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The Ghostly Creep from the Deep

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The Ghostly Creep from the Deep is the twelfth episode of the first season of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

Premise[]

When the gang become lost in a swamp, they meet up with the Harlem Globetrotters. They soon find that the ghost of Redbeard the Pirate and his crew are trying to get rid of them, but why? And who is that strange local hermit?

Synopsis[]

While traveling, Scooby and the gang become lost in a swamp. Fred then asks Shaggy to look for a road sign, but once he looks back, Shaggy discovers that a swamp monster is after them. Fred speeds up the Mystery Machine but it is going so fast that Fred can't stop when the road comes to an end, and it gets stuck in swamp mud. Then the gang see a mysterious ghost pirate ship, but are not sure if they really saw it. The situation worsens as the swamp monster approaches the gang but when it comes too close, they realize it's only a van, and the Harlem Globetrotters are in it.

Once they all get to know each other, they decide what to do next. An inn is present there and they all decide to spend the night at the inn, but an old man, named Swampy Pete, warns them to stay away from this place because of the ghost of the pirate Redbeard and his crew. The gang do not heed Swampy Pete's warning and go in the inn, meanwhile Meadowlark with Shaggy and Scooby decide to bring the Globetrotters's basketballs. The inn is closed so they break the door and go in the inn. Inside the inn Shaggy starts to joke about no one in the inn except chickens, but a very evil and villainous laughter is heard with footsteps. They all hide and then it is revealed that it was Swampy Pete who is scaring the Scooby and the others. After sometime, the laughter is no longer heard and then they play games in order to divert their minds. They all get tired and go to sleep. One by one each male is on their guard if someone comes. Meanwhile, outside on his ship, Redbeard realizes that someone is at the inn, so he and his crew decide to scare whoever is at the inn.

Near dawn, Swampy Pete comes warning that the Ghost of Redbeard and his crew are coming. They all get up and hide. Once inside the pirates get surrounded by Scooby and the Gang when threatening Shaggy who is found by the pirates first. A small but funny fight breaks out to defeat the pirates, but once dawn breaks, Velma  questions the pirates, claiming that if they are ghosts then they should be vanishing because dawn has arrived. At the same moment, a helicopter is seen circling the surround area and then the pirates escape via smoke and switching the lights off. Once they turn on the lights, Scooby and the others cannot figure out how the pirates escaped since all doors were locked. Then, Scooby and Shaggy accidentally find a trap door, but fall in a motorboat which the pirates are escaping in. They cover themselves with a red sheet which was already in the boat. The Pirates then head off to their hideout. Meanwhile, up at the inn, all are distraught that where Shaggy and Scooby has disappeared. Velma also accidentally finds the trap door and sees more boats down and comes to the conclusion that this was the way the Pirates escaped. Then they see the boat with the pirates and see Scooby with a sign reading "Help" with his paw.

Being on the boat, Scooby and Shaggy leave a trail of Scooby Snacks, hoping the others would find them, but the trail is being eaten by fish. Back at the area below the inn where the pirates escaped, Fred and the others take a motorboat to follow the trail of the biscuits being eaten by the fish, hence they follow the fish. The pirates then arrive to their hideout, hid behind a large leaf curtain. The hideout has a barge and oil ridges. Then Scooby sneezes and he and Shaggy are caught, but they escape and hide in the ship after the pirates' unsuccessful attempts to catch them. Shaggy also pushes a lever which makes the barge popout sails and mast. Fred and the others finally come to the curtain which hides the hideout. There, Swampy Pete is radioing someone. They can not decide where to go, but a scream of Shaggy helps them find the hideout. They all go through the curtain which snaps and falls on them. This makes the pirates scared since the curtain makes Fred and the others appear like a green swamp monster. But they are unveiled and the pirates again try to capture Scooby and the others. During this Shaggy gets mangled in a pipe and the pipe is broken spewing a black liquid. This time the pirates are successful in cornering Scooby and the others but Swampy Pete helps them escape. During their escape Scooby accidentally pulls the lever that pops in the sail and mast and a cover of the barge, trapping Redbeard and his crew.

At the end Swampy Pete reveals himself to be a Harbor Patrol officer that had been after Redbeard and his gang for sometime, and Scooby and the gang helped him capture them. It is revealed that Redbeard and his crew were not ghosts, but oil pirates in disguise in order to tap oil from the ridges and sell on their own. The ghost set-up was to keep people away from the area while he and his crew did the dirty work. Then, they all go to the Globetrotters game in the police helicopter.

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

  • Ghost of Redbeard (only appearance)(oil pirates's disguise)
  • Ghost of Redbeard's crew (only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)(oil pirates' disguises)

Other characters:

  • Owl (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Alligator (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Cows (first appearance)(no lines)
  • Granny (mentioned)
  • Dribble (mentioned)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/reason
Swampy Pete Creepy and scary.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/reason
Oil pirates as the Ghost of Redbeard and his crew To steal oil.

Cast[]

Don Messick Scooby-Doo
Swampy Pete
Pete Dugan
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers
Frank Welker Fred Jones
Heather North Daphne Blake
Nicole Jaffe Velma Dinkley
Eddie Anderson B.J. Mason
Stu Gilliam Curly Neal
Scatman Crothers Meadowlark Lemon
Johnny Williams Geese Ausbie
Richard Elkins Gip Gipson
Robert DoQui Pablo Robertson
Michael Bell Redbeard's Ghost
Ghost pirate 2

Full credits[]

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


Notes/trivia[]

  • This is the first of three appearances of the Harlem Globetrotters making them the guest stars with the most episodes; they next appear in The Lochness Mess, followed by the season 2 debut, The Mystery of Haunted Island, respectively.
  • This is one of the few episodes of the Scooby-Doo series where none of the villains are unmasked at all.
  • One of the pirates is named “Slippery Sam”.
  • The character models of Redbeard and his henchman (with the exception of the third one) are recycled from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode Go Away Ghost Ship, except they are all white. No reference is made to the previous case, probably to avoid an already awkward situation.
  • Footage used in the basketball sequence is lifted from the December 5, 1970 episode of Harlem Globetrotters: Shook-Up Sheriff.
  • On Primetime airings, the scene of Swampy Pete spotting Redbeard's ship is removed after the point where Curly Joe volunteers to stand watch. The scene cuts to Curly on night patrol.

Miscellaneous[]

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]

  • The Gang break down a door to get in the inn, but when Redbeard and his crew escape, all the doors are locked and intact.
  • Pabs said that the Globetrotters' basket was the blue bucket and the gang's basket was the brown and pink pot. But Scooby scored two points in the blue bucket.
  • Why they had to re-use the Redbeard character I'll never know. Making three more random pirates wouldn't be that hard. Oh well at least they learned their lesson going forward.
  • On the outside sign of the stadium, it says the Harlem Globetrotters are playing the Miami Marauders, but the scoreboard has the opposing team name as the Skyscrapers.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Greek Το Τρομερό Τέρας του Βάλτου
Το Φάντασμα από τα Βάθη του Βάλτου 		The Horrible Monster of the Swamp
The Ghost from the Depths of the Swamp
Hungarian Lidércek és lidérfények Wraiths and will-o'-the-wisp
Polish Statek widmo The Ghost Ship

Home media[]

Quotes[]


External links[]

  • Buy from iTunes (US)


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