To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before

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To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before
Premiere date	September 7, 1985
Run time	23:37
Starring	Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Susan Blu Vincent Price Howard Morris Arte Johnson Kenneth Mars Hamilton Camp
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Tom Ruegger
Storyboard artist(s)	Mitch Schauer
Director(s)	Mitch Schauer Gordon Hunt (voices)
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"To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before" is the first episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo season one. It aired on September 7, 1985 on ABC. It was written by Tom Ruegger, produced and directed by Mitch Schauer and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

Following Shaggy's bad directions, the gang's Hawaiian vacation takes a detour to a Himalayan village where the people have been cursed to be werewolves.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Vincent Van Ghoul	Vincent Price
Bogel	Howard Morris
Weerd	Arte Johnson
Shaggy Rogers	Casey Kasem
Scooby-Doo	Don Messick
Daphne Blake	Heather North
Scrappy-Doo	Don Messick
Flim-Flam	Susan Blu
Mayor	Unavailable
Constable	Unavailable
Bürgermeister	Kenneth Mars
Ghoulio	Hamilton Camp

Organizations

• Scooby-Doo Detective Agency

Locations

• Earth
  • Van Ghoul residence
  • Asia
    • Himalayas
      • Temple
      • Ursolvania
        • Courthouse
        • Cafe
  • United States (indirectly mentioned)
    • Hawaii (mentioned)
      • Honolulu (mentioned)
• The Moon

Objects

• Chest of Demons
• Lotsa Luck Joy Juice

Vehicles

• Mystery Flying Machine

Music

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

Song

• "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before" - Hamilton Camp and Don Messick

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 7, 1985 on ABC
• United Kingdom and Ireland:

Behind the scenes

• Both the episode title and Ghoulio's song are a play on Julio Iglesias's 1984 song "To All the Girls I've Loved Before."
• Mitch Schauer is uncredited as director.
• Let's Make 'Em Squeal and Weerd's Haunty Mall guise are a parody of the game show Let's Make a Deal and its co-creator/host, Monty Hall, respectively. Incidentally, Hall stepped down as host the following year.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • June 29, 2010: Warner Home Video releases The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo!: The Complete Series on DVD.
  • February 5, 2019: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost on DVD.
  • February 4, 2020: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Saga of the 13th Ghost on DVD.
  • January 12, 2021: Warner Bros. Digital Distribution releases A Scooby-Doo! Valentine Bouquet on video on demand.
• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • October 10, 2016: Warner Home Video releases The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo!: The Complete Series on DVD.
  • February 11, 2019: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost on DVD.
• In Australia:
  • March 25, 2019: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost on DVD.