Deeper than the descriptions

Absolutely Brilliant!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Essentially the same stuff as you always saw w/ Filmation-block animation, same old scenes re-used to death, strange little teddy bear like cutesy side characters (here a pink bat?!), dopey morale at the end, you know.I only bother w/ this one because I have a soft spot for the orig. '75 TV series which this was based on, w/ the F Troop guys and Bob Burns in an ape suit. We loved it as kids in my family growing up. It kinda disappeared and this was the only thing that ever spun off from it.No doubt Filmation threw this series together in '86 once the Bill Murray flick hit so huge two years before, thus the jousting titles and the confused kids that followed.My guess is that the 'Real Ghostbusters' toon was better than this, but if I had to sit and watch either, I'd go with this one just because Spencer, Tracy and Kong were more my speed over Venkmen and co. That's all.Ummmm a rating...how about ** stars, mostly for the neat theme music AND the monkey.

This cartoon was something that I fondly remember from my childhood of yesteryear. It was based on an older show from the seventies long BEFORE the dan akroyd/bill murray type ghostbusters that were more popular. The only thing about this show that I hated was the talking car.

From 9/6/75 - 9/4/76 there was a live action show known as Ghost Busters. After the Ghostbusters film was a hit, Filmation put out an animated updated version of the show, the Original Ghostbusters in 1986. In the live show The Ghost Busters were a trio (Jake Kong, Eddie Spencer, and Tracy, the gorilla) that dealt with ghosts and other supernatural creatures. At the beginning of each episode, the trio get a taped message outlining their new mission. Once the message plays, the recording self destructs (ala Mission: Impossible). But unlike Mission Impossible, they never manage to get rid of the recording before it explodes.The Ghost Busters then head out to find, capture, or get rid of the supernatural being. In almost every case, the various creatures end up in the old castle. The various creatures they encountered included vikings, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, vampires, gypsies, werewolves, and of course, various ghosts.

It's a little known fact but the characters depicted in this series were around long before the movie version was. Back in 1975 there was a short lived TV series called "The Ghost Busters" that featured ghosts being hunted by a trio armed with strange equipment. After the success of the successful film (the title of which had to be paid for by the producers to Filmation who owned the name) they brought the characters back in this series. That's not to say that this show is BETTER than the theatrical Ghost Busters, but it is interesting to note that this isn't the rip off... the theatrical Ghost Busters was the rip off (even if it was a vastly superior rip off!