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 (character) would be renamed "Scooby-Doo" by Fred Silverman, CBS's head of daytime programming, between its unsuccessful first pitch and a second pitch which earned the show a green light. Silverman came up with the name from the syllables "doo-be-doo-be-doo" in Frank Sinatra's hit song "Strangers in the Night". Taking notes from a Hanna-Barbera colleague who was also a breeder of Great Danes, Production designer Iwao Takamoto designed the Scooby-Doo character with a sloping chin, spots, a long tail, a sloped back, and bow legs – all traits in direct opposition to those of a prize-winning purebred Great Dane. In defining the