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The Ghost Busters

TV·1975–1975·1 season, 15 episodes·CBS·Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family, Comedy·22m·Created by Marc Richards

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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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Episodes by season

Season0115Episodes1975AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01The Ghost Busters S01E01The Maltese MonkeySeptember 6, 1975The 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 dr
  2. S01E02The Ghost Busters S01E02Dr. WhatshisnameSeptember 13, 1975Dr. Frankenstein returns, seeking the brain of the world's most gullible fool to transplant into his Monster. Enter Eddie Spencer.
  3. S01E03The Ghost Busters S01E03The Canterville GhostSeptember 20, 1975Jewel 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
  4. S01E04The Ghost Busters S01E04Who's Afraid of The Big Bad WolfSeptember 27, 1975Hoping to remove the curse of the werewolf from hapless Harry Albert, Gypsy fortuneteller Sophia comes seeking to steal the Baldus Lupus Amu
  5. S01E05The Ghost Busters S01E05The Flying DutchmanOctober 4, 1975Scroggs schemes to shanghai the unsuspecting Spencer and Tracy to serve as deck hands aboard Cap'n Beane's Flying Dutchman ghost ship.
  6. S01E06The Ghost Busters S01E06The Dummy's RevengeOctober 11, 1975The Phantom of Vaudeville, a masked ventriloquist with his dummy Elmo, seek revenge after suspecting Spencer, Tracy and Kong of being the so
  7. S01E07The Ghost Busters S01E07A Worthless GauzeOctober 18, 1975The Ghost Busters become embroiled with Egyptian Queen Forah and her Mummy as they search for the ape-sorcerer Simios, who in turn can bring
  8. S01E08The Ghost Busters S01E08Which Witch Is Which?October 25, 1975The 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
  9. S01E09The Ghost Busters S01E09They Went ThatawayNovember 1, 1975Those 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 Bust
  10. S01E10The Ghost Busters S01E10The Vampire's ApprenticeNovember 8, 1975The 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.
  11. S01E11The Ghost Busters S01E11Jekyll and Hyde - Together for The First TimeNovember 15, 1975Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are living as two separate persons, with the Neanderthal Hyde driving insane the urbane Jekyll. Only by drinking a p
  12. S01E12The Ghost Busters S01E12Only Ghosts Have WingsNovember 22, 1975The Ghost Busters discover the Red Baron and his grease monkey Sparky using the haunted castle to repair their damaged airplane.
  13. S01E13The Ghost Busters S01E13The Vikings Have LandedNovember 29, 1975The ghosts of Erik the Red and Brunhilda return to plant a Viking banner and establish their claim to having discovered America prior to the
  14. S01E14The Ghost Busters S01E14Merlin The MagicianDecember 6, 1975Merlin 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 Bu
  15. S01E15The Ghost Busters S01E15The Abominable SnowmanDecember 13, 1975Spencer stumbles onto the scene when Dr. Centigrade is searching for a warm-blooded heart to transplant into the Abominable Snowman. Final e

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