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Rentaghost

All Episodes 1976 - 1984
TV-G

  • Ended
  • #<Network:0x00007ff7a571dd48>
  • 1976-01-06T00:00:00Z
  • 25m
  • 1d 10m (58 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...

58 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.

Season Premiere

1976-05-17T23:00:00Z

2x01 Private Detectives

Season Premiere

2x01 Private Detectives

  • 1976-05-17T23:00:00Z25m

Rentaghost try their hand at being private detectives. Harold becomes a suspect.

1976-05-24T23:00:00Z

2x02 Transport

2x02 Transport

  • 1976-05-24T23:00:00Z25m

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.

1976-05-31T23:00:00Z

2x03 The Concert

2x03 The Concert

  • 1976-05-31T23:00:00Z25m

Rentaghost holds a concert that features Leonardo Da Vinci.

1976-06-07T23:00:00Z

2x04 Storage

2x04 Storage

  • 1976-06-07T23:00:00Z25m

The Rentaghost team try their hand at the storage business, meanwhile Harold and Mr Mumford get shrunk.

1976-06-14T23:00:00Z

2x05 Gold

2x05 Gold

  • 1976-06-14T23:00:00Z25m

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.

Season Finale

1976-06-21T23:00:00Z

2x06 News Agency

Season Finale

2x06 News Agency

  • 1976-06-21T23:00:00Z25m

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.

Season Premiere

1977-02-22T00:00:00Z

3x01 Episode 12

Season Premiere

3x01 Episode 12

  • 1977-02-22T00:00:00Z25m

The ghosts try their hand at controlling the weather and all fall in love with Catastrophe Kate, a wild west ghost.

1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

3x02 Episode 13

3x02 Episode 13

  • 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z25m

Mr. Claypole loses his memory when he is too mischievous. Mr Meaker is turned into a budgie.

1977-03-08T00:00:00Z

3x03 Episode 14

3x03 Episode 14

  • 1977-03-08T00:00:00Z25m

Harold and Ethel Meaker try to put on a theatre production.

1977-03-15T00:00:00Z

3x04 Episode 15

3x04 Episode 15

  • 1977-03-15T00:00:00Z25m

The Rentaghost office finds itself with squatters of the supernatural kind.

1977-03-21T23:00:00Z

3x05 Episode 16

3x05 Episode 16

  • 1977-03-21T23:00:00Z25m

Mr Meaker grows a 12ft beard whilst the Mumfords have to deal with a giant parsnip.

Season Finale

1977-03-28T23:00:00Z

3x06 Episode 17

Season Finale

3x06 Episode 17

  • 1977-03-28T23:00:00Z25m

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.

Season Premiere

1978-09-13T23:00:00Z

4x01 Episode 18

Season Premiere

4x01 Episode 18

  • 1978-09-13T23:00:00Z25m

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.

1978-09-20T23:00:00Z

4x02 Episode 19

4x02 Episode 19

  • 1978-09-20T23:00:00Z25m

Harold Meaker opens a clothes shop and is turned into a tailors dummy by Mr Claypole. The ghosts give themselves a holiday.

1978-09-27T23:00:00Z

4x03 Episode 20

4x03 Episode 20

  • 1978-09-27T23:00:00Z25m

The ghosts try to stop the Meaker's arguing by using a love potion. Mr Davenport is made the Phantom of the Phone Booth.

1978-10-04T23:00:00Z

4x04 Episode 21

4x04 Episode 21

  • 1978-10-04T23:00:00Z25m

Hazel the McWitch creates meals that cook themselves in their new restaurant while the Meakers have to deal with an unexploded haggis.

1978-10-11T23:00:00Z

4x05 Episode 22

4x05 Episode 22

  • 1978-10-11T23:00:00Z25m

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.

1978-10-18T23:00:00Z

4x06 Episode 23

4x06 Episode 23

  • 1978-10-18T23:00:00Z25m

The Rentaghost team hold a fete.

Season Finale

1978-12-21T00:00:00Z

4x07 Rentasanta

Season Finale

4x07 Rentasanta

  • 1978-12-21T00:00:00Z25m

(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

Season Premiere

1980-03-07T00:00:00Z

5x01 Episode 25

Season Premiere

5x01 Episode 25

  • 1980-03-07T00:00:00Z25m

The Meaker's latest money-making scheme comes to be in the form of Rentananny. Harold tries to use a copying spell to give Ethel driving lessons.

1980-03-11T00:00:00Z

5x02 Episode 26

5x02 Episode 26

  • 1980-03-11T00:00:00Z25m

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.

1980-03-14T00:00:00Z

5x03 Episode 27

5x03 Episode 27

  • 1980-03-14T00:00:00Z25m

Ethel's voice can now break wood. The ghosts try to protect Adam Paintings roller disco from being burgled.

1980-03-17T23:00:00Z

5x04 Episode 28

5x04 Episode 28

  • 1980-03-17T23:00:00Z25m

Rentaghost work in Mr Painting's beauty parlour. Ethel becomes an agony aunt and gives advice to her husband.

Season Finale

1980-03-24T23:00:00Z

5x05 Episode 29

Season Finale

5x05 Episode 29

  • 1980-03-24T23:00:00Z25m

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.

Season Premiere

1981-04-23T23:00:00Z

6x01 Episode 30

Season Premiere

6x01 Episode 30

  • 1981-04-23T23:00:00Z25m

The Meakers move into Mr Painting's old house which just happens to be next door to their old neighbours, the Perkins.

1981-04-30T23:00:00Z

6x02 Episode 31

6x02 Episode 31

  • 1981-04-30T23:00:00Z25m

Mr Meaker becomes an ice skating champion while Claypole and McWitch contract a psychic illness. Meanwhile, Mr Perkins' moustache turns into a sausage.

1981-05-07T23:00:00Z

6x03 Episode 32

6x03 Episode 32

  • 1981-05-07T23:00:00Z25m

Mr Claypole gives the Perkins a magic talisman that grants wishes, which results in a geranium growing on Mrs Perkins' head.

1981-05-14T23:00:00Z

6x04 Episode 33

6x04 Episode 33

  • 1981-05-14T23:00:00Z25m

The Meakers and ghosts discover what it's like to be toys.

1981-05-21T23:00:00Z

6x05 Episode 34

6x05 Episode 34

  • 1981-05-21T23:00:00Z25m

Queen Matilda, a ghost from when Mr Claypole was alive, decides to hold court at Rentaghost.

Season Finale

1981-05-28T23:00:00Z

6x06 Episode 35

Season Finale

6x06 Episode 35

  • 1981-05-28T23:00:00Z25m

The Meakers celebrate their wedding anniversary and Harold opens a gardening store at the Rentaghost office.

Season Premiere

1982-10-04T23:00:00Z

7x01 Episode 36

Season Premiere

7x01 Episode 36

  • 1982-10-04T23:00:00Z25m

More madness when the Meakers lose their holiday. Painting loses his weight, the Perkins lose their tempers, and a Royal Command Performance for Queen Matilda hears the beat of dancing feet on 42nd Street!

1982-10-11T23:00:00Z

7x02 Episode 37

7x02 Episode 37

  • 1982-10-11T23:00:00Z25m

Earl Perivale hires Rentaghost to rid him of a spirit haunting his manor house.

1982-10-18T23:00:00Z

7x03 Episode 38

7x03 Episode 38

  • 1982-10-18T23:00:00Z25m

A holiday of havoc at the seaside when Claypole makes a Spanish galleon materialise whose pirate owner turns Ethel Meaker into half a herring!

1982-10-26T00:00:00Z

7x04 Episode 39

7x04 Episode 39

  • 1982-10-26T00:00:00Z25m

Harold is trying to organise a surprise birthday party for Ethel, but things are complicated by a copying spell and Dobbin's dance lessons.

1982-11-02T00:00:00Z

7x05 Episode 40

7x05 Episode 40

  • 1982-11-02T00:00:00Z25m

Meaker gets a voice like a fog-horn, Ethel gets melodramatic, Claypole gets the sack, the Perkins get a Persistent Blighter, Nadia gets a magic wand and Rentaghost gets a new recruit - a roaring Red Indian on the warpath!

1982-11-09T00:00:00Z

7x06 Episode 41

7x06 Episode 41

  • 1982-11-09T00:00:00Z25m

1982-11-16T00:00:00Z

7x07 Episode 42

7x07 Episode 42

  • 1982-11-16T00:00:00Z25m

1982-11-23T00:00:00Z

7x08 Episode 43

7x08 Episode 43

  • 1982-11-23T00:00:00Z25m

1982-11-30T00:00:00Z

7x09 Episode 44

7x09 Episode 44

  • 1982-11-30T00:00:00Z25m

1982-12-07T00:00:00Z

7x10 Episode 45

7x10 Episode 45

  • 1982-12-07T00:00:00Z25m

Traumatic Transformation time! McWitch throws a wobbly and Ethel turns into a telephone. The Perkins are pestered by poultry, Nadia puts potions in the population's water and Claypole hatches a big egg!

1982-12-14T00:00:00Z

7x11 Episode 46

7x11 Episode 46

  • 1982-12-14T00:00:00Z25m

1982-12-21T00:00:00Z

7x12 Episode 47

7x12 Episode 47

  • 1982-12-21T00:00:00Z25m

Season Finale

1982-12-29T00:00:00Z

7x13 Episode 48

Season Finale

7x13 Episode 48

  • 1982-12-29T00:00:00Z25m

Season Premiere

1983-10-17T23:00:00Z

8x01 Episode 49

Season Premiere

8x01 Episode 49

  • 1983-10-17T23:00:00Z25m

1983-10-25T00:00:00Z

8x02 Episode 50

8x02 Episode 50

  • 1983-10-25T00:00:00Z25m

1983-11-01T00:00:00Z

8x03 Episode 51

8x03 Episode 51

  • 1983-11-01T00:00:00Z25m

1983-11-08T00:00:00Z

8x04 Episode 52

8x04 Episode 52

  • 1983-11-08T00:00:00Z25m

Season Finale

1983-11-15T00:00:00Z

8x05 Episode 53

Season Finale

8x05 Episode 53

  • 1983-11-15T00:00:00Z25m

Season Premiere

1984-10-08T23:00:00Z

9x01 Episode 54

Season Premiere

9x01 Episode 54

  • 1984-10-08T23:00:00Z25m

The Meakers' cellar is occupied by a fire-breathing dragon.

1984-10-15T23:00:00Z

9x02 Episode 55

9x02 Episode 55

  • 1984-10-15T23:00:00Z25m

When Whatsisname Smith says "jump!", everybody jumps. But the jumpiest of all is the Perkins' Aunt Mabel!

1984-10-22T23:00:00Z

9x03 Episode 56

9x03 Episode 56

  • 1984-10-22T23:00:00Z25m

After falling off Mount Everest, Ethel decides to tell the Perkins about the Spooks. Susie Starlight helps her, Claypole and Nadia hinder her; and the dreaded McDonald McDougal witchnaps Hazel!

1984-10-30T00:00:00Z

9x04 Episode 57

9x04 Episode 57

  • 1984-10-30T00:00:00Z25m

The Meakers' car is still in the Perkins' kitchen and none of the Spooks can remember the correct spell for getting it out! Could things possibly get worse? Yes!

Season Finale

1984-11-06T00:00:00Z

9x05 Episode 58

Season Finale

9x05 Episode 58

  • 1984-11-06T00:00:00Z25m

Claypole's self-propelled bed and McWitch's appearance-changing potion have got to be tested, and who better than on the Meakers - heh, heh, heh!

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