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Rentaghost

Season 1 1976
TV-G

  • 1976-01-06T00:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 25m
  • 2h 5m (5 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Family, Comedy
Harold and Ethel Meaker live in South Ealing, West London and run 'Rentaghost' where they rent ghosts out to the public. Over the years many ghosts came and went but the main Rentaghost crew consisted of Timothy Claypole; a jester at the court of Queen Mattilda, Hazel the McWitch; the ghost of a Scottish witch who was recruited during the rentapotion venture, Nadia Popov; a Dutch ghost who still suffered from hayfever and had a habit of 'popping off' whenever she saw a flower, Fred Mumford; founder of Rentaghost after becoming a ghost in a shipping accident, Hubert Davenport; a distinguished Victorian gentleman. The Meaker's next door neighbours, Rose and Arthur Perkins, were convinced that the Meaker's were a pair of nutters and hired a private detective then tried to get a psychiatrist to convince them that they needed treatment...

5 episodes

Series Premiere

1976-01-06T00:00:00Z

1x01 New Recruits

Series Premiere

1x01 New Recruits

  • 1976-01-06T00:00:00Z25m

Fred Mumford returns to earth from the spirit world to open a business called 'Rentaghost' which offers ghosts and poltergeists on a daily or weekly rental basis. He is sometimes helped, but more often hindered, by Davenport, a fussy Victorian ghost, and Claypole, a mischevious medieval poltergeist.

1976-01-13T00:00:00Z

1x02 Airport

1x02 Airport

  • 1976-01-13T00:00:00Z25m

Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.

1976-01-20T00:00:00Z

1x03 Hospital

1x03 Hospital

  • 1976-01-20T00:00:00Z25m

Mumford and his colleagues decide to tell their landlord, Mr. Meaker, that they are really ghosts. The shock of this lands Mr. Meaker in the local hospital where the Rentaghost team offer to provide a conjuring act for the centenary celebrations. As ghosts they find it easy to vanish - but Mumford has some difficulty becoming visible again.

1976-01-27T00:00:00Z

1x04 Department Store

1x04 Department Store

  • 1976-01-27T00:00:00Z25m

The Rentaghost team are engaged by a security firm to patrol a large department store and stop shoplifting. Claypole goes through a mischevious phase when his poltergeist powers are at their strongest.

Season Finale

1976-02-03T00:00:00Z

1x05 Stately Home

Season Finale

1x05 Stately Home

  • 1976-02-03T00:00:00Z25m

Haunting a stately home proves to be something of a trial of strength for Mumford. His ghostly Uncle Arthur provides him with an assorted bunch of spooks to help the haunting, then calls them out on strike.

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