Rentaghost (1976)
Synopsis
After his death, Fred Mumford wants a second chance at achieving the success that eluded him in life. Coming back to Earth as a spirit, he recruits a Victorian gent and a medieval jester to set up 'Rentaghost', a supernatural service for wanted hauntings.
First Air Date: 1976-01-06
Last Air Date: 1984-11-06
Number of Seasons: 9
Number of Episodes: 58
Created By: Bob Block
Networks: BBC One
Top Cast
- Michael Staniforth as Timothy Claypole
- Edward Brayshaw as Harold Meaker
- Ann Emery as Ethel Meaker
- William Perrie as Pantomime Horse
- John Asquith as Pantomime Horse
- Jeffrey Segal as Arthur Perkins
- Hal Dyer as Rose Perkins
- Molly Weir as Hazel the McWitch
- Sue Nicholls as Nadia Popov
- Anthony Jackson as Fred Mumford
Seasons
Series 1 (1976)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: New Recruits
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 Mr Timothy Claypole, a mischievous medieval poltergeist.
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Ep. 2: Airport
Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.
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Ep. 3: Hospital
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.
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Ep. 4: Department Store
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.
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Ep. 5: Stately Home
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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