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E1 New Recruits 1976-01-06 · 25m Fred Mumford returns to earth from the spirit world to open a business called 'Rentaghost' which offers ghosts and poltergeists on a dialy or weekly rental basis. He is sometimes helped, but more often hindered, by Davenport, a fussy Victorian ghost, and Claypole, a mischevious medieval poltergeist.
E2 Airport 1976-01-13 · 25m Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.
E3 Hospital 1976-01-20 · 25m 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.
E4 Department Store 1976-01-27 · 25m 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.
E5 Stately Home 1976-02-03 · 25m 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.

E1 Private Detectives 1976-05-18 · 25m Rentaghost try their hand at being private detectives. Harold becomes a suspect.
E2 Transport 1976-05-25 · 25m 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.
E3 The Concert 1976-06-01 · 25m Rentaghost holds a concert that features Leonardo Da Vinci.
E4 Storage 1976-06-08 · 25m The Rentaghost team try their hand at the storage business, meanwhile Harold and Mr Mumford get shrunk.
E5 Gold 1976-06-15 · 25m 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.
E6 News Agency 1976-06-22 · 25m 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.

E1 Episode 12 1977-02-22 · 25m The ghosts try their hand at controlling the weather and all fall in love with Catastrophe Kate, a wild west ghost.
E2 Episode 13 1977-03-01 · 25m Mr. Claypole loses his memory when he is too mischievous. Mr Meaker is turned into a budgie.
E3 Episode 14 1977-03-08 · 25m Harold and Ethel Meaker try to put on a theatre production.
E4 Episode 15 1977-03-15 · 25m The Rentaghost office finds itself with squatters of the supernatural kind.
E5 Episode 16 1977-03-22 · 25m Mr Meaker grows a 12ft beard whilst the Mumfords have to deal with a giant parsnip.
E6 Episode 16 1977-03-29 · 25m 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.

E1 Episode 18 1978-09-14 · 25m 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.
E2 Episode 19 1978-09-21 · 25m Harold Meaker opens a clothes shop and is turned into a tailors dummy by Mr Claypole. The ghosts give themselves a holiday.
E3 Episode 20 1978-09-28 · 25m The ghosts try to stop the Meaker's arguing by using a love potion. Mr Davenport is made the Phantom of the Phone Booth.
E4 Episode 21 1978-10-05 · 25m Hazel the McWitch creates meals that cook themselves in their new restaurant while the Meakers have to deal with an unexploded haggis.
E5 Episode 22 1978-10-12 · 25m 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.
E6 Episode 23 1978-10-19 · 25m The Rentaghost team hold a fete.
E7 Rentasanta 1978-12-21 · 25m (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

E1 Episode 25 1980-03-07 · 25m 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.
E2 Episode 26 1980-03-11 · 25m 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.
E3 Episode 27 1980-03-14 · 25m Ethel's voice can now break wood. The ghosts try to protect Adam Paintings roller disco from being burgled.
E4 Episode 28 1980-03-18 · 25m Rentaghost work in Mr Painting's beauty parlour. Ethel becomes an agony aunt and gives advice to her husband.
E5 Episode 29 1980-03-25 · 25m 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.

E1 Episode 30 1981-04-24 · 25m The Meakers move into Mr Painting's old house which just happens to be next door to their old neighbours, the Perkins.
E2 Episode 31 1981-05-01 · 25m Mr Meaker becomes an ice skating champion while Claypole and McWitch contract a psychic illness. Meanwhile, Mr Perkins' moustache turns into a sausage.
E3 Episode 32 1981-05-08 · 25m Mr Claypole gives the Perkins a magic talisman that grants wishes, which results in a geranium growing on Mrs Perkins' head.
E4 Episode 33 1981-05-15 · 25m The Meakers and ghosts discover what it's like to be toys.
E5 Episode 34 1981-05-22 · 25m Queen Matilda, a ghost from when Mr Claypole was alive, decides to hold court at Rentaghost.
E6 Episode 35 1981-05-29 · 25m The Meakers celebrate their wedding anniversary and Harold opens a gardening store at the Rentaghost office.

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