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The Real Ghostbusters (U.S. TV)

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Alternative title:
Les vrais chasseurs de fantômes (French) 
Los verdaderos cazafantasmas (Spanish) 
Os Caça-Fantasmas (Portuguese) 
Настоящие охотники за привидениями (Russian) 
アニメ ゴーストバスターズ (Japanese) 
Genres: action , comedy , supernatural 
Themes: ghosts , technology 
Objectionable content: Mild 
Based on: "Ghostbusters" (1984 movie) by Ivan Reitman 
Plot Summary: The continuing adventures of Manhattan’s own unique ghost removal team known as the Ghostbusters. The team is now equipped with new uniforms and arsenal while dealing with every supernatural problem that they come across in the Big Apple, while on other occasions outside of the city itself. Every once in awhile, the Ghostbusters get occasional help from Janine their trusty receptionist and Slimer, a green glutinous ghost who was the first ghost to be captured by the Ghostbusters themselves. 
Running time: 23 minutes per episode 
Number of episodes: 140 
Episode titles: We have 141
Vintage: 1986-09-13 to 1991-10-05 
Trivia: We have 106
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DVD (Region 1)
    Real Ghostbusters (DVD 1-10) 2017-10-03 (from $29.12)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Shigeru Chiba as Peter Venkman 
Shigeru Ushiyama as Raymond Stantz 
Shinya Ōtaki as Winston Zeddemore 
Tesshō Genda as Egon Spengler 

Kōichi Yamadera as Slimer 
Shinobu Adachi as Janine Melnitz 
Japanese companies
Animation: Anime R 
Camera Direction: T. Nishimura 
Distributor: RCA/Columbia Magic Window (VHS) 
Photography: Trans Arts Co. 
Production Cooperation: Trans Arts Co. 
English cast
English staff
Director:
Richard Raynis (eps 1-13, 79-91) 
Stan Phillips (eps 121-140) 
Will Meugniot (eps 92-120) 
Original Work:
Dan Aykroyd 
Harold Ramis 
Rick Moranis (uncredited) 
Character Design:
Bruce Timm (eps 92-99) 
Pete von Sholly 
Executive producer:
Joe Medjuck 
Michael C. Gross 
Associate producer:
Gaetano Vaccaro 
Ken Duer 
Michael Pole 
Coordinating Producer: Robby London 
Executive Consultant: Ivan Reitman 
Key Character Designer: Pete von Sholly 
Supervising Associate Producer:
Gaetano Vaccaro 
John O'Sullivan Fran Jr. 
Arsenio Hall as Winston Zeddemore (eps 1-91) 
Buster Jones as Winston Zeddemore (eps 92-140) 
Dave Coulier as Peter Venkman (eps 79-140) 
Frank Welker as Raymond Stantz 
Lorenzo Music as Peter Venkman (eps 1-78) 
Maurice LaMarche as Egon Spengler 

Frank Welker as Slimer 
Kath Soucie as Janine Melnitz (eps 79-140) 
Laura Summer as Janine Melnitz (eps 1-78) 
Rodger Bumpass as Louis Tully 

Alan Oppenheimer as
Goolem 
Morris Grout 
Alan Shearman as
Sherlock Holmes (ep 102) 
Sir Bruce (ep 51) 
Arsenio Hall as
Angels 
Announcer 
Apparition 
Bandits 
Barrow-Wights 
Black Kid 
Boutique Customers 
Brown Bear 
Bus Ghost 
Cab Driver 
Cameraman 
Cockroach 
Commuter 
Conductor 
Cook 
Cop 
Creature 
Creatures 
Curly 
Dialogue Coach 
DJ 
Domovoy A 
Driver 
Earp 
Eerie Voices 
Elephant Pitcher 
First Ghost 
Fish 
Foreman 
Foxey 
Furnace Monster 
Gang Member 
Ghost 
Ghost 1 
Ghost A 
Ghost B 
Ghostly Knights 
Ghosts 
Gremlin 
Half-Bat 
Horseman 
Huge Demon 
Huge Skull-like Head 
Imp A 
Jabberwocky 
Kid 
Killer A 
L.P. Bats 
Lady 
Man 
Man A 
Man on Bench 
Manitou 
Monster 
Motorcycle Ghost 
Movie Goer C 
Mr. Cater 
Mr. Howard 
Musician 
Mystery Baddie 
Old Man B 
Patient 
Pedestrian 
Person A 
Phantom 
Pocket Watch 
Poltergeist 
Portly Man 
Power Guy 
Professor 
Punk 
Radio Announcer 
Radio D.J. 
Reporter A 
Revelers 
Sailor 
Slimer C 
Snake 
Specter 
Spectral Winston 
Spirit 
Station Master 
Taxi Driver B 
Tenor 
Tiamat 
Townsfolk 
TV Detective 
Vacuum Ghoul 
Veejay 
Victor 
Voice 
Watchman 
Werewolf 
Werewolf A 
Worker A 
Worker B 
Workman A 
Workman B 
Arthur Burghardt as
Bus Ghost 
Cop A 
Demon 
Murray the Mantis 
Reporter #1 
Sphinx 
Yali 
B.J. Ward as
Anubis (ep 43) 
Automatic Voice (ep 117) 
Followers (ep 117) 
Gargoyle (ep 43) 
Goblin A (ep 25) 
Katarina (ep 117) 
Kate (ep 50) 
Kathryn (ep 74) 
Lucy (ep 43) 
Motorcycle Ghost (ep 50) 
Receptionist (ep 25) 
Soundman (ep 74) 
Stewardess (ep 117) 
Cam Clarke as
Ape (ep 125) 
Axel (ep 125) 
Boy (ep 8) 
Crowd (ep 125) 
Guggenheim (ep 125) 
Kids (ep 8) 
TV Anchor (ep 8) 
Charlie Adler as
Dad 
Elizabeth 
Genie 
Ghost 
Ghost A 
Newsboy 
Obnoxious Tourist 
Osiris 
Rafael 
Sanders 
Worker A 
Chris Latta as
Audience Member (ep 133) 
Demon (ep 14) 
Ghost (ep 41) 
Imp E (ep 14) 
Kangaroo A (ep 133) 
Mailbox (ep 133) 
Monster (ep 41) 
Sammy (ep 133) 
Cree Summer as
Chilly Cooper 
Mrs. Stone 
Danny Mann as
Banana 9000 
Bones 
Ghost 
Ghost Hood D 
Larry 
Luigi 
Poso 
Slimer D 
Spotty 
Woodchuck 
Diane Pershing as
Martha (ep 15) 
Mother (ep 15) 
Small Child (ep 15) 
Fay Dewitt as Mrs. Van Huego 
Frank Welker as
Apshai 
Audience 
Bats 
Beasts 
Bird 
Boogieman 
Bowlers 
Captain Jim 
Clerk 
Coatl A 
Cowboy 
Crowd 
Director 
Dockworkers 
Dog 
Dragon Flies 
Ecto-1 
Fans 
Ghost B 
Ghostriders 
Ghosts 
Giggling Voices 
Goblin A 
Hound 
Howie 
Jaguars Stadium Guard (ep 20) 
Kani 
Lady 
Mouse 
Museum Crowd 
Nori-ra 
Passengers 
Quetzal Coatl 
Sandman 
Santa Claus 
Senior Citizen 
Texan Tourist (ep 55) 
Townspeople 
Woman 
Zonk 
Hal Smith as
Kildarby (ep 30) 
Mayor Lenny (ep 30) 
James Avery as
Booming Voice 
Giant 
House 
Judge 
Jurors 
Killerwatt 
Rabbit 
Stove Ghoul 
John Stocker as Stay Puft Marshmallow Man 
Jonathan Brandis as
Kid (ep 88) 
Lee (ep 88) 
Jonny Solomon as
Marvin 
Mike 
Specs (ep 68) 
Willis (ep 68) 
Julie Bennett as
Cynthia Crawford (ep 8 & 11) 
Little Girl (ep 8) 
June Foray as
Mayor’s Wife (ep 59) 
Woman (ep 59) 
Kath Soucie as
Actress 
Astronaut 
Audience 
Auto-Voice 
Baby 
Baby Egon 
Bakery Lady 
Bowlers 
Boy 
Boys 
Crowd 
Customers 
Diner Crowd 
Dixie 
Dockworkers 
Dragon 
Drivers 
Fans 
Female Bootician 
Female Ghost 
Female Zombie 
Fish 
Garbled Phone Voice 
Ghost 
Ghost Guest 
Ghost Insects 
Giggling Voices 
Girl 
Gopher 
Jabberwocky 
Janine Ghost 
Juror 
Kid 
Kid B 
Lady 
Lynn 
Magician's Assistant 
Miranda 
Mother 
Mrs. Beagle 
Museum Crowd 
Natalia 
Operator 
Pie-Face 
Poodle Starlet 
Scabitha 
Senior Citizens 
Spectral Mass 
Spook 
Technician A 
Tomato 
Turkey 
TV Announcer 
TV Announcer Okrah 
Two Spooks 
Witch 
Woman 
Woman #1 
Woman Investor 
Woman on TV 
Katie Leigh as
Cindy (ep 56) 
Gallery Ghosts (ep 56) 
Jason 
Jimmy (ep 56) 
Laura Summer as
Female Doctor (ep 1) 
Snarg (ep 1) 
Linda Gary as
Girl 
Girl A 
Jersey Woman 
Kestrel 
Mayor 
Orangutan 
Professor Joanna Barnes 
Support Group 
Townspeople 
Lorenzo Music as
Angels (ep 61) 
Announcer (ep 1) 
Another Demon (ep 39) 
Arty (ep 33) 
Bag (ep 19) 
Bandits (ep 61) 
Barrow-Wight B (ep 18) 
Boutique Customers (ep 61) 
Captain Ahab (ep 25) 
Cop (ep 64) 
Doctors (ep 35) 
Domovoy D (ep 54) 
Earp (ep 56) 
Fat Customer (ep 33) 
Fat Ghost (ep 74) 
Fish (ep 77) 
Flynn (ep 74) 
Gallery Ghosts (ep 70) 
Gang Member (ep 18) 
Ghost #3 (ep 41) 
Ghost B (ep 12) 
Ghost C (ep 14) 
Ghostly Knights (ep 69) 
Ghosts 
Half-Bat (ep 16) 
Horace (ep 33) 
Horseman (ep 61) 
Imp F (ep 14) 
Killer B (ep 42) 
L.P. Bats (ep 75) 
Letter (ep 7) 
Man (ep 6) 
Man in Couple (ep 64) 
Monster (ep 21) 
Parent (ep 6) 
Passenger (ep 1) 
Pops (ep 40) 
Porter (ep 65) 
Revelers (ep 69) 
Ricky Roach (ep 22) 
Small Demon (ep 77) 
Spectral Peter (ep 11) 
Stagehand (ep 75) 
Townsfolk (ep 29) 
Ventriloquist (ep 46) 
Werewolf (ep 29) 
Worker (ep 31) 
Matt Plendl as
Assistant Demon 
Dudley (ep 23) 
Elwin 
Person B 
Rick 
Sheldon 
Maurice LaMarche as
A Guard 
Albert Einstein 
Angels 
Announcer 
Another Lady 
Another Vampire 
Apparition 
Apparitions 
Assassin Bugs 
Assistant 
Audience 
Bandits 
Barrow-Wight A 
Bassingame 
Bear 
Beautiful Women 
Bigfoot 
Bob 
Boutique Customers 
Bowlers 
Boy 
Bromo 
Bud 
Burgomeister 
Bus Driver 
Buster the Dog 
Cabbie 
Captain Coles 
Chauffeur 
Child Egon 
Class 5 Ghost 
Clerk 
Clerk Demon 
Clothes Tree 
Coatl B 
Commander 
Commuter 
Commuter A 
Conqueror Duck 
Containment Unit 
Cop A 
Cop B 
Cousin Ernie 
Creature 
Creatures 
Creegor 
Crowd 
Crowd Member 
Cult Leader 
Custodian 
Daffy Guy 
Dark 
Demon 
Devil 
Diner Crowd 
Director 
DJ 
Doc Holliday 
Dockworkers 
Dogs 
Domovoy C 
Door 
Dopey Dog 
Driver 
Drool 
DyTyllio 
Eerie Ghost 
Eerie Voices 
Egon Ghost 
Egon Monster 
English Ghost 
Expert 
Fans 
Fat Man 
Father 
Fire Demon 
Firemen 
Fisherman C 
Fitzroy 
Flem the Newsman 
Followers 
Franz 
Fritz 
Frump 
Gallery Ghosts 
Gang Member 
Gardener 
George 
German Stone Cutter 
Ghash 
Ghost 
Ghost #1 
Ghost #2 
Ghost A 
Ghost B 
Ghost Beast 
Ghost C 
Ghost Crowd 
Ghost F 
Ghost Hood B 
Ghost of Christmas Present 
Ghost Pirate 
Ghost Prisoner B 
Ghosthunter 
Ghostly Knights 
Ghostly Voice 
Ghostriders 
Ghosts 
Ghoul Cook 
Glob 
Glutton Ghost 
Goblin B 
Goblins 
Gorilla 
Grub 
Guard 
Guard B 
Gumbo 
Guy 
Guy in Crowd 
Ham 
Harlan 
Hearse Ghost 
Helmsman 
Hoodlum A 
Husband 
Imp #2 
Imp B 
Innkeeper 
Irish Cop 
Italian Taxi Driver 
Jacob Marley 
Jean 
Jennings 
Jon 
Juror 
Kestrel 
Kids 
Klein 
Larry 
Lennie 
Leopold 
Limburger 
Louie 
Macho Guy 
Male 
Male Announcer 
Male Bystander 
Male Crowd Member 
Male Ghost 
Male Manager 
Male Member in the Crowd 
Male Member within Crowd 
Man 
Man Among the Crowd 
Man B 
Man in Crowd 
Man within the Crowd 
Manager 
Manny 
Mayor 
McTavish 
Member of the Crowd 
Milo 
Moe 
Monk B 
Movie Peter Venkman (ep 10) 
Mr. Alexis 
Mr. Conrad 
Mr. Doodad 
Mrs. Spengler 
Museum Crowd 
Museum Director 
Nadel 
Nanny 
News Anchor 
News Anchor B 
Newscaster 
Ogre B 
Old Demon 
Old Man 
Operator 
Orwell 
Owner 
Parrot 
Passengers 
Pedestrian 
Peter Venkman 
Phantoms 
Police Man B 
Policeman 
Pre-Teen Egon 
Radio Anchor 
Radio Announcer 
Ralph 
Raoul 
Revelers 
Ricky 
Rider 
Robber C 
Salesman 
Sandy 
Sato 
Second Ghost 
Security Guard 
Senior Citizens 
Sheet Ghost 
Shopkeeper 
Signal B 
Slimer B 
Slob 
Small Demon A 
Spade 
Spectral Egon 
Spectral Mass 
Spectre 
Spectres 
Spirit A 
Spirit B 
Spirits 
Spook 
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man 
Strazinski 
Supervisor 
Taxi Cab Driver 
Taxi Driver 
Taxi Driver A 
Technician 
Technician A 
Teen Egon 
Terror Dog 
The Announcer 
The Chauffeur 
The Demon 
The Guard 
The Helmsman 
The Manager 
The Newscaster 
The Player 
Thin Ghost 
Townsfolk 
Townspeople 
Tree 
Truck Driver 
TV Newsman 
Ugly Ghost A 
Umpire 
Van Helden 
Van Swell 
Voice 
Warty Demon 
Watson 
Werewolf 
Winston Zeddemore 
Wolfman 
Woman Driver 
Worker 
Worker #2 
Worker B 
Worker C 
Workman B 
Workman C 
Zedikiah Spengler 
Mona Marshall as
Ghost of Christmas Past 
Tiny Tim 
Peter Cullen as Dr. Destructo (ep 74) 
Robert Towers as
Cubby (ep 39) 
Garbled Voice (ep 89) 
Walter Peck (ep 89) 
Rodger Bumpass as
Clerk 
Commuter 
Crowd 
Diner Crowd 
Fairweather 
Ghost 
Ghost Governor 
Ghost Hood A 
Grundel 
Guard 
Kids 
Moon Man 
Moriarty 
Mr. Meredith 
Ogre A 
Patron 
Pizza Boy 
Police Officer A 
Prosecutor 
Robot 
Rock Demon 
Thug 
Turkey 
Tony Anselmo as
Combat Kid (ep 9) 
Mayor (ep 9) 
Old Geezer (ep 9) 
Walter Koenig as
Followers (ep 128) 
Vladimir (ep 128) 
William E. Martin as
Card Player 
Dinosaur 
Fat Troll 
Fireflies 
Goblin 
Head Troll 
Man A 
Samhain (ep 8 & 86) 
Sandman 
Troll 
Voice 
English companies
Korean staff
Korean companies
Animation Director: Tayk Kim 

Camera: Bokdong Cho 
Key Animation: Byung Nam Choi 
Korean cast
(none)
French staff
French cast
(none)
Bernard Murat as Peter Venkman 
Greg Germain as Winston Zeddemore 
Jean-Pierre Leroux as Egon Spengler 
Marc François as Winston Zeddemore 
Pascal Renwick as Raymond Stantz 

Francine Laine as Janine Melnitz 
French companies
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
(none)
Jorge Roig as Raymond Stantz 
Luis Alfonso Mendoza as Winston Zeddemore 
Martin Soto as Egon Spengler 
Pedro D'aguillon Jr. as Raymond Stantz 
Ricardo Hill as Peter Venkman 
Yamil Atala as Peter Venkman 

Carlos Magaña as Slimer 
Narciso Busquets as Slimer 
Patricia Acevedo as Janine Melnitz 
Rocio Garcel as Janine Melnitz 
Spanish companies
(none)
Italian staff
Italian cast
(none)
Oreste Rizzini as Peter Venkman 

Cristiana Lionello as Janine Melnitz 
Italian companies
(none)
German staff
German cast
(none)
Andreas von der Mede as Winston Zeddemore 
Benjamin Völz as Egon Spengler 
Holger Mahlich as Egon Spengler 
Jacob Weigert as Peter Venkman 
Lutz Schnell as Winston Zeddemore 
Michael Harck as Peter Venkman 
Nicolas Böll as Winston Zeddemore 
Oliver Rohrbeck as Raymond Stantz 
Rainer Schmitt as Raymond Stantz 

Dorette Hugo as Janine Melnitz 
Frank Welker as Slimer (Home Video Dub) 
Wilfried Herbst as Slimer 
German companies
(none)
Russian staff
Russian cast
(none)
Russian companies
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
Dubbing Director:
Antônio Moreno 
Neide Pavani 

Translation & Adaptation: Gilberto Baroli 
Antônio Moreno as Winston Zeddmore 
Ezio Ramos as Peter Venkman 
Flávio Dias as Raymond Stantz 
Jorge Barcellos as Egon Spengler 

Márcia Gomes as Janine Melnitz 
Sonia Perez as Slimer 

Wendel Bezerra as Louis Tully 
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster:
Rede Globo (Brazil) 
Rede Record (Brazil) 
Dubbing Studio: BKS (Brazil) 
Swedish staff
Swedish cast
(none)
Gunnar Ernblad as Raymond Stantz 
Hans Jonsson as Peter Venkman 
Per Sandborgh as Egon Spengler 
Peter Sjöquist as Winston Zeddemore 

Hans Jonsson as Slimer 
Louise Raeder as Janine Melnitz 
Swedish companies
(none)

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