13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo is the seventh incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon, Scooby-Doo.
In the initial episode the gang are thrown off course on a trip to Honolulu in Daphne's plane landing instead in Tibet.
While inside a temple, Scooby and Shaggy are tricked into opening the Chest of Demons, which houses thirteen of the most terrifying and powerful ghosts and demons ever to walk the face of the Earth.
The ghosts can only be returned to the chest by those who originally set them free; thus, the Mystery, Inc. gang embark on a worldwide quest to recapture them before they wreak irreversible havoc upon the world.
The show featured 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.
Despite the show's title and the continuity in which it claims that thirteen ghosts have escaped from the Chest of Demons, only eleven ghosts are seen and captured throughout the series, including the ghosts from the pilot episode and episode six, which features all the captured ghosts re-escaping, although the ghost ship captain might have been one of the 13 ghosts.
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.
13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo was canceled 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.
13 Ghosts Intro
13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo episodelist
1 To All The Ghouls I've Loved Before 2 Scoobra Kadoobra 3 Me And My Shadow Demon 4 Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye 5 That's Monstertainment 6 Ship of Ghouls 7 A Spooky Little Ghoul Like You 8 When You Witch upon a Star 9 It's a Wonderful Scoob 10 Scooby in Kwackyland 11 Coast-to-Ghost 12 The Ghouliest Show on Earth 13 Horror-Scope Scoob
