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The Real Ghostbusters Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1989 - 1989
Episode 1
Something's Going Around
Sat, Sep 9, 198930 mins
The mysterious Doctor McCatheter gives Louis Tully free samples of supernaturally tainted health chips.
Episode 2
Three Men and an Egon
Sat, Sep 16, 198930 mins
Egon accidentally gets caught in the Proton Beams along with a ghost. The results are horrifying, causing them to exchange aging processes. Egon begins regressing at an alarming rate and the Ghostbusters must reverse the process before he disappears into nothingness.
Episode 3
Elementary My Dear Winston
Sat, Sep 23, 198930 mins
Suddenly the fictional spirits of Sherlock Holmes, his associate Dr. Watson and the notorious Moriarty materialize in Manhattan. Moriarty absorbs evil from various modern-day sources, determined to transform into a real, corporal villain.
Episode 4
If I Were a Witchman
Sat, Sep 30, 198930 mins
The Ghostbusters are called to a small New England village to exorcise a recently escaped ancient witch Kestrel. She seeks revenge on various town descendants, including the Spengler family. Undercover in the local all-girls academy, Egon is taken possession of by Kestrel.
Episode 5
Partners in Slime
Sat, Oct 7, 198930 mins
Poso, an overstuffed ghost has a goal - to be the ghostfather of all ghosts. He succeeds in kidnapping Janine and Louis and demands a ransom from the Ghostbusters. In order to release the captives, Poso wants the Ghostbusters to surrender their equipment and headquarters.
Episode 6
Future Tense
Sat, Oct 14, 198930 mins
The Ghostbusters receive a television set as a Thank you but everything becomes very disturbing when the set starts to reveal alarming visions of the future.
Episode 7
Jailbusters
Sat, Oct 21, 198930 mins
The Ghostbusters are tricked, captured and swept away into the Ghostworld. There, they are subjected to a bizarre trial for their crimes against ghost kind.
Episode 8
Live: From Al Capone's Tomb!
Sat, Oct 28, 198930 mins
Peter sells the Ghostbusters' television rights and sets a new live show from Al Capone's tomb. The idea is to fake an appearance of the gangster's ghost at midnight. Sadly, the real ghost of Al Capone appears and pulls them into a spiritual world of gangster ghosts.
Episode 9
The Halloween Door
Sun, Oct 29, 198930 mins
Crowley is the chairman of Citizens United Against Halloween. When the Ghostbusters refuse to join forces with him, Crowley by mistake opens the Halloween Door and breaks the underworld's ancient contract of imprisonment.
Episode 10
Venk-Man!
Sat, Nov 11, 198913 mins
Peter becomes a superhero.
Episode 11
Trading Faces
Sat, Nov 18, 198913 mins
Slimer and Louis are trapped after a bullying ghost that looks like Slimer escapes from the Ghostworld through an antique mirror.
Episode 12
Transcendental Tourists
Sat, Nov 18, 198913 mins
Peter, Winston, and Slimer head for Mount Rushmore on a vacation. However, a ghost family want the place entirely to themselves because they are also on holiday.
Episode 13
Surely You Joust
Sat, Nov 25, 198913 mins
In order to rescue a kidnapped Janine, the Ghost Busters enter a world filled with dragons and knights.
Episode 14
Kitty-Cornered
Sat, Nov 25, 198913 mins
Slimer finds a magical cat that can make his dreams come true.
Episode 15
Slimer's Curse
Sat, Dec 2, 198913 mins
After Slimer wins the lottery, he runs into trouble when he discovers that his winnings are cursed.
Episode 16
Til Death Do Us Part
Sat, Dec 2, 198913 mins
Ghostbusters hire a temp who happens to be a ghost. Egon gets into trouble when the temp decides to marry him.
Episode 17
It's About Time
Sat, Dec 9, 198913 mins
The Ghostbusters get evicted. While packing up, an accident involving one of the traps sends them to the 1950s, Ray's favorite decade. This creates a dangerous dimensional rift and something big is about to come out. Now what?
Episode 18
The Ransom of Greenspud
Sat, Dec 9, 198913 mins
A group of ghost kidnap Slimer and try to ransom him back to the Ghostbusters.
Episode 19
Revenge of the Ghostmaster
Sat, Dec 16, 198913 mins
The Ghostmaster returns and, in order to get revenge on the Ghostbusters, he cast a spell on them which causes all electronic equipment near them to fail including their proton packs.
Episode 20
Loose Screws
Sat, Dec 16, 198913 mins
Slimer accidentally breaks a trap and doesn't tell anyone. After the Ghostbusters use it, things start to get dangerous when the Ghost's essence leaks out of the trap and starts possessing things.
Episode 21
Slimer Streak
Sat, Dec 23, 198913 mins
The Ghostbusters are stuck on a speeding train. In order to get it to stop, they must play and win a series of games.
