Scooby Doo Series VII

 

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 (1985-09-07) and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program and then ended on December 7, 1985 (1985-12-07)

13 Ghosts attempted to give the show a more contemporary feel. It was also produced to capitalize on the success of the 1984 Columbia Pictures film, Ghostbusters. 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 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 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.

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 upon 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

# Episode title Original airdate
1.1 "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before" (Pilot)

 

 September 7, 1985 (1985-09-07)
1.2 "Scoobra Kadoobra"

 

 September 14, 1985 (1985-09-14)
1.3 "Me and My Shadow Demon"

 

 September 21, 1985 (1985-09-21)
1.4 "Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye"

 

 September 28, 1985 (1985-09-28)
1.5 "That's Monstertainment"

 

 October 5, 1985 (1985-10-05)
1.6 "Ship of Ghouls"

 

 October 12, 1985 (1985-10-12)
1.7 "A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You"

 

 October 19, 1985 (1985-10-19)
1.8 "When You Witch Upon a Star"

 

 October 26, 1985 (1985-10-26)
1.9 "It's a Wonderful Scoob"

 

 November 2, 1985 (1985-11-02)
1.10 "Scooby in Kwackyland"

 

 November 9, 1985 (1985-11-09)
1.11 "Coast to Ghost"

 

 November 16, 1985 (1985-11-16)
1.12 "The Ghouliest Show on Earth"

 

 November 23, 1985 (1985-11-23)
1.13 "Horror-Scope Scoob" (Series Finale)

 

 December 7, 1985

 

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