The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show four-year absence. The plots of each episode feature her, Shaggy Rogers, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo solving 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 included six two-part episodes featuring original "Scooby-Doo" characters Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley, both absent from the series for five years. Fred's last name is given as "Rogers" initially in his return appearance
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! form, to a high-tech transforming vehicle. However, it usually transforms into machines inappropriate for the tasks at hand (however, in episode 11, it does transform into vehicles appropriate to finish the Polar Bear 3000). In their spare time, Shaggy and Scooby are fans of the show "Chefs of Steel", and the famous mystery solver Chad Chaddington. This is the first Scooby-Doo animated series since 1991 to make extensive use of the Castle Thunder sound effect, which Hanna-Barbera began to stop using around 1994, and was very rarely used on "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" and on none of the post-2003 direct-to-video Scooby-Doo