The Scooby-Doo Show (1976) s01e05 Episode Script

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Blood, blood. l must have blood.
But, like, l'll settle for potato salad,
fried chicken, corn on the cob
pumpkin pie, and for dessert,
just a touch of pizza.
l mean, like, being a vampire
really gives you an appetite.
Delicious.
Well, Shaggy, are you enjoying
our Halloween party?
We sure are, Mrs. Crane.
Like, thanks for inviting us.
Oh, any friends of my niece, Beth,
are always welcome at Crane Manor.
-Thank you.
-You're welcome.
But wasn't there a second dog with you?
Sure, Scooby Dum,
Scooby-Doo's brother.
-Where is Scooby Dum?
-Here.
You called?
-Scooby-Dooby-Dum.
-Scooby-Dooby-Doo.
Oh, it's nice to see everybody
having so much fun.
Hey, like, look.
They're bobbing for apples.
Bobbing for apples?
Come on, Fred, catch an apple.
l'm trying, but all l'm getting is wet.
Ready for me and my secret weapon?
-What secret weapon, Shaggy?
-Like, watch.
The champion.
Hey, that's my apple.
Wow, Scoob, you sounded like
a real horse that time.
Thanks.
-You do that?
-Do what?
Nope.
-Zoinks, a headless horseman.
-A headless horseman.
-Who?
-A headless horseman.
Oh, that headless horseman.
Like, grab this.
Come on, let's tell the others
about the galloping ghoul around here.
Gee, Beth, this is a swell party.
And what a beautiful house.
This is our library.
Say, who's that old gentleman?
He's my great-great-grandfather,
lchabod Crane.
You mean the lchabod Crane?
Who lived here in Sleepy Hollow until--?
Until one dark night,
along the road to the cemetery
he found himself being chased by--
-A headless horseman.
-That's right, Shaggy.
-But how did you know?
-How?
Right. He practically ran over us.
And the horse was-- Was all glowing.
And the rider's head was like--
-Like that pumpkin.
-Oh, the Headless Horseman.
He's come back to haunt us.
-Haunt you?
-The whole story is right here.
During the Revolutionary War,
a tremendous battle was fought
right where we are now.
ln the middle of the battle
the revolutionaries fired a cannon
at the enemy
and hit one of the bravest
Hessian soldiers, taking off his head.
They never found it.
l wouldn't guess they'd looked very hard.
His headless body
was burned in a cemetery
right down the road from here.
And the legend says
that on dark, foggy nights
the Headless Horseman rides out,
searching for a head.
Which is why he chased
my great-great-grandfather lchabod Crane.
What happened to lchabod?
We don't know. Nobody in Sleepy Hollow
ever saw him again.
Do you suppose the Horseman's
come back to get a new head?
This is a masquerade party, remember?
They probably saw
one of the costumed guests.
Come on, you scaredys.
Let's join the party.
Anyway, if he did come and had a face,
he wouldn't dare show it in here.
-What's happened?
-Like, maybe you didn't pay the electric bill.
l want a head.
lt's true. The Headless Horseman
has come back.
-Let's get out of here.
-Help.
-Run for it.
-Wait for me, Henry.
Hurry. Hurry.
Well, it looks like the party's over.
Guess we'd better be going too, right?
Wrong. That phantom
isn't getting away with this.
l was afraid you'd say that, Fred.
We're gonna track him down
and find out what's behind his appearance.
Okay, let's get out of these costumes
and search this house for clues.
Shaggy, you and Velma take the upstairs.
l'll remember this Halloween
the rest of my life.
lf l have a rest of my life.
We don't want him to hear us.
Then why don't we, like,
go the other way?
We'll work our way down the hall.
Check that room first, Shaggy.
Look, it's pumpkin-head.
lt's old pumpkin-puss himself.
lt's just a raincoat, Shag.
That bowling ball on the shelf
must have looked like a head.
Bowling ball?
l can't help it. lt, like, needs oil.
He's around the corner.
We've got him now.
-But l don't want him.
-One thing l hate is a coward.
Now get going.
Oh, no. We've been
following a bowling ball.
Yup. lt's a bowling ball, all right.
Like, Dum did it again.
And with all that noise, there's no chance
of trapping the horseman up here anymore.
You go get Dum,
and l'll meet you downstairs.
Okay.
Scooby Dum, where are you?
Scooby-Dooby-Dum.
Scooby, that's not your cousin.
That's your reflection.
That's me, all right.
Zoinks, it's old pumpkin-puss.
-He's coming after us.
-Yeah.
Look, we wrapped old pumpkin-puss
like a salami, Scoob.
We did?
Correction, it's only
a dressmaker's dummy.
Dressmaker's dummy?
-lt's Scooby-Dooby-Dum.
-Scooby-Dooby-Doo.
Okay, fellas, okay.
Now, let's get out of here.
Zoinks, it's him.
l want a head.
-Ecuse me.
-Give me your head.
Sorry.
Then l'll take yours.
Like, my head?
Oh, no, you don't want this.
Bad material.
Sloppy workmanship, look.
Hasn't worked since the day l got it.
Always loose.
No, you'd be very unhappy
with this head.
No luck upstairs.
We looked all through the rooms.
The Hestless Horse-- l mean--
l mean, the Horseless--
The Headless Horseman. Upstairs.
ln the sewing room.
-We caught him.
-Yup.
Terrific. Come on, everybody.
There he is, old pumpkin-head.
Oh, he got away.
Maybe he did this time,
but he left us a clue. Look.
-These wood chips.
-Clue?
Sorry, Scooby.
That sounded like your aunt's in trouble.
Come on.
His hand came out from the wall.
lt was ghostly white.
lt grabbed for my head.
Oh, l woke up just in time.
Not your head, Aunt Gertrude,
your necklace.
The curse on that diamond is the cause
of everything that's happened this evening.
-Did you say curse?
-Curse?
Yes. You should have
left the necklace in the vault.
-Oh, this is my cousin, Ellwood.
-How do you do?
The Headless Horseman appeared as soon
as you brought the diamond into this house.
Oh, dear, Ellwood.
For a businessman who runs a big company
like Ape lnternational Shoes
you certainly are superstitious.
Think about what l said.
l'll be back.
The hands came from the wall.
l've heard of walls having ears,
but hands too?
Obviously, there has to be
a hollow panel.
-Come in.
-That was only me, Scooby Dum.
l'm looking for a way
to open a hollow panel.
Open sesame.
-You rang, madam?
-No, Tarloff, l don't think so.
-You rang, madam?
-l already told you, Tarloff, l did not.
-Madam, l could have sworn--
-Hold it right there, Tarloff.
Let's see your hands.
They're ghostly white.
Just like the hands from the wall.
Can you eplain this, Tarloff?
You may recall, sir,
that l served spice cake to the guests.
ln the ecitement, l failed to clean
the powdered sugar from my hands.
Sugar? Right.
And delicious.
Aunt Gertrude,
this has gone on long enough.
l'm taking that diamond
back to the vault tonight, personally.
But the bank isn't open at this hour.
The bank manager's a friend of mine.
We both fly airplanes.
-l'll phone him at home.
-Very well.
You always were
my favorite nephew, Ellwood.
Don't worry, l called the bank manager
and he'll be waiting for me.
Drive carefully in this fog.
Oh, no.
Don't tell me it's him again.
lt's him again, old headless.
But he's not headless anymore.
He's got Ellwood's head.
Poor, dear Ellwood.
lt was all my fault.
Jeepers, all that's left of him
is a pile of clothes and a pumpkin head.
The Headless Horseman took Ellwood
to the grave with him.
Beth, you and your aunt
go back to the house where it's safe.
-l'll escort you.
-Not so fast, Chicken Little.
We'll need you here.
Okay, everybody.
lt looks like it's time to do
the best detective work we've ever done.
And the fastest, right?
Detective work? Fast?
-Nothing.
-No clues?
Then what's that
stuck to the end of your nose?
Nose? What's a nose?
lt's a tiny picture of Ellwood,
with glue on the other side.
That's strange.
And here's something else strange.
The ignition key is missing.
But what would a ghost
want with a set of car keys?
A clue. A clue.
Hey, Scooby-Doo found a clue.
A newspaper clipping.
''Flying saucer lands
at beautician's convention.''
Zoinks, pumpkin-puss is from Mars.
-A headless Martian?
-Oh, Shaggy, that's no clue.
lt's probably just a piece
of an old newspaper.
Don't be so sure.
Like, l'm gonna save it.
-Well, now what do we do?
-Let's go to the cemetery.
Cemetery? Why?
Because it's time to see
the grave of the Headless Horseman.
lchabod Crane was just about
at this point, when suddenly
out of the fog
stepped a horrible, threatening figure.
Zoinks, the Headless Horseman.
Rela, Shaggy.
lt's only Tarloff the butler.
Tarloff the butler?
Tarloff, what are you doing out this way?
lf you must know
l went to our closest neighbor
to have them report our power failure.
Why didn't you call
the electric company from the house?
Because a tree down the road fell over
and snapped the telephone lines
as well as the power lines.
-Oh, so the wind blew it down.
-Not really.
Somebody chopped it down with an a.
Now, if you don't mind,
l'm getting back to Crane Manor.
An a. That might eplain
those wood chips we found.
How about waiting until daylight for this?
Like, some day net summer?
Here it is.
The crypt where Beth said
the Headless Horseman is buried.
Or used to be buried.
l feel shivery just looking at it.
lt seems pretty solid.
Anybody in there is staying in there.
Well, if you ask me
coming to this cemetery
was a real dead end.
This looks like one mystery
that has us stumped.
-We didn't find a thing here.
-That's it.
Not finding anything here is a clue.
Like, that sounds weird to me, Fred.
l still think this newspaper story
is an important clue
the one about the flying saucer
at the beautician convention.
-Wait a second. You're right too.
-Naturally.
-l am?
-Of course.
lt all fits together now.
Flying saucers and beauticians?
No, the sticky photograph
what Tarloff said,
no keys in the car.
lt adds up. Come on,
there isn't much time.
But why are we going to the airport?
Because that's where
the Headless Horseman's going.
Old headless flies?
lsn't he bad enough on a horse?
There's the plane,
and if my guess is right
the Headless Horseman plans
to use it to make his getaway.
Well, he doesn't seem to be here yet.
He's probably just waiting
for the fog to lift so he can take off.
Yeah? Well, l vote
to take off right now.
Not so fast, Shaggy.
We're gonna have a little surprise
waiting for our headless friend.
Like what?
We're going to use this parachute
to drop in on him unepectedly.
Are you ready up there?
You give the word
and we'll cut the ropes.
And down goes the parachute
onto pumpkin-puss.
The fog's lifting.
He'll be here any second.
-The Headless Horseman.
-Zoinks, here he comes.
Help.
-Attaboy, Scooby.
-Stay with him.
l'm on my way, Scooby.
Oh, no. They're taking off.
Zoinks, we're flying.
Look out, Scoob. Like, he's after us.
Scooby, come back.
Help.
Oh, no. They're going to crash.
Look out.
Like, the plane's going, going, gone.
Here he is, sheriff.
And, like, let's get
this phony Ellwood mask off
and see who
this Headless Horseman really is.
-Let go of my face.
-Cousin Ellwood.
-Cousin Ellwood?
-Yup.
He was after
Aunt Gertrude's diamond all along.
And it would have been the perfect crime
if you kids hadn't crossed me up.
Well, we'll see you get
a perfect jail cell instead. Come on.
How did you know
it was my cousin Ellwood?
The missing car keys
were the first tip-off.
When Ellwood abandoned
the car with the pumpkin in it
he grabbed the car keys out of habit.
Right. And then there was
the tiny picture of Ellwood
that Scooby Dum found
on the end of his nose.
Yeah.
That was the passport photo
so Ellwood could fly out of the country.
But we didn't figure that out until the butler
mentioned that the phone line was down.
Which meant Ellwood had to be lying when
he told us he had phoned the bank manager.
Then you found
the biggest clue of all, Shaggy.
-Yeah. l did?
-The newspaper clipping.
''Flying saucer lands
at beautician's convention''?
Look at the story
on the other side, Shag.
''Ape lnternational Shoe Manufacturers
files for bankruptcy.''
Oh, dear.
Ellwood's company went broke.
Right, he was going
to leave the country with the diamond.
And everybody would blame
the Headless Horseman.
Like he said, ''The perfect crime.''
Until we found the clues
that made it all look fishy.
Clue?
Say, where's the great detective,
Scooby Dum, going?
He's still looking for clues.
-Scooby Dum, where'd you go?
-Scooby Dum.
Are you here, Scooby Dum?
And if you haven't got a head on,
don't bother to answer.
Look.
Look, a clue.
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