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If you grew up in the 1980’s everyone knew the answer to "Who Ya Gonna Call?" Ghostbusters. The film followed New York City parapsychologists who became ghost exterminators and was the most successful comedy of the 1980’s.

In 1986 The Real Ghostbusters animated series aired on ABC from 1986-1991, it lasted 7 seasons and voiced talents like Arsenio Hall, Dave Coulier, and Maurice LaMarche who would later go onto voice The Brain in "Pinky and the Brain."

The production staff is pretty impressive too, J. Michael Straczynski ("Babylon 5") was a writer for a good part of the show, Dan Riba directed episodes and would later go onto many DC animated series in the late ’90’s, and Kevin Altieri who would also go onto "Batman: The Animated Series."

The series picked up where the movie left off, and would have 134 episodes, plus 13 episodes of "Slimer!" The show was a fun show when it came out and 23 years later is still fun to watch. Those who are unfamiliar with the show don’t need to have seen the movie to understand the show, for those who have seen the movie or this series it’s a nice bit of nostalgia.

The set has been restored by Time Life and is loaded with extras, the are 24 discs collecting 55 hours into 5 steel boxes all housed in a replica of the firehouse the Ghostbusters resided in with lenticular images of the Ghostbusters symbol and Slimer. In addition to the 24 discs there’s an exclusive bonus DVD which contains the never-before-seen promotional pilot, which you can see reused in the opening of the series and comes with commentary by the producers. The bonus DVD also has the series bible, scripts and storyboards in a PDF format.

The set has 5 documentaries: "Creating The Real Ghostbusters," "Animating The Real Ghostbusters," "The Heroes of The Real Ghostbusters," "The Creatures of The Real Ghostbusters," and "The Green World of Slimer." The documentaries go behind the scenes of what it took to make the show and its various departments from animation, recordings and much more.

There are 86 episode introductions from the cast and crew of the show, and 21 on-camera commentary tracks with the writers, producers, and actors who you can see interact and learn fun stories and see how much they loved this show.

You want interviews? There are interviews with Joe Medjuck (Executive Producer), Michael C. Gross (Executive Producer), J. Michael Straczynski (Writer & Story Editor), Len Janson (Writer & Story Editor), Maurice LaMarche (Voice Of " Egon Spengler"), Laura Summer (Voice Of First "Janine Melnitz"), Kath Soucie (Voice Of Second "Janine Melnitz"), Kevin Altieri (Director & Storyboard Supervisor), Kathryn M. Drennan (Writer), Michael Edens (Writer), David Gerrold (Writer), Pamela Hickey (Writer), Dennys J. McCoy (Writer), Francis Moss (Writer), Richard T. Mueller (Writer), Marc Scott Zicree (Writer), Marsha Goodman (Voice Director & Voice Casting), Gabi Payn (Character Designer - Heroes), Everett Peck (Character Designer - Monsters), Michael Diederich (Designer), Brad Rader (Storyboard Artist), Dan Riba (Storyboard Artist), Michael Swanigan (Storyboard Artist), Rich Arons (Animator), Darrell McNeil (Layout Artist), Derdad Aghamalian (Color Key Artist), David S. Karoll (Color Key Artist), and James Eatock (Publisher of cereal:geek Magazine). Who discuss their roles in the show and their experiences on the show. Not only that but the bonus DVD features longer versions of the interviews since some ran long.

The set also contains image galleries of Character Designs, Backgrounds, Model Sheets, Promotional Art, and Advertising Art.

"The Real Ghostbusters" takes the popular franchise and builds on the foundation that the movie established and had better stories than the sequel did a few years later.

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