The Ghost Busters
| The Ghost Busters | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Marc Richards |
| Starring | Forrest Tucker Larry Storch Bob Burns |
| Theme music composer | Diane Hildebrand Jackie Mills |
| Opening theme | "Ghost-Busters" Theme (sung by Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch) |
| Ending theme | "Ghost-Busters" Theme (instrumental) |
| Composers | Yvette Blais Jeff Michael |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Norm Prescott Lou Scheimer Dick Rosenbloom |
| Producer | Norman Abbott |
| Production location | United States |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including commercials) |
| Production company | Filmation |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 6 – December 13, 1975 |
| Related | |
| Ghostbusters (1986 TV series) | |
The Ghost Busters is a live-action children's sitcom that ran on CBS in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who investigate ghostly occurrences. The show reunited Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch in slapstick roles similar to their characters in F Troop, and featured a third actor, Bob Burns, in a gorilla suit as their partner.
The series of fifteen episodes centered on the perpetual bumbling of the characters, good and evil alike. Character names referenced classic cinema, with both "Spencer" and "Tracy" alluding to actor Spencer Tracy, while "Kong" – not given to the gorilla – was a homage to King Kong.
After Columbia Pictures paid to license the Filmation series name for their (unrelated) 1984 film Ghostbusters, Filmation revived its series with an animated sequel in 1986.