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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).
 
 
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'''''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo''''' is the seventh incarnation of the [[Hanna-Barbera]] 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 [[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==
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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 gang embark on a worldwide quest to recapture them before they wreak irreversible havoc upon the world.
===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.
 
   
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==List of episodes==
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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{{Main|List of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episodes}}
   
 
==Cast==
The show featured [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-parody self-parody], pop culture references, and fourth-wall-breaking gags, typical of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes Looney Tunes]'' shorts and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles 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]]'', ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Toon_Adventures Tiny Toon Adventures]'', and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animaniacs 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.
 
 
* [[Don Messick]] as [[Scooby-Doo]] and [[Scrappy-Doo]]
 
* [[Casey Kasem]] as [[Shaggy Rogers]]
 
* [[Heather North Kenney|Heather North]] as [[Daphne Blake]]
 
* [[Susan Blu]] as [[Flim-Flam]]
 
* [[Vincent Price]] as [[Vincent Van Ghoul]]
 
* [[Howard Morris]] as [[Bogel]]
 
* [[Arte Johnson]] as [[Weerd]]
   
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==Production==
''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' was the last series for which [[Heather North Kenney|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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986#March March] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_in_television 1986] and replaced with re-runs of ''[[Laff-A-Lympics (TV series)|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.
 
 
===Contemporary feel===
 
''13 Ghosts'' was produced at a time when the 1984 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 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.
==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===
 
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%; text-align: center; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(240, 255, 255);"
 
|- style="color: rgb(0, 255, 0);"
 
! style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 6%;"|№
 
! style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(0, 0, 0);"|Title
 
! style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 35%;"|Featured ghost(s)
 
! style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 22%;"|Original airdate
 
|-
 
| 1.1
 
| align="left" | "[[To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before (episode)|To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before]]"
 
| Ghosts released from chest
 
| September 7, 1985
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
| 1.2
 
| align="left" | "[[Scoobra Kadoobra]]"
 
| [[Maldor the Malevolent]]
 
| September 14, 1985
 
|-
 
| 1.3
 
| align="left" | "[[Me And My Shadow Demon (episode)|Me and My Shadow Demon]]"
 
| [[Queen Morbidia]]
 
| September 21, 1985
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
| 1.4
 
| align="left" | "[[Reflections In A Ghoulish Eye|Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye]]"
 
| [[Mirror Demon]]
 
| September 28, 1985
 
|-
 
| 1.5
 
| align="left" | "[[That's Monstertainment]]"
 
| [[Zomba]]
 
| October 5, 1985
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
| 1.6
 
| align="left" | "[[Ship Of Ghouls|Ship of Ghouls]]"
 
| Ghosts already in chest escape, helped by [[Bermuda Triangle Ghosts|the ghost ship passengers]]
 
| October 12, 1985
 
|-
 
| 1.7
 
| align="left" | "[[A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You]]"
 
| [[Nicara]]
 
| October 19, 1985
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
| 1.8
 
| align="left" | "[[When You Witch Upon A Star|When You Witch Upon a Star]]"
 
| [[Marcella]]
 
| October 26, 1985
 
|-
 
| 1.9
 
| align="left" | "[[It's A Wonderful Scoob|It's a Wonderful Scoob]]"
 
| [[Time Slime]]
 
| November 2, 1985
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
| 1.10
 
| align="left" | "[[Scooby In Kwackyland|Scooby in Kwackyland]]"
 
| [[Demondo]]
 
| November 9, 1985
 
|-
 
| 1.11
 
| align="left" | "[[Coast To Ghost|Coast to Ghost]]"
 
| [[Rankor]]
 
| November 16, 1985
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
| 1.12
 
| align="left" | "[[The Ghouliest Show On Earth|The Ghouliest Show on Earth]]"
 
| [[Professor Phantazmo]]
 
| November 23, 1985
 
|-
 
| 1.13
 
| align="left" | "[[Horror-Scope Scoob]]"
 
| [[Zimbulu]]
 
| December 7, 1985
 
|}
 
   
 
The show featured self-parody, pop culture references, and fourth-wall-breaking gags, typical of ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes 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]]'', ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Toon_Adventures Tiny Toon Adventures]'', and ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animaniacs 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.
===Titles===
 
   
 
''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' was the last series for which [[Heather North Kenney|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 (TV series)|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.
   
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===International titles===
 
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! style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 22%;"|Original airdate
 
|-
 
|-
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| Bang-Bang
|ABC
 
| align="left"|English
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| align="left"| Albanian
|The 13 Ghosts Of Scooby-Doo
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| 13 Fantazmat e Skubi-Dusë
 
| ?
|September 7, 1985
 
 
|-
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| [[Boomerang (Cartoon Network)|Boomerang]]
 
| align="left"| German
 
| Die 13 Geister von Scooby-Doo
 
| ?
 
|-
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| [[Cartoon Network]]
 
| align="left"| Hebrew
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| 13 הרוחות של סקובי דו
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| 2002
 
|-
 
| TV2
 
| align="left"| Hungarian
 
| ''Scooby-Doo és a 13 szellem (Scooby-Doo and the 13 ghosts)''
 
| 1998
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
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| Canal+
|Boomerang
 
| align="left"|German
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| align="left"| French
 
| ''Les 13 Fantômes de Scooby-Doo''
|
 
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| March 1989
Die 13 Geister von Scooby-Doo
 
|?
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| 5* (possible)
|TV2
 
| align="left"|Hungarian
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| align="left"| Spanish
 
| [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_13_fantasmas_de_Scooby-Doo Los 13 fantasmas de Scooby-Doo]
|
 
 
| ?
''Scooby-Doo és a 13 szellem (Scooby-Doo and the 13 ghosts)''
 
|1998
 
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
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| Rai
|gulli (possible)
 
| align="left"|French
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| align="left"| Italian
 
| [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_13_fantasmi_di_Scooby_Doo I 13 fantasmi di Scooby Doo]
|
 
  +
| 1998
''Les 13 Fantômes de Scooby-Doo ''
 
|?
+
|-
  +
| Cartoon Network
 
| align="left" | Polish
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| ''13 demonów Scooby Doo''
 
| September 1, 1998
 
|-
 
|-
 
|
 
|
 
| align="left" | Czech
5* (possible)
 
 
| Not translated to Czech
| align="left"|Spanish
 
|[http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_13_fantasmas_de_Scooby-Doo Los 13 fantasmas de Scooby-Doo]
 
|?
 
|- bgcolor="#e0ffff"
 
|?
 
| align="left"|Italian
 
|[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_13_fantasmi_di_Scooby_Doo I 13 fantasmi di Scooby Doo]
 
|?
 
|-
 
| -
 
| align="left"|Czech
 
|not translated to Czech
 
| -
 
 
|}
 
|}
   
==Voices==
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==DVD releases==
===Cast===
 
* [[Don Messick]] [[Scooby-Doo]] and [[Scrappy-Doo]]
 
* [[Casey Kasem]] [[Shaggy Rogers]]
 
* [[Heather North Kenney|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]], [[Brewski Sisters|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]] - [[Brewski Sisters|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]] – [[Brewski Sisters|Hilda Brewski]]
 
* [[Les Tremayne]] –
 
* [[B.J. Ward]] - [[Marcella]]
 
* [[Frank Welker]] - Dragon
 
 
==Intro==
 
* [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo theme song]] (not really a 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>
 
 
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
!DVD Name
+
! DVD Name
!No. of Episodes
+
! No. of Episodes
!Release Date
+
! Release Date
 
|-
 
|-
|''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'': The Complete Series
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|''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo!: The Complete Series]]''
| align="center"|13
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| align="center" |13
 
| 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
 
 
|}
 
|}
   
 
==Notes/trivia==
 
==Notes/trivia==
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* The number thirteen is referenced a lot throughout the series. The gang visits locations with "thirteen" in the name (typically in the address) on several occasions. This is both because of the title (which itself has the number thirteen in it) and because thirteen is seen as an unlucky number in the United States. However, in countries where thirteen is seen as a regular, or even lucky, number (for example, Italy), it is likely presumed thirteen has more to do with the number of escaped demons or the title rather than indicating unluckiness.
*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.
 
   
 
==References==
 
==References==
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{{Reflist}}
<references/>
 
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==See also==
 
* [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (theme song)]]
   
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
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* TBA
* {{WP|''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo''}}
 
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* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088628/ ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo''] on IMDb
 
 
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Revision as of 14:40, 17 April 2016

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).

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

List of episodes

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

Cast

Production

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.

International titles

Channel Language Title Original airdate
Bang-Bang Albanian 13 Fantazmat e Skubi-Dusë ?
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
Canal+ French Les 13 Fantômes de Scooby-Doo March 1989
5* (possible) Spanish Los 13 fantasmas de Scooby-Doo ?
Rai Italian I 13 fantasmi di Scooby Doo 1998
Cartoon Network Polish 13 demonów Scooby Doo September 1, 1998
Czech Not translated to Czech

DVD releases

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

Notes/trivia

  • The number thirteen is referenced a lot throughout the series. The gang visits locations with "thirteen" in the name (typically in the address) on several occasions. This is both because of the title (which itself has the number thirteen in it) and because thirteen is seen as an unlucky number in the United States. However, in countries where thirteen is seen as a regular, or even lucky, number (for example, Italy), it is likely presumed thirteen has more to do with the number of escaped demons or the title rather than indicating unluckiness.

References

See also

External links

  • TBA
Scooby-Doo series
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!The New Scooby-Doo MoviesThe 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-DooA Pup Named Scooby-DooWhat's New, Scooby-Doo?
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!Scooby-Doo! Mystery IncorporatedBe Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?Velma