justin-fencsak Review of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979–1983)

40 years ago this season this show put Scooby Doo down the toilet...

[7/10 · 15 April 2020]

In the fall of 1969, Scooby Doo Where Are You became a surprise hit for CBS' rising saturday morning cartoon lineup, which dominated the ratings and then some until ABC scooped up the rights for the show after The Scooby Doo Movies was cancelled in the spring of 1974 after a two year run on CBS. The Scooby Doo and Dynomutt Hour, which would become two separate shows in the third season and shown in syndication in the early 1980s as the Dynomutt Dog Wonder and The Scooby Doo Show series, was a hit for ABC as well as the All Star Laff a Lympics cartoon which was inspired by the popularity of the games on tv. In the fall of 1979, Hanna Barbera introduced a new character named Scrappy Doo, Scooby's son, and during the first season, ratings were huge. Before that, Scooby Doo's first movie, Scooby Goes to Hollywood, did ok. After the good first season, the next two went downhill, so Hanna Barbera put Scooby Doo along with Richie Rich for an hour of fun and then put Scooby Doo with the Puppy's Adventures, which originated from Ruby Spears as a special on TV before Taft bought Ruby Spears so that they could work with Hanna Barbera on the special. A new character, Yabba Doo, was introduced, but that didn't help as the popularity of The Smurfs made NBC huge ratings, and by then it was canceled, forcing Hanna Barbera to rerun segments featuring Scrappy and company while creating new shows without scrappy that didn't do well, The New Scooby Doo show, the Scooby Doo Mysteries, and the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo, followed two years later by a Pup Names Scooby Doo and a cartoon network tv show series.