The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show the "New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo" title in 1983, and thirteen more episodes, composed of twenty separate segments were produced under the name "The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries" in 1984. At the time, Margaret Loesch, who served as supervising executive for the series, also worked for another animation production company Marvel Productions. For this incarnation of the show, Hanna-Barbera attempted to combine the most successful elements of both the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" format and the newer "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo" format. Daphne Blake, a character from the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" format, was added back to the cast after a
Scooby-Doo Animation and Hanna-Barbera (by then a subsidiary of Warner Bros. following the merger of Time Warner and Turner Entertainment in 1996) began producing one new "Scooby-Doo" direct-to-video movie a year beginning in 1998. These movies featured a slightly older version of the original five-character cast from the "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" days. The first four DTV entries were "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" (1998), "Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost" (1999), "Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders" (2000), and "Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase" (2001). Frank Welker was the only original voice cast member to return for these productions. Don Messick had died