The Real Ghostbusters Episode Guide

This episode guide covers the original The Real Ghostbusters run before the title changed to Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters. That gives us 91 main-series episodes: the 1986 ABC first season, the big 1987 syndicated block, and the 13-episode 1987 ABC season.

The syndicated 1987 run is the messy part. Those episodes are usually tracked in production-code order instead of straight broadcast order, so that is the layout used here too. It is the most practical way to keep the season together.

Quick breakdown

  • Season 1 (1986): 13 episodes
  • Syndication episodes (1987): 65 episodes
  • Season 2 (1987): 13 episodes
  • Total covered here: 91 episodes

Season 1 (1986)

No. Title Original air date
1 Ghosts R Us September 13, 1986
2 Killerwatt September 20, 1986
3 Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood September 27, 1986
4 Slimer, Come Home October 4, 1986
5 Troll Bridge October 11, 1986
6 The Boogieman Cometh October 18, 1986
7 Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream October 25, 1986
8 When Halloween Was Forever November 1, 1986
9 Look Homeward, Ray November 8, 1986
10 Take Two November 15, 1986
11 Citizen Ghost November 22, 1986
12 Janine's Genie December 6, 1986
13 Xmas Marks the Spot December 13, 1986

Syndication episodes (1987)

These weekday syndicated episodes are listed in the same order most collectors and reference guides use.

No. Title Original air date
1 Knock, Knock November 6, 1987
2 Station Identification December 9, 1987
3 Play Them Ragtime Boos November 26, 1987
4 Sea Fright November 10, 1987
5 The Spirit of Aunt Lois November 9, 1987
6 Cry Uncle November 12, 1987
7 Adventures in Slime and Space September 15, 1987
8 Night Game September 22, 1987
9 Venkman's Ghost Repellers October 20, 1987
10 The Old College Spirit November 27, 1987
11 Ain't NASA-Sarily So November 17, 1987
12 Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional? September 24, 1987
13 A Fright at the Opera October 26, 1987
14 Doctor, Doctor October 13, 1987
15 Ghost Busted October 22, 1987
16 Beneath These Streets November 25, 1987
17 Boo-Dunit October 30, 1987
18 Chicken, He Clucked October 19, 1987
19 Ragnarok and Roll September 16, 1987
20 Don't Forget the Motor City December 3, 1987
21 Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie? October 28, 1987
22 Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost October 9, 1987
23 Hanging By a Thread December 10, 1987
24 You Can't Take It With You October 14, 1987
25 No One Comes to Lupusville October 5, 1987
26 Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin October 29, 1987
27 The Man Who Never Reached Home October 12, 1987
28 The Collect Call of Cathulhu October 27, 1987
29 Bustman's Holiday November 13, 1987
30 The Headless Motorcyclist November 3, 1987
31 The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic November 4, 1987
32 Egon on the Rampage December 8, 1987
33 Lights! Camera! Haunting! December 7, 1987
34 The Bird of Kildarby October 6, 1987
35 Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster September 29, 1987
36 Apocalypse—What, Now? November 18, 1987
37 Lost and Foundry October 16, 1987
38 Hard Knight's Day November 30, 1987
39 Cold Cash and Hot Water October 8, 1987
40 The Scaring of the Green November 16, 1987
41 They Call me MISTER Slimer September 18, 1987
42 Last Train to Oblivion November 24, 1987
43 Masquerade December 1, 1987
44 Janine's Day Off September 14, 1987
45 The Ghostbusters in Paris October 23, 1987
46 The Devil in the Deep December 4, 1987
47 Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral November 11, 1987
48 Ghostbuster of the Year October 1, 1987
49 Deadcon I December 2, 1987
50 The Cabinet of Calamari September 30, 1987
51 A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn November 20, 1987
52 The Revenge of Murray the Mantis November 2, 1987
53 Rollerghoster September 23, 1987
54 I Am the City November 23, 1987
55 Moaning Stones November 5, 1987
56 The Long, Long, Long, Etc. Goodbye October 7, 1987
57 Buster the Ghost September 21, 1987
58 The Devil to Pay November 19, 1987
59 Slimer, Is That You? September 26, 1987
60 Egon's Ghost September 28, 1987
61 Captain Steel Saves the Day September 17, 1987
62 Victor the Happy Ghost October 15, 1987
63 Egon's Dragon October 2, 1987
64 Dairy Farm September 25, 1987
65 The Hole in the Wall Gang October 21, 1987

Season 2 (1987)

No. Title Original air date
1 Baby Spookums September 12, 1987
2 It's a Jungle Out There September 19, 1987
3 The Boogeyman Is Back October 3, 1987
4 Once Upon a Slime October 10, 1987
5 The Two Faces of Slimer October 17, 1987
6 Sticky Business October 24, 1987
7 Halloween II 1/2 October 31, 1987
8 Loathe Thy Neighbor November 7, 1987
9 The Grundel November 14, 1987
10 Big Trouble With Little Slimer November 21, 1987
11 The Copycat December 5, 1987
12 Transylvanian Homesick Blues December 11, 1987
13 Camping It Up December 12, 1987

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