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 (12,193 votes)
Seasons: 7
Streaming (US): The Roku Channel
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 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	340
2	Killerwatt	6.8	263
3	Mrs. Roger's Neighborhood	7.5	250
4	Slimer, Come Home	6.8	208
5	Troll Bridge	6.8	199
6	The Boogieman Cometh	8.2	257
7	Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream	8.0	234
8	When Halloween Was Forever	7.8	247
9	Look Homeward, Ray	6.7	176
10	Take Two	7.4	175
11	Citizen Ghost	7.6	249
12	Janine's Genie	7.4	170
13	Xmas Marks the Spot	7.7	217

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	121
2	Adventures in Slime and Space	7.2	135
3	Ragnarok and Roll	8.0	164
4	Captain Steel Saves the Day	7.3	117
5	They Call Me Mister Slimer	6.9	118
6	Buster the Ghost	6.7	111
7	Night Game	8.0	160
8	Rollerghoster	7.5	114
9	Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?	7.5	134
10	Dairy Farm	7.6	105
11	Egon's Ghost	7.8	109
12	Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster	8.0	116
13	The Cabinet of Calamari	7.8	110
14	Ghostbuster of the Year	7.8	111
15	Egon's Dragon	7.5	96
16	No One Comes to Lupusville	7.9	129
17	The Bird of Kildarby	7.3	112
18	The Long, Long, Long, Goodbye	7.7	103
19	Cold Cash and Hot Water	7.9	116
20	Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost?	7.1	108
21	The Man Who Never Reached Home	7.8	113
22	Doctor, Doctor	7.8	125
23	You Can't Take It with You	7.7	107
24	Victor, the Happy Ghost	6.8	94
25	Lost and Foundry	7.7	109
26	Chicken, He Clucked	7.5	130
27	Venkman's Ghost Repellers	7.5	128
28	The Hole in the Wall Gang	7.7	101
29	Ghost Busted	7.2	122
30	The Ghostbusters in Paris	7.7	149
31	A Fright at the Opera	7.0	116
32	The Collect Call of Cthulhu	8.4	174
33	Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?	7.2	107
34	Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin	7.7	118
35	Boo-Dunit	7.2	115
36	The Revenge of Murray the Mantis	8.1	120
37	The Headless Motorcyclist	8.1	115
38	The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic	8.4	145
39	Moaning Stones	7.7	99
40	Knock, Knock	8.6	181
41	The Spirit of Aunt Lois	7.7	116
42	Sea Fright	7.4	122
43	Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral	8.0	102
44	Cry Uncle	7.4	118
45	Bustman's Holiday	7.6	99
46	The Scaring of the Green	7.5	101
47	Ain't NASA-sarily So	7.6	118
48	Apocalypse - What, NOW?	7.3	104
49	The Devil to Pay	8.3	99
50	A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn	7.4	95
51	I Am the City	7.1	91
52	Last Train to Oblivion	7.6	96
53	Beneath These Streets	7.7	115
54	Play Them Ragtime Boos	7.6	125
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	7.2	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	118
64	Hanging by a Thread	6.7	96
65	Transylvanian Homesick Blues	6.9	89

Season 3 (1987)

7.45 avg 13 episodes 6.5 → 7.0 30 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Baby Spookums	6.5	92
2	It's a Jungle Out There	7.2	95
3	Slimer, Is That You?	8.0	97
4	The Bogeyman Is Back	8.3	98
5	Once Upon a Slime	6.9	81
6	The Two Faces of Slimer	7.3	87
7	Sticky Business	7.6	90
8	Halloween II 1/2	7.4	99
9	Loathe Thy Neighbor	7.4	85
10	The Grundel	8.3	107
11	Big Trouble with Little Slimer	7.4	86
12	The Copycat	7.5	87
13	Camping It Up	7.0	80

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	77
2	Flip Side	8.1	92
3	Poultrygeist	7.4	80
4	Standing Room Only	7.7	81
5	Robo-Buster	7.3	81
6	Short Stuff	7.5	77
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

Rollercoaster

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Something's Going Around	7.2	76
2	Three Men and an Egon	6.9	78
3	Elementary My Dear Winston	7.5	76
4	If I Were a Witchman	7.2	77
5	Partners in Slime	6.4	117
6	Future Tense	7.2	76
7	Jailbusters	6.9	73
8	Live: From Al Capone's Tomb!	6.8	82
9	The Halloween Door	7.5	101
10	Venk-Man!	6.8	73
11	Trading Faces	6.0	69
12	Transcendental Tourists	6.3	68
13	Surely You Joust	6.4	69
14	Kitty-Cornered	6.4	67
15	Slimer's Curse	6.5	70
16	Til Death Do Us Part	6.5	68
17	It's About Time	6.6	69
18	The Ransom of Greenspud	6.0	67
19	Revenge of the Ghostmaster	6.8	70
20	Loose Screws	6.4	71
21	Slimer Streak	6.9	71

Season 6 (1990)

6.64 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	77
2	You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks	6.7	71
3	Ghostworld	7.4	76
4	The Haunting of Heck House	7.6	75
5	Mean Green Teen Machine	6.1	75
6	Spacebusters	6.7	69
7	My Left Fang	6.9	67
8	Russian About	7.1	71
9	The Slob	6.1	73
10	Deja Boo	5.6	74
11	Afterlife in the Fast Lane	6.6	74
12	Guess What's Coming to Dinner	6.3	69
13	Stay Tooned	6.1	74
14	Very Beast Friends	6.8	72
15	Busters in Toyland	6.4	76
16	The Magnificent Five	6.6	74

Season 7 (1991)

6.90 avg 4 episodes 6.9 → 6.8 30 min avg

Shape drift

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Treasure of Sierra Tamale	6.9	72
2	Not Now, Slimer!	6.9	67
3	Attack of the B-Movie Monsters	7.0	70
4	20,000 Leagues Under the Street	6.8	70

The Real Ghostbusters (1986)

Cast

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