The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw

The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw is the tenth episode of the third season of The Scooby-Doo Show, and the thirty-fourth episode overall in the series.

Premise
While visiting a botanical garden, the kids confront a seven-foot-tall preying mantis.

Synopsis
The gang goes to visit one of Velma's professor friends, Professor Greer, at Vulture's Claw Botanical Gardens, as they are "in the area". They arrive only to be warned by the caretaker, and discover that there is a preying mantis wandering around the gardens along with the humans. The mantis has scared most of the Professor's assistants and associates away, and only a few remain. The gang decide to help Greer to solve the mystery and rid the gardens of the mantis; it is revealed that Greer himself is the Mantis, as he wished to scare competition away until his purchase of the gardens was finalized; he had discovered oil on the property.

Villains

 * Mantis

Locations

 * Vulture's Claw
 * Vulture's Claw Botanical Gardens
 * Professor Greer's Mansion

Notes/trivia

 * Starting from this one the episodes of this TV season no longer re-used the name Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and aired under the Scooby's All-Stars block.

Home media

 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Third Season (DVD)
 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Series (DVD)