show. It does not include other series from the original broadcast package shows.
Season 1 (''The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show'') (1980-81)
The following ran from 1980–1981, as segments on ''The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show''. That show, and the rest of the new 1980 ABC Saturday morning lineup, did not debut until November 8 (instead of the traditional first or second week of September) because of a
voice actors
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' strike.
Season 2 (''The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show'') (1981)
The following ran in 1981, as segments on ''The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show''.
Following the final first-run episode on October 31, reruns from the first seasons were rerun alongside episodes from the second season.
Season 3 (''The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour'') (1982)
The following ran in 1982, as segments of ''The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour''. All segments were written and storyboarded at Hanna-Barbera, but were produced and animated by then-sister company
Ruby-Spears Enterprises.
Note: The third episode for each air date listed is the ''Scrappy and Yabba-Doo'' episode from that date.
Home media
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(via
Hanna-Barbera
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and
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
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) released ''The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show: Volume 1'' on
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in
Region 1 on May 20, 2008.
All three seasons are available for download from the
iTunes
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store.
References
External links
Official Scooby-Doo website
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Scooby-Doo television series
1980s American animated television series
Television series by Hanna-Barbera
1980 American television series debuts
1982 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
American children's animated horror television series
American children's animated mystery television series
American animated television spin-offs
Animated television series about teenagers
English-language television shows
Television series created by Joe Ruby
Television series created by Ken Spears