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The Real Ghostbusters

TV Series (1986 - 1991)

Animated cartoon series that followed the hit movie. Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore, Egon Spengler, and Ray Stantz are still hunting ghosts, but now with the friendly assistance of Slimer, who is no longer out to slime the good guys, and an occasional assist from their faithful secretary Janine Melnitz.

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07x04 20,000 Leagues Under the Street Aired: Oct. 05, 1991

New York City suffers an earthquake and giant insects. Peter is taken underground by the giant insects and meets their master, who plans to sacrifice … [continue reading]

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The Real Ghostbusters is Canceled/Ended

The show had 7 seasons and 140 episodes air between 1986 and 1991.

Series Info

Type:

Scripted

Premiered:

Sep. 13, 1986

Status:

Canceled/Ended

Runtime:

30 min.

Aired:

1986 - 1991

To-Date:

7 Seasons
140 Episodes

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Genre

- action
- cartoon
- comedy
- family
- fantasy

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Lorenzo Music first supplied the voice for Peter Venkman who was played by Bill Murray in the films. Reportedly, Murray did not like that his character sounded like Garfield and the producers…
[show]Lorenzo Music first supplied the voice for Peter Venkman who was played by Bill Murray in the films. Reportedly, Murray did not like that his character sounded like Garfield and the producers replaced Music with Dave Coulier. Music did provide the voice of Garfield until his death. Bill Murray later supplied the voice for Garfield in Garfield.
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In the early promo artwork for the series, the Peter Venkman character was drawn to look more like Bill Murray and Egon Spengler was drawn to look more like Harold Ramis. But the animators…
[show]In the early promo artwork for the series, the Peter Venkman character was drawn to look more like Bill Murray and Egon Spengler was drawn to look more like Harold Ramis. But the animators changed the look of Peter, and changed Egon's hair color from brown to blonde, in order to avoid lawsuits for using the actors' likenesses without permission. As for Ray Stanz and Winston Zeddemore, their characters were never drawn to resemble Dan Aykroyd or Ernie Hudson, respectively.
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According to Ernie Hudson, who played Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters films, he auditioned to voice the character on the cartoon, but the role instead went to Arsenio Hall.