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 2002, Jamie Malanowski of the "New York Times" commented that "["Scooby-Doo"s] mysteries are not very mysterious, and the humor is hardly humorous. As for the animation—well, the drawings on your refrigerator may give it competition." By the 2000s, "Scooby-Doo" had received recognition for its popularity by placing in a number of top cartoon or top cartoon character polls. The August 3, 2002, issue of "TV Guide" featured its list of the 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time, in which Scooby-Doo placed twenty-second. Scooby also ranked thirteenth in Animal Planet's list of the 50 Greatest TV Animals. For one year