The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
Thirteen escaped ghosts, one Chest of Demons, and a worldwide chase to put them back.
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, the seventh incarnation of the Scooby-Doo franchise. Thirteen episodes were made in 1985, and it ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. With 13 episodes it is the shortest-running series in the franchise.
Quick Facts
- Based on
- Characters, Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Developer
- Tom Ruegger
- Director
- Art Davis
- Oscar Dufau
- Tony Love
- Don Lusk
- Rudy Zamora
- Alan Zaslove
- Ray Patterson
- Voices
- Don Messick
- Casey Kasem
- Heather North
- Vincent Price
- Susan Blu
- Arte Johnson
- Howard Morris
- Theme music
- Hoyt Curtin
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Seasons
- 1
Lore & Background
In the first episode the gang, flying to Honolulu in Daphne's plane, lands in the Himalayas instead. 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 that houses the 13 most terrifying ghosts and demons. Because the ghosts can only be returned to the chest by those who set them free, Scooby and Shaggy set out on a worldwide quest to recapture them with Daphne, Scrappy-Doo and a young boy named Flim Flam. They are assisted by the warlock Vincent Van Ghoul, based upon and voiced by Vincent Price, who contacts the gang through his crystal ball.
Reader's Guide
Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley do not appear in this incarnation, and the enemies are real ghosts within the context of the series, not humans in costume. The series was created and produced by Mitch Schauer, with Tom Ruegger as associate producer and story editor. The voice cast is Don Messick as Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, Casey Kasem as Shaggy, Heather North as Daphne, Susan Blu as Flim-Flam, Arte Johnson as Weerd, Howard Morris as Bogel and Vincent Price as Vincent Van Ghoul. A follow-up film from a different creative team, Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost, was released in 2019 and featured the previously unseen 13th ghost.
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