Both films were directed by Ivan Reitman.Ī theme park show, Ghostbusters Spooktacular was yet another product of the franchise, being one of the opening day attractions at Universal Studios Florida in 1990. It was a smash hit which led to a sequel, Ghostbusters II, in 1989. The franchise started with Ghostbusters (1984), a film starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson Aykroyd and Ramis also wrote the script. There's only one force that can stop them: A Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who protect humanity with high-tech weaponry - and entertain generations of viewers with their quirky personalities and witty dialogue. Some ghosts are mere annoyances or even benign, but all too many of them are dangerous, and a few are bent on causing The End of the World as We Know It.
The setting note except for some Fan Films, a few episodes of the two animated series and Ghostbusters: Afterlife is modern day New York City, which has become overrun with supernatural creatures of every description. The Ghostbusters are back, with the latest technology and a hip new attitude.An enduringly popular Sci-Fi Horror/ Urban Fantasy/ Comedy franchise in which Mad Science takes on occult terror and wins, while hilarity (usually) ensues.
Short on time and more than a little desperate, Janine turns to four of her teenaged students: Kylie, a girl genius with a head full of incantations and occult knowledge Eduardo, a hip, cynical slacker with a dream of running in the Olympics and a serious crush on Kylie Lucas, a wheelchair-bound young athlete with a hair-trigger temper and Roland, a clumsy but good-hearted "gentle-giant" who's a whiz with machinery.Īlong with the Ghostbusters' old pal Slimer and a mischievous new goblin called Gnat, Janine and the kids set up shop in the firehouse, where they arm themselves with PKE meters, nuclear powered Proton Pack blasters, and everything else they'll need (refurbished with the help of Egon) to treat a new generation of ghosts to a Proton Pack roast! It's up to the Ghostbusters' plucky secretary Janine - now teaching history at a local college - to recruit a new team to fill the Ghostbusters' Ecto-Visors and Slime-Repellent Boots. But the Ghostbusters are gone.or are they. The ECTO-1 is gathering dust, the old Firehouse headquarters is quiet, and all the guys have left town - except Egon, now huddled in front of a computer screen, battling program bugs instead of spooks.īut now after a decade of quiet, the supernatural is rearing its ugly ectoplasmic head again, and Manhattan is overrun with ghosts bent on mayhem and malevolent fun. Ten years after clearing out every malcontent ghost and goblin in New York City, the Ghostbusters have disbanded. Below is the full story synopsis that I saved from the Bohbot website back in 1997. The wheelchair-bound character named Garrett was originally named Lucas, and there was a mischievous new goblin named Gnat who would not be seen at all in the final show.
The generic "title and logo" appears below the full advertisement appears in this blog post.īohbot, the television distributor for the series, had a website that featured a story synopsis that was vastly different from what viewers would see in the aired series. This was a full year and eight months before the show premiered on TV. A full-page ad appeared in The Hollywood Reporter: Animation Special Issue, dated January 23, 1996, for Columbia TriStar Television's current and upcoming children's programming and animation, which proclaimed that Super Ghostbusters was "coming soon". Apparently, the very temporary placeholder name they used during early pre-production was SUPER GHOSTBUSTERS. It didn't have to be the final name, just something they could refer to it by while they were working out the details for the show. When the series was first conceived by Richard Raynis and Jeff Kline (both are credited as developers, but I don't know which one came up with the idea to make a new Ghostbusters animated series), they needed a name for the show.
On this page you'll find various bits of media that show how some things were different in these "original" pre-release stages.īEFORE THEY WERE EXTREME, THEY WERE SUPER A television show goes through many changes from original conception to final product, and Extreme Ghostbusters is no different.