Rent Rentaghost: Series 1 (1976)
3.7 of 5 from 46 ratings
2h 5min
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- Synopsis:
We've got spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools at...'Rentaghost'!
Episode 1
Fred Mumford (Anthony Jackson) 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 (Michael Darbyshire), a fussy Victorian ghost, and Claypole (Michael Staniforth), a mischievous medieval poltergeist.
Episode 2
Fred Mumford and his fellow ghosts set out to exorcise a ghost which has been terrorising London's Heathow Airport.
Episode 3Mumford and hls colleagues decide to tell their landlord, Mr. Meaker (Edward Brayshaw), that they ars 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.
Episode 4
The Rentaghost team are engaged by a security firm to patrol a large department store and stop shoplifting. But Claypole is going through a mischievous phase when his poltergeist powers are at their strongest.
Episode 5
Haunting a stately home proves to be something of a trial of strength for Mumford. His ghostly Uncle Arthur (Dudley Jones) provides him with an assorted bunch of spooks to help the haunting then calls them out on strike.- Actors:
- Michael Staniforth, Edward Brayshaw, Anthony Jackson, Michael Darbyshire, Betty Alberge, John Dawson, Ian Collier, Elisabeth Day, Colin Etherington, Laurel Ford, Maggy Maxwell, Peter Mackriel, James Warwick, Richard Owens, John Rye, Dudley Jones
- Directors:
- David Crichton, Paul Ciani, Jeremy Swan
- Producers:
- Paul Ciani
- Creators:
- Bob Block
- Writers:
- Bob Block
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Children & Family, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy
