Ghostbunglers
- Studio
- Filmation Associates
Synopsis
The Ghostbusters go back in time to ancient Rome to aid Madam Why's great ancestor Tonya and prevent Prime Evil's ghosts from stealing a magical wreath owned by Julius Caesar. It is not long before the Ghostbusters are taking part in a deadly chariot race against Marcus Phantamus.
Characters
Jake, Eddie, Jessica, Prime Evil, Tracy, Belfry the Bat, Brat-a-Rat, Fib-Face, Futura, Fangster, Haunter, Mysteria, Scared Stiff, Madam Why, Marcus Phantamus, Julius Caesar, Tonya
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Ed Friedman
Producing
- Producer
- Lou Scheimer (Executive Producer)
Writing
- Writer
- Len Riley
- Created by
- Marc Richards
Voices
- Voice
- Pat Fraley (Jake), Peter Cullen (Eddie, Marcus Phantamus), Susan Blu (Jessica, Belfry, Futura), Alan Oppenheimer (Prime Evil, Julius Caesar), Linda Gary (Mysteria, Tonya), Susan Blu, Erik Gunden, Erika Scheimer
Animation
- Animator
- Barry Anderson, Ben Farish, Robert Alvarez, Rick Farmiloe, Rich Arons, Marcia Fertig, Arland Barron, Michael R. Gerard, Vincent Bassols, Frank Gonzales, Carole Beers, Carl Hall, Carl Bell, Lee Halpern, Bob Bemiller, Harry Holt, Moon Choi, Richard Hoffman, Pat Clark, Karen Haus, Tom Cook, Glen Kennedy, Ken Cope, Saeil Kim, Jamie Davis, Aundre Kuntson, Zeon Davush, Jang Woo Lee, Daniel De La Vega, Julio Guerreo Leon, Chris Dent, Mircea Manta, Lil Evans, Burt Mendall, Costy Mustatea, Young Q. Rhim, Dennis Neil, Joe Roman, Jane Nordin, Louise Sandoval, Mike O'Connor, Don Schloat, Eduardo Olivares, Kunio Shimamura, Bill Pratt, Karlis Smiltens, Dave Prince, Ken Southworth, Virgel Raddatz, Mike Toth, Dana Reemes, Neal Warner, Greg Reyna, Al Wilzbach
- Adapted for Animation by
- Robby London, Barry O'Brien
- Layout Department Supervisor
- David A. West
- Layout Supervisors
- Kurt Anderson, Terry Keil, Craig Armstrong, Warren Marshall, Curtis Cim, Chrystal Klabunde, Tom Shannon, Sheri Weinhart
- Animation Special Effects
- Brett Hisey, Randy Fullmer, Dardo Valez, Allan Stovall, Dan Chaika, Richard Coleman, Mark Myer, Peggy Cullen
- Layout Artists
- Pete Alvarado, Carlos Baeza, Rex Barron, Armando Carrillo, Kathleen Castillo, Hee-Ja Cho, Hyansook Cho, Thomas Coppola, Susan Crossley, Lindsay Dawson, Dave O'Day, Kevin Frank, Sergio Garcia, Drew Gentle, Bob Givens, Edward Haney, Karenia Kaminski, John Koch, William M. Lotz, Istvan Majoros, Linda McCall, Jean Paynter, John Perry, Rocco Pirrone, Sean Platter, Jason So, Maureen Trueblood, Robert Tyler, Cliff Voorhees, Curt Walsted, Martin C. Warner, Mark Westermoe, Jim Willoughby, Pat Wong
- Assistant Animation Supervisor
- Doris Plough
- Assistant Layout Supervisor
- Irma Rosien
- Assistant Layout Artists
- Jennifer Costin, Joe F. Elliott, Ellen Kashan, Patricia Keppler, Susan Semer
- Animation Checking Supervisor
- Bev Randles
- Xerography Supervisor
- John Remmel
- Head of Final Checking
- Howard Schwartz
- Scene Planning Supervisor
- Mike Hazy
Art Department
- Production Design
- Rick Maki, Gerald Forton, Tenny Henson, Connie Schurr
- Storyboard Artists
- Bill Barry, Don Manuel, Cullen Blaine, Hal Mason, Rachel Brenner, David Prince, Ron Campbell, Jim Shull, Yi-Chih Chen, Mike Sosnowski, Humberto de le Fuente, Michael A. Swanigan, Gary B. Goldstein, Karl Toerge, Glen W. Hill, Tom Sito, Victoria Jenson, Tom Tataranowicz, Robert Lamb, Vicenzo Trippetti
- Background Artists
- Craig Robertson, Thomas O'Loughlin, Donald Watson, Rolando Oliva, Timothy Maloney, Gary Conklin, Ann Guenther, Donald Peters, Robert Stanton, Ruben Chavez, Flamarion Ferreira, Robert Kalafut, Joseph Binggeli, David McBride, Dean Ross Gordon, Larry Grossman, Alan Bodner, Joe Denton, Al Budnick
- Art Director-Development Unit
- John Grusd
- Character Design Supervisors
- Diane Keener, Herb Hazelton
- Assistant Character Design Supervisor
- Harry Sabin
- Character Design Artists
- Bronwen Barry, Enrique May, Keith Baxter, Lewis Ott, Thomas Bird, Chris Peterson, Larry Eikleberry, Rick Quiroz, Dale Hendrickson, Charles Zembillas
- Storyboard Supervisors
- Bob Arkwright, Egidio V. Dal Chele
- Background Design Supervisor
- Lorenzo Martinez
- Background Supervisor
- Don Schweikert
- Assistant Background Design Supervisor
- Dan St. Pierre
- Background Design Artists
- Enzo Baldi, Leandro Martinez, Tim Callahan, Armando Notre, Nino Carbe, Jeff Purves, Derek Parks Carter, Michael J. Spooner, Frank Frezzo, Mark B. Wallace, Rene Garcia
- Ink & Paint Supervisor
- Flavia Mitman
Visual Effects
- Head of Special Effects
- Shurl Lupin
Camera
- Camera Supervisor
- Fred Ziegler
- Cameramen
- Dean Teves, David Link, Dan C. Larsen, Lindsay Rogers, Veronica Hantke, Robert Jacobs, Ronald Jackson, Jerry Wittington, Steven Damiani, Richard Tylor, Charles Warren, Steven Wilzbach
Editing
- Editor
- Joe Gall, Lida Saskova
- Supervising Editor
- George Mahana
Sound
- Sound Editors
- Don Kenney, Bill Kean, Charlie Rychwalski, Jeff Partch
Music Department
- Music Supervisor
- Erika Scheimer
- Music Editors
- Sam Horta, Brian Mars, Cecil Broughton
Casting
- Recording Director
- Erika Scheimer
Production Management
- Production Manager
- R.W. Pope
- Post-Production Supervisor
- Joe Simon
- Production Coordinator
- Robin Tismeer
- Key Assistant Coordinators
- Dori Littell-Herrick, Randy Sanchez
- Film Coordinators
- June Gilham, Christie Meyer
- Recording Coordinator
- Pamela Vincent
- Vice President in Charge of Production
- Joseph A. Mazzuca
Crew
- Assistant Supervisor
- Barbara Benedetto
- Director of Color
- Ervin L. Kaplan
- Mark-up Supervisor
- Letha Prince
- Cel Service Supervisor
- Lou Digerolamo
- Educational Advisor
- Dr. Gordon L. Berry, Graduate School of Education
- Assisted by
- A Panel of Educational Advisors
- Executive Vice President Creative Affairs
- Arthur H. Nadel
- Crew
- Produced Entirely in the USA
Companies and other credits
- Layout Supervisors: B.S
- Sound: Todd-AO/Glen Glenn
- Educational Advisor: UCLA
- Copyright ©1986 Filmation Associates/Tribune Broadcasting Co
Production notes
Okay, just to clear up the argument once and for all, these Ghostbusters did come first... sort of.
In 1975, Filmation aired a half hour live-action program on Saturday mornings called The Ghost Busters. The show featured detectives Eddie Spenser and Jake Kong and their ape partner Tracy busting famous spirits from the past. The sitcom was cancelled after one year and left for dead. But, as we all know, there was a little movie from Columbia Pictures in 1984 that made a ton of money, and ghost busting was suddenly hip. Filmation seized the opportunity to resuscitate its own property as an animated series, Ghostbusters (one word, like the movie.) After a brief legal tangle, both this show and Columbia's The Real Ghostbusters went on the air in 1986.
The only thing both shows had in common was the idea of catching loose spirits. Filmation's show teamed Tracy the ape with Spenser and Kong's two grown sons (also named Eddie and Jake), again chasing the ghosts of history and myth. New associates included sassy TV reporter Jessica, sorceress Futura, Belfry the Bat, and a house full of wisecracking skull and bones gadgets (phone, TV, etc.) In fact, much of the Ghostbusters' accessories had lives of their own, from Ghost Buggy to the shape-changing logo.
A red-caped villain named Prime Evil, who actually looked more robotic than ghostly, was the comically menacing bad guy. At the end of every program, Belfry and the skull TV explained the moral of the day's story, a custom of many cartoons of the time.
The duelling Ghostbusters peacefully coexisted for two years before this series was cancelled.
In 1975, Filmation aired a half hour live-action program on Saturday mornings called The Ghost Busters. The show featured detectives Eddie Spenser and Jake Kong and their ape partner Tracy busting famous spirits from the past. The sitcom was cancelled after one year and left for dead. But, as we all know, there was a little movie from Columbia Pictures in 1984 that made a ton of money, and ghost busting was suddenly hip. Filmation seized the opportunity to resuscitate its own property as an animated series, Ghostbusters (one word, like the movie.) After a brief legal tangle, both this show and Columbia's The Real Ghostbusters went on the air in 1986.
The only thing both shows had in common was the idea of catching loose spirits. Filmation's show teamed Tracy the ape with Spenser and Kong's two grown sons (also named Eddie and Jake), again chasing the ghosts of history and myth. New associates included sassy TV reporter Jessica, sorceress Futura, Belfry the Bat, and a house full of wisecracking skull and bones gadgets (phone, TV, etc.) In fact, much of the Ghostbusters' accessories had lives of their own, from Ghost Buggy to the shape-changing logo.
A red-caped villain named Prime Evil, who actually looked more robotic than ghostly, was the comically menacing bad guy. At the end of every program, Belfry and the skull TV explained the moral of the day's story, a custom of many cartoons of the time.
The duelling Ghostbusters peacefully coexisted for two years before this series was cancelled.