SeriesGhosts & Haunting Comedy Horror

Rentaghost1976

Name: Rentaghost
Genre: Ghosts & Haunting, Comedy Horror
Released: 1976-01-06
Rating: 6.7

Created by Bob Block

6.7

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 6.9TMDB 6.8

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Year

1976

Seasons

Network

BBC One

Status

Ended

The premise

Rentaghost was a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks.

Horror Vault's take

A beloved BBC children's comedy series that ran for nearly a decade, Rentaghost imagines a world where the recently departed can still earn a living — by hiring themselves out as ghosts for hire. The motley crew of spectral employees bumble their way through all manner of odd jobs, conjuring chaos and slapstick mayhem wherever they go. With witches, jesters, and assorted supernatural oddballs on the payroll, no assignment ever goes quite to plan.

Episode Guide

· 2h 5m total· Jan 1976 → Feb 1976

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S1.E1 · New RecruitsPremiere
Jan 6, 1976 · 25 min
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 Victor
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S1.E2 · Airport
Jan 13, 1976 · 25 min
Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.
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S1.E3 · Hospital
Jan 20, 1976 · 25 min
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 celebra
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S1.E4 · Department Store
Jan 27, 1976 · 25 min
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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S1.E5 · Stately Home
Feb 3, 1976 · 25 min
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.