Scooby Doo and the Pirate Ghost

Bristol Hippodrome Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 August.

SCOOBY DOO is a cult classic that is still appealing to children - as well as its original audience who are now big kids three decades after Hanna-Barbera first blasted them onto our screens.

Unlike Stagefright, this production still has one foot firmly in the seventies and a few riffs of the familiar TV score transported me straight back to my childhood. My children, however, were most certainly caught up in the present, and all the characters that they now consider their own All the usual suspects are present: Shaggy, Scooby’s groovy best friend; Handsome Fred, the teen idol; Beautiful Daphne, who attracts trouble like a magnet, and Velma, the super smart square whose favourite colour is orange.

In ‘The Pirate Ghost’, the gang take a vacation an a haunted island where all the other tourists have been driven away. But the gang are not so easily put off, and there are rumours of some hidden treasure, so after some ghostly goings-on in a supposedly haunted hotel, Daphne gets kidnapped. But who will come to her rescue?

All the usual motifs are included - Velma loses her glasses and Shaggy and Scooby get to dress up in several outfits to confuse the ghosts, But do those pesky kids get to unmask the baddies in the end? Well, you’ll just have to get yourself along to the Hippodrome, where the production runs until Saturday, and find out for yourself.