Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School
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| Written by | Glenn Leopold |
| Directed by | Charles A. Nichols |
| Starring | Don Messick Casey Kasem Russi Taylor Susan Blu Remy Auberjonois Scott Menville Ruta Lee Aaron Lohr Patty Maloney Pat Musick Bumper Robinson Zale Kessler Glynis Johns Ronnie Schell Andre Stojka Marilyn Schreffler Jeff Cohen Frank Welker |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Bob Hatcock Berny Wolf |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Syndication |
| Original airing | July 16, 1988 |
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School is a 1988 TV-movie produced for syndication by Hanna-Barbera as part of the Superstars 10 film package.
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[edit] Plot
Scooby Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls. The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Count Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankenteen Senior, Winnie, the daughter of a werewolf; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short), the daughter of a phantom; and Tanis (which is a parody of an Egyptian city), the daughter of a mummy. Other residents of the school are Miss Grimwood, the headmistress, a floating white hand; an octopus, who is the school's butler, Legs, a spider that helps with the upcoming volleyball match, and her pet dragon Matches (who dislikes Scooby at first, but later becomes friends, and has a strong liking for Scrappy). Gym class soon starts, with the intent to train the girls for their upcoming volleyball match against the boys of the neighboring Calloway Military Academy (who have always beaten them through cheating).
However, thanks to a device that the boys put in the volleyball allowing the boys to win, they lose the remote that Scooby accidentally swallows and it allows the girls to win. The girls' fathers come for Open House, but as they leave, they warn Shaggy and Scooby not to let any harm come to their daughters. As an additional plot twist, Revolta, the self-styled Witch of the Web, and her minion, the Grim Creeper, plan to kidnap the girls and make them her slaves, with the help of her spider bats, they capture the girls and at midnight, she will make a potion that will make them evil forever. Scooby, Scrappy, Shaggy, and Matches, along with the Calloway cadets save the girls; and Revolta and the grim creeper seem to be destroyed. Despite being well liked by all their students, Shaggy and Scooby have enough of this and run away when monsters such as an alien, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Godzilla enroll their daughters at the school for the following year screaming "Like, meet us in St. Louis". As they leave, they see the girls and Matches wave them goodbye. Shaggy, Scooby, & Scrappy then give them a last werewolf howl before driving off.
[edit] Grimwood girls
A group of girls who are the offspring of famous monsters
- Miss Grimwood- The headmistress of the school. She is middle-aged, wears a red cape over a pink dress, a red headband, red shoes, and has short black hair. She has a pet dragon named Matches.
- Sibella- The daughter of Dracula, so naturally she is a vampire. She has green eyes, light purple skin, purple hair, red shoes, and a dark purple dress with a red belt. Sibella can also turn into a bat which she uses for important reasons such as rescuing or looking for people, or for simple things such as delivering a pizza. Surprisingly she is immune to sunlight and can go out during the day unlike her father. She is also shown to be the most strongly willed of the five ghoul-girls as she was the last to undergo Revolta's hypnosis spell and tried to fight back. She often uses words with puns such as "Fang-tastic" and "You bat" (you bet). Her allowance is paid in Transylvanian dollars. She is approximately 13 years old.
- Elsa Frankenteen- The daughter of Frankenstein's monster. Elsa has brown sandals that are like platform shoes and a green dress with a light green t-shirt underneath. She can endure electric shocks and her black hair is standing up above her head. She is the tallest and the strongest of the girls. She has a deep voice and is about 13 years old.
- Winnie - The daughter of a werewolf. Quite often Winnie would howl before making a statement. She wears a blue dress, a light blue bow-tie and has light brown fur and orange, curly hair. She is about 8 years old and talks the most out of all the girls.
- Phantasma- The daughter of a phantom, everyone calls her Phanty for short. She would very often laugh with a shrill, high voice. She is shown to be the most talented in music playing the organ. She has short white hair with a blue streak and pale blue skin. She wears a blue dress and white boots. Being intangible, she can float through walls and doors. She has a good sense of humour and loves music. Phantasma is about 11 or 12 years old.
- Tanis - The daughter of a mummy. The smallest and youngest of the girls. She has blue eyes and a bandage ponytail hanging out the back of her head with a dark pink bow attached to her head. She is about 4-5 years old, this means she is below grade school age.
- In the final scene of the film, The daughters of an alien, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Godzilla come to attend but Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy drive off before we get to know them.
[edit] Calloway cadets
A group of boys of Colonel Calloway's Military school. They often use the terms "affirmative" or "negative" when agreeing or disagreeing with particular happenings.
- Colonel Calloway- The head of Calloway military school. He's fair, but very stern.
- Tug Roper- The leader of the cadets. He often tries to maintain his dignity and even resorts to cheating during the volleyball game against the Grimwood Girls, but he and his team still lose. He does what he can to impress the colonel, but often disappoints him with his clumsiness.
- Miguel- The inventor of the group, most of the time his inventions are messed up by the others.
- Jamal Williams- The tallest and most skilled of the cadets, despite not being the leader, Col. Calloway seems to admire him more than Roper; he always answers to every positive sentence with "affirmative".
- Grunt- The biggest member of the cadets, despite being overweight, he is very athletic and very strong.
- Baxter- The smallest member of the group. He seems to be the most obedient of the cadets; following the colonel's every word and acknowledging him at almost every time.
[edit] Villains
Revolta- she is the witch of the web. She plans to make the students at the ghoul school part of her evil squad permanently. Her main magic is mind control via spider bats who put web-like hypnosis headphones on the victim and Revolta issues commands through that headphone which hypnotizes the victims. She is also a good potions maker and can brew potions that make others evil permanently. She is presumed destroyed at the film's conclusion.
Grim Creeper- Revolta's assistant. He looks like a green, overgrown potato with long vines for limbs and one eye in the middle of his head.
[edit] Cast
- Don Messick - Scooby, Scrappy
- Casey Kasem - Shaggy Rogers/ Mirror Monster Shaggy
- Rene Auberjonois - Baxter
- Susan Blu - Sibella
- Hamilton Camp - Phantom Father
- Jeff Cohen (actor) - Grunt/ Roger
- Glynis Johns - Ms. Grimwood
- Zale Kessler - Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster
- Ruta Lee - Revolta
- Aaron Lohr - Miguel
- Patty Maloney - Tanis
- Scott Menville - Tug Roper
- Pat Musick - Elsa Frankensteen
- Bumper Robinson - Jamal Williams
- Ronnie Schell - Col. Calloway
- Marilyn Schreffler - Winnie (This was Marilyn's last role, before her death)
- Andre Stojka - Grim Creeper, Mummy Daddy
- Russi Taylor - Phantasma
- Frank Welker - Matches The Dragon, Papa Werewolf, Well Dweller
[edit] DVD release
Warner Home Video released Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School on DVD in Region 1 on June 4, 2002.[1]
