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 |
Where to go next
- Slimer and the Real Ghostbusters Episode Guide for the renamed 1988-1991 era and the Slimer shorts.
- Extreme Ghostbusters Episode Guide for the 1997 follow-up series.
- Back to The Real Ghostbusters.
