Banshee Bake A Cherry Pie

Banshee Bake A Cherry Pie

October 28, 1987 TV Episode The Real Ghostbusters

Studio
DiC Entertainment
Distributor
Columbia/Tri-Star Television

Synopsis

Peter's favorite rock-star singer Shanna O'Callahan arrives in New York turns out to be a banshee, an Irish spirit whose voice causes chaos. She is now planning to use a major rock-concert to broadcast her chaotic spell across the nation, and then, the world. When the Ghostbusters go to confront her, Peter falls under her siren spell, which complicates matters to the team.

Characters

Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddmore, Egon Spengler, Ray Stantz, Slimer, Janine Melnitz, Frank Welker (Vincent Braggs), Linda Gary (Shanna O'Callohan)

Credits

Directing

Director
Dale Schott

Producing

Producer
Jean Chalopin, Andy Heyward, Tetsuo Katayama
Executive Producers
Michael C. Gross, Joe Medjuck
Associate Producer
Gaetano Vaccaro

Writing

Writer
Pamela Hickey, Dennys McCoy
Story Editor
J. Michael Straczynski
Creator
Harold Ramis
Script Coordinator
Lori Crawford

Voices

Voice
Lorenzo Music (Peter Venkman), Arsenio Hall (Winston Zeddemore), Maurice LaMarche (Egon Spengler), Laura Summer (Janine Melnitz), Frank Welker (Ray Stantz, Slimer, The Boogeyman, Vincent Braggs), Linda Gary (Shanna O'Callohan)

Music

Music
Shuki Levy, Haim Saban

Editing

Editor
Richard Bruce Elliott
Assistant Editor
Theresa Gilroy
Format Editor
Lars Floden

Music Department

Supervising Music Editor
Marty Wereski
Additional Music By
Haim Saban, Shuki Levy

Casting

Voice Direction
Marsha Goodman

Production Management

Production Managers
Shigeru Akagawa, Hiroshi Toita
Production Supervisor
Winnie Chaffee
Production Coordinators
Ken Duer, Michael Lee Pole
Assistant Production Supervisor
Jack Spillum
Production Assistants
Vic Kephart, Julie Kim, Bill Ruiz
Talent Coordinator
Rick Dempsey
Executives In Charge Of-Post-Production
Thierry P. Laurin, Mark M. Gavin
Post Production Coordinators
V. Kim Latimer, Greg La Planta

Crew

Executive Consultants
Bernie Brillstein, Ivan Reitman
Translation
Minoru Terao, Hatsue Abe
Track Supervisor
Rob Rule
Videotape Supervisor
Phil R. Defibaugh
Ghostbusters Theme Written By
Ray Parker Jr
Performed By
John Smith
Crew
Original Sountrack Album Available On

Companies and other credits

  • The Real Ghostbusters Is Available On Magic Window
  • Videocassettes From RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video
  • Polydor Records. Tapes And Compact Disc
  • Copyright © 1986 Columbia Pictures Television

Production notes

After the success of the 1984 film Ghostbusters, a cartoon adaptation was inevitable. With most of the characters from the movie appearing in this series (though in slightly altered form?Ray was a bit chunkier and Egon now sported a blond coif), it did seem "real" to many fans of the film. The ghostbusters?Peter, Egon, Ray, and Winston?were all back and once again fighting a bevy of other-worldly creatures with the help of their secretary, Janine, and Slimer the ghost, now a mischievous friend rather than the foe he was in the movie.

The series was so successful that it went into daily syndication in 1987. The next year, the title was changed to Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters. The popular Slimer now had his own segments, and the format had expanded to an hour. In 1989, the boys got their own prime-time special, with The Halloween Door.

After the first season, Dave Coulier (Full House) took over for Lorenzo Music (the animated Garfield) as the voice of Peter. At the same time, Edward L. Jones replaced Arsenio Hall as the voice of Winston.

The show is not to be confused with the live-action seventies show, The Ghost Busters, or its 1980's cartoon counterpart. Those Filmation series actually had the rights to the "Ghostbusters" name, hence the "Real" addition to this cartoon's title.