Rentaghost Episode Rating Graph
Jan 1976 - Nov 1984

Jan 1976 - Nov 1984
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S4 Ep7
10.0
21st Dec 1978
(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
S4 Ep2
9.0
21st Sep 1978
Harold Meaker opens a clothes shop and is turned into a tailors dummy by Mr Claypole. The ghosts give themselves a holiday.
S2 Ep2
8.7
25th May 1976
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.
S1 Ep5
8.7
3rd Feb 1976
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.
S9 Ep5
8.5
6th Nov 1984
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.
S4 Ep6
8.5
19th Oct 1978
The Rentaghost team hold a fete.
S4 Ep4
8.5
5th Oct 1978
Hazel the McWitch creates meals that cook themselves in their new restaurant while the Meakers have to deal with an unexploded haggis.
S3 Ep4
8.5
15th Mar 1977
The Rentaghost office finds itself with squatters of the supernatural kind.
S3 Ep3
8.3
8th Mar 1977
Harold and Ethel Meaker try to put on a theatre production.
S3 Ep2
8.3
1st Mar 1977
Mr. Claypole loses his memory when he is too mischievous. Mr Meaker is turned into a budgie.
S3 Ep1
8.3
22nd Feb 1977
The ghosts try their hand at controlling the weather and all fall in love with Catastrophe Kate, a wild west ghost.
S2 Ep6
8.3
22nd Jun 1976
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.
S2 Ep5
8.3
15th Jun 1976
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.
S2 Ep4
8.3
8th Jun 1976
The Rentaghost team try their hand at the storage business, meanwhile Harold and Mr Mumford get shrunk.
S2 Ep3
8.3
1st Jun 1976
Rentaghost holds a concert that features Leonardo Da Vinci.
S2 Ep1
8.3
18th May 1976
Rentaghost try their hand at being private detectives. Harold becomes a suspect.
S1 Ep4
8.3
27th Jan 1976
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.
S1 Ep1
6.5
6th Jan 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.
S4 Ep3
6.7
28th Sep 1978
The ghosts try to stop the Meaker's arguing by using a love potion. Mr Davenport is made the Phantom of the Phone Booth.
S3 Ep5
7.0
22nd Mar 1977
Mr Meaker grows a 12ft beard whilst the Mumfords have to deal with a giant parsnip.
S6 Ep2
7.0
1st May 1981
Mr Meaker becomes an ice skating champion while Claypole and McWitch contract a psychic illness. Meanwhile, Mr Perkins' moustache turns into a sausage.
S7 Ep8
7.0
23rd Nov 1982
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.
S6 Ep1
7.3
24th Apr 1981
The Meakers move into Mr Painting's old house which just happens to be next door to their old neighbours, the Perkins.
S5 Ep1
7.5
7th Mar 1980
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.
S5 Ep2
7.5
11th Mar 1980
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.
S6 Ep3
7.5
8th May 1981
Mr Claypole gives the Perkins a magic talisman that grants wishes, which results in a geranium growing on Mrs Perkins' head.
S6 Ep4
7.5
15th May 1981
The Meakers and ghosts discover what it's like to be toys.
S6 Ep5
7.5
22nd May 1981
Queen Matilda, a ghost from when Mr Claypole was alive, decides to hold court at Rentaghost.
S6 Ep6
7.5
29th May 1981
The Meakers celebrate their wedding anniversary and Harold opens a gardening store at the Rentaghost office.
S7 Ep1
7.5
5th Oct 1982
The Meakers are trying to go on holiday, but Queen Matilda visits and demands that they entertain her.
S7 Ep2
7.5
12th Oct 1982
Earl Perivale hires Rentaghost to rid him of a spirit haunting his manor house.
S7 Ep7
7.5
16th Nov 1982
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.
S8 Ep1
7.5
18th Oct 1983
Mr Meaker decides to take Ethel camping, but things go awry when he asks the ghosts to help set up the campsite.
S1 Ep2
7.8
13th Jan 1976
Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.
S1 Ep1
6.5
6th Jan 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.
S1 Ep2
7.8
13th Jan 1976
Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.
S1 Ep3
8.0
20th Jan 1976
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.
S1 Ep4
8.3
27th Jan 1976
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.
S1 Ep5
8.7
3rd Feb 1976
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.
The first episode of Rentaghost aired on January 06, 1976.
The last episode of Rentaghost aired on November 06, 1984.
There are 58 episodes of Rentaghost.
There are 9 seasons of Rentaghost.
No.
Rentaghost has ended.