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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.
1977
The ghosts try their hand at controlling the weather and all fall in love with Catastrophe Kate, a wild west ghost.
Mr. Claypole loses his memory when he is too mischievous. Mr Meaker is turned into a budgie.
Harold and Ethel Meaker try to put on a theatre production.
The Rentaghost office finds itself with squatters of the supernatural kind.
Mr Meaker grows a 12ft beard whilst the Mumfords have to deal with a giant parsnip.
The ghosts plan to send the Meakers on holiday after coming into money, but Harold and Ethel think that they are trying to get rid of them.
1980
The Meakers' latest money-making scheme comes to be in the form of Rentananny. Harold tries to use a copying spell to give Ethel driving lessons.
At the Meakers, Harold is ill in bed and Ethel's singing voice can break glass (literally!). The Perkins hire a private detective to spy on their neighbours.
Ethel's voice can now break wood. The ghosts try to protect Adam Paintings roller disco from being burgled.
Rentaghost work in Mr Painting's beauty parlour. Ethel becomes an agony aunt and gives advice to her husband.
Mr Claypole and Hazel the McWitch compete to create the best invention. Mr Meaker is transformed into a sunflower and Mr Painting is shrunk. The Perkins decide to move away from the Meakers.
Michael Staniforth
Timothy Claypole
Ann Emery
Ethel Meaker
William Perrie
Pantomime Horse
John Asquith
Pantomime Horse
Jeffrey Segal
Arthur Perkins
Hal Dyer
Rose Perkins
Sue Nicholls
Nadia Popov
Molly Weir
Hazel the McWitch
Vincent White
Bernie St John
Aimi MacDonald
Susie Starlight
1976
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.
Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.
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.
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.
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.
1981
The Meakers move into Mr Painting's old house which just happens to be next door to their old neighbours, the Perkins.
Mr Meaker becomes an ice skating champion while Claypole and McWitch contract a psychic illness. Meanwhile, Mr Perkins' moustache turns into a sausage.
Mr Claypole gives the Perkins a magic talisman that grants wishes, which results in a geranium growing on Mrs Perkins' head.
The Meakers and ghosts discover what it's like to be toys.
Queen Matilda, a ghost from when Mr Claypole was alive, decides to hold court at Rentaghost.
The Meakers celebrate their wedding anniversary and Harold opens a gardening store at the Rentaghost office.
1982
The Meakers are trying to go on holiday, but Queen Matilda visits and demands that they entertain her.
Earl Perivale hires Rentaghost to rid him of a spirit haunting his manor house.
The Meakers and the ghosts go on a seaside holiday, but hadn't reckoned with a ghost pirate who wants to turn Ethel into a mermaid.
Harold's attempts to organize a surprise birthday party for Ethel are complicated by a copying spell and Dobbin's dance lessons.
In his latest mischievous phase, Mr Claypole takes his pranks so far that the Meakers fire him. Heartbroken, Nadia is determined that his replacement doesn't work out.
Adam Painting's van drivers are on strike and he is a fortnight behind with deliveries. There's only one thing to do: hire Rentaghost as an alternative.
Mr Meaker is concerned about Mr Claypole's growing stupidity, and so gets McWitch to create an intelligence potion. Mr Claypole turns into a genius – but, after drinking the remainder, so does Dobbin.
Whatsisname Smith comes to Earth in the astral lift. Having experienced a lifetime of mediocrity, he wants to join Rentaghost to finally prove that he has what it takes to be a success.
Mr Claypole creates a special camera that can capture entire movies on a single photograph. Unfortunately, newly-formed rival 'Rentamovie' uses intimidation tactics to try to get their hands on the priceless invention.
Mr Meaker is having problems with his chickens, a situation not helped by Nadia polluting the water supply with potions. When one of the chickens lays a giant egg as a result, there's only one solution: Mr Claypole must hatch it.
Adam Painting hires Rentaghost to run his new fashion line for spirits, but they aren't happy with the 4p-an-hour pay.
Ethel has had insomnia for three nights straight, worrying about her upcoming amateur pantomime. There seems only one cure: McWitch's dream potion, which gives her a dream of everyone in a musical pantomime.
Ethel gets a ceramic garden pixie from an auction, but when Rose wishes it were alive, the magic talisman makes this happen.
1978
Hazel the McWitch starts Rentapotion, which makes potions to order. Not all goes to plan though when Ethel's legs grow to be 12ft long and Harold behaves as if he is 10 years old.
Harold Meaker opens a clothes shop and is turned into a tailors dummy by Mr Claypole. The ghosts give themselves a holiday.
The ghosts try to stop the Meaker's arguing by using a love potion. Mr Davenport is made the Phantom of the Phone Booth.
Hazel the McWitch creates meals that cook themselves in their new restaurant while the Meakers have to deal with an unexploded haggis.
Mr Meaker gets involved in a boxing match with magic gloves and Mrs Mumford is given super-human strength. Mr Claypole offers Ethel endless cups of tea.
The Rentaghost team hold a fete.
(Christmas Special) With the help of Adam Painting, the team try to stage a Pantomime. Mr Claypole brings a pantomime horse to life and so Dobbin is born
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1976
Rentaghost try their hand at being private detectives. Harold becomes a suspect.
Public transport is the latest brainwave for Rentaghost, involving taxis, busses and a removal service. Unfortunately, when the Meakers talk about moving house, Mr Claypole takes things literally.
Rentaghost holds a concert that features Leonardo Da Vinci.
The Rentaghost team try their hand at the storage business, meanwhile Harold and Mr Mumford get shrunk.
Everything Harold touches turns to gold, not unlike a certain king. Back in the office a ghost efficiency expert, one Cedric J. Fosdyke, is put in charge and then sacks Fred Mumford.
Rentaghost starts a news agency and attempts to gain an interview with the elusive Dr Springveldt. Fred's mother is convinced that he should see a psychiatrist.
1983
Mr Meaker decides to take Ethel camping, but things go awry when he asks the ghosts to help set up the campsite.
Adam Painting is having problems with his new restaurant: staff walkouts and exorbitant heating bills. He decides that the ideal people to resolve his issues are the spooks at Rentaghost.
Queen Matilda returns with the desire to experience life as a commoner, and a job vacancy as a cleaner for the Perkinses seems too good an opportunity to miss.
Mr Claypole celebrates his 860th birthday with fun and games; unfortunately, for the Perkinses next door, their nervous Aunt Mabel is coming to visit.
Adam Painting wants the ghosts to help out in his department store, but things are complicated by McWitch's dream potion, and the return of Whatsiname Smith.
1984
Harold is away but has forgotten to light the central heating boiler, leaving Ethel cold in the house; Mr Claypole tries to help bring a pantomime dragon to life and also hires Susie Starlight as the Perkins' cleaner.
Whatisname Smith returns, looking to redeem himself by taking on a position of authority. However, when he's put in charge of Rentaghost, the power goes to his head and he becomes a tyrant.
Villainous McSprite McDonald McDougle, who knew McWitch in life, attempts to join the team, but when they reject him, he vows revenge.
With the Meakers' car stuck in the Perkins' kitchen, it's up to Mr Claypole to distract the neighbours by posing as a sanitary inspector while the rest of the ghosts remove the car.
The ghosts try to come up with new money-making inventions, but McWitch's hair-grow potion and Mr Claypole's 'self-propelled bed' don't quite work.
