*Updated* Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost Special Edition Blu-Ray Sets Releasing on November 1710/9/2026
After the success of last year's Zombie Island collector's edition, Warner Archive has announced that they will be releasing two different special edition Blu-Rays for Witch's Ghost. A Collector's Edition, featuring some extra special features not on the original DVD or Blu-Ray, is now available for pre-order. A special Signature Edition that is hand signed by Scott Innes is also being sold on MovieZyng. Only 500 total copies are available. Shortly after publishing this post, the Signature Edition has sold out. MovieZyng is offering 10% off the Collector's Edition right now. Special features on both sets include a "Hex Girl" music video performed by Scott Innes, an interview with Scott Innes, the original trailer, and a commentary by Shawn Chatfield, Derrick Acosta and Rocco Botte of Mega64. I presume that the "Making Of" featurette and the music video are the same as on the original DVD. The set will be released on November 17, 2026. Here's an image of the back cover: 
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 "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" has become one of the most classic Scooby-Doo episodes of all time. The episode borrows from a couple different classic horror films for its premise including today's spotlighted film, And Then There Were None. It's a 1945 film adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel of the same name, which was published in 1939.
The film involves ten strangers called to an island by a mysterious man named U.N. Owen (a clear tongue-in-cheek pun on the word "unknown"). Upon arriving to the island, the ten people hear a recorded message from Mr. Owen accusing them all of murder. They then discover they can't leave the island for the weekend, because the boat that brought them there will not return until Monday morning. The strangers discover a centerpiece of ten indigenous children. They soon realize this correlates with a creepy nursery rhyme that tells of the children dying one by one. One by one, each of the ten guests is murdered in the same way that each child dies in the nursery rhyme. A brief aside - omg, that was such a horrible nursery rhyme! I can't believe it was actually a real-life song sung to children. It's so unfit for children, not to mention offensive. The rest of the film involves an eerie mystery where the remaining guests try to solve the mystery before they too are killed by Mr. Owen. "A Night of Fright of No Delight" gets the 'night in a haunted house' part of its plot from a different horror film, The Cat and the Canary (1927). However, the episode's premise still generously borrows from several major plot points of And Then There Were None. The plot of the relatives disappearing one by one is clearly inspired by this film. The film also features a piano as a core explanation of the disappearances. In "A Night of Fright Is No Delight," a riddle played on the organ reveals the location of the heirs. And Then There Were None's plot is centered around the nursery rhyme being played on the piano, which is discovered to be the key to how the killer is offing his victims. I watched the film last weekend, and overall I enjoyed it. It's a great mystery that keeps you guessing until the end. The film is a bit more intense than "A Night of Fright Is No Delight," as the film does show people being poisoned and stabbed, but ultimately it's nothing too scary for the average Scooby fan. I really liked how the atmosphere builds throughout the film! It gets much creepier as you get towards the end, especially during the night scenes where they light candles and in the scenes by the lake. The creepy house they stay in also feels straight out of a Scooby episode! It was cool to check out a film that inspired one of my favorite Scooby episodes! I know this one is a lot of people's faves, so I'd recommend checking out the film if you're interested in seeing the inspiration behind this episode. Next month, I'm going to be checking out a classic film that inspired "Who Was That Cat Creature I Saw You with Last Night?" Our November movie is going to be 1973's The Cat Creature, which I'll be discussing on November 6. If you're interested in watching with me, the film is currently available for free on Tubi. Note that the film is rated TV-14. If you watched And Then There Was None, I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on the film in the comments!  I'm taking a little diversion from the remaining poll suggestions. With the missing King Kong scene being found on Tuesday, it feels timely to do a poll on the missing New Scooby-Doo Movies scenes. King Kong put us just over the halfway point in terms of missing scenes. Seven episodes had two minutes of missing footage, and we've now found the scenes from four of them. This week's poll is a two-parter: the first question asks about your favorite of the missing scenes that have been found, and I also included a second question about which of the remaining three episodes you're most excited to see next.
If you haven't seen the missing scenes yet (or want to rewatch them), you can watch all of them on this playlist. Both scenes from "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall" are in the same video. Marcie rises to the top of Velma's love interest poll for last week. Here are the full results: Who is your favorite love interest of Velma's? Marcie - 20 Shaggy - 10 Winsor - 8 Johnny Bravo - 7 Patrick - 5 Ben Ravencroft - 4 Beau Neville - 3 Coco Diablo - 3 Daphne - 2 Adam - 1 Fred - 0 Sam Winchester - 0  Update 10/3: Paramount has announced that the merged company will be named Skydance.
The Paramount WB merger has seen an unprecedented amount of legal battles since it was first announced in December. It has become the most expensive takeover in the history of Hollywood at $111 billion dollars. Today, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín officially approved the merger, and closed the litigation case opened a few months back. The merger has no more hurdles, and will be finalized this coming Tuesday, October 6. David Ellison has immediately appointed Ynon Kreiz as CEO of Paramount-WB. Casey Bloys will oversee streaming. Zaslav will no longer be involved with WB, and will walk away with $550 million dollars now that the merger has closed. The deal forbids Paramount-WB from selling off either company in the state for at least five years. Paramount-WB are required to release 32 films theatrically in the first two years. This news comes from Variety.  Tomorrow is October, which means it is time for the annual Scoobtober celebration! The full slate of monthly events was announced by PR News Wire. Similarly to last year, the month is filled with many smaller festivities, rather than a big event like when we were still getting content in the early 2020s.
I have to admit I'm disappointed with the rollout of Scoobtober these past couple years. I wish WB would go back to only listing anything new coming out. The press release seems like AI slop to me. It reads as if they asked AI to generate anything current related to Scooby, and then copy/pasted it as the press release without checking anything. I think it's disrespectful to the fans to present the info in this way. Looking through the paragraphs-long press release, there are only five new things happening in Scoobtober. The rest are random brand collabs that were announced a while back, or upcoming things that aren't even happening in October. I hope that moving forward, WB will make these announcements in a way that actually respects fans instead of a poorly-edited info dump. Here is a much simpler to read version of the press release that removes anything that's already been announced: The biggest event is, of course, the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Complete Series Blu-Ray on October 20. Despite the long press release, this is surprisingly mentioned nowhere. The only other release will be a vinyl of the Scooby-Doo Lo-Fi album, which released last fall. An exact release date was not announced, but it will come out in mid-October. The month also features several new Scooby collabs with various brands. The Tiki Solitaire TriPeaks mobile game is hosting a Scooby-Doo themed challenge from September 22-November 23. Nestle Toll House has released Scooby-Doo Halloween cookie dough. A contest is also being run through Scooby-Doo's official Instagram beginning October 1. Fans can enter a sweepstakes to see Simple Plan on Warped Tour on November 14. Three people will win VIP tickets, plus travel vouchers towards their hotel and flight. As usual Cartoon Network, Boomerang and MeTV Toons will be running Scooby content all month long. Here's the schedule: Programming Cartoon Network
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MeTV Toons October 4 - Ghoul School October 11 - Reluctant Werewolf October 18 - Boo Brothers October 25 - A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle & Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hydes (this may be a re-airing of the Svengoolie-hosted show from last year) The legendary missing King Kong scene from "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hydes" has been found! The scene was discovered by the team of Scooby fans on Reddit who have been searching for the missing scenes all year. They had previously found the missing scenes from "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall," and also helped in finding another 30-second missing scene from "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hydes" this summer.
The King Kong scene was found through an off-air VHS collector, VHSCollectorKyle. Kyle had a 1986 recording of the episode from WMSN in Madison, WI, which contained the missing scene. It's worth noting that a number of the missing scenes have been found via 1986 airings from this station, including Batman's counterfeiting speech from "The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair" and "The Secret of Shark Island." The scene has not aired on television since 1989, and was not included on the 2019 DVD release of the episode. I want to give a huge thank you to the team of Reddit fans searching for these scenes. For those unaware of what they've been doing to get these scenes, they've put so much work into this. They've been reaching out to collectors who have copies of old 1980s TV broadcasts, contacted places like the Library of Congress, and done a lot to raise awareness about the missing scenes in general. It's incredible they've found four scenes this year! Now that this scene has been found, we only have three episodes left with missing scenes. "Wednesday Is Missing," "A Good Medium Is Rare" and "The Phantom of the Country Music Hall" each still have two minutes of footage missing. It's worth noting that the Reddit team has determined the missing scene from "Wednesday Is Missing" is in the second half of the episode. They were able to get a tape of the first half of the episode, and there is no missing scene in the first 22 minutes.  This wasn't a poll anybody suggested, but I thought it made sense to do given we did one for Shaggy. We've already done a poll for Scooby. I think Fred and Daphne would be cheat codes to winning each other's, so I don't think it's worth doing a poll for them.
Since a couple of these are obscure: Adam is from Knight Time Terror. Daphne and Fred are included because of the overcomplicated romance plot in Velma where she was in love with all of the main characters lol. Here are the results for last week's poll: Who is your favorite person Shaggy has dated? Crystal - 42 Googie - 15 Velma - 12 Mary Jane - 5 Amelia - 2 Betty - 1 Rachel - 0 Gigi - 0  We are kicking off a brand new post series on the blog! Scooby-Doo, Who Inspired You?does a deep dive into the pop culture, and classic films/television that inspired our favorite cartoon canine. This week, we're taking a look at a classic character who inspired Shaggy's appearance and personality.
It's been well-publicized that the sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis served as inspiration for Scooby. When the creators of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? were developing the characters, they took significant inspiration from Maynard G. Krebs when writing Shaggy. Maynard was played by Bob Denver, who you might recognize as playing Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. Looking at the picture above, the physical similarities are pretty obvious: both have goaties, have baggy clothing, and their hair is messy and, well, shaggy lol. Maynard Krebs is commonly thought of as the first beatnik on television. Shaggy and Maynard's similarities in personality are less discussed. Shaggy's tendency to use hipster slang and buzzwords comes from Maynard, who would often speak in a laidback way using hippie vernacular. You may find it surprising that Shaggy's tendency towards fear also comes from Maynard, although not in the way you'd expect. Instead of being afraid of ghosts and monsters, Maynard is terrified of social convention: specifically marriage, police and especially work. A running joke of Dobie Gillis is that Maynard cowers when anyone mentions the idea of work, often repeating the word in disbelief. Sometimes he will also yelp, faint, run away, or jump with fear. This may have inspired the gag of Shaggy jumping into Scooby's arms. I've never seen the show before, but this is a hilarious running joke imo. I will be sure to keep Maynard's strategy in my back pocket the next time I have to do something I don't want to do lol. That about wraps up the first post of this new series! Next time, I'm going to watch a movie that inspired one of the most classic episodes of the franchise. I actually have another small aspect of this post series that I haven't yet announced. Once a month, I'm going to be watching a classic horror movie that inspired an episode of the franchise. In the post, I'll talk about how it inspired the Scooby episode, and then share a short review of the movie. If anyone else is interested in watching along and sharing their review in the comments, I'll be doing this "book club" style and announcing what film I'll be watching that month in advance. I'm going to try to keep it to movies available for free. Eventually, I might also do the occasional book, as mystery novels like Nancy Drew and the Famous Five have been cited for inspiring aspects of Scooby. Our October movie will be And Then There Were None from 1945! It is a film based on the Agatha Christie novel that inspired "A Night of Fright Is No Delight." The movie is available for free on Amazon Prime Video and the Roku Channel. For those who don't have either of those, it is available on the site Xumo Play, which is a legal free streaming service. For those who want to watch along, I'll be discussing the film on Friday, October 9.  For those wondering, Betty from the Puppy Hour short "Double Trouble Date." The vote for last week's poll was pretty unanimous. As one of the people who voted for that option, I'm really hopeful Warner Archive releases The Scooby-Doo Show on Blu-Ray next! It's so silly that four of the episodes from that show are still unreleased, despite it being one of the most popular shows in the franchise.
What Scooby show would you like to see released next on Blu-Ray? The Scooby-Doo Show - 26 The New Scooby-Doo Movies: The Complete Series - 10 Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - 9 The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries - 6 What's New Scooby-Doo? - 6 The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo - 4 The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show - 3 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - 3 Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! - 3 Scooby-Doo & Guess Who? - 2 The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show - 1 The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour - 1 Velma - 1 The Richie Rich / Scooby-Doo Hour - 0  At long last, the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The Complete Series Blu-Ray set is available for pre-order. Warner Archive has partnered with MovieZyng to release the set. Similarly to the Zombie Island Blu-Ray last fall, MovieZyng is the only place where the set is currently available. This is potentially a result of the production issues that have gotten the set pushed back twice. Thanks to Jinkies for the info! The back cover has also been revealed on their site. Check it out below:  |
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