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It's business as usual when the Ghostbusters entrap a family of Class Fives - an irritable dad, a doting mom and a dumb baby. When Slimer tries to sneak some food without permission, he accidentally ensures that the Class Fives' stay won't even last through the night. The newly-freed family are now out for one thing - revenge. Soon enough, Ghosts 'R Us hits the scene and their "successes" make the guys look second-rate at every turn. The Ghostbusters may soon be out of business, but when the ghost family attempts to finish the job, they unleash a force that endangers all of New York City.

Note: In the original (ABC) airing of Season 1, each episode ended with a green DiC vortex logo with the byline "Produced In Association With", followed by a CPT logo with the byline "A Unit of the Coca-Cola Company". The first note of the CPT logo would overlap with the final note of the end credits theme.

Note: The title card and start-of-Act 2 bumper were silent, and only had Arsenio Hall's voice-over in this episode. Afterwards, the former began using a 7-note jingle, trimmed from one of the music cues, and the latter had a 9-note jingle. These would also be used during the second (ABC) season.

An electric ghost named Killerwatt (James Avery) has taken over the power plant, leaving New York City powerless.

After a week-long lull, the Ghostbusters get a case - and to a haunted house, no less. Ray takes the house's occupants - Mrs. Rogers and her pet bird - back to the firehouse for their own safety, while the others inspect the area. A variety of increasingly bizarre happenings do occur and Egon attributes it all to Watt, a powerful demon, disguised as a kindly old lady who traps the Ghostbusters in a haunted house while it infiltrates the firehouse and attempts to break open the containment unit. The situation proves worse than they would've imagined, however, as Watt has a bigger plan than a mere haunting. He possesses Peter in order to break open the containment unit.

After being yelled at by Peter, Slimer runs away and gets mixed up with some very mean poltergeists. The ghosts' leader then tries to absorb Slimer and hundreds of other ghosts into himself, making him invincible.

A young troll leaves his tribe, goes exploring and ends up in New York. While he has a good time, his tribe takes over the bridge and threatens to destroy the city if he isn't returned by sundown, using a group of flying, fire-breathing birds. The Ghostbusters have a hard time catching the troll, but when they do, they can't stand to separate the party animal from the city. Instead, they convince the other trolls he was turned into a statue when their proton stream hit him. While the other trolls leave, the Ghostbusters send the young troll to a friend out of town.

Meghan and Kenny Carter (Susan Blu) are being scared by the Boogieman and go to the Ghostbusters for help. The children's parents aren't happy when the Ghostbusters barge into their homes in the middle of the night and ask them to leave. To make things even better, Egon knows the Boogieman from childhood, and convinces the guys to go after him. But in order to stop him, they'll have to find another way to get to the Boogieman, which leads them to a showdown in his realm.

All over New York, people are falling asleep and their dreams are becoming reality. A rogue Sandman has plans to put everyone to sleep in order to bring peace to the world, despite the fact that they will be asleep for 500 years. Egon realizes how to beat him, but falls sleep before he can say it. One by one, Ray, Peter and Egon are put to sleep, until only Winston is left. Knowing that he can't stop the Sandman alone, Winston tries to figure out what Egon had realized, but couldn't say. It is only with the help of Albert Einstein (from Egon's dream) that Winston is able to figure out what to do. He returns to the firehouse, where he tells Janine his plan. Janine falls under the Sandman's spell and falls asleep as Winston is cornered by the Sandman. In Janine's dream, she transforms herself into a Ghostbuster as she hits the Sandman from behind and, with the help of Slimer, traps him.

When a group of subway construction workers accidentally uncover an ancient door that isn't meant to be opened up until doomsday, their persistence accidentally triggers the door's opening, which sends incredible amounts of poltergeist energy surging through the New York subway system, mutating the trains into worm-like monsters. The Ghostbusters are called in to deal with it, and Egon discovers that if they don't close the door soon, the entire world will be transformed into a twisted and barren wasteland of ghostly and demonic creatures that will replace all of humankind and civilization.

Note 1: One of the differences between the ABC and Syndicated episodes was that the crew had more freedom with certain storylines and villains on the latter, that would have been vetoed by the network, due to their strict protocols.

Note 2: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division on October 22, 1986.

Note 3: This is the only syndicated episode to have a silent title card, different from the others in this season. The others used an alternate jingle, different from the one used in the first two ABC seasons.

Note 4: "THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS is available on MAGIC WINDOW Videocassettes from RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video. Original Soundtrack Album Available on Polydor Records, Tapes and Compact Disc". This tagline only appeared on the syndicated episodes' closing credits.

Note 5: Much like the first ABC season, all syndicated episodes carried a 1986 copyright date, as they were produced during that year. Fewest episodes in their original airing used the DIC choir variant kid in bed logo. Some episodes used the DIC green vortex/CPT logo (with the latter freeze-framed after the last note of the fanfare), others used the DIC kid in bed (warp-speed variant)/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo. Arsenio Hall (Winston) does the voice of the NO GHOST in the bumpers, and the episode title is silent. Subsequent syndicated episodes used an 8-note jingle, trimmed from one of the commercial bumper cues. The closing theme music continues to play over the DIC kid in bed Logo with the "In Association With" tagline in some prints. It is a rare variant in this episode, as usually it is only reserved for the DIC green vortex logo.

Ghosts with plans for world domination create a TV station as part of their scheme. Manifesting as various television characters and commercial products, the ghosts can travel through any television in the city to terrorize the public. The Ghostbusters try to stop these ghosts, but when Slimer gets captured by the ghosts, it's up to the guys to get him back and make sure the ghost station does not go nationwide, and then worldwide.

A ghostly bayou trumpet player, Malachi, is living - sort of - in the past, and seeks to turn back the clock by playing a haunting rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In". Ghostbusters, with help from a bewitching mambo, try to fight this time-warping menace.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the fall of 1986.

When a treasure-seeker uncovers a treasure chest on the ocean floor, he unwittingly summons a ship of pirate ghosts, who wreak havoc on New York in order to reclaim their treasure. The ship, called The Stag, is commanded by Captain Jack Higgins (Jack Angel), one of the most notorious pirates in history, whose pirates prove to be too much for the Ghostbusters to handle. Despite being outnumbered, the Ghostbusters give chase to the pirates in order to stop them. To make things worse, Slimer tries to help, and gets into a fight with a ghost parrot, while the guys take on Higgins and his pirates, ambushing The Stag first from another land-beached ship, and then leading the pirates into a trap so that they can end their plundering once and for all.

Ray's Aunt Lois (Marilyn Lightstone) hires a phony psychic to get rid of ghosts in her house, much to the Ghostbusters' dismay. Instead of helping, though, this phony psychic enrages the ghosts, who are, in fact, protective house spirits called domoviye, even more, causing them to throw a nasty temper tantrum.

It is not suitable for a Spengler to be anything as unscientific as a Ghostbuster, at least in the eyes of Egon's Uncle Cyrus. Egon has to reluctantly go back to the Midwest, over 1,500 miles from New York, and feed mice at the Spengler Labs, but the Ghostbusters will try anything to convince Uncle Cyrus that there actually are such things as ghosts. But things get out of hand when Uncle Cyrus unwittingly lets the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man out of the containment unit, and the Ghostbusters have to put him back before he destroys the city again.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division as a special prize in select Ghostbusters cereal boxes in the fall of 1986.

One of Egon's contraptions has a bad effect on Slimer, making millions of little versions of the green ghost. Worse, when they try to fix the problem, Slimer turns evil and starts causing trouble across the entire city, which ends up slimed to great excess. The episode itself is infamous for its numerous in-jokes such as Pac-Man, 2001: A Space Odyssey, King Kong, The Three Stooges, Howard the Duck, and even Star Trek and Adventures in Time and Space.

Winston and Slimer go to the Jaguars baseball stadium to see them play. There, Winston witnesses a supernatural event and tries, unsuccessfully, to convince the guys to investigate. Winston's research into the event leads to an old Native American legend that involves an ancient battle between the forces of Good and Evil that takes place once every 500 years. When Winston becomes trapped in the stadium during the ghostly takeover, the guys go to rescue him. However, when they get inside, they find two supernatural forces playing baseball instead of fighting. According to Winston, the two forces choose their method of battle based on their surroundings, which is now housing a baseball stadium. What's more, the two groups are playing for a single human soul. If Good loses, the soul must spend 500 years doing Evil's bidding. The umpire, who seems to be the judge for this contest, has allowed Winston to play on the side of Good since he was there when the battle began, and allows the Ghostbusters to remain and watch. Peter thinks that they are playing for Winston's soul, and that they have to help the good guys win this contest. However, Egon points out that if they try to interfere, Good will lose, and Winston will lose his soul. Winston is the last up to bat for the side of Good, and faces off against a mammoth pitcher with a cannon-trunk for a pitching arm. Winston manages to hit the last ball, scoring a home run and winning the game. The umpire then reveals that the whole thing was a test, that the Ghostbusters had to decide whether or not to interfere and let Good win on its own terms. But Winston reveals the biggest secret of all, that they were not playing for his soul, but Peter's, and that's why they let Winston play.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the spring of 1987, along with "The Bird of Kildarby" and "Lost and Foundry".

Peter's conman father sells a product that he claims acts as a ghost repellent. However, the products, which are actually plain and ordinary ponchos, prove to be useless against a ghost as simple as Slimer. Worse, when the Ghostbusters try to convince Peter's dad to stop selling them, due to the fact it is fraudulent and amoral, he sells them anyway to a science expedition that is out to investigate the New Jersey Parallelogram, apparently a 'smaller, nastier version' of the Bermuda Triangle, then the expedition gets trapped in the Parallelogram. Peter's father, thinking he may be responsible, goes to locate them at the same time the Coast Guard contracts the Ghostbusters to help them locate the missing ship. When the Ghostbusters and Coast Guard get pulled into the Parallelogram, they eventually find the ship and are able to get it out. Once out, they find Peter's father's speedboat, but he is not there. The boys go back into the Parallelogram in order to locate Peter's dad, finding him at the center of the supernatural structure battling a horde of ghosts. Their fight to save Peter's father results in damaging the center of the Parallelogram, and the Ghostbusters barely manage to escape before the entire structure collapses into the ocean. Peter's father later sends Peter a postcard from Alaska, letting him know that he's now got a job selling iceboxes to the natives.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the fall of 1986.

Peter's old college fraternity asks for help from the Ghostbusters to bust a gang of ghosts on campus. Apparently, their frat is being framed for numerous crimes by a gang of ghostly delinquents who, several decades ago and when they were still alive, swore revenge against the college for expelling them. The gang of spirit-hooligans vastly outnumber the Ghostbusters, but the Ghostbusters find out that the gang has one weakness: they want to graduate.

The crew of a newly-created space platform calls the Ghostbusters for assistance in ridding them of a power-sucking ghost – a crew that oddly resembles that of another spacecraft on a five-year mission.

Note: This episode originally ended with the warp-speed DIC kid in bed/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo.

Strange noises emanating from the room that legendary animator, Walt Fleishman (Don Messick), used to animate his characters until his disappearance in the 1940s prompts an old lady working at the studio to contact the Ghostbusters. The Ghostbusters enter a cartoon world, where they meet the one and only Dopey Dog.

The Ghostbusters confront Valkyrie ghosts that have been terrorizing an opera. While there, Peter starts up a romance with the opera's diva. There, they also meet the Phantom of the Opera (who apparently summoned the Valkyries in the first place).

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the fall of 1986.

Note 2: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

The Ghostbusters have to go to the hospital after a job at a chemical plant. The bust at the plant causes a strange chemical to cover the guys, which results in a thick layer of slime and muck to cover everything but their heads. What's more, the slime seems to react to Slimer in a very unusual way, and the doctors at the hospital are less than helpful in dealing with something they have never seen before. The Ghostbusters eventually realize that the slime is actually part of the ghost they tried to bust at the chemical plant, and that it needs ectoplasm to survive, which it why it goes after Slimer. Now the guys have to save Slimer before he is eaten.

When a dry season of ghostbusting puts financial stress on the guys and Janine, the group tries to compensate by taking side jobs, much to their own disaster. Things change when the guys bust a criminal, and decide to go into business as the Crimebusters. Within a very short time the guys have busted every criminal in New York, adjusting their proton packs and ghost traps to trap and contain criminals. However, their actions anger the head Mafia boss in New York, called Crimelord (Hamilton Camp), who takes Janine hostage to force them to give up. The guys track down the kidnappers and rescue Janine, and Peter uses Slimer to force the thugs to tell them where Crimelord is. Using Ecto-2, the guys go after Crimelord and finally manage to chase him down, impaling his own helicopter on the Empire State building after a lengthy chase. With all the criminals in the city locked up, the Crimebusters are once again out of business, as the ghosts decide to come back, including Stay Puft Marshmallow Man before the episode ends.

Ray goes into the sewer to find out what's causing earthquakes and heat waves in the city. What he finds is an ancient and mysterious pillar that is holding up all of Manhattan Island. Worse, the ghosts have disrupted the axle grease that keeps the pillar turning and holding up the island, in order to get it to break and eventually sink the island into the sea. The Ghostbusters go after Ray in order not only to save him from the ghosts, but also to prevent the pillar from being destroyed.

As ghosts are acting out an incomplete mystery, Winston is in charge of finishing and solving it. But at the end of the episode, because Winston spoils the endings whenever the Ghostbusters watch mystery movies, he is tied up.

A chicken-fearing man named Cubby finally has a breakdown and uses a trio of magic books from the New York Public library, which Egon was also looking to check out, to summon up a demon named Morgannan (and his imp) in order to get rid of all the chickens in the world. Despite the ridiculous request, Morgannan gives Cubby the power to make anything disappear or reappear. Cubby then uses the power to make all the chickens in the world disappear, which brings the Ghostbusters running to investigate. However, when they confront Cubby about it, they get teleported into another dimension where the chickens are. They begin falling fast towards the rocky ground as the chickens are floating above them, but are saved from a very nasty crash into the ground by Morgannan, who has been so humiliated by Cubby's actions that he enlists the guys to help him undo the deal. The demon sends them back to the firehouse, where the Ghostbusters make a gaggle of robotic chickens to trick Cubby into returning the real chickens to Earth. Once the chickens are returned, Morgannan breaks the contract, removing Cubby's powers. The guys take Cubby and put him into a mental hospital, where Morgannan tortures Cubby with his least favorite food chicken.

Abandoned by his girlfriend Cindy (Lynn Ann Leveridge), a lonely man named Jeremy and his hunchbacked friend, DyTillio, sets loose the forces of evil as he uses a magical flute to bring about the end of the world in Norse mythology. However, DyTillio and Jeremy's ex-girlfriend manage to convince him to undo his destruction, which the evil force that Jeremy contracted with refuses to allow, and nearly kills him. The Ghostbusters are able to push the spirit back into his dark realm after Jeremy weakens it, and help Jeremy to reverse the damage he's done to the world, by using their own energies to repair the damaged flute.

When Peter gets a new car, it suddenly and unexpectedly blows up. The Ghostbusters are then summoned to investigate malfunctioning equipment in a Detroit factory where the cars came from; they discover that gremlins, who have been left over from World War II, are messing with the plant's equipment. In order to defeat the gremlins, since their weapons only work on ghosts, the Ghostbusters create a special vehicle that the gremlins cannot resist.

Peter's favorite rock-star singer Shanna O'Callahan arrives in New York and turns out to be a banshee, an Irish spirit whose voice causes chaos. She is now planning to use a major rock concert to broadcast her chaotic spell across the nation, and then, the world. When the Ghostbusters go to confront her, Peter falls under her siren spell, which complicates matters for the team.

Note: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

During a routine ghostbust in the city, the Ghostbusters take down a bunch of ghosts at a restaurant, where a young couple are talking about getting rid of a ghost in their own mansion. The man, named John, suggests that they hire the guys for the job, but the woman, Olivia, refuses. Winston gives John one of their business cards before they go. At the mansion, when the pair try to scare the ghost of Olivia's Uncle Horace away, John loses the card that Winston gave him, and Horace himself uses it to call the Ghostbusters to scare away the other two ghosts so that he can find what he lost. Another ghost (that escaped from the restaurant the guys were busting) causes trouble in the mansion. When the Ghostbusters arrive, they mistakenly try to bust Horace, who is unaware of the fact that he has now become a ghost. After convincing the guys not to bust him, Egon's PKE meter detects the other ghost, and the guys go after him, only to find that it has taken Olivia hostage. Egon uses a Tarzanesque move to rescue Olivia as the Ghostbusters trap the rogue spook. Horace, now reunited with Olivia, finally remembers that it was his niece he was searching for. Finally able to say good-bye, Horace passes on peacefully, and both John and Olivia thank the Ghostbusters for their help.

Note: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

A demon (Lewis Arquette) and his legion of minions seek to steal the Shears of Fate, possessed by the Three Fates who determine the life of humans, in order to control the lives of all mortals. The Fates send the Shears into time and space in order to keep them out of the demon's hands. However, the Shears eventually fall into the hands of the Ghostbusters, causing the demons to invade New York in order to locate the Shears. After they attack the firehouse, the Shears fall into the hands of the demons, and the Three Fates recruit the Ghostbusters to retrieve the Shears from the demons. But in order to do that, they must go into the Underworld. Worse, they only have an hour to locate the Shears and return to the spot they were sent to, otherwise they will be trapped in the Underworld forever. With the help of Charon, the ferryman of the River Styx, the Ghostbusters locate the Shears and battle the demons in a pitched fight to get back to their rendezvous point. The boys barely make it, and return the Shears to the Three Fates.

Wishing to take his vast fortune with him to the afterlife, a dying and insanely avaricious billionaire creates a machine to open a doorway to the afterlife. This causes a rupture in the separation between the human world and the ghost world. With ghosts invading the human world, the Ghostbusters must find a way to shut down his machine before the entire world is overrun with spooks and phantoms.

Note: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

The Ghostbusters are hired by a mysterious man named Gregore, leader of a small secluded village called Lupusville, that is located deep in the woods, to get rid of a coven of vampires. As they investigate, it turns out that all of the residents are vampires, having their own servants as well. One group is led by Gregore, who took over the town and wishes to come out into the modern world. The other group is led by the old leader, an unnamed vampire who wishes to keep their existence a secret from the world. While Ray and Peter are captured/recruited by the forest vampires after a desperate fight, Egon and Winston are held captive by Gregore and his followers, who want to use them to eliminate their vampiric enemies. As both sides prepare to battle, Winston and Egon are freed by a young slave named Lita, who takes a liking to Egon. Once freed, thanks to Lita finding one of their undamaged proton packs, Egon and Winston find the imprisoned townspeople who originally lived in the village and release them. As the two vampire groups battle, with the Ghostbusters caught in the middle, the townspeople arrive and reveal themselves to be werewolves who chose to live in isolation from the rest of the world for their own safety. Gregore and his minions were unaware of this when they imprisoned them, which leads to a three-way fight consisting of two supernatural races. The Ghostbusters are finally united and escape the chaos, as the battle between the vampries and werewolves is mutating the two groups into each other. The Ghostbusters destroy the dam to the village, causing a moat to form which prevents both the vampires and werewolves from leaving. As they are leaving Lupusville, Lita is seen sitting on the bumper of Ecto-1 as it drives away.

The Ghostbusters meet Drool, an unamalgamated shapeshifting entity, at a Poconos sideshow. Later, it seems the creature has escaped the main tent and is delighted in wreaking havoc and taunting the boys. But, especially when dealing with shapeshifters, things are seldom what they seem, when the guys realize that they're being stalked by a vengeful and maliciously playful shapeshifter that they failed to bust a week ago.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the summer of 1987, along with "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis" and "Ghostbuster of the Year".

Note 2: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

In 1887, Simon Queg, a selfish and wealthy man, began to ride home to Providence from New York on a dark and stormy night, but is chased by a mysterious man on horseback that appears out of nowhere and disappears, never reaching his home. One hundred years later, Ray sees him ride by, followed by a mysterious figure. After learning from a local cook that Queg is one of the 'local ghosts', but that 'the Rider' is a sign of disaster, the Ghostbusters decide to find out what is happening. It turns out that Queg has spent the past century trying to avoid the figure, and as a result has never been able to get home. When Ray tries to help him, he accidentally trades places with Queg, becoming trapped in the endless cycle Queg was in. The Ghostbusters, with Slimer's help, are able to summon back Ray and the ghost buggy, and together with Queg they are able to force the Rider into a showdown and break the curse that Queg has been under for over a century. As it turns out, the Rider was actually Queg's cruel and selfish nature that he has been running from for 100 years. Thanks to Ray, he was able to face it and free himself. The episode is loosely based on the 19th century fable of Peter Rugg.

Note: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

When the Necronomicon, the most powerful book of spells in the world, is stolen from the New York Public Library, the Ghostbusters find themselves up against the Spawn, and Cult, of Cthulhu, who have stolen the book in order to bring the malevolent god back to Earth. Barely escaping from the Spawn when their weapons prove useless against them, as the Spawn are capable of super-regeneration, the guys turn to Professor Alice Derleth (Jodi Carlisle), a beautiful scholar and spell user, from Arkham, Mass., to help them stop Cthulhu's return. The guys raid the Cult's meeting place, only to get attacked by another Spawn-like creature, called a shoggoth, and Alice uses her spells to turn it to stone. The guys then turn to an old friend of Ray's who has access to old pulp magazines that tell how to defeat Cthulhu (which H. P. Lovecraft and other authors wrote based on the Necronomicon). When the team heads to Coney Island, they are unable to stop the resurrection as Cthulhu rampages through the park. The Ghostbusters' proton packs and Alice's spells prove useless in stopping the powerful 'Old One', and the boys are left with one option. Peter lures Cthulhu towards the roller coaster by shooting it in the head, so that the guys can ionize the coaster enough to attract a lightning bolt, blasting Cthulhu with 100 gigavolts of electricity, which they succeeded in doing and sends the creature back into hibernation. The Cult of Cthulhu has failed and is arrested by the cops, and Alice returns the Necronomicon to Arkham, but not before Peter takes her out on a date, though her version of a date is very different from Peter's.

Note 1: This episode's title misspells "Cthulhu" as "Cathulhu".

Note 2: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

Ray's Uncle Andrew dies in Scotland and names Ray as his heir to his castle. However, in order to claim it, Ray must get rid of a ghost that plagued his uncle for most of his life. Ray and the guys go to Scotland and, guided by the castle's executor, Angus Lenny, manage to bust the ghost, but when they do, they find out that it is a 'keystone' ghost. According to history, one man started a war between the Highlanders and the Lowlanders, called the Battle of Dunkell, and that one ghost pays for this tragedy. He is doomed to never rest so that the others may sleep. Once the keystone ghost is captured, the souls of the Highlanders and Lowlanders wake up and start fighting once again. Their war, which will ultimately destroy the village of Dunkell, is put on Ray's shoulders, and he heads to the village to plan a countermove while the others try to stall the two clans. Ray is able to rig a group of garbage trucks into makeshift ghost traps, and traps both clans inside them. The group later finds out that Mr. Lenny actually worked for Uncle Andrew's freeloading relatives, who wanted to frame Ray for destroying the village so that they could get the castle and the treasure. Ray turns the castle over to the village, and makes the executor pay for all the damage that was caused.

For generations, the Headless Horseman has been haunting those descended from Ichabod Crane. It's up to the Ghostbusters to put a stop to it, especially when Peter is framed for the crime of nearly killing one of the Horseman, now Motorcyclist's, latest victims.

For 70 years, ghostly noises have emanated from the attic of a woman named Mrs. Agatha Faversham. She eventually hires the Ghostbusters to end this threat. Peter takes the case for free, because Mrs. Faversham reminds him of his mother. What they find is a demonic spirit that was summoned up by Agatha's father, Charles, in order to try to give his young daughter a better life. Unable to control the spirit, her father locked the creature in the attic and forbade his daughter from ever going up there. The Ghostbusters trick the spirit into revealing its true form and lure it into a ghost trap, with Slimer as bait.

The Ghostbusters seem to have two problems: a newscast at their headquarters and Egon's soul being swapped with a demon's thanks to the reporters playing with their equipment. Now, Ray and Winston have to get Egon's possessed body back to the firehouse while Peter goes into another dimension to retrieve Egon's soul before the change becomes permanent.

A movie director gets ghosts to help out in his project and all they want in return is to finish off the Ghostbusters.

Note: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

The Ghostbusters are called in by the Mayor of New York to evict a small army of ghosts from a recently-purchased Irish castle, set up in New York's Central Park, who will not allow anyone to enter. Peter goes to negotiate with the leader of the ghosts, only to aggravate the ghost leader as only he can, who forces the Ghostbusters into a wager: if they can defeat the Bird of Kildarby, Lord Kildarby (Hal Smith) and his men will leave the castle, but if the birdlike monster defeats them, everyone in New York must leave Manhattan.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the spring of 1987, along with "Night Game" and "Lost and Foundry".

Note 2: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

With the Ghostbusters captured by a powerful ghost, who is actually an Elder God like Gozer, it is up to Janine to rescue them.

Centuries ago, the Codex of Saint Theopolis was lost during a raid on a monastery by bandits. In modern-day New York, Peter and Ray accidentally buy the book at an auction, when Peter sneezes due to excess dust. Janine, on her lunch break, opens the book, not knowing that it contains the spirits of the legendary Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who wreak havoc upon the city, and ultimately the world. Unable to stop the four specters, the Ghostbusters are joined by a priest from Greece, whose ancient order once protected the Codex of St. Theopolis, since it was St. Theopolis who imprisoned the Four Horsemen 1,000 years ago. The Ghostbusters must journey to Greece to acquire a special ring/seal before the world ends.

Note: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

Escaping from the Ghostbusters, a ghost gets merged with a pot of molten steel at a Foundry, and ends up getting turned into a variety of everyday items: steel girders, a refrigerator, a steel pole, nails, food cans, a power cable, even a work of neo-Impressionist art, bringing them to life in order to make itself whole once again. The Ghostbusters chase down the inanimate objects to a junk yard, where the different metal pieces have come together to form a giant metal monster. The Ghostbusters trap it using a magnet, and then melt the metal back down in order to free the ghost so that they can trap him regularly.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the spring of 1987, along with "The Bird of Kildarby" and "Night Game".

Peter's bookish and snobbish date takes him to see an ancient tapestry on display. The only thing is, the exhibit's main attraction is a painting of a knight who comes to life and Peter's date is a dead ringer for the knight's wife.

Peter's father, Charles, is working in Alaska, and unearths an Inuit statue that holds a powerful demon called Hob Anagarak, who the Eskimos called 'The First Demon'. Egon states that 'The Hob' is one of the rarest of legends, and the guys go to Alaska in order to investigate. En route, Egon reveals that Hob Anagarak was created by the gods, and set to rule over Earth when it was newly created. But when the humans came, Hob attacked them. They defeated Hob and sealed the fire demon away in a block of magic black ice. This eventually led to the Ice Age. When the guys get to the village where the block is, they find out that Peter's father wants them to release the demon and trap it, so that he can put it on an exhibit. Peter, naturally, refuses to let this happen. Later that night, when the guys are psychically attacked by Hob Anagarak, who levitates and throws silverware and a moose's head at them, Peter's dad switches the block for a fake. The next morning, the guys use their proton packs to destroy the black ice, which they find pretty easy. Thinking they have destroyed The Hob, the Ghostbusters return to New York. A few days later, the guys find out that Peter's father conned them and is planning to unveil The Hob at Madison Square Garden. Charles and Dr. Bassingame, the phony spiritualist responsible for destroying Ray's aunt's home, free The Hob from the ice, and in true King Kong-fashion the demon breaks free of his confinement and goes on a rampage. Peter, upset at his father for tricking him, leads the Ghostbusters to try to stop Hob, but their weapons prove useless against the mighty fire demon. Egon eventually finds out two important things: 1) The Hob is looking to enslave an army of ghosts to lay waste to the world, meaning he is coming for the Ecto-Containment Unit in the firehouse, and 2) he finds a tricky binding ritual that requires all of them, Janine, Peter's father and Dr. Bassingame, to stop The Hob. The ritual proves effective, and The Hob is once again sealed in his block of ice. Peter's father is sent back to Iowa after Peter pays his fines, only to sneak off the bus and get on another one, heading for Hollywood to sell the film rights.

When the Ghostbusters are arrested for accidentally nearly killing the Mayor's wife (June Foray) (actually just frying her dress off) the deputy police chief, O'Malley, makes a deal with them to get them out of their predicament. According to him, an ancestor of his stole a pot of gold from a leprechaun, which caused the leprechaun to curse the O'Malley family line. Every St. Patrick's Day, during a full moon, a Bog Hound rises up and seeks out the head of the O'Malley clan, which is the deputy police chief, to carry them off. The only thing that can stop the Hound is a four-leaf clover. The Ghostbusters search the city for a four-leaf clover, while Egon goes alone to try to catch the Bog Hound with 'science'. While Egon finds the Bog Hound at the New York City Zoo, he finds out that his proton pack is uncharged, leaving him defenseless as the Hound chases him down. After getting treed by the Hound, which is full of lions, tigers and leopards, Egon barely escapes by tricking the Hound, and then tries to regroup with the others. Peter eventually finds a four-leaf clover, but Slimer eats it. The Ghostbusters have no choice but to play bodyguard to Deputy Chief O'Malley in order to find and capture the Bog Hound. When the Hound attacks O'Malley at the St. Patrick's Day parade, the Ghostbusters try to stop it, only to get their proton packs damaged in the fight. Peter distracts the Hound with a fake four-leaf clover (which he didn't know was plastic) and leads it into a ghost trap laid by Egon. The Ghostbusters are then proclaimed 'Honorary Irishmen' by the St. Patrick's Day Committee.

Slimer tries to earn money by becoming a bodyguard for a kid that gets pushed around by bullies, who hire their own monsters to get back at Slimer, which turns out to be more trouble than they're worth.

Peter becomes trapped on a train with Casey Jones' ghost and it's up to the other guys to save him, before the train he has hijacked reaches oblivion. However, Casey Jones actually seeks redemption for a terrible train crash over 100 years ago, which the Ghostbusters are unaware of as they try to rescue Peter by chasing down the train and trying to survive Ray's crazy plans and driving.

Note: This episode originally ended with the warp-speed DIC kid in bed/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo.

Bullied boy Kenny Fenderman (R. J. Williams) gets made a junior Ghostbuster, which Peter thinks is more of a game and joke to the boy. The other kids want him to prove himself by staying overnight in a house believed to be haunted. What's more is that Kenny was given an untested device of Egon's, by Peter, that could hurt him more than help. The guys track down Kenny at the haunted mansion, come face-to-face with a ghostly general and his minions, and need Kenny's help to stop the ghost once and for all.

Note: This episode originally ended with the warp-speed DIC kid in bed/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo.

Egon goes with Janine to see her relatives, while Peter, Winston and Ray have to deal with imps at the firehouse. But trouble starts when the imps merge into a gigantic monster that rampages across New York, and Janine, Lois (the temp secretary) and Slimer have to deal with a trio of ghosts who find one of the Ghostbusters proton packs and start shooting up the already-damaged firehouse.

When a workman accidentally damages a strange device in the workshop of Gustave Eiffel, at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, he unwittingly frees a horde of ghosts that had been imprisoned within the Tower itself for nearly a century. With the Tower officially haunted, the French government turns to the Ghostbusters for help. The Ghostbusters agree to help, but when they arrive at the Tower, they find hundreds of thousands of ghosts haunting every level of the massive structure. After fighting through hordes of ghosts they get to the workshop, and Egon discovers that Gustave Eiffel designed the Tower to be a primitive but effective ghost containment unit. When the control box was damaged, the Tower started leaking ghosts. Worse, unless the leak is plugged it will eventually explode, releasing millions of ghosts from its structure. Using their own proton packs to power the control box, in order to temporarily imprison the ghosts, the Ghostbusters travel to the Louvre museum and Notre Dame cathedral in order to find Eiffel's secret papers that tell how to repair the device, fighting off the most aggressive of the ghosts that try to stop them from reaching those notes. The Ghostbusters succeed in repairing the device, only to fail in stopping the ghosts from destroying it. Unable to repair the control box before the Tower explodes, the Ghostbusters resort to a desperate measure, using the Tower's broadcasting equipment to transport the ghosts from France to America, via satellite, where they are pulled into the Ghostbusters' Ecto-Containment Unit thanks to Ray's new satellite dish. Once the guys get back to the states, they find out all the money they got from the French has gone to the cable company to pay off the customers who watched 'five hours of cursing French ghosts' on their satellite television sets.

When Necksa, lord and ruler of the undines, declares war against the air-breathers for their constant pollution of the seas, the Ghostbusters are hard-pressed to stop him before he drowns the city. Things get worse when Egon, Ray and Winston are swallowed by Necksa, and Peter is left alone to stop the monstrous behemoth on his own.

Note: This episode originally ended with the warp-speed DIC kid in bed/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo.

The Ghostbusters visit Tombstone, Arizona, where they have a showdown with the spirits of the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the Fall of 1987.

A woman (Anne E. Curry) hires Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston to get rid of Hearst Castle from the ghost of publishing mogul Charles Foster Hearst. Whoever catches him will get named Ghostbuster of the Year. It eventually turns out that Hearst's ghost simply wanted his sled, called "Rosebud".

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the summer of 1987, along with "The Revenge of Murray the Mantis" and "Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin".

Note 2: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

Ghosts organize a convention at a hotel and the owner gets the Ghostbusters to bust them. What's more, the ghosts want the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man out for their convention.

Note: This episode originally ended with the warp-speed DIC kid in bed/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo.

During the Ghostbusters' attempt to catch a ghost, a magician's interference sends Peter through a cabinet into another dimension.

Note: This episode originally ended with the DIC green vortex/CPT logo.

A ghost evades capture by hiding in a geranium. Janine takes the plant to her apartment, where it grows big enough to take over the city.

He was thought to have been destroyed during the Gozer incident, but now Thanksgiving takes a turn for the worse when ghosts take over the Murray the Mantis balloon. The Ghostbusters are powerless to stop it, and all hope seems to have vanished, except for one faint beacon of light, a light that may yet shine again and save New York; that light is none other than the mascot of Stay Puft Marshmallows returning from the dead to battle Murray the Mantis and ghost is THE STAY PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN.

Note 1: First released on video by RCA/Columbia's Magic Window division in the summer of 1987, along with "Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin" and "Ghostbuster of the Year".

An amusement park starts up a new ride by the name of Ecto-1, but it is haunted by ghosts of animals.

A Babylonian god known as Marduk (Stanley Ralph Ross) and his enemy, a multi-headed dragon called Tiamat, arrive in the city and the Ghostbusters get caught in the middle of their ancient battle to protect the city.

Note: This episode originally ended with the warp-speed DIC kid in bed/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo.

Winston gets help from an ancestor in order to stop an ancient demon (Arthur Burghardt) from Africa that is unwittingly released by a scientist at the Natural History Museum.

The spirit of a private detective helps the Ghostbusters capture a cursed ghost named Blackey, who 40 years ago stole a cursed Egyptian treasure, was mutated into a monstrous guardian, and who cannot rest until the treasure is returned to the tomb.

Buster the Ghost, a lonely and confused ghost, tries to help the Ghostbusters out by gathering ghosts at the firehouse.

Winston and Ray are convinced by Peter to go on a game show and win a free vacation to Tahiti. It turns out that the host is a minor demon (Greg Burson) looking to become the next devil, and the prize is their souls.

Note: This episode originally ended with the warp-speed DIC kid in bed/Coca-Cola Telecommunications logo.

Egon and Slimer switch minds and the timing couldn't be worse, as an egomaniacal ghost named the Master of Shadows (William Marshall) wishes to test his wits against the brainy 'buster', and destroy New York if he fails to measure up.

Note 1: Also exists in a re-dubbed version with Dave Coulier and Kath Soucie as Peter and Janine, respectively. This was the version that first aired in America, before it was replaced with the original, which had previously aired internationally.

One of Egon's devices throws him slightly out of phase with reality, rendering him, for all intents and purposes, a ghost. Ghostbusters try bring him back to this plane of existence before he disappears forever.

A comic book is about to get cancelled, and so the superhero on whom it focuses escapes the pages and starts fighting crime in New York. His nemesis (Peter Cullen) also escapes and releases the ghosts from the containment unit.

Absent: Janine Melnitz & Slimer

Note: This was the final episode where Lorenzo Music and Laura Summer, respectively, did the voices of Peter Venkman and Janine Melnitz.

A rip between dimensions allows a small friendly ghost to wander off into New York and Slimer decides to look after it. However, the ghost's parents come looking for their child, but the Ghostbusters do not know that and try to bust them.

Note: Kath Soucie and Dave Coulier replaced Laura Summer and Lorenzo Music as the respective voices of Janine Melnitz and Peter Venkman beginning with this season.

Note: In the original (ABC) airing, the DIC vortex logo was replaced by the DIC kid in bed logo, and the Coca-Coca Telecommunications logo replaced the CPT logo for this season. Also in later SVOD releases, the Sony Pictures Television logo plastered the Coca-Coca Telecommunications logo.

After an almost deadly fall off the World Trade Center, Egon's fears start to get the better of him, so much that the Boogeyman manages to tap into his fear and escape from his realm.

A family asks the Ghostbusters to find out why a bunch of weird stuff is happening in their house. This is complicated by the macabre nature of their mansion, with a very Addams Family vibe.

Count Vostak of Boldavia requests the Ghostbusters to join him at his castle. It turns out that giant humanoid bat are terrorizing a local village, and the villagers are turning against Vostak because they believe him to be a vampire. What is more, is that Vostak IS a vampire, but the attacking bats don't belong to him.

Our heroes, the Ghostbusters, embark on a camping trip, only to run into, among other thing, Bigfoot.

Ray and Slimer have been in a joking mood lately, but things are about to get worse when a magical box is opened and releases two imps that like to play deadly practical jokes.

Note: Buster Jones replaced Arsenio Hall as the voice of Winston Zeddemore, beginning with this season.

Note: The show was now re-titled Slimer! and The Real Ghostbusters.

Note: In the original broadcasts of the 1988-1989 season, the end credits were 1 minute long, and featured clips from the Slimer! spin-off, and the old sequence for the regular show. In international broadcasts, as well as on the Time-Life DVD, they're replaced with separate 30-second end credits for both shows.

Note: In the original (ABC) airing, the Columbia Pictures Television logo with Coca-Coca byline was reused, as it was in Season 1.

The vile Ghostmaster sends his three of his best bounty hunters to capture the Ghostbusters alive. The first two get busted, but the third shrinks the guys down. While they try to avoid being captured, Janine and Slimer must try to find a spell to return them to their normal size.

A family of ghosts on vacation work to remove those they believe are interrupting their peace and quiet, including Peter, Winston and Slimer.

Note: A new CPT byline is now used: A Unit of Columbia Pictures Entertainment with a new 6-note horn music.

Note: The title card is now superimposed with the first scene of the episode, which the Slimer! spin-off had already done.

Note: This season was set after the events of Ghostbusters II. Thus, Janine has her look from that film, and has a relationship with Louis Tully.

Peter falls ill, and Louis asks a doctor (Stanley Ralph Ross) he met two days ago to come and take a look. It turns out the doctor has sent them potato chips, which makes people allergic to ghosts, and only Peter has eaten enough of them. The doctor gives them more chips. What the Ghostbusters don't know is that the doctor is a ghost and they have to develop resistance to the allergy.

A bad lookalike of Slimer on the run arrives in the firehouse via a mirror and sends Louis and the real Slimer to the Ghost World.

Slimer wins the lottery, only to find his winnings have been cursed.

The Ghostbusters get a temp (who turns out to be a ghost) and she decides Egon would make a great husband.

A confrontation with a giant clock monster causes Egon to become younger and younger. The catch is that they only have until midnight, at which time the now infant Egon will vanish from existence forever.

Slimer finds a cat that can make all of his dreams come true.

The firehouse is going to be torn down to make way for a new expressway, but that's the least of the Ghostbusters' problems. The guys and Slimer get sent back to 1959 due to a trap accident. They have to find a way back and fight ghosts without their equipment.

The Ghostbusters become involved in the world of knights and dragons to free a captured Janine.

After being hit by Egon's experimental proton ray, Peter becomes something of a superhero, as his muscles grow and he becomes a bulging muscle hunk with powers, but it won't last long.

Slimer breaks a trap and doesn't completely fix it before the guys use it on a job. Now the essence inside starts to leak out and make inanimate objects come to life.

Stuck on a train, the Ghostbusters have to play games to bring it to a halt.

A trio of ghosts abduct Slimer and will keep him unless the Ghostbusters agree to free a ghost named Spiderlegs.

Note: Final episode to feature music composed by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy. They were replaced by Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker at the beginning of the sixth season.

Note: Last episode animated in Japan.

Looking through a photo album causes the Ghostbusters and Slimer to realize Janine has gone through numerous changes over the years. Some investigating shows that a supernatural force disguised as a fairy godmother (Rosalyn Landor) is the cause of it.

Note: Slimer is reverted to pre-Season 3 changes and his tail is now reverted to a stub.

Note: Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker take over as show composers from this episode onward.

Note: This is the only season in which the end credits don't have the Ghostbusters dancing in a parade. Instead, the intro from the first two ABC seasons and syndicated season was used for the outro.

Note: The same CPT logo as in the season before it is used again here.

Note: For this season, story editing credits were shown after the superimposed title cards. Most of the episodes for this season were story edited by Len Janson and Chuck Menville, while J. Michael Straczynski story edited the three he wrote, as well as one written by Larry DiTillio.

A cabinet sends the Ghostbusters to another dimension and they encounter a demon interested in learning magic tricks. After years of meeting only magicians' assistants and white doves, the demon chooses Ray as his new teacher.

The firehouse is the scene for a birthday party for Louis' nephew, Lawrence (Josh Keaton). Louis wants to get him a good gift, but he inadvertently buys three toys possessed by ghosts. They take Lawrence to Toyland and the Ghostbusters have to rescue him.

Volume 3: July 5, 2016
Episodes: "Doctor, Doctor" – "You Can't Take It With You"

Volume 4: July 5, 2016
Episodes: "No One Comes to Lupusville" – "Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster"

Volume 5: July 5, 2016
Episodes: "Apocalypse—What, Now?" – "Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral"

Volume 6: September 6, 2016
Episodes: "Ghostbuster of the Year" – "The Devil to Pay"

Volume 7: September 6, 2016
Episodes: "Slimer, Is That You?" – "Captain Steel Saves the Day" • "Egon's Dragon" – "The Hole in the Wall Gang" (ep. missing: 1)

Volume 8: September 6, 2016
Episodes: "Halloween II 1/2" – "The Grundel" • "The Copycat" – "Transylvanian Homesick Blues"(ep. missing: 1)

Volume 9: September 6, 2016
Episodes: "Robo-Buster" – "The Brooklyn Triangle"

Volume 10: September 6, 2016
Episodes: "The Halloween Door" • "The Ghostbusters! Live, from Al Capone's Tomb!" (ep. missing: 3)

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