Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf

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• Genre: Children's/Family
• Movie Type: Children's Fantasy
• Themes: Talking Animals, Man's Best Friend, Amateur Sleuths
• Release Year: 1988
• Run Time: 95 minutes

Plot

This made-for-TV animated feature stars only two regular members of the Mystery Machine gang: Scooby Doo and Shaggy (although Scrappy, a late addition to the series, is also present). In place of Freddy, Velma, and Daphne, we have Googie, Shaggy's girl friend. It seems that Shaggy and company are now involved in race car driving. By coincidence, in far-off Transylvania, Count Dracula is getting ready for the annual Monster Car Race -- a race that features such familiar faces as Frankenstein's Monster and his bride, the Mummy, Genghis Kong, and a pair of witches. Normally, the Werewolf is a part of the race, but he has fled this year and nothing Dracula can do will bring him back. As he desperately needs a werewolf for the race, Dracula sends the Hunch Bunch -- a pair of deformed brothers -- to America, where they transform Shaggy into a werewolf. Dracula tells Shaggy that he will take the spell off of him and return him to normal -- but only if he wins the Monster Car Race. That turns out to be easier said than done, especially since Dracula does everything in his power to see that Shaggy will lose and remain a werewolf forever. ~ Craig Butler, All Movie Guide

Cast

Hamilton Camp; Ed Gilbert; Casey Kasem - Shaggy; Don Messick - Scrappy-Doo; Brian Mitchell; Pat Musick; Alan Oppenheimer; Rob Paulsen; B.J. Ward; Frank Welker; Jim Cummings; Joanie Gerber; Mimi Seton

Credit

Joseph Barbera - Executive Producer, William Hanna - Executive Producer, Berny Wolf - Producer, Jim Ryan - Screenwriter, Ray Patterson - Supervising Director