The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show 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 "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" and "Richie Rich". The "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" shorts represents the sixth show in which Scooby-Doo appears. This was the only Hanna-Barbera package series for which "Scooby-Doo" was given second billing and also notable for Richie Rich's debut in animation. With the exception of the "Richie Rich Gems", each episode featured three Scooby-Doo segments and three Richie Rich segments between them.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program that would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled "Mysteries Five", and later "Who's S-S-Scared?", "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" underwent a number of changes from script to screen (the most significant being the downplaying of the musical group angle borrowed from "The Archie Show"). However, the basic concept—four teenagers (Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a cowardly, clumsy Great Dane (Scooby-Doo) solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place. "Scooby-Doo" creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series.