I really did not care much for ABC's Saturday morning programming in 1983. The network did this stupid little K I D's love their A B C's crap. Then there was Menudo in between the shows. Need I say more? There were crappy shows like the Monchichis and they made an out and out cartoon of the Rubik's Cube and worst of all The SuperFriends were removed from Saturdays that year despite having some new episodes made that wound up airing overseas. No wonder I channel surfed that year. I found stuff to watch on CBS and NBC as well.
So what's left? Scooby Doo. And at this point, we got not one, but two Scooby shows and this pattern would follow for the next several years.
The rerun show and the newer show. The rerun show was the Best of Scooby Doo and it featured the original gang solving their classic mysteries from 1969-1970 and a few from 1976.
The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show was something I initially looked forward to at that time because they were doing something new. Two episodes a week as opposed to three. And Scooby was back to solving mysteries and contending with ghosts and villains again. And just when I thought the whole gang would be back WRONG!! All the writers did was merely reintroduce Daphne. At this point, the gang had last names as well and Daphne Blake was now a reporter of some type of magazine and Shaggy Rogers and Scooby and Scrappy Doo were her three associates. Still no sign of Fred and Velma.
Interstingly enough, Daphne had never driven the Mystery Machine on any of the previous incarnations until now. Plus, she is no longer danger prone Daphne, but she is intelligent and takes the leadership role for the 4 of them. In splitting up, it's back to Shaggy and Scooby like the old days while Scrappy now tags along with Daphne. Now here's where my hatred of Scrappy Doo really takes off! Scrappy didn't bother me all that much until this series. Now, Hanna Barbera was trying to make Scrappy into more of a junior detective and Daphne's primary helper!! What's up with that?! And the villains line about those meddling kids meant nothing to me if all four of them were not in the picture. The only episode that sticks out in my mind from this series was the gang trying to find and capture a villain called the Chameleon whose hatred of Worcestshire Sauce, which no one could pronounce ended up being his downfall.
In the final outlook, the New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show wound up being a disappointment to me and a series I'd sooner forget along with it's previous incarnation in 1982 with Yabba Doo!! But hey!! Even this series is watchable compared to what was coming up 2 years later.
So what's left? Scooby Doo. And at this point, we got not one, but two Scooby shows and this pattern would follow for the next several years.
The rerun show and the newer show. The rerun show was the Best of Scooby Doo and it featured the original gang solving their classic mysteries from 1969-1970 and a few from 1976.
The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show was something I initially looked forward to at that time because they were doing something new. Two episodes a week as opposed to three. And Scooby was back to solving mysteries and contending with ghosts and villains again. And just when I thought the whole gang would be back WRONG!! All the writers did was merely reintroduce Daphne. At this point, the gang had last names as well and Daphne Blake was now a reporter of some type of magazine and Shaggy Rogers and Scooby and Scrappy Doo were her three associates. Still no sign of Fred and Velma.
Interstingly enough, Daphne had never driven the Mystery Machine on any of the previous incarnations until now. Plus, she is no longer danger prone Daphne, but she is intelligent and takes the leadership role for the 4 of them. In splitting up, it's back to Shaggy and Scooby like the old days while Scrappy now tags along with Daphne. Now here's where my hatred of Scrappy Doo really takes off! Scrappy didn't bother me all that much until this series. Now, Hanna Barbera was trying to make Scrappy into more of a junior detective and Daphne's primary helper!! What's up with that?! And the villains line about those meddling kids meant nothing to me if all four of them were not in the picture. The only episode that sticks out in my mind from this series was the gang trying to find and capture a villain called the Chameleon whose hatred of Worcestshire Sauce, which no one could pronounce ended up being his downfall.
In the final outlook, the New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show wound up being a disappointment to me and a series I'd sooner forget along with it's previous incarnation in 1982 with Yabba Doo!! But hey!! Even this series is watchable compared to what was coming up 2 years later.