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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is the seventh incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon, Scooby-Doo. This was 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 and then ended on December 7, 1985. 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).

History

Contemporary feel

13 Ghosts was produced at a time when the 1984 Columbia Pictures film, Ghostbusters, was very popular, and two other animated series during that time was made, both about ghostbusting, one being Filmation's Ghostbusters and the other being The Real Ghostbusters. The Real Ghostbusters was the animated series based off the hit movie Ghostbusters, although Filmation's Ghostbusters was based on a live-action television show from 1975-1976 titled The Ghost Busters, which despite the title has nothing to do with the 1984 movie. In response to this, unlike previous Scooby series where the ghosts were criminals in costumes, the titular ghosts are depicted as being real supernatural beings, thus also attempting to give this series a much darker tone while still keeping much of the lighthearted humor, 13 Ghosts, much like The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, attempted to give the Scooby-Doo franchise a more contemporary feel.

Daphne and Shaggy were given redesigns to fit them into the mid-1980s style. Daphne would slightly resemble Debbie from Speed Buggy and April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They, along with Scooby and Scrappy, were joined in this season by a young Mexican con-artist named Flim-Flam, and a warlock mentor, Vincent Van Ghoul (a parody of Vincent Price, who voiced the character as well). Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley were again completely absent from the series; they had not been major characters in the show since the addition of Scrappy-Doo in 1979.

The show featured self-parody, pop culture references, and fourth-wall-breaking gags, typical of Looney Tunes shorts and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. 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. Despite the show's title and the continuity in which it claims that thirteen ghosts have escaped from the Chest of Demons, only eleven ghosts are seen and captured throughout the series, including the ghosts from the pilot episode, although the ghost ship captain might have been one of the 13 ghosts. Taking into account two 'lost episodes' does bring the total to 13.

The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was the last series for which Heather North 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 a Saturday.

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 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, the Mystery, Inc. gang embark on a worldwide quest to recapture them before they wreak irreversible havoc upon the world.

Episodes

№	Title	Featured ghost(s)	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, helped by the ghost ship passengers	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 Phantazmo	November 23, 1985
1.13	"Horror-Scope Scoob"	Zimbulu	December 7, 1985

Titles

Channel	Language	Title	Original airdate
ABC	English	The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo	September 7, 1985
Boomerang	German	Die 13 Geister von Scooby-Doo	?
Cartoon Network	Hebrew	13 הרוחות של סקובי דו	2002
TV2	Hungarian	Scooby-Doo és a 13 szellem (Scooby-Doo and the 13 ghosts)	1998
gulli (possible)	French	Les 13 Fantômes de Scooby-Doo	?
5* (possible)	Spanish	Los 13 fantasmas de Scooby-Doo	?
Rai	Italian	I 13 fantasmi di Scooby Doo	1998
Czech	Not translated to Czech

Voices

Cast

Don Messick – Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
Casey Kasem – Shaggy Rogers
Heather North – Daphne Blake
Susan Blu – Flim-Flam
Vincent Price – Vincent Van Ghoul
Howard Morris – Bogel and Platypus Duck
Arte Johnson – Weerd

Additional voices

Bob Arbogast –
Gay Autterson – Marcella, Wanda Brewski
Hamilton Camp - Ghoulio, Rankor
Vicki Carroll
Peter Cullen – Maldor the Malevolent
Marshall Efron –
Patricia Elliott -
Dick Erdman – Travel agent
Bernard Erhard -
Linda Gary – Queen Morbidia, Nicara
Joan Gerber - Ernestine Brewski
Philip Hartmann –
Alice Hirson -
Bob Holt –
Marilyn Lightstone –
Kenneth Mars –
Edie McClurg -
Sidney Miller -
Pat Musick -
Alan Oppenheimer - Professor Phantazmo
Bob Ridgely – Captain Ferguson, Time Slime
Michael Rye - Demondo, Reflector Specter, Zimbulu
John Stephenson - Boris Kreepoff
Russi Taylor – Hilda Brewski
Les Tremayne –
B.J. Ward - Marcella
Frank Welker - Griswald, Idesvigg, Dragon

Intro

The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo theme song

DVD release

DVD Name	No. of Episodes	Release Date
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo!: The Complete Series	13	June 29, 2010^[1]

Notes/trivia

TBA

References

↑ tvshowsondvd.com/news/13-Ghosts-ScoobyDoo-The-Complete-Series/13502

External links

The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo at Wikipedia
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo on IMDb

Scooby-Doo series
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! • The New Scooby-Doo Movies • The Scooby-Doo Show Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (first series) • Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (second series) The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show • The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo • What's New, Scooby-Doo? Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated • Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? • Velma

[1] tvshowsondvd.com/news/13-Ghosts-ScoobyDoo-The-Complete-Series/13502

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 '''''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo''''' is the seventh incarnation of the [[Hanna-Barbera]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_morning_cartoon Saturday morning cartoon], ''[[Scooby-Doo (franchise)|Scooby-Doo]]''. This was 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company ABC] as a half-hour program and then ended on December 7, 1985. 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).
 ==History==
 ===Contemporary feel===
-''13 Ghosts'' was produced at a time when the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_in_film 1984] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures Columbia Pictures] film, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]'', was very popular, and two other animated series during that time was made, both about ghostbusting, one being ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation%27s_Ghostbusters Filmation's Ghostbusters]'' and other being ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Ghostbusters The Real Ghostbusters]''. ''The Real Ghostbusters'' was the animated series based off the hit movie ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]'', although ''Filmation's Ghostbusters'' was based on a live-action television show from 1975-1976 titled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Busters The Ghost Busters], which despite the title has nothing to do with the 1984 movie. In response to this, unlike previous ''Scooby'' series where the ghosts were criminals in costumes, the titular ghosts are depicted as being real supernatural beings, thus also attempting to give this series a much darker tone while still keeping much of the lighthearted humor, ''13 Ghosts'', much like ''[[The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries]]'', attempted to give the Scooby-Doo franchise a more contemporary feel.
+''13 Ghosts'' was produced at a time when the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_in_film 1984] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Pictures Columbia Pictures] film, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]'', was very popular, and two other animated series during that time was made, both about ghostbusting, one being ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmation%27s_Ghostbusters Filmation's Ghostbusters]'' and the other being ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Ghostbusters The Real Ghostbusters]''. ''The Real Ghostbusters'' was the animated series based off the hit movie ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters Ghostbusters]'', although ''Filmation's Ghostbusters'' was based on a live-action television show from 1975-1976 titled [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Busters The Ghost Busters], which despite the title has nothing to do with the 1984 movie. In response to this, unlike previous ''Scooby'' series where the ghosts were criminals in costumes, the titular ghosts are depicted as being real supernatural beings, thus also attempting to give this series a much darker tone while still keeping much of the lighthearted humor, ''13 Ghosts'', much like ''[[The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries]]'', attempted to give the Scooby-Doo franchise a more contemporary feel.
 Daphne and Shaggy were given redesigns to fit them into the mid-1980s style. Daphne would slightly resemble [[Debbie]] from ''[[Speed Buggy]]'' and April O'Neil from ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]''. They, along with Scooby and Scrappy, were joined in this season by a young Mexican [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick con-artist] named Flim-Flam, and a warlock mentor, Vincent Van Ghoul (a parody of [[Vincent Price]], who voiced the character as well). [[Fred Jones]] and [[Velma Dinkley]] were again completely absent from the series; they had not been major characters in the show since the addition of Scrappy-Doo in 1979.
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 ==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 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, the Mystery, Inc. gang embark on a worldwide quest to recapture them before they wreak irreversible havoc upon the world.
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 ==Intro==
-* [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo theme song]] (not really a song)
+* [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo theme song]]
 ==DVD release==
-On June 29, 2010, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Home_Video Warner Home Video] released ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series'' on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.<ref>http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/13-Ghosts-ScoobyDoo-The-Complete-Series/13502</ref>
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+| June 29, 2010<ref>[http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/13-Ghosts-ScoobyDoo-The-Complete-Series/13502 tvshowsondvd.com/news/13-Ghosts-ScoobyDoo-The-Complete-Series/13502]</ref>
-|June 29, 2010
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 ==Notes/trivia==
+* TBA
-*This was the last ''Scooby-Doo'' series to be produced by Hanna-Barbera before they merged with Time Warner and before Time Warner merged with Warner Brothers studios.
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