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The Real Ghostbusters
entry date: Aug 14, 1999






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THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS
original airdates: Sept 13, 1986-Sept 3, 1988 on ABC, Sept 14, 1987-Sept 4, 1992 in syndication
later airdates: Sept 7, 1992-Sept 1, 1995 on USA Network, Aug 14, 1998-Oct 8, 1999 on FOX Family Channel
episodes: 147 (134 plus 13 Slimer! half-hour episodes)
animated by: DiC
distributed and owned by: Sony Pictures Television
current series status: currently not on US television

NOTE: For the Ghostbusters, the Filmation animated series based on the live-action 1975 show, CLICK HERE


THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS SUMMARY:
Peter, Ray, Winston and Egon are ghostbusters for hire.  Catching ghost with their proton
chargers and trappers, the Ghostbusters store them in their ecto-plasmic chamber at their
firehouse station and keep the world ghost-free.

EPISODE GUIDE
1st Season (Sept 13, 1986-1987, on ABC, Saturdays)
#001-75002 "Ghost 'R Us" (ABC pilot) (09.13.1986)
#002-75001 "Killerwatt" (09.20.1986)
#003-75004 "Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood" (09.27.1986)
#004-75006 "Slimer, Come Home" (10.04.1986)
#005-75007 "Troll Bridge" (10.11.1986)
#006-75008 "The Boogieman Cometh" (10.18.1986)
#007-75009 "Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream" (10.25.1986)
#008-75010 "When Halloween Was Forever" (11.01.1986)
#009-75003 "Look Homeward, Ray" (11.08.1986)
#010-75011 "Take Two" (11.15.1986)
#011-75012 "Citizen Ghost" (11.22.1986)
#012-75005 "Janine's Genie" (12.06.1986)
#013-75013 "X-Mas Marks the Spot" (12.13.1986)

1st Season (1987-1988, in syndication airing weekdays, in production number order)
#014-76001 "Knock, Knock" (11.06.1987)
#015-76002 "Station Identification" (12.09.1987)
#016-76003 "Play Them Ragtime Boos" (11.26.1987)
#017-76004 "Sea Fright" (11.10.1987)
#018-76005 "The Spirit of Aunt Lois" (11.09.1987)
#019-76006 "Cry Uncle" (11.12.1987)
#020-76007 "Adventures In Slime and Space" (09.15.1987)
#021-76008 "Night Game" (09.22.1987)
#022-76009 "Venkman's Ghost Repellers" (10.20.1987)
#023-76010 "That Old College Spirit" (11.27.1987)
#024-76011 "Ain't NASA-sarily So" (11.17.1987)
#025-76012 "Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?" (09.24.1987)
#026-76013 "A Fright At the Opera" (10.26.1987)
#027-76014 "Doctor, Doctor" (10.13.1987)
#028-76015 "Ghost Busted" (10.22.1987)
#029-76016 "Beneath These Streets" (11.25.1987)
#030-76017 "Boo Dunit" (10.30.1987)
#031-76018 "Chicken, He Clucked" (10.19.1987)
#032-76019 "Ragnarok and Roll" (09.16.1987)
#033-76020 "Don't Forget the Motor City" (12.03.1987)
#034-76021 "Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?" (10.28.1987)
#035-76022 "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost" (10.09.1987)
#036-76023 "Hanging By a Thread" (12.10.1987)
#037-76024 "You Can't Take It With You" (10.14.1987)
#038-76025 "No One Comes To Lupusville" (10.05.1987)
#039-76026 "Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin" (10.29.1987)
#040-76027 "The Man Who Never Reached Home" (10.12.1987)
#041-76028 "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" (10.27.1987)
#042-76029 "Bustman's Holiday" (11.13.1987)
#043-76030 "The Headless Motorcyclist" (11.03.1987)
#044-76031 "The Thing In Mrs. Faversham's Attic" (11.04.1987)
#045-76032 "Egon On the Rampage" (12.08.1987)
#046-76033 "Lights! Camera! Haunting!" (12.07.1987)
#047-76034 "The Bird of Kildarby" (10.06.1987)
#048-76035 "Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster" (09.29.1987)
#049-76036 "Apocalypse--What NOW?" (11.18.1987)
#050-76037 "Lost and Foundry" (10.16.1987)
#051-76038 "Hard Knight's Day" (11.30.1987)
#052-76039 "Cold Cash and Hot Water" (10.08.1987)
#053-76040 "The Scaring of the Green" (11.16.1987)
#054-76041 "They Call Me MISTER Slimer" (09.18.1987)
#055-76042 "Last Train To Oblivion" (11.24.1987)
#056-76043 "Masquerade" (12.01.1987)
#057-76044 "Janine's Day Off" (09.14.1987)
#058-76045 "The Ghostbusters In Paris" (10.23.1987)
#059-76046 "The Devil In the Deep" (12.04.1987)
#060-76047 "Ghostfight At the O.K. Corral" (11.11.1987)
#061-76048 "Ghostbuster of the Year" (10.01.1987)
#062-76049 "Deadcon 1" (12.02.1987)
#063-76050 "The Cabinet of Calamari" (09.30.1987)
#064-76051 "A Ghost Grows In Brooklyn" 
#065-76052 "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis" (11.02.1987)
#066-76053 "Rollerghoster" (09.23.1987)
#067-76054 "I Am the City" (11.23.1987)
#068-76055 "Moaning Stones" (11.05.1987)
#069-76056 "The Long, Long, Long, etc. Goodbye" (10.07.1987)
#070-76057 "Buster the Ghost" (09.21.1987)
#071-76058 "The Devil To Pay" (11.19.1987)
#072-76059 "Slimer, Is That You?" (09.26.1987 on ABC) 
#073-76060 "Egon's Ghost" (10.02.1987)
#074-76061 "Captain Steel Saves the Day" (09.17.1987)
#075-76062 "Victor the Happy Ghost" (10.15.1987)
#076-76063 "Egon's Dragon" (10.02.1987)
#077-76064 "Dairy Farm" (09.25.1987)
#078-76065 "The Hole In the Wall Gang" (10.21.1987)

2nd Season (1987-1988, on ABC, Saturdays) (in production number order)
#079-140012 "Transylvanian Homesick Blues" (12.11.1987 in syndication)
#080-140001 "Baby Spookums" (09.12.1987)
#081-140003 "It's A Jungle Out There" (09.19.1987)
#082-140007 "The Bogeyman Is Back (10.03.1987)
#083-140008 "Once Upon A Slime" (10.10.1987)
#084-140002 "The Two Faces of Slimer" (10.17.1987)
#085-140006 "Sticky Business" (10.24.1987)
#086-140004 "Halloween II 1/2" (10.31.1987)
#087-140013 "Loathe Thy Neighbor" (11.07.1987)
#088-140005 "Big Trouble With Little Slimer" (11.21.1987)
#089-140009 "The Copycat" (12.05.1987)
#090-140010 "Camping It Up" (12.12.1987)
#091-140011 "The Grundel" (11.14.1987)

SLIMER! AND THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS
original airdates: Sept 10, 1988-Sept 5, 1992 on ABC
later airdates: Sept 7, 1992-Sept 1, 1995 on USA Network
episodes: 74 (39 for 1988-1989, 15 for 1989-1990, 20 for 1990-1991)
animated by: DiC
distributed and owned by: Sony Pictures Television

3rd Season (1988-1989, on ABC, Saturdays)
#092-175001 "Flip Side" (09.17.1988)
#093-175002 "Poultrygeist" (09.24.1988)
#094-175003 "The Joke's On Ray" (09.10.1988)
#095-175004 "Standing Room Only" (10.08.1988)
#096-175005 "Robo-Buster" (10.15.1988)
#097-175006 "Short Stuff" (10.22.1988)
#098-175007 "The Brooklyn Triangle" (11.19.1988)
#099-175008 "Follow That Hearse" (11.12.1988)

"Slimer" episodes:
#100 "Slimer For Hire" (10.15.1988) / "Crusin' For a Brusin'" (10.08.1988) / "Nothing To Sneeze At" (09.17.1988)
#101 "A Mouse In the House" (09.24.1988) / "Cash Or Slime" (11.05.1988) / "Doctor Dweeb, I Presume" (09.10.1988)
#102 "Quickslimer Messenger Service" (10.01.1988) / "Pigeon-Cooped" (11.19.1988) / "Go-Pher It" (10.29.1988)
#103 "Sticky Fingers" (03.11.1989) / "Don't Tease The Sleaze" (03.25.1989)
#104 "Room At the Top" (12.01.1988) / "Tea But Not Sympathy" (02.04.1989) / "Special Delivery" (10.22.1988)
#105 "Out With Grout" (03.25.1989) / "Dr. Strangedog" (12.24.1988)
#106 "Slimer's Silly Symphony" (11.26.1988) / "Little Green Sliming Hood" (01.14.1989) / "Monkey See, Monkey Don't" (11.12.1988)
#107 "Beach Blanket Bruiser" (01.21.1989) / "Class Clown" (12.31.1988) / "Dog Days" (02.11.1989)
#108 "The Dirty Half-Dozen" (04.01.1989) / "Movie Madness" (01.01.1989)
#109 "Show Dog Showdown" (03.04.1989) / "The Not-So-Great Outdoors" (12.17.1988) / "Unidentified Sliming Object" (03.18.1989)
#110 "Up Close and Too Personal" (02.18.1989) / "Sweet Revenge" (04.08.1989)
#111 "Rainy Day Slimer" (01.28.1989) / "Slimer and the Beanstalk" (02.25.1989) / "Space Case" (12.03.1988)
#112 "Scareface" (04.01.1989) / "Mouse In the House" (repeat and retitled "A Mouse In the House")

4th Season (1989-1990, on ABC, Saturdays)
#113-201001 "Something's Going Around" (09.09.1989)
#114-201002 "Three Men and An Egon" (09.16.1989)
#115-201003 "Elementary My Dear Winston" (09.23.1989)
#116-201004 "If I Were a Witch Man" (09.30.1989)
#117-201005 "Partners In Slime" (10.07.1989)
#118-201006 "Future Tense" (10.14.1989)
#119-201007 "Jailbusters" (10.21.1989)
#120-201008 "Live! From Al Capone's Tomb" (10.28.1989)
#121-75002 "The Halloween Door" (10.29.1989 as an ABC prime-time special)
#122-201009/10 "Trading Faces" & "Transcendental Tourists" (11.18.1989)
#123-201011/12 "Surely You Joust" & "Kitty-Cornered" (11.25.1989)
#124-201013/14 "Slimer's Curse" & "Til Death Do Us Part" (12.02.1989)
#125-201015/16 "It's About Time" & "The Ransom of Greenspud" (12.09.1989)
#126-201017/18 "Revenge of the Ghostmaster" & "Loose Screws" (12.16.1989)
#127-201019/20 "Venkman!" & "Slimer Streak" (11.11.1989)

5th Season (1990-1991, on ABC, Saturdays)
#128-140504 "Janine, You've Changed" (09.08.1990)
#129-140501 "Russian About" (10.27.1990)
#130-140502 "The Haunting of Heck House" (09.29.1990)
#131-140503 "You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks" (09.15.1990)
#132-140505 "Mean Green Teen Machine" (10.06.1990)
#133-140506 "Spacebusters" (10.13.1990)
#134-140507 "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" (11.24.1990)
#135-140508 "Very Beast Friends" (12.08.1990)
#136-140509 "Ghostworld"  (09.22.1990)
#137-140510 "Afterlife In the Fast Lane" (11.17.1990)
#138-140511 "The Slob" (11.03.1990)
#139-140512 "Busters In Toyland" (12.15.1990)
#140-140513 "My Left Fang" (10.20.1990)
#141-140514 "Stay Tooned" (12.01.1990)
#142-140516 "The Magnificent Five" (12.22.1990)
#143-140517 "Deja Boo" (11.10.1990) (half hour version of clip show)
#143A-140517 "Deja Boo" (11.10.1990) (full hour version of clip show)

6th Season (1991, on ABC, Saturdays)
#144-140603 "The Treasure of Sierra Tamale" (09.14.1991)
#145-140602 "Not Now, Slimer!" (09.21.1991)
#146-140605 "The Attack of the B-Movie Monsters" (09.28.1991)
#147-140601 "20,000 Leagues Under the Street" (10.05.1991)

episode guide made by John Seitz
 and special thanks To BRETTFERN

VOICE ACTORS
Roger Bumpass as Louis Tully 
Dave Coulier as Peter Venkman (1987-1991)
Arsenio Hall as Winston Zeddmore (1986-1988)
Edward L. "Buster" Jones as Winston Zeddmore (1988-1991)
Maurice LaMarche as Egon Spengler 
Lorenzo Music (died in 2001) as Peter Venkman (1986-1987)
Kath Soucie as Janine Melnitz (1987-1991)
Laura Summer as Janine Melnitz (1986-1987)
Frank Welker as Ray Stanz and Slimer

EXTREME GHOSTBUSTERS
original airdates: Oct 1, 1997-1998 in syndication
later airdates: 1999 on Sci Fi Channel
episodes: 40
animated by: ?
distributed and owned by: BKN and Columbia
note: new series with Egon training a new generation of Ghostbusters

EPISODE GUIDE
#01 Darkness At Noon Part 1 (09.01.1997)
#02 Darkness At Noon Part 2 (09.02.1997)
#03 The True Face of a Monster (09.03.1997)
#04 Fear Itself (09.04.1997)
#05 Deadliners (09.05.1997)
#06 Casting the Runes (09.08.1997)
#07 The Infernal Machines (09.09.1997)
#08 Home Is Where the Horror Is (09.10.1997)
#09 Killjoys (09.11.1997)
#10 The Unseen (09.12.1997)
#11 The Crawler (09.22.1997)
#12 The Pied Piper of Manhattan (09.23.1997)
#13 Be Careful What You Wish For (09.24.1997)
#14 Grease (09.25.1997)
#15 The Jersey Devil (09.26.1997)
#16 Dry Spell (09.29.1997)
#17 Sonic Youth (09.30.1997)
#18 Ghost Apocalyptic Future (10.01.1997)
#19 Bird of Prey (10.02.1997)
#20 Seeds of Destruction (10.03.1997)
#21 The Luck of the Irish (11.03.1997)
#22 The Ghostmakers (11.04.1997)
#23 Slimer's Sacrifice (11.05.1997)
#24 Grundelesque (11.06.1997)
#25 In Your Dreams (11.07.1997)
#26 Moby Ghost (11.10.1997)
#27 Fallout (11.12.1997)
#28 Eyes of a Dragon (11.13.1997)
#29 Till Death Do Us Start (11.14.1997)
#30 Glutton For Punishment (11.24.1997)
#31 Ghost In the Machine (11.25.1997)
#32 Dog Days (11.26.1997)
#33 Mole People (11.27.1997)
#34 A Temporary Insanity (11.28.1997)
#35 Rage (12.01.1997)
#36 Heart of Darkness (12.02.1997)
#37 Back In the Saddle Part 1 (12.03.1997)
#38 Back In the Saddle Part 2 (12.04.1997)
#39 The Sphinx (12.05.1997)
#40 Witchy Woman (12.08.1997)

VOICE ACTORS
Dave Coulier as Peter Venkman (guest-star)
Buster Jones as Winston Zeddmore (guest-star)
Maurice LaMarche as Egon Spengler
Jason Marsden as Garrett Miller
Pat Musick as Janine Melnitz
Alfonso Ribeiro as Roland Jackson
Rino Romano as Eduardo Rivera
Tara Strong as Kylie Griffin
Billy West as Slimer
Frank Welker as Ray Stantz (guest-star)

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