The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
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| The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo | |
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 The main title card from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985) |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Creator(s) | Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Starring | Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Kenney Vincent Price Susan Blu Howard Morris Arte Johnson |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Original run | September 7, 1985–December 7, 1985 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Preceded by | The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983–1984) |
| Followed by | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991) |
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| TV.com summary | |
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was 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 1985-1986. It replaced Scary Scooby Funnies (a repackaging of earlier shows, and another repackaged series, Scooby's Mystery Funhouse, followed.)
13 Ghosts attempted to give the show a more contemporary feel. Daphne and Shaggy were given redesigns to fit them into the mid-1980s style, and they, along with Scooby and Scrappy, were joined in this season by a young Chinese con-artist called Flim-Flam, and a warlock mentor, Vincent Van Ghoul, a parody of Vincent Price, who voiced the character as well.
The plot of this series was an ongoing one, which chronicled the gang's attempts to recapture the thirteen most terrifying ghosts and monsters on the face of the earth. 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.
The show was cancelled 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.
[edit] Episode list
| # | Episode title | Original airdate |
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| 1.1 | "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before" | September 7, 1985 |
| 1.2 | "Scoobra Kadoobra" | September 14, 1985 |
| 1.3 | "Me and My Shadow Demon" | September 21, 1985 |
| 1.4 | "Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye" | September 28, 1985 |
| 1.5 | "That's Monstertainment" | October 5, 1985 |
| 1.6 | "Ship of Ghouls" | October 12, 1985 |
| 1.7 | "A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You" | October 19, 1985 |
| 1.8 | "When You Wish Upon a Scoob" | October 26, 1985 |
| 1.9 | "It's a Wonderful Scoob" | November 2, 1985 |
| 1.10 | "Scooby in Kwackyland" | November 9, 1985 |
| 1.11 | "Coast to Ghost" | November 16, 1985 |
| 1.12 | "The Ghouliest Show on Earth" | November 23, 1985 |
| 1.13 | "Horror-Scope Scoob | December 7, 1985 |
[edit] Trivia
- The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was the last series for which Heather North Kennedy 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.
- Only thirteen episodes of the series were produced, and the pilot episode only revealed the characters freeing the ghosts. Therefore, only twelve ghosts were caught, and one was never found.
