The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show the "New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo" title in 1983, and thirteen more episodes, composed of twenty separate segments were produced under the name "The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries" in 1984. At the time, Margaret Loesch, who served as supervising executive for the series, also worked for another animation production company Marvel Productions. For this incarnation of the show, Hanna-Barbera attempted to combine the most successful elements of both the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" format and the newer "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" format. Daphne Blake, a character from the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" format, was added back to the cast after a
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.