In 1980, Filmation produced a series of lower-budget Droopy shorts for television as part of its "Tom and Jerry" TV series "The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show". In the 1990s Hanna-Barbera series "Tom & Jerry Kids", Droopy had a young son named Dripple (voiced by Charlie Adler), an older version of the infant we see in "Homesteader Droopy". The mild success of the show provided perhaps the most Droopy merchandise: plush toys, gummy snacks, figurines, etc. In 1993, "Tom & Jerry Kids" had a spin-off series, "Droopy, Master Detective", which cast Droopy and son as film noir style detectives. Droopy also had cameos in two theatrical features: as an elevator operator in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (where he was voiced by the film's animation director Richard Williams), and in '. Droopy also had cameos in all three subsequent Disney-produced Roger Rabbit shorts, "Tummy Trouble" (again he's an elevator operator), "Roller Coaster Rabbit" (he plays a bad guy dressed as Snidely Whiplash), and "Trail Mix-Up" (he plays a scuba diver). Droopy also appears in the 2006 cartoon series "Tom and Jerry Tales", and has appeared in almost every "Tom and Jerry" direct-to-video movie, beginning with '.