The animated television series The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters is an American animated television series based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters. The series ran from 1986 to 1991, and was produced by Columbia Pictures Television, DiC Enterprises, and Coca-Cola Telecommunications. "The Real" was added to the title after a dispute with...

premiered on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 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 before the start of 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

Slimer

Slimer is a fictional green ghost featured in the 1984 supernatural comedy movie Ghostbusters , whose popularity soared from the subsequent spinoff animated television series The Real Ghostbusters. Slimer later starred in his own Slimer! cartoons when The Real Ghostbusters was extended to a...

. At the end of its six season run, 147 episodes had aired, including the syndicated episodes and 13 episodes of Slimer, with multiple episodes airing out of production order.

In 2004, Sony

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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 released several bare bones home video episode compilations in the United Kingdom. These compilations were distributed in North American in 2006. Time-Life

Time-Life

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 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 Ghostbuster's firehouse, a design chosen in an fan vote. Beginning the next year the separate volumes were released on their own, first in the United States, then in Australia and finally the United Kingdom.

Season 1: 1986

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Syndication: 1987

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Season 2: 1987

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Season 3: 1988 Slimer! And The Real Ghostbusters

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Season 4: 1989

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Season 5: 1990

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Season 6: 1991

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Slimer sub-series: 1988-1989

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