The original first few seasons
of The Real Ghostbusters were anime (Japanese Animation)
until the studios changed companys,
the artwork remained good, but less detailed.
The original voice cast featured
Aersnio Hall, a late-night talk show host (as the voice of Winston Zeddmore)
,also the original voice cast
featured Lorenzo Music
(Voice of Peter Venkman)- better
known for doing
the voice of 'Garfield' and
Carlton the doorman from the TV Show 'Rhoda'.
Frank Welker (the voice of Ray
Stantz and Slimer) who has had alot of voice roles in many
cartoon shows. Maurice La Marche
(Voice of Egon Spengler)
who is also better known for
the voice of 'The Brain'from 'Animanics',
the cast also featured Laura
Summer who was the Voice of Janine Melmitz.
The show ran from 1986 to 1988,
one of the longest running cartoon shows,it was taken off the air,
and placed in Sydincation because
Adults thought the show was
to violent for younger children.
The show started off as a Saturday Morning cartoon,
(Which were aimed at the younger
children) and then went on to
an afternoon weekday format,
where the epsiodes were aimed towards older kids.
A spin-off series was made in
1988, 'Slimer and The Real Ghostbusters',which ran until 1990,
but it didn,t do well at all,
it lacked the exicment the original series had,
also they were to many changes.
only two members of the original voice cast
were in the spin-off, Frank
Welker and Maurice La Marche. Dave Coulier from
'Full House' now did the voice
of Peter Venkman, and Buster Jones
did the Voice of Winston Zeddmore,
also to many other additonal voices had been added.
Other changes in the spin-off,
saw Janine with a new hair style,
Louis Tully appearing in some
of the epsiodes, and Slimer talking! so that you could understand him.
The original Ghostbusters movie is still one of the highest-grossing comedy movies of all time
When Dan Aykroyd originally also
wrote the script with Harold Ramis he wanted John Belushi to
play the role of Peter Venkman,
but after Belushi's Death, the role was later offered to John Candy
who turned it down, and then
offered to Bill Murray,
and the role made him a star!
Dan Aykroyd is the only one out
of the GB cast who belives in the supernatural IRL
as he has had alot of close
encounters of his own
