Editing Scooby-Doo (section)

== ABC years (1976–91) ==

=== ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' and ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' ===
Now president of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], Fred Silverman made a deal with Hanna-Barbera to bring new episodes of ''Scooby-Doo'' to the ABC Saturday-morning lineup, where the show went through almost yearly lineup changes. For their 1976–77 season, 16 new episodes of Scooby-Doo were joined with a new Hanna-Barbera show, ''[[Dynomutt, Dog Wonder]]'', to create ''[[The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour]]'' (the show became ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' when a bonus ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' rerun was added to the package in November 1976). Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, now working for Silverman as supervisors of the ABC Saturday-morning programs, returned the program to its original ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' format, with the addition of Scooby's dim-witted country cousin [[Scooby-Dum]], voiced by [[Daws Butler]], as a recurring character.<ref name="STUEP1" /> The voice cast was held over from ''The New Scooby-Doo Movies'' save for Nicole Jaffe, who retired from acting in 1973. [[Pat Stevens]] took over her role as the voice of Velma.

Then Joe Ruby and Ken Spears left again to start their own studio in 1977 as competition for Hanna-Barbera.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqDi77RnNAQ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HqDi77RnNAQ |archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live |title=Ruby & Spears: WonderCon 2012 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> They would remain away for the rest of the 1980s.

For the 1977–78 season, ''The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show'' became the two-hour programming block ''[[Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics]]'' (1977–78) with the addition of ''[[Laff-a-Lympics]]'' and ''[[Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels]]''. In addition to eight new episodes of ''Scooby-Doo'' and reruns of the 1969 show, Scooby-Doo also appeared during the ''All-Star'' block's ''Laff-a-Lympics'' series, which featured 45 Hanna-Barbera characters competing in ''[[Battle of the Network Stars]]''-esque parodies of [[Summer Olympic Games|Olympic]] sporting events. Scooby was seen as the team captain of the ''Laff-a-Lympics'' "Scooby-Doobies" team, which also featured Shaggy and Scooby-Dum among its members.

''Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics'' was retitled ''Scooby's All Stars'' for the 1978–79 season, reduced to 90 minutes when ''Dynomutt'' was spun off into its own half-hour and the 1969 reruns were dropped. ''Scooby's All-Stars'' continued broadcasting reruns of ''Scooby-Doo'' from 1976 and 1977, while new episodes of ''Scooby-Doo'' aired during a separate half-hour under the ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' banner. After nine weeks, the separate ''Where Are You!'' broadcast was cancelled, and the remainder of the 16 new 1978 episodes debuted during the ''Scooby's All-Stars'' block.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenberg |first1=Jeff |year=2006 |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |location=New York |publisher=Facts of File |isbn=0-8160-6599-3 |pages=618–619}}</ref> The 40 total ''Scooby-Doo'' episodes produced from 1976 to 1978 were later packaged together for [[broadcast syndication|syndication]] as ''[[The Scooby-Doo Show]]'', under which title they continue to air.

=== ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' ===
The ''Scooby-Doo'' characters first appeared outside of their regular Saturday-morning format in ''[[Scooby Goes Hollywood]]'', an hour-long ABC [[television special]] aired in [[prime time]] on December 13, 1979. The special revolved around Shaggy and Scooby attempting to convince the network to move Scooby out of Saturday morning and into a prime-time series, and featured spoofs of then-current television series and films such as ''[[Happy Days]]'', ''[[Superman (1978 film)|Superman: The Movie]]'', ''[[Laverne & Shirley]]'' and ''[[Charlie's Angels]]''.

In 1979, Scooby's tiny nephew [[Scrappy-Doo]] was added to both the series and the billing, in an attempt to boost ''Scooby-Doo''{{'}}s slipping [[Nielsen ratings|ratings]].<ref name="ScrappyDays" /> The 1979–80 episodes, aired under the new title ''[[Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979 TV series)|Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo]]'' as an independent half-hour show, succeeded in regenerating interest in the show. [[Lennie Weinrib]] voiced Scrappy in the 1979–80 episodes, with Don Messick assuming the role thereafter.<ref name="ScrappyDays">{{cite web |url=http://www.newsfromme.com/writings/scrappy-days/ |title=Scrappy Days: The Birth of Scrappy-Doo and What I Had to Do with It |first1=Mark |last1=Evanier |author-link=Mark Evanier |publisher=Newsfromme.com |access-date=September 2, 2013 |archive-date=October 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111021123024/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2007_03_16.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Marla Frumkin replaced Pat Stevens as the voice of Velma mid-season.

=== ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' shorts ===
As a result of ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo''{{'s}} success, the entire show was overhauled in 1980 to focus more upon Scrappy-Doo. At this time, Scooby-Doo started to walk and run anthropomorphically on two feet more often, rather than on four like a normal dog as he did previously. Fred, Daphne, and Velma were dropped from the series, and the [[Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980 TV series)|new ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' format]] now consisted of three seven-minute comedic adventures starring Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy instead of one half-hour mystery. Most of the supernatural villains in the seven-minute ''Scooby and Scrappy'' cartoons, who in previous ''Scooby'' series had been revealed to be human criminals in [[costume]], were now real within the context of the series.

This version of ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' first aired from 1980 to 1982 as part of ''[[The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show]]'', an hour-long program also featuring episodes of Hanna-Barbera's new ''[[Richie Rich (1980 TV series)|Richie Rich]]'' cartoon, adapted from the [[Harvey Comics]] character. From 1982 to 1983, ''Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo'' were part of ''[[The Scooby-Doo/Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour]]'', a co-production with [[Ruby-Spears Productions]] which featured two ''Scooby and Scrappy'' shorts, a ''Scrappy and Yabba-Doo'' short featuring Scrappy-Doo and his [[Western (genre)|Western]] deputy uncle Yabba-Doo, and ''[[The Puppy's New Adventures]]'', based on characters from a 1977 Ruby-Spears TV special. Despite the popularity, this was negatively hated by fans for how it dropped the mystery format and other main characters like Fred, Daphne, and Velma.

Beginning in 1980, a half-hour of reruns from previous incarnations of ''Scooby-Doo'' were broadcast on ABC Saturday mornings in addition to first-run episodes. Airing under the titles ''Scooby-Doo Classics'', ''[[Scary Scooby Funnies]]'', ''The Best of Scooby-Doo'', and ''[[Scooby's Mystery Funhouse]]'', the rerun package remained on the air until the end of the 1986 season.<ref name="McNeil3">{{cite book |last1=McNeil |first1=Alex |year=1996 |title=Total Television |edition=4th |page=732 |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-024916-8}}</ref>

=== ''The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show'' ===
''Scooby-Doo'' was restored to a standalone half-hour in 1983 with ''[[The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show]]'' in 1983, which comprised two 11-minute mysteries per episode in a format reminiscent of the original ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' mysteries. Heather North returned to the voice cast as Daphne, who in this incarnation solved mysteries with Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy while working undercover as a reporter for a teen magazine.

This version of the show lasted for two seasons, with the second season airing under the title ''The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries''. The 1984–85 season episodes featured semi-regular appearances from Fred and Velma, with Frank Welker and Marla Frumkin resuming their respective roles for these episodes.

=== ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' ===
1985 saw the debut of ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo]]'', which featured Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby, Scrappy, and new characters Flim-Flam (voiced by [[Susan Blu]])<ref name="TRueggerInterview" /> and Vincent Van Ghoul (based upon and voiced by [[Vincent Price]]) traveling the globe to capture "thirteen of the most terrifying ghosts upon the face of the earth." The final first-run episode of ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' aired in December 1985, and after its reruns were removed from the ABC lineup the following March, no new ''Scooby'' series aired on the network for the next two years.

=== ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' ===
In 1988, after ABC's initiative to shift its Saturday morning block toward preschoolers had spectacularly failed (in part, ABC alleged, due to the introduction of [[People meter|people meters]] that preschoolers were too young to operate), ABC launched an initiative to revive classic properties that older children and parents of younger children would recognize.<ref name="Honey">{{cite news |last=Winfrey |first=Lee |date=September 16, 1988 |title=ABC hoping Pooh can pull more than honey out a jar |url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1876&dat=19880916&id=CqgeAAAAIBAJ&pg=6729,251354 |work=[[Spartanburg Herald-Journal]] |publisher=[[Knight Ridder]] |page=A9 |via=Google News Archive}}</ref> Hanna-Barbera reincarnated the original ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' cast as [[elementary school]] students (a common trope in 1980s children's TV) for a new series titled ''[[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]]'', which debuted on ABC in 1988. ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' was an irreverent re-imagining of the series, heavily inspired by the classic cartoons of [[Tex Avery]] and [[Bob Clampett]], and eschewed the realistic aesthetic of the original ''Scooby'' series for a more ''[[Looney Tunes]]''-like style, including an episode where Scooby-Doo's parents show up and reveal his real name to be "Scoobert". At the same time, the series returned to its original formula in that the group unmasked human villains in costume, as opposed to the supernatural monsters of the early to mid-1980s. The series also established "Coolsville" as the name of the gang's hometown; this setting was retained for several of the later ''Scooby'' productions. The retooled show was a success, remaining in production for four seasons and on ABC's lineup until 1991.

''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'' was developed and produced by [[Tom Ruegger]], who had been the head [[story editor]] on ''Scooby-Doo'' since 1983. Following the first season of ''A Pup Named Scooby-Doo'', Ruegger and much of his unit defected from Hanna-Barbera to [[Warner Bros. Animation]] to develop ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures|Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' and later ''[[Animaniacs]]'', ''[[Pinky and the Brain]]'', and ''[[Freakazoid!]]''.<ref name="TRueggerInterview">{{cite web |url=http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/ruegger2.html |title=Tom Ruegger is back! |publisher=Platypuscomix.net |access-date=May 15, 2011 |archive-date=May 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509134010/http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/ruegger2.html |url-status=live}}</ref>