The Real Ghostbusters (1986)

Action · Animation · Comedy

The continuing adventures of paranormal investigators Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Egon Spengler, Dr. Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, their secretary Janine Melnitz and their mascot ghost Slimer.

IMDb rating: 7.6 (12,276 votes)
Episode average: 7.3 -0.3 vs IMDb
Seasons: 7
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 7 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1986)

7.33 avg 13 episodes 6.6 → 7.7 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Ghosts R Us	6.6	346
2	Killerwatt	6.8	268
3	Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood	7.5	256
4	Slimer, Come Home	6.8	213
5	Troll Bridge	6.8	205
6	The Boogieman Cometh	8.2	261
7	Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream	8.0	238
8	When Halloween Was Forever	7.8	250
9	Look Homeward, Ray	6.7	181
10	Take Two	7.4	179
11	Citizen Ghost	7.6	253
12	Janine's Genie	7.4	174
13	Xmas Marks the Spot	7.7	222

Season 2 (1987)

7.55 avg 65 episodes 7.7 → 6.9 30 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Janine's Day Off	7.7	123
2	Adventures in Slime and Space	7.2	136
3	Ragnarok and Roll	8.0	165
4	Captain Steel Saves the Day	7.4	119
5	They Call Me Mister Slimer	6.9	120
6	Buster the Ghost	6.7	112
7	Night Game	8.0	161
8	Rollerghoster	7.5	115
9	Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?	7.5	135
10	Dairy Farm	7.6	106
11	Egon's Ghost	7.8	110
12	Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster	8.0	117
13	The Cabinet of Calamari	7.8	111
14	Ghostbuster of the Year	7.8	112
15	Egon's Dragon	7.5	97
16	No One Comes to Lupusville	7.9	130
17	The Bird of Kildarby	7.3	113
18	The Long, Long, Long, Goodbye	7.7	104
19	Cold Cash and Hot Water	7.9	117
20	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?	7.1	109
21	The Man Who Never Reached Home	7.8	114
22	Doctor, Doctor	7.8	126
23	You Can't Take It with You	7.7	108
24	Victor, the Happy Ghost	6.8	95
25	Lost and Foundry	7.7	110
26	Chicken, He Clucked	7.5	131
27	Venkman's Ghost Repellers	7.5	129
28	The Hole in the Wall Gang	7.7	102
29	Ghost Busted	7.2	123
30	The Ghostbusters in Paris	7.7	150
31	A Fright at the Opera	7.0	117
32	The Collect Call of Cthulhu	8.3	176
33	Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?	7.2	108
34	Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin	7.7	119
35	Boo-Dunit	7.3	116
36	The Revenge of Murray the Mantis	8.1	121
37	The Headless Motorcyclist	8.0	116
38	The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic	8.4	146
39	Moaning Stones	7.7	100
40	Knock, Knock	8.6	183
41	The Spirit of Aunt Lois	7.7	117
42	Sea Fright	7.4	123
43	Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral	8.0	103
44	Cry Uncle	7.4	119
45	Bustman's Holiday	7.6	100
46	The Scaring of the Green	7.5	102
47	Ain't NASA-sarily So	7.6	120
48	Apocalypse - What, NOW?	7.4	106
49	The Devil to Pay	8.3	101
50	A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn	7.4	97
51	I Am the City	7.1	92
52	Last Train to Oblivion	7.6	96
53	Beneath These Streets	7.7	115
54	Play Them Ragtime Boos	7.6	126
55	The Old College Spirit	6.9	108
56	Hard Knight's Day	7.2	96
57	Masquerade	7.2	97
58	Deadcon-1	7.6	95
59	Don't Forget the Motor City	7.1	104
60	The Devil in the Deep	7.6	93
61	Lights! Camera! Haunting!	7.4	95
62	Egon on the Rampage	7.7	97
63	Station Identification	7.4	119
64	Hanging by a Thread	6.7	96
65	Transylvanian Homesick Blues	6.9	90

Season 3 (1987)

7.44 avg 13 episodes 6.4 → 7.0 30 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Baby Spookums	6.4	95
2	It's a Jungle Out There	7.2	99
3	Slimer, Is That You?	8.0	99
4	The Bogeyman Is Back	8.3	101
5	Once Upon a Slime	7.0	83
6	The Two Faces of Slimer	7.3	90
7	Sticky Business	7.5	93
8	Halloween II 1/2	7.4	100
9	Loathe Thy Neighbor	7.4	86
10	The Grundel	8.3	109
11	Big Trouble with Little Slimer	7.4	88
12	The Copycat	7.5	88
13	Camping It Up	7.0	82

Season 4 (1988)

7.49 avg 8 episodes 7.2 → 7.6 30 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Joke's on Ray	7.2	79
2	Flip Side	8.1	94
3	Poultrygeist	7.4	81
4	Standing Room Only	7.7	81
5	Robo-Buster	7.3	81
6	Short Stuff	7.5	78
7	Follow That Hearse	7.1	78
8	The Brooklyn Triangle	7.6	77

Season 5 (1989)

6.72 avg 21 episodes 7.2 → 6.9 20 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Something's Going Around	7.2	77
2	Three Men and an Egon	6.9	79
3	Elementary My Dear Winston	7.4	79
4	If I Were a Witchman	7.2	78
5	Partners in Slime	6.4	118
6	Future Tense	7.2	77
7	Jailbusters	6.8	74
8	Live: From Al Capone's Tomb!	6.8	83
9	The Halloween Door	7.5	103
10	Venk-Man!	6.8	74
11	Trading Faces	6.0	70
12	Transcendental Tourists	6.3	68
13	Surely You Joust	6.4	70
14	Kitty-Cornered	6.4	68
15	Slimer's Curse	6.5	71
16	Til Death Do Us Part	6.5	69
17	It's About Time	6.6	70
18	The Ransom of Greenspud	6.1	68
19	Revenge of the Ghostmaster	6.8	71
20	Loose Screws	6.4	72
21	Slimer Streak	6.9	72

Season 6 (1990)

6.66 avg 16 episodes 7.3 → 6.6 31 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Janine, You've Changed	7.3	78
2	You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks	6.7	72
3	Ghostworld	7.4	77
4	The Haunting of Heck House	7.6	76
5	Mean Green Teen Machine	6.1	76
6	Spacebusters	6.7	71
7	My Left Fang	7.0	69
8	Russian About	7.1	73
9	The Slob	6.1	75
10	Deja Boo	5.6	76
11	Afterlife in the Fast Lane	6.6	75
12	Guess What's Coming to Dinner	6.3	70
13	Stay Tooned	6.2	76
14	Very Beast Friends	6.8	73
15	Busters in Toyland	6.5	77
16	The Magnificent Five	6.6	76

Season 7 (1991)

6.93 avg 4 episodes 6.9 → 6.8 30 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Treasure of Sierra Tamale	6.9	73
2	Not Now, Slimer!	6.9	68
3	Attack of the B-Movie Monsters	7.1	71
4	20,000 Leagues Under the Street	6.8	71

The Real Ghostbusters (1986)

Cast

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