Episodes cast for
"The Real Ghost Busters" (1986) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Year: 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Ghosts R Us

13 September 1986
Slimer accidentally releases three ghosts from the containment unit and they set out to put Ghostbusters out of business by opening their own business, 'Ghosts R Us'.

Season 1, Episode 2: Killerwatt

20 September 1986
With New York being plagued by power outages, the Ghostbusters set about to capture Killerwatt, a ghost who has the ability to possess electrical devices. But things take a turn for the worse when Killerwatt takes control of the city's power grid.

Season 1, Episode 3: Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood

27 September 1986
A little old lady named Mrs. Rogers calls the Ghostbusters about her haunted house; once inside, Egon discovers the house is being controlled by a creature named 'Watt'.

Season 1, Episode 4: Slimer, Come Home

4 October 1986
Slimer leaves home after Peter yells at him for eating Winston's birthday cake, and the Ghostbusters set out to find him. But more problems arise when Egon discovers a poltergeist feeding off the power of ghosts in the local area; who only needs one more ghost to reach his full power.

Season 1, Episode 5: Troll Bridge

11 October 1986
An invasion of trolls emerge from the East River and take over the Queensboro Bridge, causing havoc for the citizens of New York. The Ghostbusters are soon on the scene to rid the city of the creatures, but are soon in a race against time to find a troll lost somewhere in the city, otherwise New York will be destroyed.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Boogieman Cometh

18 October 1986
The guys are hired by a pair of young siblings to rid them of the Bogeyman, an entity Egon is quite familiar with.

Season 1, Episode 7: Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream

25 October 1986
The Sandman is real and is putting all of New York City to sleep, but their dreams are running rampant in the real world.

Season 1, Episode 8: When Halloween Was Forever

1 November 1986
It is Halloween and New York is sent into chaos when two goblins release the spirit Samhain from a 7th Century relic. The Ghostbusters must work quickly to defeat Samhain & his minions and prevent the world from plunging into darkness forever.

Season 1, Episode 9: Look Homeward, Ray

8 November 1986
Ray's heading back to his hometown to be the grand marshal in the parade; but when he's called to get rid of the ghosts in a haunted house and they get away, he starts to question his ability as a Ghostbuster.

Season 1, Episode 10: Take Two

15 November 1986
The Ghostbusters head out to California to be technical assistants for the movie being made about them; but during the process, an old spirit is rudely awakened during renovations of the studio.

Season 1, Episode 11: Citizen Ghost

22 November 1986
Peter recounts to a reporter how Slimer came to live at the firehouse after helping the guys trap a group of ghostly impersonators.

Season 1, Episode 12: Janine's Genie

6 December 1986
Janine wants to go on a job with the guys and helps them catch a ghost. As payment, she takes a lamp that has a sinister genie in it that grants her the wishes of making her the boss over the Ghostbusters, and Egon fall in love with her.

Season 1, Episode 13: X-Mas Marks the Spot

13 December 1986
The fate of Christmas depends on the Ghostbusters filling in for the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future while Egon attempts to retrieve the real ghosts from the containment unit.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Janine's Day Off

14 September 1987
Janine takes the day off to take Egon to visit her family, only for them to be called back to headquarters after Slimer inadvertently activates a dimensional gate machine created by Egon, which allows a group of miniature demons to pass into the real world. Things take a turn for the worst when the demons combine to make one giant demon and it runs amok throughout New York. Meanwhile, Janine and Louise (Janine's temporary cover), along with Slimer, are left at HQ to battle against a trio of spirits who have passed through the dimensional gate after Louise activates the machine for a second time.

Season 2, Episode 2: Adventures in Slime and Space

15 September 1987
An experiment with Slimer goes horribly wrong when he starts breaking up and multiplying into hundreds of smaller Slimers, and the Ghostbusters have to catch all the pieces and put them together before Slimer splits into non-existence.

Season 2, Episode 3: Ragnarok and Roll

16 September 1987
The Ghostbusters investigate several supernatural incidents which lead to them visiting a woman whose home is at the centre of where the events took place. They discover that she is linked to the events and that her ex-boyfriend, named Jeremy, has warned her of his prediction of the events and his intention to bring about the end of the world through what is known as Ragnarok. Meanwhile, Jeremy is possessed by a demon after initiating the beginning of Ragnarok. The Ghostbusters soon have to deal with Jeremy when he arrives in New York with his aide, DiTillio, intending see out his plans for Armageddon.

Season 2, Episode 4: Captain Steel Saves the Day

17 September 1987
Ray is distraught when he discovers his favourite comic, Captain Steel, is to be cancelled. But Ray and the rest of the Ghostbusters get more than they bargained for when Captain Steel and his arch enemy, Dr Destructo, emerge from a page from the last edition of the comic to do battle with one another in the real world. The Ghostbusters team with Captain Steel to defeat Dr Destructo after he takes control of the fire house.

Season 2, Episode 5: They Call Me Mister Slimer

18 September 1987
Slimer is blamed by Peter for the fall in the Ghostbusters' finances. So he heads off and in a chance meeting, befriends a young student called Mike who is continually being picked on by a group of bullies. Slimer offers to become Mike's bodyguard and scares off the bullies, the bullies retaliate by finding help of their very own in the form of Barrowhites. But the plan backfires and soon the Ghostbusters get involved to get rid of the Barrowhites before the situation gets out of hand.

Season 2, Episode 6: Buster the Ghost

21 September 1987
A ghost called Buster tries to get a job with the Ghostbusters after failing to hold down many other jobs. But even helping out proves to be a problem for Buster after a whole host of ghosts descend on the fire house which causes an energy build up so big that it puts the whole universe under threat.

Season 2, Episode 7: Night Game

22 September 1987
Supernatural forces take control of the New York Jaguars' baseball stadium and the Ghostbusters head off to investigate, only to find themselves in the middle of a historic battle between good and evil that takes part once every 500 years.

Season 2, Episode 8: Rollerghoster

23 September 1987
A funfair owned by a crooked businessman runs into trouble when his unofficial Ghostbusters roller-coaster ride becomes haunted by many spirits. The Ghostbusters are soon called into action when the ride transforms and holds several citizens captive.

Season 2, Episode 9: Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?

24 September 1987
The Ghostbusters get called out to investigate strange happenings at the old Walt Fleischer studios, the cartoonist who created Ray's favorite cartoon character, Dopey Dog. They find out the cartoonist, who disappeared 40 years ago, got sucked into a cartoon world where his creations took over, and now they have to get him out.

Season 2, Episode 10: Dairy Farm

25 September 1987
The Ghostbusters decide to take a vacation after several long months of 'busting and head off to Ray's cousin's farm in the countryside. But their vacation is cut short when they discover all is not well on the farm.

Season 2, Episode 11: Egon's Ghost

28 September 1987
Egon is transformed into a ghost after the team's de-stabler weapon backfires during a battle with a demon. The rest of the Ghostbusters have to act quickly in order to restore Egon back to normal before before time runs out.

Season 2, Episode 12: Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster

29 September 1987
Janine turns Ghostbuster after her apartment becomes haunted and the team are busy dealing with a backlog of jobs throughout the city. The Ghostbusters are captured by the demon, Proteus, during a battle with a possessed Atlas statue, and are being held captive. Janine, with the help of Slimer, become the team's only hope of escaping the clutches of Proteus.

Season 2, Episode 13: The Cabinet of Calamari

30 September 1987

Season 2, Episode 14: Ghostbuster of the Year

1 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 15: Egon's Dragon

2 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 16: No One Comes to Lupusville

5 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 17: The Bird of Kildarby

6 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 18: The Long, Long, Long, etc. Goodbye

7 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 19: Cold Cash and Hot Water

8 October 1987
Charlie Venkman, Peter's father calls with big news, he has discovered something in Alaska and asks the boys to come up and help him with it.

Season 2, Episode 20: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?

9 October 1987
The Ghostbusters get a call to a mansion where one incident occurs after another.

Season 2, Episode 21: The Man Who Never Reached Home

12 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 22: Doctor, Doctor

13 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 23: You Can't Take It with You

14 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 24: Victor the Happy Ghost

15 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 25: Lost and Foundry

16 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 26: Chicken, He Clucked

19 October 1987
A man summons a demon to get some magical help. The man wants to get rid of all chickens. The demon gives him the power to make things disappear. And promptly uses his ability to make all the chickens on Earth to disappear. The ghost busters investigate, and he makes them disappear. The demon is embarrassed by how he's been using the powers he was granted, and gives the ghost busters a chance to set things right.

Season 2, Episode 27: Venkman's Ghost Repellers

20 October 1987
Peter's father arrives in town selling phony ghost repellent ponchos to a ship's crew that disappears in the New Jersey Parallelogram; and the Ghostbusters are called upon to find the crew before it's too late.

Season 2, Episode 28: The Hole in the Wall Gang

21 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 29: Ghost Busted

22 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 30: The Ghostbusters in Paris

23 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 31: A Fright at the Opera

26 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 32: The Collect Call of Cthulhu

27 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 33: Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?

28 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 34: Drool, the Dog Faced Goblin

29 October 1987

Season 2, Episode 35: Boo-Dunit

30 October 1987
The Ghostbusters are called out to investigate strange happenings at the estate of the late mystery writer, Agatha Grisley, who died before completing her final novel.

Season 2, Episode 36: The Revenge of Murray the Mantis

2 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 37: The Headless Motorcyclist

3 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 38: The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic

4 November 1987
An old woman pays the Ghostbusters a visit to end the hauntings that have occurred in her attic, where she hasn't set foot for 70 years.

Season 2, Episode 39: Moaning Stones

5 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 40: Knock, Knock

6 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 41: The Spirit of Aunt Lois

9 November 1987
When Ray's Aunt Lois comes to visit, she reveals having 'spirit' problems in her home. Much to Ray's dismay, his aunt has hired the phony psychic, Dr. Alfred Bassingham to remove them.

Season 2, Episode 42: Sea Fright

10 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 43: Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral

11 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 44: Cry Uncle

12 November 1987
Egon's uncle comes out for a visit and isn't convinced Egon's work in the Ghostbusters is anything worthwhile, and talks Egon into coming back to work with him.

Season 2, Episode 45: Bustman's Holiday

13 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 46: The Scaring of the Green

16 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 47: Ain't NASA-sarily So

17 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 48: Apocalypse - What, NOW?

18 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 49: The Devil to Pay

19 November 1987
Winston and Ray get on a game show that unknown to them is run by a demon, and if they lose, the cost is their souls.

Season 2, Episode 50: A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn

20 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 51: I Am the City

23 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 52: Last Train to Oblivion

24 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 53: Beneath These Streets

25 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 54: Play Them Ragtime Boos

26 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 55: The Old College Spirit

27 November 1987
Peter's old fraternity, Tri Cuppa Brew, is in trouble when the new members are blamed for the pranks being pulled by ghosts of past students that never made it to graduation.

Season 2, Episode 56: Hard Knight's Day

30 November 1987

Season 2, Episode 57: Masquerade

1 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 58: Deadcon 1

2 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 59: Don't Forget the Motor City

3 December 1987
The Ghostbusters get called out to Detroit by the president of the Generous Motor company when all their cars start self destructing, and the Ghostbusters find that the problem is the same kind of gremlins that took planes apart in WWII are now destroying all the machines in the factory.

Season 2, Episode 60: The Devil in the Deep

4 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 61: Lights! Camera! Haunting!

7 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 62: Egon on the Rampage

8 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 63: Station Identification

9 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 64: Hanging by a Thread

10 December 1987

Season 2, Episode 65: Transylvanian Homesick Blues

11 December 1987
The Ghostbusters go to Boldavia to meet the mysterious Count Vostak.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Baby Spookums

12 September 1987

Season 3, Episode 2: It's a Jungle Out There

19 September 1987

Season 3, Episode 3: Slimer, Is That You?

26 September 1987

Season 3, Episode 4: The Bogeyman Is Back

3 October 1987
Egon Spangler's fear of death from the World Trade Center has tempted the Bogeyman to come back from hiding.

Season 3, Episode 5: Once Upon a Slime

10 October 1987

Season 3, Episode 6: The Two Faces of Slimer

17 October 1987

Season 3, Episode 7: Sticky Business

24 October 1987

Season 3, Episode 8: Halloween II 1/2

31 October 1987

Season 3, Episode 9: Loathe Thy Neighbor

7 November 1987

Season 3, Episode 10: The Grundel

14 November 1987

Season 3, Episode 11: Big Trouble with Little Slimer

21 November 1987

Season 3, Episode 12: The Copycat

5 December 1987

Season 3, Episode 13: Camping It Up

12 December 1987

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: The Joke's on Ray

10 September 1988

Season 4, Episode 2: Flip Side

17 September 1988
Egon and Peter enter an alternate dimension where ghosts inhabit a city called Boo York and are haunted by live people.

Season 4, Episode 3: Poultrygeist

24 September 1988

Season 4, Episode 4: Standing Room Only

8 October 1988

Season 4, Episode 5: Robo-Buster

15 October 1988

Season 4, Episode 6: Short Stuff

22 October 1988

Season 4, Episode 7: Follow That Hearse

12 November 1988

Season 4, Episode 8: The Brooklyn Triangle

19 November 1988

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Something's Going Around

9 September 1989

Season 5, Episode 2: Three Men and an Egon

16 September 1989

Season 5, Episode 3: Elementary My Dear Winston

23 September 1989

Season 5, Episode 4: If I Were a Witch Man

30 September 1989

Season 5, Episode 5: Partners in Slime

7 October 1989

Season 5, Episode 6: Future Tense

14 October 1989

Season 5, Episode 7: Jailbusters

21 October 1989

Season 5, Episode 8: The Ghostbusters Live! From Al Capone's Tomb!

28 October 1989

Season 5, Episode 9: The Halloween Door

29 October 1989

Season 5, Episode 10: Venk-Man!

11 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 11: Trading Faces

18 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 12: Transcendental Tourists

18 November 1989

Season 5, Episode 13: Surely You Joust

25 November 1989
In order to rescue a kidnapped Janine, the Ghost Busters enter a world filled with dragons and knights.

Season 5, Episode 14: Kitty-Cornered

25 November 1989
Slimer finds a mysterious kitten that can make his dream come true.

Season 5, Episode 15: Slimer's Curse

2 December 1989
After Slimer wins the lottery, he runs into trouble when he discovers that his winnings are cursed.

Season 5, Episode 16: Til Death Do Us Part

2 December 1989
Ghostbusters hire a temp who happens to be a ghost. Egon gets into trouble when the temp decides to marry him.

Season 5, Episode 17: It's About Time

9 December 1989

Season 5, Episode 18: The Ransom of Greenspud

9 December 1989
A group of ghost kidnap Slimer and try to ransom him back to the Ghostbusters.

Season 5, Episode 19: Revenge of the Ghostmaster

16 December 1989
The Ghostmaster returns and, in order to get revenge on the Ghostbusters, he cast a spell on them which causes all electronic equipment near them to fail including their proton packs.

Season 5, Episode 20: Loose Screws

16 December 1989
Slimer accidentally breaks a trap and doesn't tell anyone. After the Ghostbusters use it, things start to get dangerous when the Ghost's essence leaks out of the trap and starts possessing things.

Season 5, Episode 21: Slimer Streak

23 December 1989
The Ghostbusters are stuck on a speeding train. In order to get it to stop, they must play and win a series of games.

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Janine, You've Changed

8 September 1990
After looking through a photo album, the Ghostbusters begin to suspect that a supernatural force is behind a number of significant changes in Janine.

Season 6, Episode 2: You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks

15 September 1990
The Ghostbusters go to another dimension where they meet a demon that is intent on learning magic tricks.

Season 6, Episode 3: Ghostworld

22 September 1990
A ghost gains power over the Ghostbusters by using an amusement park named "Ghostworld". Egon must somehow set things right.

Season 6, Episode 4: The Haunting of Heck House

29 September 1990
Peter tells the story of how the Ghostbusters could have earned a million dollars by staying in a haunted house overnight without their proton packs.

Season 6, Episode 5: Mean Green Teen Machine

6 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 6: Spacebusters

13 October 1990
Winston gets to live a childhood dream when he and the rest of the Ghostbusters head of into space to bust a ghost that is haunting a space station.

Season 6, Episode 7: My Left Fang

20 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 8: Russian About

27 October 1990

Season 6, Episode 9: The Slob

3 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 10: Deja Boo

10 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 11: Afterlife in the Fast Lane

17 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 12: Guess What's Coming to Dinner

24 November 1990

Season 6, Episode 13: Stay Tooned

1 December 1990

Season 6, Episode 14: Very Beast Friends

8 December 1990

Season 6, Episode 15: Busters in Toyland

15 December 1990

Season 6, Episode 16: The Magnificent Five

22 December 1990

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Season 7

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Season 7, Episode 1: The Treasure of Sierra Tamale

14 September 1991

Season 7, Episode 2: Not Now, Slimer!

21 September 1991

Season 7, Episode 3: Attack of the B-Movie Monsters

28 September 1991

Season 7, Episode 4: 20,000 Leagues Under the Street

5 October 1991