The Real Ghostbusters
The Real Ghostbusters is a 1986 to 1991 produced American animated television series based on the movie Ghostbusters - Ghostbusters 1984 is based. Numerous merchandise such as action figures and vehicles have appeared. In 1997, the successor series Extreme Ghostbusters was born.
In The Real Ghostbusters, it has, as already known from the two feature films troops to deal with a variety of paranormal cases.
Content
Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond, Ray ' Stantz, Dr. Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore lead a ghost hunter agency in New York. The Agency also the secretary Janine Melnitz works and lives of the innocent spirit Slimer.
The four Ghostbusters receive a variety of jobs, hitting on all sorts of supernatural phenomena; so in addition to spirits among other things, the "bad man " in two episodes of the topic.
Production and publication
The series was produced from 1986 to 1991 by DiC Entertainment and Columbia Pictures Television, was directed by Masakazu Higuchi and Art Vitello. The first 78 episodes come from the pen of J. Michael Straczynski, who by Babylon 5 achieved great fame later.
To avoid confusion with the animated series Filmation 's Ghostbusters, the title to "The Real " was added. 1988 from the fourth season ( episode 92 ) of the title in Slimer! And The Real Ghostbusters renamed and made some changes: Slimer now occurs when the action is more prominent and can speak. The series was broadcast in the U.S. on 13 September 1986 to 22 October 1991 in a total of seven seasons of ABC and regional stations.
The series was, among other things translated into French, Italian and Spanish. In addition, the complete series was released on DVD in the U.S. and the first season in the UK and Germany.
Slimer!
The spin-off series Slimer! was formed in 1988 with 13 episodes, as Slimer at the very young Real Ghostbusters fans became more popular. From then ran The Real Ghostbusters in a double pack with this short-lived animated series, the Slimer at the center. The animation style and the stories were kept as simple as possible. The result is a kind of Tom and Jerry with a ghost. Finally, this branch has been discontinued, as The Real Ghostbusters still had a year to go.
The Real Ghostbusters in Germany
Even before the German premiere of the TV series single episodes of the first and second season by RGA were - Columbia Pictures International Video released on VHS in Germany. The series was then published The real Ghostbusters under the title and edited by another dubbing studio. The recordings took place, unlike the 1989 beginning German TV broadcast, in Hamburg. About 21 episodes were here published in several different editions.
In 1989, the series was broadcast by Sat.1, which was abandoned on the original team from Hamburg and the consequences could again re-edit in Berlin at Magma synchronous. Sat.1 was doing all episodes of the first four seasons in the early evening. In 1992, the series in Saturday morning program of ProSieben, which have shown after repeating all sat.1 the remaining episodes, in Germany and still outstanding episodes of the series.
Episode List
Synchronization
The German TV - dubbed version was recorded by the magma Synchron GmbH in Berlin. The dialog book was written the entire series about Rebecca Volz, synchronous directed by for the first 64 episodes Joachim Kunz village until episode 65 from these were also taken over by Rebecca Volz. The German VHS dubbed version was recorded in Hamburg.
Adaptations
The series several computer games appeared, see for Ghostbusters games. From 1989 to 1990 published by Carousel under the title The real Ghostbusters - The original television series for 30 radio play cassettes, each with two stories per cartridge. The soundtrack also appeared on MC.
In addition, 1990 saw The Big Book about Ghostbusters by Lars Uwe Höltich, ISBN 3-927801-06-2. Since 2006, a comic re -print is published by Titan -UK with The Real Ghostbusters. Previously released A Hard Day's Fright, Who You Gonna Call, Which Witch Is Which and This Ghost Is Toast; all pocket books contain several stories.