DefunctTV: The History of the Original Ghost Busters

Not sure why this is the video that this thought came to me on, but you should totally do "WMAC Masters". It was a campy "martial arts" show. Think American Gladiators meets sort of Power Rangers? Rounds of combat took place in rides and shows all over Universal Florida. Like Earthquake (aka Disaster! A Major Motion Picture right…Starring you!), the Wild West Stunt Show, and I think the main area by the "World Sphere"? I gotta go back and rewatch it now.

4:58 I hope someone else got fired that day…

1:24 I’m sorry, but after all these years, I HAVE to say something; the proper syntax is “had WRITTEN”. 🙂‍↕️

Rick Baker designed the "Tracy" gorilla head.

So this was during the age of the Gorilla DC craze wasn't it.

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How haven't I seen this already?

"The peak of physical comedy, it seamed, could be easily reached with a man in a gorilla suit." Man, what a line. 😂

Also, there was an episode of Dino Dan that parodied Ghostbusters, and they even rewrote the Ghostbusters theme into a dinosaur version. 😂 🦖

Wow this is cool history we never talk about! How did you even learn about this? Thank you! 👻

I loved that show (original live action).I remember watching as a young tike

Idk why i never googled this but i swear that Ghostbusters was some fever dream shit i saw as a child. I remember knowing the Ghostbusters movie characters and that cartoon just threw me off. It's been a distant memory and i thought they were some side characters to the real Ghostbusters cartoon or something

I've seen the Ghostbusters cartoon on a channel that aired a lot of Filmation reruns, but I thought that was a copycat trying to take advantage of a "Ghostbusters vs Ghost Busters" technicality. The original license holder, interesting! I think I would have liked the live-action show more. There's something about a live-action gorilla wearing silly hats that's just so good.

Wow. Turned down for the name, used it anyway. Turned down by huey lewis, stole his song smh. What a buncha shitbags

I believed for most my life that I had imagined/ dreamed this show. .My mother must have gotten me a VHS tape of this thinking it was the Ghostbusters we all know. I would have been between 2 and 5 at this time. It was only about 8 years ago that I discovered about all this. I never asked anyone about it growing up because it was such a bizarre thing to explain.

all the "ghosts" were metaphors for the anti-Semites that Dick Rosenbloom worked with in Beverly Hills Oy Vey!

That sitcom looked dumb. But I do remember that cartoon with the ape, and was always confused how and why it was called ghostbusters when it had nothing to do with the ghost busters or why the other one called themselves the real one.