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Encyclopedia > The Ghost Busters

The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran from 1975 to 1976 and was not affiliated with the similarly-titled 1984 movie (it must be noted, however, that this show's producers, Filmation, got paid by Columbia Pictures for the title of the movie). A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ghostbusters (sometimes written Ghost Busters) is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three parapsychologists who are fired from Columbia University in New York, and start up their own business investigating and eliminating ghosts. ... The first Filmation logo. ... The Columbia Pictures logo, since 1993. ...


It starred Forrest Tucker as Jake Kong, Larry Storch as Eddie Spenser, and Bob Burns as Tracy the Gorilla. Tracy, and the sons of Jake and Eddie (who were also named Jake and Eddie) were later incorporated in to a cartoon television series, also called The Original Ghostbusters, which ran from 1986 to 1988. Forrest Tucker (February 12, 1919 - October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television from the 1940s to the 1980s. ... Larry Storch (born January 8, 1923) is a Jewish-American actor best known for his comedic television roles, including voiceover work for cartoons, and his live-action role the bumbling Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Each episode would always begin with one of the characters stopping in a convenience store to pick up the tape recording that explained the mission they would have to go on in the episode. The tape would always be hidden inside a common object, such as a bicycle or a typewriter. The tape would always end with the statement, "This tape will self-destruct in five seconds," very much like Mission Impossible. On the cartoon, Eddie, Jake and Tracey team up with Futura, their newspaper reporter Jessica and Belfry the Bat to protect their village from the evil vampire named Prime Evil and his assistants Mysteria and Fib Face. A convenience store is a small store or shop, generally accessible or local. ... This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ... This Smith Premier typewriter, purchased around the end of the 19th century, was found abandoned in the Bodie ghost town. ... A self-destruct is a mechanism which causes a device to destroy itself under a predefined set of circumstances. ... Mission: Impossible is the name of an American television series which aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to September 1973. ...


Voices

Patrick Fraley, also known as Pat Fraley (born February 18, 1949) is an American voice actor. ... Peter Cullen is a voice actor who has provided the voices for Optimus Prime in Transformers, Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh, KITT in Knight Rider, and other characters in Gremlins, Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, Dungeons & Dragons and The Jetsons, among many other television shows and movies. ... Lou Scheimer was one of the original founders of Filmation animation-company and also an executive producer of many of its cartoons (though only by name due to standardized crediting in most toons, Hal Sutherland recieved similar treatment). ... Frank Welker Frank Welker (born February 16, 1945 in Denver, Colorado), is an American voice actor. ... Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor, born in Toronto. ... Don Francks or Iron Buffalo (born February 28, 1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a legendary Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician. ... Linda Gary (November 4, 1944-October 5, 1995) was a voice-over artist for countless animated projects. ... Alan Oppenheimer is a voice-actor who has had an active career in cartoons since the 1940s. ...

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