The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour is a 60-minute Saturday morning animated package show co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Ruby-Spears Enterprises and broadcast on ABC from September 25, 1982 to December 18, 1982. The show contained segments of "Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo" (Hanna-Barbera), "Scrappy & Yabba-Doo" (Hanna-Barbera) and "The Puppy's New Adventures" (Ruby-Spears). The first half-hour consisted of a 7-minute "Scrappy & Yabba-Doo" episode placed between two 7-minute "Scooby-Doo & Scrappy-Doo" episodes followed by a 30-minute episode of "The Puppy's New Adventures" in the second half-hour. The Scooby/Scrappy-related shorts were written, storyboarded and voiced at Hanna-Barbera, but
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