Season 1 For this incarnation of the show, Hanna-Barbera attempted to combine elements of both the original mystery-solving format and the newer
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo comedy shorts format.
Daphne Blake was also added back to the cast after a three-year absence. The plots of each episode feature her,
Shaggy Rogers,
Scooby-Doo, and
Scrappy-Doo solving supernatural mysteries under the cover of being reporters for a teen magazine. Each half-hour program was made up of two 11-minute episodes, which would upon occasion be two parts of one half-hour-long episode.
Season 2 The second season of this format, broadcast as
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries in 1984, continued the same format, and included six two-part episodes featuring original
Scooby-Doo characters
Fred Jones and/or
Velma Dinkley, both absent from the series for five years. Fred's last name is given as "Rogers" initially in his return appearance to the series in the episode "Happy Birthday, Scooby-Doo," although later in the same episode it is corrected as "Jones". Rogers had been established as Shaggy's surname the previous season.
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries theme song is performed in the style of
Thriller-era
Michael Jackson. The accompanying opening credits feature shots of a row of monsters (consisting of a Sea Demon from "Scoo-Be or Not Scoo-Be?", Count Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Igor, and the Wolfman from "A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle", and a
Gorgon that didn't appear in any of the episodes) dancing like the zombies in Jackson's "
Thriller" music video. == Episodes ==