The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
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| The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo | |
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 Title card from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo |
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| Genre | Horror Adventure Comedy |
| Format | Animated series |
| Created by | Joe Ruby (characters) Ken Spears (characters) Tom Ruegger |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson (supervising) Oscar Dufau Arthur Davis Alan Zaslove |
| Voices of | Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Vincent Price Susan Blu Howard Morris Arte Johnson |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 (List of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 20 Minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | July 9, 1985 – December 7, 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show/The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–1984) |
| Followed by | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991) |
| Related shows | Scooby-Doo |
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is the seventh incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, and the final first-run version of the original 1969-86 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;another repackaged series, Scooby's Mystery Funhouse, followed. Reruns of the series can be found on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang.
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[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 by two bumbling ghosts named Bogel and Weerd into opening the Chest of Demons, which houses thirteen of the most terrifying and powerful ghosts and demons ever to walk the face of the Earth. The ghosts can only be returned to the chest by those who originally set them free.
Thus, Scooby and Shaggy, accompanied by Daphne, Scrappy-Doo, and a juvenile Tibetan con artist named Flim-Flam, embark on a worldwide quest to recapture them before they wreak irreversible havoc upon the world. Assisting them is Flim-Flam's friend, a warlock named Vincent Van Ghoul (based upon and voiced by Vincent Price), who contacts the gang using his crystal ball and often employs magic and witchcraft to assist them. The thirteen escaped ghosts, meanwhile, each attempt to do away with the gang lest they be returned to the chest, often employing Bogle and Weerd as lackeys.
[edit] Production
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo differed greatly from most previous incarnations of the series, in that it pitted the Scooby-Doo characters against actual supernatural forces. Story editor and associate producer Tom Ruegger led the overhaul of the property, and the irreverent. fourth wall breaking humor found in each episode would resurface in his later works, among them A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Animaniacs. [1] Of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Ruegger recalls not being fond of the Flim-Flam character ("Definitely the product of network focus groups")[1] or the other added characters in the cast. [1] As with most of the other early-1980s Scooby-Doo entries, original characters Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley do not appear.
13 Ghosts was canceled and replaced by reruns of Laff-a-Lympics in March 1986, before the end of the season. It became the final Scooby series to feature Scrappy-Doo, as it was decided by Ruegger and ABC that they would overhaul the series entirely, developing A Pup Named Scooby-Doo in 1988. [1]
[edit] Episodes
[edit] Cast
- Susan Blu - Flim Flam
- Arte Johnson - Weerd
- Casey Kasem - Norville "Shaggy" Rogers
- Don Messick - Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo
- Howard Morris - Bogel, Platypus Duck
- Heather North Kenney - Daphne Blake
- Vincent Price - Vincent Van Ghoul
[edit] Additional voices
- Bob Arbogast - Announcer voices from pilot episode.
- Hamilton Camp - Ghoulio, Rankor
- Gay Autterson - Marcella, Wanda Brewski
- Victoria Carroll -
- Peter Cullen - Maldor the Malevolent, Demondo, Zimbulu, Reflector Specter
- Marshall Efron -
- Richard Erdman - Travel Agent
- Bernard Erhard -
- Linda Gary - Queen Morbidia, Nicara
- Joan Gerber - Ernestine Brewski
- Phil Hartman -
- Bob Holt -
- Marilyn Lightstone -
- Kenneth Mars -
- Edie McClurg -
- Bob McFadden-Zagras the Wizard
- Sidney Miller -
- Alan Oppenheimer - Professor Phantasmo
- Robert Ridgely - Captain Ferguson, Time Slime
- Michael Rye -
- John Stephenson - Boris Kreepoff Freddie Cadaver
- Russi Taylor - Hilda Brewski
- Les Tremayne -
- B.J. Ward -
- Frank Welker - Egad, dragon roars
[edit] DVD release
On June 29, 2010, Warner Home Video released The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.[2]
| DVD Name | No. of Episodes | Release Date |
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| The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series | 13 | June 29, 2010 |
[edit] See also
- Scooby-Doo Series
- Scooby-Doo (character)
- List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
- List of Hanna-Barbera characters
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d "Tom Ruegger is back!". Platypuscomix.net. http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/ruegger2.html. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
- ^ "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo DVD news: Announcement for The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo - The Complete Series". TVShowsOnDVD.com. http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/13-Ghosts-ScoobyDoo-The-Complete-Series/13502. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
[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
- The Big Cartoon Database – The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
- The Cartoon Scrapbook – Profile on The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
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