History WesternAnimation / The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo

It begins when Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne and Scrappy end up in Tibet by plane crash, and Scooby and Shaggy are tricked into opening the Chest of Demons, a chest containing 13 powerful, terrifying ghosts each bent on world domination. Fated to return the malevolent spirits to the chest, the team is guided by mysterious mystic Vincent Van Ghoul, played by VincentPrice, who exasperatingly helps our heroes [[GottaCatchEmAll catch them all before it's too late]].

* AnArc: The first ScoobyDoo show to have an overarching plot, and the last one until ''ScoobyDooMysteryInc.''

* BadFuture: The episode "[[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Scoob]]." Without Scooby around, the world falls to the ghosts, Daphne is a broken slave to the Time-Slime ghost, Scrappy and Flim-Flam have become his loyal servants, and Shaggy is a lone rebel that has gone crazy, adamantly believing that Scooby will return and save them.
* BigBadWannabe: Bogel and Weerd so desperately want to be one of the 13 ghosts.

* ChekhovsGun: Flim-Flam was selling a concoction known as "Lots of Luck Joy Juice" when we first see him. [[spoiler: One of the ingredients was Wolfsbane, and a splash of it was enough to cure the werewolf villagers that put the gang into a corner.]]
** In another episode, a vendor hands Daphne a magic amulet written in gibberish. [[spoiler: It turns out that when Daphne gets sucked into the mirror world, she learns that it's a magic spell. Moreover, the vendor was actually Vincent Van Ghoul in disguise!]]

* CousinOliver: Flim-Flam was added as a result of focus testing. Tom Ruegger, the associate producer who would later handle ''APupNamedScoobyDoo'', [[CreatorBacklash admitted that he hated Flim-Flam]] in [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/ruegger2.html an interview]] in which he stated that he'd even learned to love ''Scrappy''.
* CrossDressingVoices: Susan Blu as Flim-Flam

* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler: The shadow that the gang chase after in "Me and My Shadow Demon" is actually harmless.]]

* TheDanza[=/=]InkSuitActor: Vincent Van Ghoul, after Vincent Price.

* GottaCatchEmAll: Unfortunately they never did get all 13.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Fred Jones never appeared, but that didn't mean Creator/FrankWelker wasn't still doing voice work here and there.
** VincentPrice as Vincent Van Ghoul
** Let's not forget Howard Morris (aka Wade the Duck of ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends U.S. Acres]]'') was one-shot character Platypus Duck. Also Bogel in every episode.
** Weerd was ''Laugh-In'' regular Arte Johnson.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The series starts with Scooby and Shaggy tricked into opening the Chest of Demons. As Vincent Van Ghoul states in the opening as to why they have to do this, "Because you '''let them out!!!'''"

* PutOnABus: Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley, at least until ''APupNamedScoobyDoo''.
* SealedCastInAMultipack: ScoobyDoo opens up a box and unleashes thirteen malicious ghosts onto the world, and must get them all back.

* SelfReferentialHumor: One of the first times the franchise started using it. Though, of course, the [[APupNamedScoobyDoo next show after kicked it up a notch]].

* TheOnlyOne: Vincent Van Ghoul makes it clear from the beginning that Scooby and Shaggy are the only ones who can recapture the 13 Ghosts because they were the ones who set them free in the first place.

This show uses the globetrotting Scooby-Shaggy-Daphne-Scrappy format of the late 1970s/early 1980s shows, though it is the last show to do so, also adding a new member of the gang in the form of Flim-Flam, a child con artist who runs into the gang and joins up with them. It was also one of the first shows to substantially feature ''real'' ghosts, as opposed to guys in masks and the self-referential parody, pop-culture references, and fourth wall breaking that would go on to characterize APupNamedScoobyDoo (this is the result of Tom Ruegger, who produced the latter, being associate producer on this one).

* PutOnABus: Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley, at least until ''WhatsNewScoobyDoo''.

This show uses the globetrotting Scooby-Shaggy-Daphne-Scrappy format of the late 1970s/early 1980s shows, though it is the last show to do so, also adding a new member of the gang in the form of Flim-Flam, a child con artist who runs into the gang and joins up with them. It was also one of the first shows to substantially feature ''real'' ghosts, as opposed to guys in masks and the self-referential parody, pop-culture references, and fourth wall breaking that would go on to characterize APupNamedScoobyDoo (this is the result of Tim Ruegger, who produced the latter, being associate producer on this one).

This show uses the globetrotting Scooby-Shaggy-Daphne-Scrappy format of the late 1970s/early 1980s shows, though it is the last show to do so, also adding a new member of the gang in the form of Flim-Flam, a child con artist who runs into the gang and joins up with them.

* BadFuture: In "[[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Scoob]]." Without Scooby around, the world falls to the ghosts, Daphne is a broken slave to the Time-Slime ghost, Scrappy and Flim-Flam have become his loyal servants, and Shaggy is a lone rebel that has gone crazy, adamantly believing that Scooby will return and save them.

The 1985 incarnation of the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' franchise and final incarnation of the original incarnation of the Scooby Doo franchise. The first also to introduce a story arc, though it was never finished due to it's cancellation.

* NoEnding: There are 13 ghosts and 13 episodes. But the first episode was just Scooby and Shaggy accidentally letting them loose, and another episode didn't end with a captured ghost. So the show ended with just ''one'' ghost left, and no conclusion.

The 1985 incarnation of the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'' franchise, a bit of a departure from the usual formula.

This show uses the globetrotting Scooby-Shaggy-Daphne-Scrappy format of the late 1970s/early 1980s shows, though it is the last show to do so, also adding a new member of the gang in the form of Flim-Flam, a smooth-talking kid con artist who runs into the gang and joins up with them.

Not to be confused with ''ThirteenGhosts''.

* GottaCatchEmAll

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The series starts with Scooby and Shaggy tricked into opening the Chest of Demons. As Vincent Price states in the opening as to why they have to do this, "Because you '''let them out!!!'''"

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Scooby gang actually battles genuine supernatural creatures rather than [[Main/Criminals crooks]] who used [[MasterOfDisguise costumes]] and

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The series starts with Scooby and Shaggy tricked into opening the Chest of Demons.

* BadFuture: In "[[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Scoob]]." Without Scooby around, the world falls to the ghosts, Daphne is a broken slave to the Time-Slime ghost, Scrappy and Flim-Flam have become his loyal servants, and Shaggy is a lone rebel that has gone crazy.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Fred Jones never appeared, but that didn't mean FrankWelker wasn't still doing voice work here and there.

--> ''This is a warning to all living mortals, that whosoever opens this Chest of Demons will release 13 of the most powerful ghosts upon the face of the Earth!''

--> ''This is a warning to living mortals, that whosoever opens this Chest of Demons will release 13 of the most powerful ghosts upon the face of the Earth!''

** This is debatable, as there was an episode or two where they could have conceivable caught others. The last episode did seem to be written with it being the finale in mind.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Several of the 13 Ghosts went after the Scooby gang directly with their worst tricks rather than wait around to be captured. Could count as GenreBlind, too, considering who's show this actually is.
* TheDanza / InkSuitActor: Vincent Van Ghoul, after Vincent Price.
* DistressedDamsel: Scooby, Daphne, Flim Flam and even Vincent Van Ghoul ended up in this role a few times.

* HeroicBSOD: In "It's a Wonderful Scoob," after a mishap with Time-Slime's scepter shows him all the horrors he's faced in his life, Scooby becomes so traumatized that he goes into a TenMinuteRetirement. Vincent shows him a BadFuture to help snap him out of it, though.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Fred Jones never appeared, but that didn't mean FrankWelker wasn't still doing voice-work here and there.

** Let's not forget Howard Morris (aka Wade the Duck of US Acres) was one-shot character, Platypus Duck. Also Bogel.
** Weerd was Laugh-In regular Arte Johnson.
* HoldingTheFloor: One of the ghosts was weak to sunlight, so the gang needed to delay the ghost until daybreak, which Van Ghoul refers to as a filibuster.
* MacGuffin: The eponymous Thirteen Ghosts.

* NoEnding: There are 13 ghosts and 13 episodes. But the first episode was just them accidentally letting them loose, and another episode didn't end with a captured ghost. So the show ended with just ''one'' ghost left, and no conclusion.

** Well, the mayor does state it were their ancestors who first trapped the ghosts, which is why the ghosts cursed them with lycanthropy.

** Well, the major does state it were their ancestors who first trapped the ghosts, which is why the ghosts cursed them with lycanthropy.

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[[caption-width:320:Only you can return the demons to the Chest... '''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero because you let them out!]]''']]

The 1985 incarnation of the ''ScoobyDoo'' franchise, a bit of a departure from the usual formula.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/13_ghosts_of_Scooby_doo_5367.jpg

** This is debatable, as there was an episode or two where they could have conceivable caught others. The last episode did seem to be written with it being the finale in mind.

* FollowTheLeader: The show followed on the coattails of ''{{Ghostbusters}}'', and it shows. Also a case of such things not always being bad.

** Let's not forget Howard Morris (aka Wade the Duck of US Acres) was one-shot character, Platypus Duck. Also Bogel.
** Weerd was Laugh-In regular Arte Johnson.

* {{MacGuffin}}: The eponymous Thirteen Ghosts.

* CharmPerson: Nicara.

** Let's not forget Howard Morris (aka Wade the Duck of US Acres) was one-shot character, Platypus Duck.