Rentaghost

25min

Family

Comedy

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.

Episodes

Cast

New Recruits

1. New Recruits

25min

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.

Airport

2. Airport

25min

13th Jan 1976

Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exercise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathrow Airport.

Hospital

3. Hospital

25min

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.

Department Store

4. Department Store

25min

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.

Stately Home

5. Stately Home

25min

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.

First air date

6th Jan 1976

Last air date

6th Nov 1984

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks