Season 1
CBS (HBO Max)
January 10, 1970
Episode 16 – “A Night of Fright is No Delight”
The mystery gang is boating to a creepy mansion on an island because he’s an heir to a million dollar fortune. The catch, the gang find out, is that he must spend a night in the haunted house. If he doesn’t stay then he doesn’t share in the inheritance.
The names of the characters in this are more than a bit leading “Mr. Crawls” and “Mr. Creeps” lol, yeah, those are normal names. The nice thing about this episode is there are a lot of possible characters offered, so that solving the mystery of who is really haunting the house provide more possibilities than most episodes.
There are a few signature gags like when Scooby, Shaggy and Velma discover a cave filled with old confederate items and a suit flies up and at them. They run away at first until Scooby gathers courage and unmasks the source.
Is it one of the other heirs responsible for haunting the group, wanting to keep more of the prized loot? Why do they have to stay the night? What’s with the secret passages under the house? These questions and more are answered on this ghostly episode.
Summary
Good cast of characters and possible villains, some humorous gags and Scooby and Shaggy’s antics front and center.
Overall episode rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Interesting series of reviews you’ve been doing! May I suggest you review “Night of the Living Doo”?
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Hadn’t heard about this one before. Just checked a bit of it out on YouTube (seems like a smattering of everything is available there). What’s wrong with Scoob’s voice?!? Good to see the stalwart Frank Welker voicing Fred. Also no Casey Casem or Mathew Lillard as Shaggy? 2001, Casem was still alive. Hmm …
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I’m not sure! It was a special that aired on Cartoon Network, and was somewhat of a parody of the Scooby-Doo tropes. It also had Gary Coleman and David Cross in supporting roles! You can hear more of my thoughts on the short on my latest post.
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It was nominated for an Annie Award according to Google. Whatever an Annie award is, anyway (I looked that up, too).
Good post you made: https://lighttrainreviews.com/2020/10/15/6-of-my-favorite-halloween-tv-specials-out-of-order-octerror-2020/
There are a ton of Halloween-themed specials. Next to Christmas, I think it’s right up there with the most holiday-themed movie/show/etc created.
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I just looked up Casey Kasem’s Wikipedia and he lived in Gig Harbor, WA. I didn’t know that either. That’s only 30 miles or so away from us.
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