- Title: The New Scooby-Doo Movies – Ghastly Ghost Town
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Scooby Sunday takes us back to another mystery involving some meddling kids and their talking dog. Premiering in September 1972, the first episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies restructured the show into double-sized episodes written around celebrity guest-stars. The results were mixed, and the consistent quality of the animation does suffer as well. “Ghastly Ghost Town” was not one of the stronger episodes in which the gang run into the Three Stooges who have bought an old ghost town and are having trouble turning it into a theme park because of several odd events one of which includes an out-of-control robotic dinosaur.
Going a bit overboard in the slapstick comedy, the episode lacks a memorable Scooby-Doo creature. After discovering the mines underneath the town offer a rich supply of Uranium (which bizarrely local authorities allow one member of Mystery, Inc. to keep as a souvenir), our villains use a variety of means in attempts to scare off the Stooges that lack a common theme (the best of the bunch being the robotic gunslinger). While not loosing her glasses, Velma (Nicole Jaffe) does get separated from the group for much of the episode. Despite its double-length, the episode also lacks many of the features of the early Scooby-Doo with no trap, no classic hallway sequence, no montages, and no Scooby Snacks.
