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The Best Episodes of The Ghost Busters

Every episode of The Ghost Busters ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Ghost Busters!

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The Ghost Busters was a live-action children's television series that ran in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who would investigate ghostly occurrences. Only 15 episodes were created. This series reunited Forrest Tucker and Larry

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    The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 10 - The Vampire's Apprentice
    7.6/10(25 votes)

    #1 - The Vampire's Apprentice

    S1:E10

    The Ghost Busters may get the bite put on them when Count and Countess Dracula return from the other side in search of a warm-blooded donor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 8 - Which Witch Is Which?
    7.4/10(24 votes)

    #2 - Which Witch Is Which?

    S1:E8

    The ghost of a 17th century witch and her stooge Gronk return for revenge on the descendant of the Edward Spencer who broke her spell at the Salem Witch Trials.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 7 - A Worthless Gauze
    7.3/10(23 votes)

    #3 - A Worthless Gauze

    S1:E7

    The Ghost Busters become embroiled with Egyptian Queen Forah and her Mummy as they search for the ape-sorcerer Simios, who in turn can bring them to Spen-Zah, possessor of the secret of immortality.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 6 - The Dummy's Revenge
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    #4 - The Dummy's Revenge

    S1:E6

    The Phantom of Vaudeville, a masked ventriloquist with his dummy Elmo, seek revenge after suspecting Spencer, Tracy and Kong of being the song and dance act that upstaged them decades earlier.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 15 - The Abominable Snowman
    7.1/10(23 votes)

    #5 - The Abominable Snowman

    S1:E15

    Spencer stumbles onto the scene when Dr. Centigrade is searching for a warm-blooded heart to transplant into the Abominable Snowman. Final episode of the series.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 4 - Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #6 - Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Wolf

    S1:E4

    Hoping to remove the curse of the werewolf from hapless Harry Albert, Gypsy fortuneteller Sophia comes seeking to steal the Baldus Lupus Amulet that Spencer recently unearthed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 14 - Merlin The Magician
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    #7 - Merlin The Magician

    S1:E14

    Merlin and jester Gronk are pursued from the Great Beyond by their nemesis Morgan Le Fay, who intends to trap them in this era. The Ghost Busters befriend and assist the broken-down magician in his battle with the beautiful sorceress.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 11 - Jekyll and Hyde - Together for The First Time
    6.5/10(23 votes)

    #8 - Jekyll and Hyde - Together for The First Time

    S1:E11

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are living as two separate persons, with the Neanderthal Hyde driving insane the urbane Jekyll. Only by drinking a potion made from a person without any personality can Jekyll ever hope to be set free from Hyde.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 13 - The Vikings Have Landed
    6.5/10(21 votes)

    #9 - The Vikings Have Landed

    S1:E13

    The ghosts of Erik the Red and Brunhilda return to plant a Viking banner and establish their claim to having discovered America prior to the loathsome Lothar the Hun.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 9 - They Went Thataway
    6.3/10(23 votes)

    #10 - They Went Thataway

    S1:E9

    Those ghostriders in the sky are the spirits of Billy the Kid and Belle Starr back to round up a new gang of cattle rustlers. The Ghost Busters disguise themselves as cowboys to get the Dematerializer drop on 'em.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 12 - Only Ghosts Have Wings
    6.3/10(23 votes)

    #11 - Only Ghosts Have Wings

    S1:E12

    The Ghost Busters discover the Red Baron and his grease monkey Sparky using the haunted castle to repair their damaged airplane.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 3 - The Canterville Ghost
    6.2/10(34 votes)

    #12 - The Canterville Ghost

    S1:E3

    Jewel thief Mr. C schemes to scare Carola out of the castle so he can find and steal the Canterville Diamond, not realizing it hangs around the neck of the scaredy-cat ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 2 - Dr. Whatshisname
    6.0/10(35 votes)

    #13 - Dr. Whatshisname

    S1:E2

    Dr. Frankenstein returns, seeking the brain of the world's most gullible fool to transplant into his Monster. Enter Eddie Spencer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 5 - The Flying Dutchman
    6.0/10(26 votes)

    #14 - The Flying Dutchman

    S1:E5

    Scroggs schemes to shanghai the unsuspecting Spencer and Tracy to serve as deck hands aboard Cap'n Beane's Flying Dutchman ghost ship.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Ghost Busters Season 1 Episode 1 - The Maltese Monkey
    5.9/10(48 votes)

    #15 - The Maltese Monkey

    S1:E1

    The Ghost Busters must stop the Fat Man and Rabbit from summoning the ghost of gangster Big Al Caesar, who will help them steal the stuff dreams are made of: the Maltese Monkey.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Vampire's Apprentice" is the best rated episode of "The Ghost Busters". It scored 7.6/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/8/1975. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Which Witch Is Which?".