List of The Real Ghostbusters episodes


The animated television series The Real Ghostbusters premiered on ABC on September 13, 1986. It continued airing weekly until the series conclusion on October 5, 1991. After the first season aired, the series entered syndication, during which new episodes aired each weekday. Sixty-five episodes aired in syndication simultaneously with the official second season in 1987. At the start of the third season in 1988, the show was renamed to Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters and expanded to an hour-long time slot, during which the regular thirty-minute episode aired along with a half-hour Slimer! sub-series which included two to three short animated segments focused on the character Slimer. At the end of its seven-season run, 173 episodes had aired, including the syndicated episodes and 13 episodes of Slimer!, with multiple episodes airing out of production order.
Sony Pictures Entertainment released several DVD volumes of the show in North America in 2006. They include random episodes and no extras. Time-Life released the complete series in a single 25-disc box-set collection on November 25, 2008. The discs were packed in five steelbook volumes, housed in a box modeled on the Ghostbusters' firehouse, a design chosen in a fan vote. Beginning the next year, the separate volumes were released on their own, first in the United States. Sony only released a 2-disc set featuring all 13 episodes from Season 1 in Australia and the UK.
With the exception of the syndicated episodes, all the others are arranged in airing order.

Series overview

Episodes

''The Real Ghostbusters''

Season 1 (1986; ABC Season 1)

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Season 2 (1987; Syndication)

Season 3 (1987; ABC Season 2)

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''Slimer! And The Real Ghostbusters''

Season 4 (1988; ABC Season 3)

Season 5 (1989; ABC Season 4)

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Season 6 (1990; ABC Season 5)

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Season 7 (1991; ABC Season 6)

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''Slimer'' sub-series (1988)

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Crossover special (1990)

DVD releases

From July 5, 2016 to September 6, 2016, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have released most of the series in ten volumes, but released the entire fourth season.