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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
The main title card from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985)
Format	Animation
Created by	Joe Ruby Ken Spears
Starring	Don Messick Casey Kasem Heather North Kenney Vincent Price Susan Blu Howard Morris Arte Johnson
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 7, 1985 – December 7, 1985
Chronology
Preceded by	The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show/The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1983–1985)
Followed by	A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988–1991)
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is the seventh incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. The final first-run version of the original 1969 - 1986 broadcast run of the series, it premiered on September 7, 1985 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. Thirteen episodes of the show were made in 1985-1986. It replaced Scary Scooby Funnies (a repackaging of earlier shows, and another repackaged series, Scooby's Mystery Funhouse, followed.)

13 Ghosts attempted to give the show a more contemporary feel. It was also produced to capitalize on the success of the 1984 blockbuster movie Ghostbusters (where the premise is to capture ghosts). Daphne and Shaggy were given redesigns to fit them into the mid-1980s style, and they, along with Scooby and Scrappy, were joined in this season by a young Chinese con-artist called Flim-Flam, and a warlock mentor, Vincent Van Ghoul, a parody of Vincent Price, who voiced the character as well. Fred and Velma were absent from the series.

The plot of this series was an ongoing one, which chronicled the gang's attempts to recapture the thirteen most terrifying ghosts and monsters on the face of the earth. The show featured a lot of self-parody, pop culture references, and fourth-wall-breaking gags, typical of Looney Tunes shorts. This was the influence of associate producer Tom Ruegger, who would later go on to produce A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Animaniacs.

The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was the last series for which Heather North Kenney voiced Daphne. The series also marked the final Saturday morning Scooby series to feature Scrappy-Doo, and was the only Scooby series that had a pre-adolescent child (Flim Flam) become part of the Mystery, Inc. gang. The show was cancelled by ABC in March 1986 and replaced with re-runs of Laff-a-Lympics. No new Scooby series was there to take its place that September, the first time in a decade-and-a-half that Scooby-Doo did not air on Saturday morning.

Main article: List of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episodes

• Official Scooby-Doo Website
• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo at the Internet Movie Database
• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo at TV.com