Lighthouse Keeper Scooby originally aired on September 19, 1981 and is the second part of the first episode of the second season of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show.
In this episode we see the gang stranded in an old lighthouse which is haunted by a playful ghost.
Lighthouse Keeper Scooby
The episode begins with the gang fishing, and the Scooby gang having no luck. A storm rushes in and the gang end up stranded near an abandoned lighthouse.
Rushing inside they discover it’s haunted by a ghostly lighthouse keeper. Scrappy is eager to fight the ghost, and the lighthouse keeper seems to be having a great time trying to scare Scooby and Shaggy.
Scrappy turns the tables on the Lighthouse Keeper ghost by chasing him around in a old-timey diving suit similar to the one Captain Cutler wore in A Clue for Scooby-Doo.
More tricks come into play until Scooby scares off the ghost with some shadow puppetry. The ghost takes off in Shaggy’s motorboat – so at the end of the day, I don’t know how successful they were as how are they going to leave this abandoned lighthouse?
My Review
I give this episode a 4 out of 10. I liked instead of playing dress up to distract the ghost, the gang turned the tables on the ghost by trying to scare him instead. The lighthouse keeper was a wee bit spooky, but more silly than anything else.
My score might seem high but, I found this one to be more creative than a lot of episodes we saw in the first season.
Join me next week for Scooby’s Roots.
