A Good Medium is Rare

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A Good Medium is Rare
Details
Episode #	106
Air date	October 14, 1972
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Chronology
Previous episode	Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner
Next episode	Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde

A Good Medium is Rare is the sixth episode of the first season of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

Premise

When the kids return a lost dog to her owner, Phyllis Diller, they learn that someone is trying to trick her out of her jewels. Does it have something to do with Madame Zokar and the Magic Mansion?

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Inc.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley
• Phyllis Diller ^{(only appearance)}

Supporting characters:

• Lucas ^{(only appearance)}
• The Great Mysto ^{(only appearance)}
• Madame Zokar ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Magic Mansion Phantoms ^{(only appearance)(disguise)}/
  • Alberto ^{(only appearance)}
  • Alberto's accomplice
• Gargoyle (Alberto or his accomplice) ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(disguise)}

Other characters:

• Phyllis Diller's poodle ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Guard ^{(only appearance)}
• Bridge operator ^{(only appearance)}
• Phyllis Diller's neighbor ^{(only appearance)}
• Cat ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Police officer ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Locations

• Theater
• Phyllis Diller's mansion
• Cemetery
• Magic Mansion

Objects

Clues:

• TBA

Food and drinks:

• TBA

Other objects:

• TBA

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Lucas	Strange manner. Took an interest on Phyllis Diller's jewels.
The Great Mysto	Acted suspiciously. Also took an interest on Phyllis Diller's jewels.
Alberto	Suspicous manner. Also took an interest on Phyllis Diller's jewels.
Madame Zokar	Supposedly called out the spirit of Phyllis Diller's first husband which revealed the location of her jewels.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Alberto and his accomplice as the Magic Mansion Phantoms	To steal Phyllis Diller's jewels.

Cast

Don Messick	Scooby-Doo Guard Bridge operator
Casey Kasem	Shaggy Rogers
Frank Welker	Fred Jones
Heather North	Daphne Blake
Nicole Jaffe	Velma Dinkley
Phyllis Diller	Herself
John Stephenson	The Great Mysto Lucas Alberto
Joan Gerber	Madame Zokar

Full credits

The following credits are how they are seen on-screen (or as close as possible).

• Produced and Directed: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
• Associate Producer: Alex Lovy
• Story: Jameson Brewer, Tom Dagenais, Ruth Flippen, Fred Freiberger, Willie Gilbert, Bill Lutz, Larry Markes, Norman Maurer, Jack Mendelsohn, Ray Parker, Gene Thompson, Paul West, Harry Winkler
• Story Direction: Steve Clark, Mike Kawaguchi, Paul Sommer, Carl Fallberg, George Singer, Irv Spector, Howard Swift
• Voices: Nicole Jaffe, Don Messick, Frank Welker, Daws Butler, Joan Gerber, Larry Harmon, Ann Jillian, Jim MacGeorge, Mike Road, Vincent VanPatten, Casey Kasem, Heather North, John Stephenson, Henry Cordon, Florence Halop, Pat Harrington, Ted Knight, Cindy Putman, Olan Soulé, Len Weinrib
• Animation Director: Charles A. Nichols
• Production Design: Iwao Takamoto
• Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
• Layout: Bob Singer, John Ahern, Mike Arens, Ric Gonzalez, Alex Ignatiev, Ray Jacobs, Bill Lignate, Alvaro Arce, Mo Gollub, Paul Gruwett, Zygamond Jablecki, Herb Johnson, Lew Ott
• Animation: Bill Keil, Ed Aardal, Lefty Callahan, Goerge Cannata, Izzy Ellis, John Garling, Fred Grable, Joan Orbison, Jay Sarbry, Irv Spence, Carlo Vinci, Ed Barge, Lars Calonius, Rudy Cataldi, Hugh Fraser, Bob Goe, Dick Lundy, Ed Parks, Ken Southworth, Dave Tendlar, Xenia
• Backgrounds: F. Montelaegre, Gary Niblett, Dave High
• Titles: Iraj Paran
• Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
• Musical Supervision: Paul DeKorte
• Technical Supervisor: Frank Paiker
• Ink and Paint Supervisor: Jayne Barbera
• Xerography: Robert ‘Tiger’ West
• Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
• Supervising Film Editor: Larry Cowan
• Film Editors: Earl Bennet, Ron Sawade, Pat Foley
• Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
• Post Production: Joed Eaton
• Camera: George Epperson, John Aardal, Dennis Weaver, Ralph Migliori
• A Hanna-Barbera Production
• RCA Sound Recording
• © 1972 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.
• a hanna-barbera production

Notes/trivia

• The episode is a pun on how one can cook meat, usually steak.
• Phyllis Diller was actually married two times, to Sherwood Diller (m. 1939-1965), and Warde Donovan (m. 1965-1975). She was married to her second husband when she appeared in this episode.
• Ms. Diller passed away on August 20, 2012.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

• Shaggy's shirt is colored grey and his neck as Daphne's hair when the mYstery Machine drives to the Magic Mansion.
• Shaggy and Scooby try to squeeze in the Mystery Machine from its closed door when the shot is from the inside.
  • Also when Shaggy gets scared by the gaint spider on the wheel, his head goes through the car roof.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• It was never revealed who the Gargoyle was.

Home media

• Due to most likely expensive royalties owed to Ms. Diller (her estate as of 2012) in lending her likeness and voice to a fictionalised version of herself, Warner Home Video are unable to release this episode onto DVD.

Quotes

Previous episode:	Series:	Next episode:
Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner	The New Scooby-Doo Movies Season 1	Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde