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The Real Ghostbusters
Episode Guide
Aired from September 13, 1986
to October 5, 1991
140 eps ABC & Syndicated 30 min / 15 min

Compiled by Paul Rudoff. Episode Synopses written by Caroline Craig (copyright © 1997 by Caroline Craig, used with permission). Additional information provided by TV.com, Paul Rudoff, Sheila Paulson, Paul Tower, Andrew Ellis, James Eatock, Anne Langsdorf, Michael Reaves, Juan Ruvalcaba, and "Elctrowolf".

Information about a historically significant unproduced Real Ghostbusters script.

There are several episodes that do not have multimedia because I have not had a chance to do the multimedia for them. They are: Chicken, He Clucked; Elementary My Dear Winston; Future Tense; Ghostworld; Hanging By A Thread; If I Were A Witch Man; It's About Time; Jailbusters; Kitty-Cornered; Loose Screws; Partners In Slime; Revenge Of The Ghostmaster; Slimer Streak; Slimer's Curse; Something's Going Around; Surely You Joust; The Collect Call Of Cathulhu; The Devil To Pay; The Ghostbusters Live From Al Capone's Tomb; The Haunting Of Heck House; The Ransom Of Greenspud; Three Men And An Egon; Til Death Do Us Part; Trading Faces; Transcendental Tourists; Venk-Man!; and When Halloween Was Forever.


     Synopsis

In this animated update of the hit motion picture, the Ghostbusters are up to their same old tricks, keeping the city safe from demons, curses, spooks and every other off-the-wall weirdness known (and unknown) to mortal man. This time they have help from their old nemesis Slimer ("Onionhead"), a new arsenal of weapons, and an occasional assist from their faithful secretary Janine Melnitz.

In 1988, the series was part of a one-hour block of Ghostbusters cartoons (it was joined with the newly created "Slimer!" series) known as "Slimer! And The Real Ghostbusters."

Synopsis written by Paul Rudoff, with the first sentence based on text from Jeff Lenburg's "The Encyclopedia Of Animated Cartoons."


     Cast


Peter Venkman
A Fright At The Opera
( Lorenzo Music / Dave Coulier )

Ray Stantz
Play Them Ragtime Boos
( Frank Welker )

Egon Spengler
Play Them Ragtime Boos
( Maurice LaMarche )

Winston Zeddemore
Cry Uncle
( Arsenio Hall / Buster Jones )

Janine Melnitz
Lost And Foundry
( Laura Summer / Kath Soucie )

Slimer
Ghostfight At The O.K. Corral
( Frank Welker )


     Episodes

There are officially six seasons, with Season 1 being divided into "Season 1 - Network (ABC)" and "Season 1 - Syndicated". These are noted by "1n" and "1s", respectively, in the list below. The "Season" column, which is the default sorting method, lists the episodes based upon the official season designations and the production numbers. You can find the exact production numbers on each episode page.

The "DVD #" column lists the episodes in the order from The Real Ghostbusters: Complete Collection DVD box set. This is almost the same as the Season order, except primarily for seasons 1-Network, 2, and 6, where some episodes were rearranged to better fit the series continuity. If you'd like to know which episodes are on which volumes and discs, please consult the DVD Complete Set Breakdown.

Although I'm referring to them as "episodes", as most people do, what is listed below are all 140 The Real Ghostbusters STORIES. These stories were put together into 134 episodes, with six episodes from Season 4 containing two stories each. The two-story episodes are listed as .1 and .2 in the "DVD #" column.

The episode numbers listed on the individual pages are based on the production numbers.

Click on the column headers in the table below to sort the list by that column's data.

Season DVD # Air Date Episode Title
1n-01 2 9/20/1986   Killerwatt
1n-02 1 9/13/1986   Ghosts 'R Us
1n-03 9 11/8/1986   Look Homeward, Ray
1n-04 3 9/27/1986   Mrs. Rogers Neighborhood
1n-05 12 12/6/1986   Janine's Genie
1n-06 4 10/4/1986   Slimer, Come Home
1n-07 5 10/11/1986   Troll Bridge
1n-08 6 10/18/1986   The Boogieman Cometh
1n-09 7 10/25/1986   Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream
1n-10 8 11/1/1986   When Halloween Was Forever
1n-11 10 11/15/1986   Take Two
1n-12 11 11/22/1986   Citizen Ghost
1n-13 13 12/13/1986   X-Mas Marks the Spot
1s-01 14 11/6/1987   Knock, Knock
1s-02 15 12/9/1987   Station Identification
1s-03 16 11/26/1987   Play Them Ragtime Boos
1s-04 17 11/10/1987   Sea Fright
1s-05 18 11/9/1987   The Spirit of Aunt Lois
1s-06 19 11/12/1987   Cry Uncle
1s-07 20 9/15/1987   Adventures in Slime and Space
1s-08 21 9/22/1987   Night Game
1s-09 22 10/20/1987   Venkman's Ghost Repellers
1s-10 23 11/27/1987   The Old College Spirit
1s-11 24 11/17/1987   Ain't NASA-Sarily So
1s-12 25 9/24/1987   Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?
1s-13 26 10/26/1987   A Fright at the Opera
1s-14 27 10/13/1987   Doctor Doctor
1s-15 28 10/22/1987   Ghost Busted
1s-16 29 11/25/1987   Beneath These Streets
1s-17 30 10/30/1987   Boo-Dunit
1s-18 31 10/19/1987   Chicken, He Clucked
1s-19 32 9/16/1987   Ragnarok and Roll
1s-20 33 12/3/1987   Don't Forget the Motor City
1s-21 34 10/28/1987   Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?
1s-22 35 10/9/1987   Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?
1s-23 36 12/10/1987   Hanging By a Thread
1s-24 37 10/14/1987   You Can't Take it With You
1s-25 38 10/5/1987   No One Comes to Lupusville
1s-26 39 10/29/1987   Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin
1s-27 40 10/12/1987   The Man Who Never Reached Home
1s-28 41 10/27/1987   The Collect Call of Cathulhu
1s-29 42 11/13/1987   Bustman's Holiday
1s-30 43 11/3/1987   The Headless Motorcyclist
1s-31 44 11/4/1987   The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic
1s-32 45 12/8/1987   Egon on the Rampage
1s-33 46 12/7/1987   Lights! Camera! Haunting!
1s-34 47 10/6/1987   The Bird of Kildarby
1s-35 48 9/29/1987   Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster
1s-36 49 11/18/1987   Apocalypse -- What, NOW?
1s-37 50 10/16/1987   Lost and Foundry
1s-38 51 11/30/1987   Hard Knight's Day
1s-39 52 10/8/1987   Cold Cash and Hot Water
1s-40 53 11/16/1987   The Scaring of the Green
1s-41 54 9/18/1987   They Call Me MISTER Slimer
1s-42 55 11/24/1987   Last Train to Oblivion
1s-43 56 12/1/1987   Masquerade
1s-44 57 9/14/1987   Janine's Day Off
1s-45 58 10/23/1987   The Ghostbusters in Paris
1s-46 59 12/4/1987   The Devil in the Deep
1s-47 60 11/11/1987   Ghostfight at the O.K. Corral
1s-48 61 10/1/1987   Ghostbuster of the Year
1s-49 62 12/2/1987   Deadcon I
1s-50 63 9/30/1987   The Cabinet of Calamari
1s-51 64 11/20/1987   A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn
1s-52 65 11/2/1987   The Revenge of Murray the Mantis
1s-53 66 9/23/1987   Rollerghoster
1s-54 67 11/23/1987   I Am the City
1s-55 68 11/5/1987   Moaning Stones
1s-56 69 10/7/1987   The Long, Long, Long, Etc. Goodbye
1s-57 70 9/21/1987   Buster the Ghost
1s-58 71 11/19/1987   The Devil to Pay
1s-59 72 9/26/1987   Slimer, Is That You?
1s-60 73 9/28/1987   Egon's Ghost
1s-61 74 9/17/1987   Captain Steel Saves the Day
1s-62 75 10/15/1987   Victor the Happy Ghost
1s-63 76 10/2/1987   Egon's Dragon
1s-64 77 9/25/1987   Dairy Farm
1s-65 78 10/21/1987   The Hole in the Wall Gang
2-01 80 9/12/1987   Baby Spookums
2-02 84 10/17/1987   The Two Faces of Slimer
2-03 81 9/19/1987   It's a Jungle Out There
2-04 86 10/31/1987   Halloween II 1/2
2-05 88 11/21/1987   Big Trouble With Little Slimer
2-06 85 10/24/1987   Sticky Business
2-07 82 10/3/1987   The Bogeyman Is Back
2-08 83 10/10/1987   Once Upon a Slime
2-09 89 12/5/1987   The Copycat
2-10 90 12/12/1987   Camping it Up
2-11 91 11/14/1987   The Grundel
2-12 79 12/11/1987   Transylvanian Homesick Blues
2-13 87 11/7/1987   Loathe Thy Neighbor
3-01 92 9/17/1988   Flip Side
3-02 93 9/24/1988   Poultrygeist
3-03 94 9/10/1988   The Joke's on Ray
3-04 95 10/8/1988   Standing Room Only
3-05 96 10/15/1988   Robo-Buster
3-06 97 10/22/1988   Short Stuff
3-07 98 11/19/1988   The Brooklyn Triangle
3-08 99 11/12/1988   Follow That Hearse
4-01 100 9/9/1989   Something's Going Around
4-02 101 9/16/1989   Three Men and an Egon
4-03 102 9/23/1989   Elementary My Dear Winston
4-04 103 9/30/1989   If I Were a Witch Man
4-05 104 10/7/1989   Partners in Slime
4-06 105 10/14/1989   Future Tense
4-07 106 10/21/1989   Jailbusters
4-08 107 10/28/1989   Live! From Al Capone's Tomb
4-09 109.1 11/18/1989   Trading Faces
4-10 109.2 11/18/1989   Transcendental Tourists
4-11 110.1 11/25/1989   Surely You Joust
4-12 110.2 11/25/1989   Kitty-Cornered
4-13 111.1 12/2/1989   Slimer's Curse
4-14 111.2 12/2/1989   Til Death Do Us Part
4-15 112.1 12/9/1989   It's About Time
4-16 112.2 12/9/1989   The Ransom of Greenspud
4-17 113.1 12/16/1989   Revenge of the Ghostmaster
4-18 113.2 12/16/1989   Loose Screws
4-19 114.1 11/11/1989   Venk-Man!
4-20 114.2 12/23/1989   Slimer Streak
4-21 108 10/29/1989   The Halloween Door
5-01 116 10/27/1990   Russian About
5-02 117 9/29/1990   The Haunting of Heck House
5-03 118 9/15/1990   You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks  
5-04 115 9/8/1990   Janine, You've Changed
5-05 119 10/6/1990   Mean Green Teen Machine
5-06 120 10/13/1990   Spacebusters
5-07 121 11/24/1990   Guess What's Coming to Dinner
5-08 122 12/8/1990   Very Beast Friends
5-09 123 9/22/1990   Ghostworld
5-10 124 11/17/1990   Afterlife in the Fast Lane
5-11 125 11/3/1990   The Slob
5-12 126 12/15/1990   Busters in Toyland
5-13 127 10/20/1990   My Left Fang
5-14 128 12/1/1990   Stay Tooned
5-15 129 12/22/1990   The Magnificent Five
5-16 130 11/10/1990   Deja Boo
6-01 134 10/5/1991   20,000 Leagues Under the Street
6-02 132 9/21/1991   Not Now, Slimer!
6-03 131 9/14/1991   The Treasure of Sierra Tamale
6-04 133 9/28/1991   Attack of the B-Movie Monsters