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|released= [[September 7]]-[[December 7]], [[1985]]
|released= [[September 7]]―[[December 7]], [[1985]]
|run_time= 22 minutes
|run_time= 22 minutes
|starring= [[Don Messick]]<br />[[Casey Kasem]]<br />[[Heather North]]<br />[[Susan Blu]]<br />[[Vincent Price]]<br />[[Howard Morris]]<br />[[Arte Johnson]]
|starring= [[Don Messick]]<br />[[Casey Kasem]]<br />[[Heather North]]<br />[[Susan Blu]]<br />[[Vincent Price]]<br />[[Howard Morris]]<br />[[Arte Johnson]]
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|music= [[Hoyt Curtin]]
|music= [[Hoyt Curtin]]
|writer= Tom Ruegger
|writer= Tom Ruegger
|director= [[Art Davis]]<br />[[Oscar Dufau]]<br />[[Tony Love]]<br />[[Don Lusk]]<br />[[Rudy Zamora]]<br />[[Alan Zaslove]]<br />[[Ray Patterson]] (supervising)<br />[[Gordon Hunt]] (voices)
|director= [[Art Davis]]<br />[[Oscar Dufau]]<br />[[Tony Love]]<br />[[Don Lusk]]<br />[[Rudy Zamora]]<br />[[Alan Zaslove]]<br />[[Gordon Hunt]] (voices)
|previous= The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
|previous= The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
|next= A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
|next= A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
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'''''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo''''' is an American animated supernatural/mystery-comedy TV series produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]] (H-B) for [[ABC]]'s Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in the fall of [[1985]], airing 13 episodes. It was the seventh ''[[Scooby-Doo (franchise)|Scooby-Doo]]'' series after ''[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]''
'''''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo''''' is an American animated supernatural/mystery-comedy television series created by [[Mitch Schauer]]. It was produced by [[Hanna-Barbera]] (H-B) for [[ABC]]'s Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in [[1985]], airing 13 episodes that spanned one season. It was the seventh ''[[Scooby-Doo (franchise)|Scooby-Doo]]'' series after ''[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (TV series)|Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]''


After accidentally releasing the thirteen most terrifying ghouls on the face of the earth, [[Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby-Doo]] and his friends are forced to pursue them, guided by a warlock named [[Vincent Van Ghoul]], and put them back in their prison, the [[Chest of Demons]].
After accidentally releasing the thirteen most terrifying ghouls on the face of the earth, [[Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby-Doo]] and his friends are forced to pursue them, guided by a warlock named [[Vincent Van Ghoul]], and return them to their prison inside the [[Chest of Demons]].
 
The entire series has been released on [[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo!: The Complete Series|DVD]].


==Production==
==Production==
===Development===
===Development===
The original pitch by Mitch Schauer was for Scooby to fight the [[wikipedia:Universal Classic Monsters|classic movie monsters]] owned by [[Universal Studios]],<ref name="HB vs Universal>JayBee & Milly ([[August 20]], [[2022]]). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcwCiaZ2fc "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts"]. From 33:06 on ''YouTube''. Retrieved [[February 2]], [[2023]].</ref> under the working title of ''Scooby-Doo and the Devil's Eye'',<ref>JayBee & Milly ([[August 20]], [[2022]]). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcwCiaZ2fc "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts"]. From 32:27 on ''YouTube''. Retrieved [[February 2]], [[2023]].</ref> but Hanna-Barbera didn't want to pay Universal for the rights.<ref name="HB vs Universal" />
Schauer adamantly changed Shaggy's green t-shirt to red.<ref>JayBee & Milly ([[August 20]], [[2022]]). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcwCiaZ2fc "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts"]. From 34:44 on ''YouTube''. Retrieved [[February 2]], [[2023]].</ref>
The addition of Flim-Flam was a request by the ABC network, who believed a kid needed to be a real kid's entry point.<ref>JayBee & Milly ([[August 20]], [[2022]]). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcwCiaZ2fc "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts"]. From 35:50 on ''YouTube''. Retrieved [[February 2]], [[2023]].</ref> Flim-Flam was inspired by Short Round from the [[1984]] film ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''.
Vincent Van Ghoul was created for Vincent Price only after his availability and approval was guaranteed.<ref>JayBee & Milly ([[August 20]], [[2022]]). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcwCiaZ2fc "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts"]. From 37:41 on ''YouTube''. Retrieved [[February 2]], [[2023]].</ref> If Vincent Price turned down the role, Van Ghoul's name would've been changed to something different for another actor to play, preferably another celebrity.<ref>JayBee & Milly ([[August 20]], [[2022]]). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcwCiaZ2fc "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts"]. From 38:00 on ''YouTube''. Retrieved [[February 2]], [[2023]].</ref>
===Casting===
Once Vincent Price was locked in, he performed the role for thirteen episodes, which were spread over four recordings.<ref>JayBee & Milly ([[August 20]], [[2022]]). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijcwCiaZ2fc "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts"]. From 38:24 on ''YouTube''. Retrieved [[February 2]], [[2023]].</ref>
It was the last series in which [[Heather North]] voiced Daphne.
===Aftermath===
===Aftermath===
The series was canceled due to budgetary restraints (and apparently not because of bad ratings), leaving one or two of the ghosts free (depending on your own view). Why they couldn't have caught each of those thirteen ghosts in each of those thirteen episodes, is beyond my comprehension.
The series was canceled by ABC due to budgetary restraints, leaving one or two of the ghosts free (depending on your own view). As a result of its abrupt end, it left the series' conclusion and the fate of the gang's quest on an uncertain cliffhanger. ABC replaced it with re-runs of ''[[Laff-A-Lympics (TV series)|Laff-A-Lympics]]''.


More than 30 years later, [[Warner Bros. Animation]] hired [[Tim Sheridan]] to write an ending to the series in the form of the direct-to-video film, ''[[Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost]]'', which was released on February 5, 2019. As this was number 29 in a series of DVD movies that were more on the traditional side of things, i.e. ghosts are just bad guys in masks, this movie had to abide by that rule by retconning ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' into possibly being a hoax. If believed to be real and not just the result of a hallucination brought on by spending an extended amount of time in the [[Himalayas]], the thirteenth ghost was Vincent Van Ghoul's ancestor who had become corrupted by his own growing power and attempted to repent for his sins by following Vincent around like a guardian angel.
After ''13 Ghosts'' ended its run, producer [[Tom Ruegger]] would go on to create the series' next entry, ''[[A Pup Named Scooby-Doo]]''.


==Music==
==Music==
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{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! Title
! Title
! Number
! Original air date
! Air date
|-
|-
| "[[To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before]]"
| 1x01
| 1x01
* "[[To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before]]"
| [[September 7]], [[1985]]
| [[September 7]], [[1985]]
|-
|-
| "[[Scoobra Kadoobra]]"
| 1x02
| 1x02
* "[[Scoobra Kadoobra]]"
| [[September 14]], 1985
| [[September 14]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[Me and My Shadow Demon]]"
| 1x03
| 1x03
* "[[Me and My Shadow Demon]]"
| [[September 21]], 1985
| [[September 21]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye]]"
| 1x04
| 1x04
* "[[Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye]]"
| [[September 28]], 1985
| [[September 28]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[That's Monstertainment]]"
| 1x05
| 1x05
* "[[That's Monstertainment]]"
| [[October 5]], 1985
| [[October 5]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[Ship of Ghouls]]"
| 1x06
| 1x06
* "[[Ship of Ghouls]]"
| [[October 12]], 1985
| [[October 12]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You]]"
| 1x07
| 1x07
* "[[A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You]]"
| [[October 19]], 1985
| [[October 19]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[When You Witch Upon a Star]]"
| 1x08
| 1x08
* "[[When You Witch Upon a Star]]"
| [[October 26]], 1985
| [[October 26]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[It's a Wonderful Scoob]]"
| 1x09
| 1x09
* "[[It's a Wonderful Scoob]]"
| [[November 2]], 1985
| [[November 2]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[Scooby in Kwackyland]]"
| 1x10
| 1x10
* "[[Scooby in Kwackyland]]"
| [[November 9]], 1985
| [[November 9]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[Coast-to-Ghost]]"
| 1x11
| 1x11
* "[[Coast-to-Ghost]]"
| [[November 16]], 1985
| [[November 16]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[The Ghouliest Show on Earth]]"
| 1x12
| 1x12
* "[[The Ghouliest Show on Earth]]"
| [[November 23]], 1985
| [[November 23]], 1985
|-
|-
| "[[Horror-Scope Scoob]]"
| 1x13
| 1x13
* "[[Horror-Scope Scoob]]"
| [[December 7]], 1985
| [[December 7]], 1985
|}
|}
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* [[Howard Morris]] as [[Bogel and Weerd|Bogel]]
* [[Howard Morris]] as [[Bogel and Weerd|Bogel]]
* [[Arte Johnson]] as [[Bogel and Weerd|Weerd]]
* [[Arte Johnson]] as [[Bogel and Weerd|Weerd]]
==Legacy==
More than 30 years later, [[Warner Bros. Animation]] hired [[Tim Sheridan]] to write an ending to the series in the form of the direct-to-video film, ''[[Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost]]''; released on [[February 5]], [[2019]]. As this was the twenty-ninth installment in a series of movies that followed more on the franchise's traditional format, the film retconned ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo'' into possibly being a hoax. If believed to be real and not just the result of a hallucination brought on by spending an extended amount of time in the [[Himalayas]], the thirteenth ghost was Vincent Van Ghoul's ancestor, who had become corrupted by his own growing power and attempted to repent for his sins by following Vincent around like a guardian angel.
Also in 2019, the series' versions of Daphne and Shaggy appeared in [[Scooby-Doo! Team Up/Issue 50|issue #50]] of ''[[Scooby-Doo! Team-Up]]'', possibly suggesting these incarnates (and to the lesser extent, the show) as being from another continuity.
==In popular culture==
* In the ''Torchwood'' book ''Slow Decay'', it was brought up in a discussion about how the ''Scooby-Doo'' franchise had shifted towards using real monsters during the [[1980s]]. Owen, being a fan had seen it, while Toshi had not.


==References==
==References==
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
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Created by Mitch Schauer
Network ABC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Original release September 7―December 7, 1985
Run time 22 minutes
Starring Don Messick
Casey Kasem
Heather North
Susan Blu
Vincent Price
Howard Morris
Arte Johnson
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Mitch Schauer
Tom Ruegger
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Tom Ruegger
Director(s) Art Davis
Oscar Dufau
Tony Love
Don Lusk
Rudy Zamora
Alan Zaslove
Gordon Hunt (voices)
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is an American animated supernatural/mystery-comedy television series created by Mitch Schauer. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera (H-B) for ABC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1985, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season. It was the seventh Scooby-Doo series after Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

After accidentally releasing the thirteen most terrifying ghouls on the face of the earth, Scooby-Doo and his friends are forced to pursue them, guided by a warlock named Vincent Van Ghoul, and return them to their prison inside the Chest of Demons.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Production

Development

The original pitch by Mitch Schauer was for Scooby to fight the classic movie monsters owned by Universal Studios,[1] under the working title of Scooby-Doo and the Devil's Eye,[2] but Hanna-Barbera didn't want to pay Universal for the rights.[1]

Schauer adamantly changed Shaggy's green t-shirt to red.[3]

The addition of Flim-Flam was a request by the ABC network, who believed a kid needed to be a real kid's entry point.[4] Flim-Flam was inspired by Short Round from the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Vincent Van Ghoul was created for Vincent Price only after his availability and approval was guaranteed.[5] If Vincent Price turned down the role, Van Ghoul's name would've been changed to something different for another actor to play, preferably another celebrity.[6]

Casting

Once Vincent Price was locked in, he performed the role for thirteen episodes, which were spread over four recordings.[7]

It was the last series in which Heather North voiced Daphne.

Aftermath

The series was canceled by ABC due to budgetary restraints, leaving one or two of the ghosts free (depending on your own view). As a result of its abrupt end, it left the series' conclusion and the fate of the gang's quest on an uncertain cliffhanger. ABC replaced it with re-runs of Laff-A-Lympics.

After 13 Ghosts ended its run, producer Tom Ruegger would go on to create the series' next entry, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin, with supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Episodes

Title Original air date
1x01 September 7, 1985
1x02 September 14, 1985
1x03 September 21, 1985
1x04 September 28, 1985
1x05 October 5, 1985
1x06 October 12, 1985
1x07 October 19, 1985
1x08 October 26, 1985
1x09 November 2, 1985
1x10 November 9, 1985
1x11 November 16, 1985
1x12 November 23, 1985
1x13 December 7, 1985

Cast

Legacy

More than 30 years later, Warner Bros. Animation hired Tim Sheridan to write an ending to the series in the form of the direct-to-video film, Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost; released on February 5, 2019. As this was the twenty-ninth installment in a series of movies that followed more on the franchise's traditional format, the film retconned The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo into possibly being a hoax. If believed to be real and not just the result of a hallucination brought on by spending an extended amount of time in the Himalayas, the thirteenth ghost was Vincent Van Ghoul's ancestor, who had become corrupted by his own growing power and attempted to repent for his sins by following Vincent around like a guardian angel.

Also in 2019, the series' versions of Daphne and Shaggy appeared in issue #50 of Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, possibly suggesting these incarnates (and to the lesser extent, the show) as being from another continuity.

In popular culture

  • In the Torchwood book Slow Decay, it was brought up in a discussion about how the Scooby-Doo franchise had shifted towards using real monsters during the 1980s. Owen, being a fan had seen it, while Toshi had not.

References

  1. ^ a b JayBee & Milly (August 20, 2022). "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts". From 33:06 on YouTube. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  2. ^ JayBee & Milly (August 20, 2022). "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts". From 32:27 on YouTube. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  3. ^ JayBee & Milly (August 20, 2022). "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts". From 34:44 on YouTube. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  4. ^ JayBee & Milly (August 20, 2022). "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts". From 35:50 on YouTube. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  5. ^ JayBee & Milly (August 20, 2022). "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts". From 37:41 on YouTube. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  6. ^ JayBee & Milly (August 20, 2022). "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts". From 38:00 on YouTube. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
  7. ^ JayBee & Milly (August 20, 2022). "The Tom Ruegger Interview: Producer of a Pup Named Scooby-Doo & Story Editor on 13 Ghosts". From 38:24 on YouTube. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
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