The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo

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show_name = The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo


caption = The main title card from "The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo" (1985)
format = Aniamted Series
Mystery
Comedy
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runtime = 20 minutes
creator = Joe Ruby
Ken Spears
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starring = Don Messick
Casey Kasem
Heather North Kenney
Vincent Price
Susan Blu
Howard Morris
Arte Johnson
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country = USA
language = English
network = ABC
first_aired = September 7, 1985
last_aired = December 7, 1985
num_episodes = 13
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)
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imdb_id = 0088628
tv_com_id = 2355

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.)

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

History

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"Fact|date=May 2008. 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.

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".

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.

Episode list

External links

* [http://www2.warnerbros.com/sd_brand/index.html Official Scooby-Doo Website]
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