The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
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| The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo | |
| Format | Animated Series Mystery Comedy |
|---|---|
| Created by | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Starring | Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Kenney Vincent Price Susan Blu Howard Morris Arte Johnson |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 20 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 7, 1985 – December 7, 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show/The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–1985) |
| Followed by | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991) |
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is the seventh incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. The final first-run version of the original 1969 - 1986 broadcast run of the series, it premiered on September 7, 1985 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. Thirteen episodes of the show were made in 1985. It replaced Scary Scooby Funnies (a repackaging of earlier shows, and another repackaged series, Scooby's Mystery Funhouse, followed.)
Contents |
[edit] Voices
- Don Messick... Scooby Doo/Scrappy-Doo
- Casey Kasem... Shaggy
- Heather North... Daphne
- Susan Blu.. Flim Flam
- Vincent Price... Vincent Van Ghoul
- Howard Morris... Bogel
- Arte Johnson... Weerd
[edit] History
[edit] Contemporary feel
13 Ghosts attempted to give the show a more contemporary feel. It was also produced to capitalize on the success of the 1984 film Ghostbusters[citation needed]. Daphne and Shaggy were given redesigns to fit them into the mid-1980s style. They, along with Scooby and Scrappy, were joined in this season by a young Mexicano con-artist called Flim-Flam, and a warlock mentor, Vincent Van Ghoul, a parody of Vincent Price, who voiced the character as well. Fred and Velma were completely absent from the series, as they had been, save for a few episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, since 1980. Unlike previous Scooby series where the ghosts were criminals in costumes, in this incarnation the ghosts are depicted as being real, thus also attempting to give this series a much darker tone while still keeping much of the lighthearted humor.
[edit] Plot
In the initial episode the gang are thrown off course on a trip to Honolulu in Daphne's plane landing instead in Tibet. While inside a temple, Scooby and Shaggy are tricked into opening the Chest of Demons which houses the thirteen ghosts and demons. The plot of this series was an ongoing one, which chronicled the gang's attempts to recapture the thirteen most terrifying ghosts and monsters that were imprisoned inside the chest. The show featured a lot of self-parody, pop culture references, and fourth-wall-breaking gags, typical of Looney Tunes shorts. This was the influence of associate producer Tom Ruegger, who would later go on to produce A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Animaniacs.
[edit] Notable lasts
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was the last series for which Heather North Kenney voiced Daphne. The series also marked the final Saturday morning Scooby series to feature Scrappy-Doo, and was the only Scooby series that had a pre-adolescent child (Flim Flam) become part of the Mystery, Inc. gang. The show was canceled by ABC in March 1986 and replaced with re-runs of Laff-a-Lympics. No new Scooby series was there to take its place that September, the first time in a decade-and-a-half that Scooby-Doo did not air on Saturday morning until A Pup Named Scooby Doo in 1988.
[edit] Episode list
| # | Episode title | Ghost | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before" | Ghosts released from chest | September 7, 1985 |
| 1.2 | "Scoobra Kadoobra" | Maldor the Malevolent | September 14, 1985 |
| 1.3 | "Me and My Shadow Demon" | Queen Morbidia | September 21, 1985 |
| 1.4 | "Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye" | Mirror Demon | September 28, 1985 |
| 1.5 | "That's Monstertainment" | Zomba | October 5, 1985 |
| 1.6 | "Ship of Ghouls" | Ghosts already in chest escape | October 12, 1985 |
| 1.7 | "A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You" | Nicara | October 19, 1985 |
| 1.8 | "When You Witch Upon a Star" | Marcella | October 26, 1985 |
| 1.9 | "It's a Wonderful Scoob" | Time Slime | November 2, 1985 |
| 1.10 | "Scooby in Kwackyland" | Demondo | November 9, 1985 |
| 1.11 | "Coast to Ghost" | Rankor | November 16, 1985 |
| 1.12 | "The Ghouliest Show on Earth" | Professor Phantasmo | November 23, 1985 |
| 1.13 | "Horror-Scope Scoob" | Zimbulu | December 7, 1985 |
[edit] External links
- Official Scooby-Doo Website
- The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo at the Internet Movie Database
- The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo at TV.com
