1982 11:00 on ABC: The Scooby & Scrappy Puppy Hour

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

In 1982 at 11am on ABC was a little slice of cult legend, misdirected ambition and same-old same-old in the form of the hour-long Scooby & Scrappy Puppy Hour. This show was the first (and I think only?) collaboration between the Saturday Morning Juggernauts, Ruby-Spears and Hanna-Barbera. The first half-hour of the show consisted of three 7-minute shorts, a mix of "Scooby and Scrappy-Doo" (the version where Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy travel across the country as the "Fearless Detective Agency" and get involved in typical spy or criminal cases) and "Scrappy and Yabba-Doo" (Scrappy-Doo's adventures with his uncle Yabba-Doo and Deputy Dusty in the wild west), followed by a full 30-minute episode of "The Puppy's New Adventures" in the second half-hour. The Scooby/Scrappy-related shorts were written and voiced at Hanna-Barbera Productions, but animated and edited by Ruby-Spears Enterprises.

(Also aired at 10:00 starting in the Spring of 1983)

Comments

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Er... wow. I blocked this one out entirely. After the appearance of Scrappy, I think I blocked out ol' Scoob until The Thirteen Ghosts of Scooby Doo.

I was still watching The New Scooby Doo Movies et al. faithfully on syndicated local after school, tho.

-TG

[demonicgerbil.livejournal.com]

I remember this intro perfectly, like burned into my memory. Either this exact block went into syndication or it's permanently imprinted on my 2 year old brain from 1983.