Scrappy-Doo show around Scrappy in 1980. The original format of four teenagers and their dog(s) solving faux-supernatural mysteries for a half-hour was eschewed for simpler, more comedic adventures which involved real supernatural villains (the villains in previous "Scooby" episodes were almost always regular humans in disguise). Scrappy remained an integral part of the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, on both TV and in "Scooby"-related licensed products and merchandising, through the end of the 1980s. He was also briefly the star of his own seven-minute shorts — the "Scrappy & Yabba-Doo" segments of "The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour". Teamed with his uncle Yabba-Doo and Deputy
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