Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
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| Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers | |
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 Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers |
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| Running time | 94 minutes |
| Written by | Jim Ryan |
| Directed by | Paul Sommer Carl Urbano |
| Produced by | Joseph Barbera (executive producer) William Hanna (executive producer) |
| Starring | Don Messick Casey Kasem Sorrell Booke Rob Paulsen Ronnie Schell Jerry Houser Arte Johnson Victoria Carroll William Callaway Michael Rye Hamilton Camp June Foray |
| Music by | Sven Libaek |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Release date(s) | 1987 |
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Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers is a 1987 telefilm produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, distributed by Great American Broadcasting, and starring characters from their Saturday morning cartoon series Scooby-Doo. The film stars the voices of Casey Kasem, Don Messick, Sorrell Booke, and Rob Paulsen, and was written by Jim Ryan and directed by Paul Sommer and Carl Urbano.
The first full-length film to feature the Scooby-Doo characters, it was released as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series of telefilms, which included two other Scooby-Doo films, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School and Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf. All three Scooby entries in the Superstars 10 series feature Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo alone involved with stories that feature real ghosts and monsters, similar to the early 1980s version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo.
[edit] Plot
Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers centers around Shaggy's inheritance of a southern mansion from his recently departed Uncle Beaureguard. No sooner do he, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo arrive at the plantation do they find it is haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. Scrappy suggests they call ghost exterminators, and the trio end up appointing the Boo Brothers, three ghosts whose mannerisms closely resemble those of The Three Stooges (When Shaggy asks them how can they be ghost exterminators when they themselves are ghosts, one of the brothers replies "It takes one to catch one, you know!"). However, the Boo Brothers prove to be inept ghost catchers, and often find themselves in the way of Shaggy and the dogs.
While trying to eliminate the ghosts from his new residence, Shaggy discovers that his uncle has hidden a fortune in diamonds in various places throughout the plantation, with a clue at each location for how to find the next. Thus, he, Scooby, and Scrappy begin a quest to find the hidden treasure, while attempting to avoid and/or rid themselves of the Confederate ghost, who is also after the diamonds.
Other obstacles Shaggy, Scooby, and Scrappy encounter include Sheriff Rufus Buzby, who was impersonated by his twin brother at the beginning (the real sheriff has a mustache, whereas the sheriff Shaggy meets does not. This was only revealed when Shaggy telephones the real sheriff and unmasks the first one as the monster, who the real sheriff revealed to be 'my no goody brother', T.J. Buzby), and also who is on the trail of an escaped gorilla, and Sadie Mae Scroggins, who has a crush on Shaggy, much to her gun-toting brother Billy Bob's disapproval.
[edit] Cast
- Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
- Don Messick as Scooby and Scrappy Doo
- Sorrell Booke as Sheriff Rufus Buzby/T.J. Buzby
- Rob Paulsen as Shreako, Dispatcher
- Ronnie Schell as Freako, The Demonstrator Ghost
- Jerry Houser as Meako
- Arte Johnson as Farquard, The Skull Ghost
- Victoria Carroll as Sadie-Mae Scroggins
- William Callaway as Billy-Bob Scroggins, Beauregard's Ghost, The Ape, The Ghost in the Attic, The Headless Horseman
- Michael Rye as The Mayor
- Hamilton Camp as The Ghostly Laugh (uncredited)
- June Foray as The Poor Old Witch (uncredited)
