Scooby Doo, Where Are You! "Hassle in the Castle" #1.3 (1969) (TV)

Love the ghost in this one, 24 August 2015

During a particularly thick fog, the gang are out in a boat when they run aground on an island. They go looking for help in an old creepy castle, but end up finding a ghost instead. 

I've loved this episode since 1969. The ghost in this one is great. I can remember my brother and I trying to use our sheets to do a ghost like the one in Hassle in the Castle, but failing miserably. We could never get our ghosts to look like the iconic flowing ghost imaged here. And that sound. The cackling howl (for lack of a better description) would be re-used repeatedly in future Scooby Doo episodes. Finally, the magician bit with Scooby and the hat - classic. Overall, a lot of fun.

Looking at it now, it's hard to apply grown-up logic to an episode like Hassle in the Castle. As an example, why did the bad guy go to so much trouble to scare people away from a deserted old house on a deserted creepy island? Were there that many people just dropping by that he felt the need to create such an elaborate means of scaring them off? And why not just help Scooby and the gang get off the island? They didn't want to be there in the first place.

7/10