The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo

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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 1969-1985 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. The series also aired in reruns on USA Network in the 1990s, on Cartoon Network, and from time to time on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang until 2014. The entire series is also available on the Boomerang streaming service.

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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 the Himalayas. While inside a temple, Scooby and Shaggy are tricked by two bumbling ghosts named Weerd and Bogel into opening the Chest of Demons, a magical artifact which houses the 13 most terrifying and powerful ghosts and demons ever to walk the face of the Earth. As the ghosts can only be returned to the chest by those who originally set them free, Scooby and Shaggy, accompanied by Daphne, Scrappy-Doo, and a young juvenile Latino 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 13 escaped ghosts, meanwhile, each attempt to do away with the gang lest they be returned to the chest, often employing Weerd and Bogel as lackeys.

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Production

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. Of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Ruegger recalls not being fond of the Flim-Flam character ("Definitely the product of network focus groups") or the other added characters in the cast. 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 is currently the latest 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. At the time of the cancellation, eleven of the thirteen ghosts were recaptured, although it is unknown if some of the ghosts captured in the two episodes "Ship of Ghouls" and "A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You" where more than one of the thirteen ghosts were captured, are part of the originals. Flim Flam makes a cameo as a wax museum figure in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Daphne asks Fred if he remembers him, but Fred reminds her that he was at trap camp. It is mentioned in passing that Flim Flam's con-artistry has ended up landing him a long prison sentence.

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Series overview

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Episodes

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Cast

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

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Home media releases

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

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Reception

The series was heavily profiled in the Christian fundamentalist documentary Deception of a Generation as an example of occult influences on children's entertainment.

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See also

• Scooby-Doo (character)
• List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
• List of Hanna-Barbera characters
• List of Scooby-Doo characters

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References

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External links

• Official Scooby-Doo website
• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo on IMDb
• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo at TV.com
• The Big Cartoon Database - The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• The Cartoon Scrapbook - Profile on The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo

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