Editing Scooby-Doo (section)

=== ''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.