A Highland Fling With a Monstrous Thing is the twenty-ninth episode of The Scooby-Doo Show and the fifth episode of the third season, which re-used the name Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Premise
The Mystery Inc. heads to Scotland to help Velma Dinkley's friend Aggie MacDuff, whose ancestral castle home (which she's turned into a tourist attraction) is being haunted by the ghost of her great grandfather Finnyan MacDuff, who in turn has summoned the Loch Ness Monster to help him scare away potential tourists.
Finnyan Macduff
Synopsis
The gang travels to Scotland to visit Velma's friend, Aggie MacDuff, who lives in an ancient castle that has been turned into a tourist attraction. On the way there, the gang passes by the Loch, where they see a ghostly Scottish highlander playing the bagpipes and a huge lochness monster in the lake. They stop at a nearby inn to ask directions, where the inn keeper warns them to stay away from McDuff Castle. They ignore his warnings and head to the castle, where Aggie tells them that a monster and a ghost has been scaring all the tourists away. They meet her assistant, Mr. Jamie Craigmore, who claimed to have seen the ghost. The ghost happens to be Aggie's great grandfather, Finnyan McDuff.
The gang heads to sleep, when Shaggy and Scooby are terrorized by the lochness monster. The rest of the gang appears just in time to see the ghost of Finnyan McDuff stading on one of the castle turrents. Fred, Velma and Daphne decide to search the turrent for clues, while Shaggy and Scooby search the rest of the castle. Shaggy and Scooby find themselves in the library, where they find a note that says "Switzer and 100 wristwatches", a clue. Meanwhile, Fred, Velma, Daphne, and Aggie search the turrent and find a weather report and a roll of wire. They meet up with Shaggy and Scooby, who have been chased by the ghost. Aggie then shows the gang a section of the castle that has been closed off for centuries.
Even though that section of the castle has been closed off, there are footprints down there, meaning someone has recently been there. They come to an old door, where there is fresh oil on the hinge. It is there they discover hundreds of boxes of wristwatches, stamped "Made in Switzerland". They discover what is going on and decide to trap the ghost and the Lochness Monster. Scooby begins playing the bagpipes, summoning the lochness monster, who turns out to be a mechanical monster that is controlled by the sound of the bagpipes. They trap the Ghost of Finnyan MacDuff, who turns out to be Jamie Craigmore. Jamie was smuggling in wristwatches and other goods from Switzerland using a minisub under the lochness monster. He used the legend of Finnyan McDuff in order to scare away interfering tourists. He was presumably arrested.
Cast and Characters
- Frank Welker as Fred Jones
- Don Messick as Scooby-Doo
- Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
- Heather North as Daphne Blake
- Patricia Stevens as Velma Dinkley
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