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Every episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of What's New, Scooby-Doo?!

Scooby-Doo and the Mystery, Inc. gang are launched into the 21st century, with new mysteries to solve.

Genres:AnimationAction & AdventureMystery

Top Episode Ratings Summary

The best episode of "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" is "Fright House of a Lighthouse", rated 7.9/10 from 242 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Fright House of a Lighthouse" aired on 1/29/2005 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown".

  • Fright House of a Lighthouse
    7.9/10 242 votes

    #1 - Fright House of a Lighthouse

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 1/29/2005

    The ghost of a Lighthouse Keeper is haunting an old lighthouse and causing terror to ships out on the water. Who is behind the Creepy Keeper?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown
    7.7/10 211 votes

    #2 - A Terrifying Round with a Menacing Metallic Clown

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/12/2005

    The International Putt-Putt Contest is treated by its own 18-th hole--and MONSTER-style Clown--but that is good and bad news for Mystery Inc. on the screen. The bad news, the genius of the gang, Velma, has a clown phobia--but good news is that Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is ACTING BRAVE! Holy reservals, Scooby-Doo! Can the gang solve the mystery and get the regular Velma and Shaggy back?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Chris Brown

  • A Scooby-Doo Halloween
    7.6/10 250 votes

    #3 - A Scooby-Doo Halloween

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2003

    The gang goes to Banning Junction to visit Velma's family for Halloween, but they meet the ghostly robots who try to ruin the festivities. Hopefully they can save the town before the ghost of Hank Banning shows up.

    Director: Swinton O. Scott III

    Writer: N/A

  • Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman
    7.6/10 215 votes

    #4 - Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 3/22/2004

    Traveling through a Canadian ghost town, Scooby and the gang encounter the rock group, Simple Plan. As members of SP are kidnapped one by one by the Inivisible Madman, everyone one of the locals has an aliby for not being the Invisble Madman. Who is the Invisible Madman that is haunting them?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Large Dragon at Large
    7.6/10 195 votes

    #5 - Large Dragon at Large

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 3/24/2004

    The gang visits a renaissance fair but gets overwhelmed by a dragon.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Big Scare in the Big Easy
    7.5/10 278 votes

    #6 - Big Scare in the Big Easy

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/2002

    Ghosts re-enact a duel every night in a New Orleans graveyard.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: James Krieg

  • It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine
    7.5/10 272 votes

    #7 - It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2002

    When the Mystery Machine comes to life and begins driving by itself, the gang tries to find the clues.... Which leads them to The Mystery Kids, the band who formerly owned the Mystery Machine.

    Director: Chuck Sheetz

    Writer: N/A

  • A Scooby-Doo! Christmas
    7.5/10 233 votes

    #8 - A Scooby-Doo! Christmas

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/2002

    Scooby and his pals arrive in a town where Christmas is not celebrated because a headless snowman terrorizes the residents, so the amateur sleuths set out to solve the mystery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Toy Scary Boo
    7.5/10 224 votes

    #9 - Toy Scary Boo

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/1/2003

    The gang investigate on this mystery where activated toys are taking over the toy store. They suspect a really interested fanatic is involved with the case. When he actually comes clean, the gang thought they were right all along. But they weren't.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mummy Scares Best
    7.5/10 222 votes

    #10 - Mummy Scares Best

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2003

    While in Egypt on an archeological dig with Melbourne O'Reilly, the gang encounters Pharaoh Scamses the 15th, a mummy who has a knack of turning tourists into his zombie minions. So the gang sets out to solve the mystery - that is, until Fred, Daphne and Velma get turned into zombies too!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Scooby-Doo Valentine
    7.5/10 193 votes

    #11 - A Scooby-Doo Valentine

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/11/2005

    The gang investigates some mysterious disappearances of teenagers on Lovers Lane while Shaggy and Scooby catch up with old girlfriends. But the culprits behind it all turn out to be the gang themselves!

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Roller Ghoster Ride
    7.4/10 283 votes

    #12 - Roller Ghoster Ride

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2002

    The crew goes to a roller coaster park because of Scooby and Shaggy having their new ride built there and they run into some ride mischief with a ghost called The Roller Ghoster and it seems to break rides around the park.

    Director: Tim Maltby

    Writer: N/A

  • The Unnatural
    7.4/10 260 votes

    #13 - The Unnatural

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/22/2003

    The ghost of an old baseball player named Cab Craig starts haunting the baseball stadium. Scooby and the gang have to find out who it is.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fast and the Wormious
    7.4/10 213 votes

    #14 - The Fast and the Wormious

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/2003

    Thanks to Freddy, the gang enters a 24 hour off road race, only to deal with crazy drivers, a giant worm named El Gusanu, and the cult that honors the worm.

    Director: Tom Mazzocco

    Writer: Tom Sheppard

  • High-Tech House of Horrors
    7.4/10 250 votes

    #15 - High-Tech House of Horrors

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2003

    The gang visits a state fair in order to see all the inventions "of the future." But they get more than they bargained for when they set their sights on a "House of the Future," which is allegedly haunted. Things seem pretty normal within... until Daphne mysteriously vanishes. Is it two prankster kids, a reality TV personality, the creator of the gadgets or the high-tech house of horrors itself that's responsible for the strange goings-on?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Vampire Strikes Back
    7.4/10 222 votes

    #16 - The Vampire Strikes Back

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2003

    The Scooby gang travels to an old Transylvanian castle on a rainy night to watch the shoot of the Hex Girls new music video ''Wanna Wed, But I Fled'', but they find out that the band is breaking up, since there's a vampire on the loose. Fred decided go straight to trapping the vampire. They do so, only to discover there's another vampire lurking around, so they go through the whole thing all over again to reveal a surprise twist to this mystery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The San Franpsycho
    7.4/10 209 votes

    #17 - The San Franpsycho

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/20/2004

    During a visit to San Fransisco for the Grind Games, a world famous skateboarding competition, Scooby and the gang discover a monster known as the San Franpsycho. WHO is stalking the skaters?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Recipe for Disaster
    7.4/10 214 votes

    #18 - Recipe for Disaster

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/2004

    There's an Ooze Monster haunting the Scooby Snacks factory and Scooby and the gang have to stop it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ready to Scare
    7.4/10 182 votes

    #19 - Ready to Scare

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/19/2005

    The gang is in Paris to see Daphne's cousin Dannika win "Model of the Year", but they discover she has been abducted when a Gargoyle from Notre Dame cathedral has come to life. Now the kids must find her by searching the Paris catacombs, the sewers, and the cathedral before the fashion expo starts.

    Director: Chuck Sheetz

    Writer: Matt Wayne

  • Block-Long Hong Kong Terror
    7.4/10 179 votes

    #20 - Block-Long Hong Kong Terror

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 3/26/2005

    Mystery Inc gets involved in a mystery featuring a wig-out ex-worker, a stolen candy ring, an American cop, and mutant giant toys. Can Velma figure out who's behind this insane mystery?

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • There's No Creature Like Snow Creature
    7.3/10 350 votes

    #21 - There's No Creature Like Snow Creature

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/2002

    In the opener, the amateur sleuths travel to a mountain resort to watch a snowboarding competition and end up investigating rumors of a snow creature that is attacking the participants. Olympic snowboard medalist Chris Klug provides the voice for his animated alter ego.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: James Krieg

  • Space Ape at the Cape
    7.3/10 288 votes

    #22 - Space Ape at the Cape

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/2002

    The gang must stop a shape-shifting alien before NASA's shuttle mission is aborted.

    Director: Swinton O. Scott III

    Writer: N/A

  • Riva Ras Regas
    7.3/10 247 votes

    #23 - Riva Ras Regas

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2002

    The gang goes to Las Vegas to meet teen pop singer Lindsay Pagano, but they soon end up trying to uncover the mystery of a deceased magician who's haunting the theater that Lindsay's performing at.

    Director: Swinton O. Scott III

    Writer: Tom Sheppard

  • Pompeii and Circumstance
    7.3/10 225 votes

    #24 - Pompeii and Circumstance

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/22/2003

    While visiting Italy the gang battles a zombie gladiator who appears to be responsible for causing volcano erruptions.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Uncle Scooby and Antarctica
    7.3/10 205 votes

    #25 - Uncle Scooby and Antarctica

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/25/2004

    Scooby and Shaggy befriend a penguin while working at a zoo. When they (as well as Velma, Daphne, & Fred) are invited to join him on a trip back to his home, Antarctica, they find that an ice ghost is haunting the way station there. He even has pushed the head scientist there into the ice. Velma is baffled by the increasing amount of suspects but eventually figures out who the villain is.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A