The Ghost Busters

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Distinguish from The Real Ghostbusters.

The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran from 1975 to 1976, and was not affiliated with the similarly-titled 1984 movie (Columbia Pictures did, however, pay Filmation for a license to use the name).

This series starred Forrest Tucker as Jake Kong, Larry Storch as Eddie Spencer, and Bob Burns as Tracy the Gorilla, as a team of bumbling detectives who would investigate ghostly occurrences (Tucker and Storch previously co-starred in the prime-time sitcom F-Troop).

Each episode would always begin with one of the characters stopping in a convenience store to pick up the tape recording that explained the mission they would have to go on in the episode. The tape would always be hidden inside a common object, such as a bicycle or a typewriter. The tape would always end with the statement, "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds," very much like Mission Impossible, although it would always explode in the Ghost Busters' faces for comic effect.

In 1986, to cash in on the popularity generated by the film, the show was revived in cartoon format with Kong and Spencer's sons, Jake and Eddie Jr., inheriting their fathers' business in Filmation's Ghostbusters.

The show is slated for release on DVD in Spring 2007.

[edit] External links

• The Ghost Busters (1975-1976) at the Internet Movie Database
• Entertainment Rights
• The Ghost Busters @ 70slivekidvid.com
• German Ghostbusters Fansite