There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark

There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark is the twelfth episode of the The Scooby-Doo Dynomutt Hour, later repackaged as the twelfth episode of the first season of The Scooby-Doo Show.
== Summary ==
On a stormy night, two men from India have flown across the ocean, and landed at an airport. The men are carrying a suitcase full of valuable pearls destined for the County Museum and a shark frozen in a block of ice for Aqualand. Later that night, when the airport is locked up, the ice encasing the shark begins to melt.
The gang is out water-skiing one afternoon. Scooby and Shaggy are out on the water, and Fred, Daphne, and Velma are in the boat. They turn the radio on, and a news broadcast reports that two million dollars' worth of pearls were stolen from the airport. Velma is baffled because the doors to the storage room were locked tight, and the only one in there was the shark. Suddenly, a real shark begins to chase the gang, and they crash into a rocky cliff. They climb up the rocks for help to discover they are at Aqualand, a cliff-side aquarium.
Upon entrance, they run into a bipedal shark monster! The gang flees and loses him. The gang heads to the manager's office and meet the manager of Aqualand, Mr. Dreyfus. He explains that he believes their scientist, Prof. Beaker, brought the shark back to life when it was transported to Aqualand. He tells them Prof. Beaker has some kind of spell book. They go to the lab and talk with Prof. Beaker, and he explains that he did no such thing. He shows them the encased shark, and the shark is still there-frozen in ice. Prof. Beaker claims he hasn't seen the spell book. The gang goes to talk with Mr. Wells, the manager's assistant. They become separated, and Shaggy and Scooby are chased by the demon shark. Velma, Daphne, and Fred run into Mr. Wells, who says he's never seen the shark. He also tells Fred and the girls he is interested in cabinet-work and is skilled in making false bottoms and secret compartments.
Shaggy and Scooby visit the restaurants and find the spell book and the demon shark. They flee. Meanwhile, Fred and the girls search Prof. Beaker's laboratory, finding a pile of oyster boxes from a fish market. Then they search Mr. Dreyfuss' office and find a brochure of a pearl exhibit at the museum, the same pearls that were nabbed from the airport. They also find a shipping receipt for the oysters. Mr. Dreyfuss is looking suspicious. Scooby and Shaggy lose the shark but accidentally drop the spell book into the crab tank. They scuba dive into the pond, retrieve the book, and run into Fred and the girls, who discover the book they found is only a cookbook.
The shark appears and steals the oysters that Scooby and Shaggy unintentionally fished out of the tank. The gang set a trap, with Scooby acting as bait. It backfires, but the shark is trapped anyway. They find valuable pearls inside the oysters, the stolen pearls from the airport. The shark is unmasked as Mr. Wells. He was in India dredging up the demon and read about the pearl shipment, so he used his skill in cabinet-making to make a secret compartment under the ice shark. He arranged to have the demon and the pearls to be shipped on the same plane. He hid in the compartment and shipped himself back to U.S.A. When the shark and pearls were locked up in the airport, Wells snuck out, stole the pearls, and hid back inside the compartment to be delivered back to Aqualand. He put the pearls inside oysters from Sam's Fish Market and wanted to ship them to another Aqualand in Florida to get them past police roadblocks, but Mr. Dreyfus would not permit the shipment so he had to scare him off. Then Wells could take over the manager's job and authorize the shipment himself. Wells also bluffed about the book of spells to confuse everyone.
Scooby goes back to skiing, but this time in a knight costume to keep protected from sharks.
== Characters ==
* Mystery Inc.
** Scooby-Doo
** Shaggy Rogers
** Fred Jones
** Daphne Blake
** Velma Dinkley
* M. Dreyfus (only appearance)
* Professor Beaker (only appearance)
* Demon Shark (only appearance)(no lines)(Mr. Wells' disguise)
* Mr. Wells (only appearance)
* Indian men (only appearance)(no lines)
* Customs agent (only appearance)
* Shark (only appearance)(no lines)
* Dolphins (only appearance)(no lines)
* Crabs (only appearance)(no lines)
* Police officer (only appearance)
== Suspects ==
Suspect 	Motive/reason
M. Dreyfus 	Had a brochure of a pearl exhibit in his office, the same pearls that were stolen.
Professor Beaker	Mr. Dreyfus claimed that Prof. Beaker brought the Demon Shark back to life.
Mr. Wells 	Laughs sinisterly when the gang left his office.
=== Culprits ===
Culprit 	Motive/reason
Mr. Wells as the Demon Shark	To get away with stolen pearls.
== Cast ==
Don Messick 	Scooby-Doo
Mr. Dreyfus
Casey Kasem 	Shaggy Rogers
Man on radio
Frank Welker 	Fred Jones
Professor Beaker
Dolphins
Heather North 	Daphne Blake
Pat Stevens 	Velma Dinkley
John Stephenson 	Mr. Wells
Customs agent
Demon Shark
Alan Oppenheimer	Police officer
== Trivia ==
* This episode originally aired on Thanksgiving morning as part of ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival children's block for the 1976-77 season.
* Scooby's water ski chase with the shark is edited into the series' title montage.
* Like in "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man", the Police Officer is reused from the Sheriff from "A Night of Fright is No Delight". Considering it's the same show, these two episodes may happen in the same locality or town.
* The plot is very similar to the Scooby Doo Where Are You! episode "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright".
* The East Indian Airline plane resembles a De Havilland DH 106 Comet, a British-made plane, and one of the first commercial jetliners. It operated from 1949 until 1997.
* Mr. Dreyfus' name may be a reference to the then-recent blockbuster movie Jaws (1975), where actor Richard Dreyfuss played a scientist who specialized in sharks.
=== Goofs ===
* The East Indian Airlines plane changes its shape three times at the start. When in the air, it resembles a De Havilland DH 106 Comet, but when it lands, it somewhat resembles a Lockheed L1011 Tristar, but then when the cargo is being off-loaded, it slightly resembles a Boeing 707 or Douglas DC8.
== Availability ==
* The Scooby-Doo Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series DVD set released 7 March 2006 by Warner Home Video.
== Quotes ==
Daphne: What's a ghost gonna do with all those oysters?
Shaggy: I don't know about him. But if it was me, I'd fry them in butter, sprinkle a little salt on him.
Velma: Will you stop thinking about food for five seconds?
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