Episode 1
The Maltese Monkey
25m
The Ghost Busters must stop the Fat Man and Rabbit from summoning the ghost of gangster Big Al Caesar, who will help them steal the stuff dreams are made of: the Maltese Monkey.
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TV series
The Ghost Busters
19751 season7.1 / 10
Spooks, monsters and ghouls got you down? The Ghost Busters will save the day!
The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who would investigate ghostly occurrences. Only 15 episodes were created. This series reunited Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in roles similar to their characters in F Troop. Tucker played Jake Kong, and Storch played zoot suit-wearing Eddie Spencer. The third member of the trio was Tracy the Gorilla, played by actor Bob Burns. The series was unrelated to the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
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The Ghost Busters premiered September 6, 1975. We don't have a confirmed streaming, rental or purchase option yet.
Synopsis
The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who would investigate ghostly occurrences. Only 15 episodes were created. This series reunited Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in roles similar to their characters in F Troop. Tucker played Jake Kong, and Storch played zoot suit-wearing Eddie Spencer. The third member of the trio was Tracy the Gorilla, played by actor Bob Burns. The series was unrelated to the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
Cast, crew and production details
About The Ghost Busters
Cast
Larry Storch
Forrest Tucker
Linda Gary
Susan Blu
Pat Fraley
Peter Cullen
Alan Oppenheimer
Erika ScheimerCredits
- Created by
- Marc Richards
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 15
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
CBSUnited States
Filmation AssociatesUnited States
Themes
detectiveghostparanormal phenomenasitcom
Season 1 episodes
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Episode 2
Dr. Whatshisname
25m
Dr. Frankenstein returns, seeking the brain of the world's most gullible fool to transplant into his Monster. Enter Eddie Spencer.
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Episode 3
The Canterville Ghost
25m
Jewel thief Mr. C schemes to scare Carola out of the castle so he can find and steal the Canterville Diamond, not realizing it hangs around the neck of the scaredy-cat ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville.
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Episode 4
Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf
25m
Hoping to remove the curse of the werewolf from hapless Harry Albert, Gypsy fortuneteller Sophia comes seeking to steal the Baldus Lupus Amulet that Spencer recently unearthed.
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Episode 5
The Flying Dutchman
25m
Scroggs schemes to shanghai the unsuspecting Spencer and Tracy to serve as deck hands aboard Cap'n Beane's Flying Dutchman ghost ship.
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Episode 6
The Dummy's Revenge
25m
The Phantom of Vaudeville, a masked ventriloquist with his dummy Elmo, seek revenge after suspecting Spencer, Tracy and Kong of being the song and dance act that upstaged them decades earlier.
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Episode 7
A Worthless Gauze
25m
The Ghost Busters become embroiled with Egyptian Queen Forah and her Mummy as they search for the ape-sorcerer Simios, who in turn can bring them to Spen-Zah, possessor of the secret of immortality.
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Episode 8
Which Witch Is Which?
25m
The ghost of a 17th century witch and her stooge Gronk return for revenge on the descendant of the Edward Spencer who broke her spell at the Salem Witch Trials.
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Episode 9
They Went Thataway
25m
Those ghostriders in the sky are the spirits of Billy the Kid and Belle Starr back to round up a new gang of cattle rustlers. The Ghost Busters disguise themselves as cowboys to get the Dematerializer drop on 'em.
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Episode 10
The Vampire's Apprentice
25m
The Ghost Busters may get the bite put on them when Count and Countess Dracula return from the other side in search of a warm-blooded donor.
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Episode 11
Jekyll and Hyde - Together for The First Time
25m
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are living as two separate persons, with the Neanderthal Hyde driving insane the urbane Jekyll. Only by drinking a potion made from a person without any personality can Jekyll ever hope to be set free from Hyde.
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Episode 12
Only Ghosts Have Wings
25m
The Ghost Busters discover the Red Baron and his grease monkey Sparky using the haunted castle to repair their damaged airplane.
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Episode 13
The Vikings Have Landed
25m
The ghosts of Erik the Red and Brunhilda return to plant a Viking banner and establish their claim to having discovered America prior to the loathsome Lothar the Hun.
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Episode 14
Merlin The Magician
25m
Merlin and jester Gronk are pursued from the Great Beyond by their nemesis Morgan Le Fay, who intends to trap them in this era. The Ghost Busters befriend and assist the broken-down magician in his battle with the beautiful sorceress.
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Episode 15
The Abominable Snowman
25mFinale
Spencer stumbles onto the scene when Dr. Centigrade is searching for a warm-blooded heart to transplant into the Abominable Snowman. Final episode of the series.
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