Scrappy-Doo 1979 had begun to sink to the point of cancellation threats from ABC, who were considering between choosing between Scooby-Doo and an unnamed pilot From Ruby-Spears Enterprises, whose pilot Evanier had also written. He successfully boosted the show's ratings and kept the show alive. Scrappy has a contradicted origin. Originally as shown in the introduction of the series, Scrappy only met his Uncle Scooby as a puppy. However, the December 1980 episode of "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" ("Scrappy's Birthday") depicts Scrappy-Doo's birth with both Scooby and Shaggy in attendance. Born at St. Bernard's Hospital to Scooby-Doo's sister Ruby-Doo on December 20,
The New Scooby-Doo Movies "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" aired on CBS for the next two years. No new "Scooby-Doo" cartoons would be produced until the show defected to ABC in September 1976 on the highly publicized "The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour". When the various "Scooby-Doo" series entered syndication in 1980, each "New Movies" episode was halved and run as two half-hour parts. The USA Network "Cartoon Express" began running the "New Movies" in their original format beginning in September 1990; they were rerun on Sunday mornings until August 1992. In 1994, "The New Scooby-Doo Movies" began appearing on three Turner Broadcasting networks: TNT, Cartoon Network and