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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
Title card from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
GenreHorror
Adventure
Comedy
Created byJoe Ruby (characters)
Ken Spears (characters)
Tom Ruegger
Directed byRay Patterson (supervising)
Oscar Dufau
Arthur Davis
Alan Zaslove
Voices ofDon Messick
Casey Kasem
Heather North
Vincent Price
Susan Blu
Howard Morris
Arte Johnson
Theme music composerHoyt Curtin
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producersWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time20 Minutes
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseJuly 9 (1985-07-09) –
December 7, 1985 (1985-12-07)
Related
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 (1985-09-07) 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.

Plot

In the initial episode, the gang are thrown off course on a trip to Honolulu in Daphne's plane landing instead in the Himalayas. 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 Mexican 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.

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] Due to the cancellation eleven of the thirteen ghost were recaptured, although it is unknown if some of the ghost captured in the two episodes, "Ship of Ghouls" and "A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You", where more than one of the thirteen ghost were captured are part of the originals.[2]

Episodes

Main article: List of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episodes

Cast

Additional voices

DVD release

On June 29, 2010, Warner Home Video released The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.[3]

DVD name No. of episodes Release date
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series 13 June 29, 2010

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Tom Ruegger is back!". Platypuscomix.net. Retrieved 2011-05-15.
  2. ^ The pilot episode, "To All the Ghouls I Loved Before", was the release of the thirteen ghosts and none were captured. In the episodes, "Ship of Ghouls" and "A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You", more then one ghost was captured.
  3. ^ "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo DVD news: Announcement for The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo – The Complete Series". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
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