Jan 1976 - Nov 1984
5.0
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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 Ep6
9.0
19th Oct 1978
The Rentaghost team hold a fete.
S4 Ep4
9.0
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.
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.
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.
S1 Ep1
6.0
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 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.
S6 Ep2
6.5
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.
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.
S5 Ep1
7.0
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
7.0
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 Ep1
7.0
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.
S6 Ep3
7.0
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
7.0
15th May 1981
The Meakers and ghosts discover what it's like to be toys.
S6 Ep5
7.0
22nd May 1981
Queen Matilda, a ghost from when Mr Claypole was alive, decides to hold court at Rentaghost.
S6 Ep6
7.0
29th May 1981
The Meakers celebrate their wedding anniversary and Harold opens a gardening store at the Rentaghost office.
S1 Ep1
6.0
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Rentaghost has ended.
