The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo

1985

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7.3| 0h30m| TV-PG| en
Synopsis

Shaggy and Scooby-Doo and friends must return 13 ghosts which they inadvertently released to a magical chest. Together with Daphne and Scrappy-Doo, along with newcomer Flim-Flam, they travel the world facing the ghosts that must be returned to the chest.

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Hanna-Barbera Productions

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Protraph Lack of good storyline.
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
voicemaster71 When Scooby Doo began in 1969, the concept was excellent. You had 4 teen sleuths and a goofy cowardly Great Dane solving mysteries and unmasking bad guys disguised as ghosts and monsters. Throughout Scooby's evolution, we saw the gang team up with celebrity guests, we saw the inclusions of Scooby Dum, Dynomutt, and the Laff a Lympics, and the eventual addition of Scrappy Doo. In what would be Scooby Doo's final regular show on Saturday mornings, Hanna Barbera presented to us what I call the final nail in Scooby's Saturday morning coffin. In my humble and honest opinion, the 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo is by far, the absolute worst series in Scooby's history! A complete and total abomination!! The only saving grace to the show was the inclusion of Vincent Price as warlock Vincent Van Ghoul who leads and guides the gang on their worldwide search to recapture the 13 ghosts that Scooby Doo and Shaggy were tricked into releasing in the pilot episode. Scooby Doo has gone from mystery solving canine to ghost hunter and the ghosts are real, no longer are they crooks in costumes. My first attack is on Daphne and Shaggy. Shaggy's clothes have changed colors, no big deal there. But he no longer seems worthy of the name Shaggy now that he lost his goatee. Daphne has a complete new makeover which I did not find impressive.My hatred of Scrappy Doo really reaches its peak, but guess what?! Hanna Barbera sunk to a new low and introduced a character so bad he made even Scrappy look good. Film Flam!! This stupid kid winds up tagging along with the gang and is a close friend to Vincent Van Ghoul and makes the gang a party of five again just like the old days.The there are two goony ghosts whose names escape me, but they were introduced for comic relief and are the two responsible for tricking Scooby into opening the Chest of Demons and releasing the 13 evil ghosts!!The biggest insult of all time to this show was simple. After guest appearing in a few episodes of the previous Scooby Doo series, both Fred and Velma have once again been wiped out of existence!! And to really add insult to injury, Scrappy Doo and Film Flam to me seem more like replacements for Fred and Velma, but thankfully not in personality. To this day, I wonder how Vincent Van Ghoul would have reacted to the likes of Fred and Velma, but I guess HB considered them too straight for this show. I hate Scrappy Doo! But I really HATE Film Flam even more!! The Hanna Barbera writers must have either been stoned or drunk when they created this super stinker of a show!!If you are a purist fan of the original concept, then 1985 was a bad year to watch Scooby Doo on TV. The 13 Ghosts series is one, the rerun series, Scooby's Mystery Fun House was another because it only showed reruns of the the New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show and a few episodes of the New Scooby Doo Mysteries with none of the two parters from the previous year. Worse than that, they began airing the Scooby and Scrappy shows weekday afternoons, so if you were looking for any Scooby shows that included Freddy and Velma, you were plain simply out of luck that year.I would seriously recommend bypassing this one series of Scooby Doo unless you love Scrappy Doo or even love unusual things. But as I said before, this series to me does not even hold a candle to the original Scooby Doo Where Are You? series of 1969. Give me Fred and Velma over Scrappy Doo and Film Flam any day!! 2 Thumbs Down!!
witchofwicca88 this show is really good but a lot of people have forgotten about it. they don't even show it on TV anymore except on boomerang, and thats only of you have that digital cable thing thats expensive. they should definitely make it into a DVD collection if they don't want people to forget it. i mean this is a really good show that shouldn't be forgotten and should be made into a did set so it can be added to scooby-doo show fans like me. i haven't even seen every episode. i know the TV company got rid of it because it got too 'boring' which i don't think so. i mean if you watch it over and over again maybe but this is one of the best shows who cares if its old Hanna Barbara can't just put the old shows on the shelfs if it gets old. they need to warn people that they aren't airing on TV and make it into dvds or VHS so people can still watch this show.
Movie Nuttball When this show was on I watched it every time I could! I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities. The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear. Not to mention beautiful! Most of the characters in this show are hilarious like the Looney Tunes characters that we all love. in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen. In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious! There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do! If you like the original Looney Tunes then I strongly recommend that you watch this show!
TheMan3051 It was a good idea to keep the Scobby-Doo saga alive by changing the format in each show. But while the shows from the `70s were funny, entertaining, and had decent story lines. The `80s shows took a drastic turn by introducing Scappy-Doo! After two (or 3?) worthless shows Hanna-Barbera made another drastic turn by having the gang minus Fred and Velma plus Vincent and Flim Flam search for 13 ghosts. The premise was pretty decent but what hurt the show A LOT were Scrappy and Flim Flam. If this show would have just been Scobby, Shaggy, Daphne, and Vincent then it would have been a decent program.