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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Mine Your Own Business

Premiered October 4, 1969

Season 1, Episode 4

Quickly

A ghost scares the guests away from a ghost town.

Thoughts

This episode features two examples of Scooby's trouble with smaller wild animals. He steals the cheese from a mouse trap and gets a stern squeaking to. He also falls after putting his stilt into a gopher hold.

Way Too Much Detail Recap

The gang are in Gold City, an old Ghost Town. Somehow, Shaggy is surprised by this turn of events despite the fact that he is holding a map that says, "Ghost Towns" on the back. They go to the Gold City Ranch for rooms for the night. Big Ben welcomes them to his ranch as his only guests. 

Hank, the caretaker, shows them to their rooms. He tells them the Miner Forty-Niner has been scaring off the guests.

They start investigating the town. They struggle to find anything. The gang is almost ready to give up when the Miner Forty-Niner attacks Scooby-Doo. The gang doesn't see the miner but Scooby knocks over a racist statue known as a "Cigar Store Indian" and reveals a hidden map. The map has numbers that don't make sense as directions but do as a combination. They try the combination on the safe in the hotel basement. Scooby gives the audience a random evil look before opening the safe.

Inside the safe, they find a secret elevator. The elevator takes them into a mine. Shaggy lights a handful of dynamite. This is odd to me because dynamite is often sold separate from the detonating cords which means it would not be stored with attached detonating cords. The key to stopping dynanite pulling the cord out. There was no need for Shaggy to chuck the dynamite.

Scooby sees the miner again. Shaggy and Scooby flee. Meanwhile, Fred falls through a wooden floor and gets covered in flour. Fred has the nerve to call Daphne danger prone when he thinks she fell into a mineshaft.

Velma discovers a wire going to a speaker. They also discover a tape playing a ghostly moan. Near the tape player, they find jars of oil.

They trap the miner and unmask Hank. He was trying to ruin Big Ben's business so he could buy the land for cheap and get the oil. Big Ben says he would have partnered with Hank in the business if he'd known.

Rogue Gallery

The Miner Forty-Niner