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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 (episode order, airdates, season info), Paul Rudoff, Sheila Paulson, Paul Tower, Andrew Ellis, "Busta Toons", 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

No. Air Date Season Episode Title
1 9/13/1986 1-1   Ghosts 'R Us
2 9/20/1986 1-2   Killerwatt
3 9/27/1986 1-3   Mrs. Rogers Neighborhood
4 10/4/1986 1-4   Slimer, Come Home
5 10/11/1986 1-5   Troll Bridge
6 10/18/1986 1-6   The Boogieman Cometh
7 10/25/1986 1-7   Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream
8 11/1/1986 1-8   When Halloween Was Forever
9 11/8/1986 1-9   Look Homeward, Ray
10 11/15/1986 1-10   Take Two
11 11/22/1986 1-11   Citizen Ghost
12 12/6/1986 1-12   Janine's Genie
13 12/13/1986 1-13   X-Mas Marks the Spot
14 9/14/1987 2-1   Janine's Day Off
15 9/15/1987 2-2   Adventures in Slime and Space
16 9/16/1987 2-3   Ragnarok and Roll
17 9/17/1987 2-4   Captain Steel Saves the Day
18 9/18/1987 2-5   They Call Me MISTER Slimer
19 9/21/1987 2-6   Buster the Ghost
20 9/22/1987 2-7   Night Game
21 9/23/1987 2-8   Rollerghoster
22 9/24/1987 2-9   Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?
23 9/25/1987 2-10   Dairy Farm
24 9/28/1987 2-11   Egon's Ghost
25 9/29/1987 2-12   Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster
26 9/30/1987 2-13   The Cabinet of Calamari
27 10/1/1987 2-14   Ghostbuster of the Year
28 10/2/1987 2-15   Egon's Dragon
29 10/5/1987 2-16   No One Comes to Lupusville
30 10/6/1987 2-17   The Bird of Kildarby
31 10/7/1987 2-18   The Long, Long, Long, Etc. Goodbye
32 10/8/1987 2-19   Cold Cash and Hot Water
33 10/9/1987 2-20   Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?
34 10/12/1987 2-21   The Man Who Never Reached Home
35 10/13/1987 2-22   Doctor Doctor
36 10/14/1987 2-23   You Can't Take it With You
37 10/15/1987 2-24   Victor the Happy Ghost
38 10/16/1987 2-25   Lost and Foundry
39 10/19/1987 2-26   Chicken, He Clucked
40 10/20/1987 2-27   Venkman's Ghost Repellers
41 10/21/1987 2-28   The Hole in the Wall Gang
42 10/22/1987 2-29   Ghost Busted
43 10/23/1987 2-30   The Ghostbusters in Paris
44 10/26/1987 2-31   A Fright at the Opera
45 10/27/1987 2-32   The Collect Call of Cathulhu
46 10/28/1987 2-33   Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?
47 10/29/1987 2-34   Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin
48 10/30/1987 2-35   Boo-Dunit
49 11/2/1987 2-36   The Revenge of Murray the Mantis
50 11/3/1987 2-37   The Headless Motorcyclist
51 11/4/1987 2-38   The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic
52 11/5/1987 2-39   Moaning Stones
53 11/6/1987 2-40   Knock, Knock
54 11/9/1987 2-41   The Spirit of Aunt Lois
55 11/10/1987 2-42   Sea Fright
56 11/11/1987 2-43   Ghostfight at the O.K. Corral
57 11/12/1987 2-44   Cry Uncle
58 11/13/1987 2-45   Bustman's Holiday
59 11/16/1987 2-46   The Scaring of the Green
60 11/17/1987 2-47   Ain't NASA-Sarily So
61 11/18/1987 2-48   Apocalypse -- What, NOW?
62 11/19/1987 2-49   The Devil to Pay
63 11/20/1987 2-50   A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn
64 11/23/1987 2-51   I Am the City
65 11/24/1987 2-52   Last Train to Oblivion
66 11/25/1987 2-53   Beneath These Streets
67 11/26/1987 2-54   Play Them Ragtime Boos
68 11/27/1987 2-55   The Old College Spirit
69 11/30/1987 2-56   Hard Knight's Day
70 12/1/1987 2-57   Masquerade
71 12/2/1987 2-58   Deadcon I
72 12/3/1987 2-59   Don't Forget the Motor City
73 12/4/1987 2-60   The Devil in the Deep
74 12/7/1987 2-61   Lights! Camera! Haunting!
75 12/8/1987 2-62   Egon on the Rampage
76 12/9/1987 2-63   Station Identification
77 12/10/1987 2-64   Hanging By a Thread
78 12/11/1987 2-65   Transylvanian Homesick Blues
79 9/12/1987 3-1   Baby Spookums
80 9/19/1987 3-2   It's a Jungle Out There
81 9/26/1987 3-3   Slimer, Is That You?
82 10/3/1987 3-4   The Bogeyman Is Back
83 10/10/1987 3-5   Once Upon a Slime
84 10/17/1987 3-6   The Two Faces of Slimer
85 10/24/1987 3-7   Sticky Business
86 10/31/1987 3-8   Halloween II 1/2
87 11/7/1987 3-9   Loathe Thy Neighbor
88 11/14/1987 3-10   The Grundel
89 11/21/1987 3-11   Big Trouble With Little Slimer
90 12/5/1987 3-12   The Copycat
91 12/12/1987 3-13   Camping it Up
92 9/10/1988 4-1   The Joke's on Ray
93 9/17/1988 4-2   Flip Side
94 9/24/1988 4-3   Poultrygeist
95 10/8/1988 4-4   Standing Room Only
96 10/15/1988 4-5   Robo-Buster
97 10/22/1988 4-6   Short Stuff
98 11/12/1988 4-7   Follow That Hearse
99 11/19/1988 4-8   The Brooklyn Triangle
100 9/9/1989 5-1   Something's Going Around
101 9/16/1989 5-2   Three Men and an Egon
102 9/23/1989 5-3   Elementary My Dear Winston
103 9/30/1989 5-4   If I Were a Witch Man
104 10/7/1989 5-5   Partners in Slime
105 10/14/1989 5-6   Future Tense
106 10/21/1989 5-7   Jailbusters
107 10/28/1989 5-8   The Ghostbusters Live! From Al Capone's Tomb!
108 10/29/1989 5-9   The Halloween Door
109 11/11/1989 5-10   Venk-Man!
110 11/18/1989 5-11   Trading Faces
111 11/18/1989 5-12   Transcendental Tourists
112 11/25/1989 5-13   Surely You Joust
113 11/25/1989 5-14   Kitty-Cornered
114 12/2/1989 5-15   Slimer's Curse
115 12/2/1989 5-16   Til Death Do Us Part
116 12/9/1989 5-17   It's About Time
117 12/9/1989 5-18   The Ransom of Greenspud
118 12/16/1989 5-19   Revenge of the Ghostmaster
119 12/16/1989 5-20   Loose Screws
120 12/23/1989 5-21   Slimer Streak
121 9/8/1990 6-1   Janine, You've Changed
122 9/15/1990 6-2   You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks
123 9/22/1990 6-3   Ghostworld
124 9/29/1990 6-4   The Haunting of Heck House
125 10/6/1990 6-5   Mean Green Teen Machine
126 10/13/1990 6-6   Spacebusters
127 10/20/1990 6-7   My Left Fang
128 10/27/1990 6-8   Russian About
129 11/3/1990 6-9   The Slob
130 11/10/1990 6-10   Deja Boo
131 11/17/1990 6-11   Afterlife in the Fast Lane
132 11/24/1990 6-12   Guess What's Coming to Dinner
133 12/1/1990 6-13   Stay Tooned
134 12/8/1990 6-14   Very Beast Friends
135 12/15/1990 6-15   Busters in Toyland
136 12/22/1990 6-16   The Magnificent Five
137 9/14/1991 7-1   The Treasure of Sierra Tamale
138 9/21/1991 7-2   Not Now, Slimer!
139 9/28/1991 7-3   Attack of the B-Movie Monsters
140 10/5/1991 7-4   20,000 Leagues Under the Street