Scooby-Doo four like a normal dog as he did previously. Fred, Daphne, and Velma were dropped from the series, and the new "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" format now consisted of three seven-minute comedic adventures starring Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy instead of one half-hour mystery. Most of the supernatural villains in the seven-minute "Scooby and Scrappy" cartoons, who in previous "Scooby" series had been revealed to be human criminals in costume, were now real within the context of the series. This version of "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" first aired from 1980 to 1982 as part of "The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show", an hour-long program also
Scooby-Doo of Kids' WB on The WB Network and its successor, The CW Network, from 2002 until 2008. "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated" aired on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2013, and "Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!" aired on Cartoon Network from 2015 to 2018. Repeats of the various "Scooby-Doo" series are broadcast frequently on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang in the United States as well as other countries. In 2013, "TV Guide" ranked "Scooby-Doo" the fifth greatest TV cartoon. In 1968, parent-run organizations, particularly Action for Children's Television (ACT), began protesting what they perceived as excessive violence in Saturday-morning cartoons. Most of these shows