THE VAMPIRE OF GHOSTS

My Left Fang

Original Air date September 29, 1990

Writer: Sean Roche

Director: Raymond Jafelice

Main Cast:

• Dave Coulier as Peter Venkman
• Frank Welker as Raymond Stantz
• Maurice LaMarche as Egon Spengler
• Buster Jones as Winston Zeddemore
• Kath Soucie as Janine Melnitz
• Frank Welker as Slimer
• Rodger Bumpass as Louis Tully

(Rating 5 of 5)

Summary: The Ghostbusters arrive in a small German town only to find that Slimer the Ghost is more popular than them.  This is the strangest case the Ghostbusters have ever had.  They were being asked by the townspeople not to catch the ghosts but find out what has been happening to their local ghosts.   The Ghostbusters are welcome by all, except their diver Boris.

Need to get a new driver.

                Boris and his co-worker Frau Schweinkiller are to look after the Ghostbusters while they stay at the local castle, but also, it seems, to mislead them.  Then a vampire shows up and chases Slimer but the Ghostbusters were able to force the vampire to retreat.  Upon investigation they discover a community of the missing ghosts who have been stripped of all their slime and therefore powerless.

The German Ecto-1

                The Ghostbusters battle the vampire again and this time he drains Slimer, and he was able to destroy Ray’s garlic and stakes.  Egon notes that vampires fear sunlight but not other forms of light, and concludes that ultraviolet is their weakness.  The rig their packs to blast ultraviolet light and destroy the vampire.   They are able to save the slime the vampire stole and use it to restore Slimer and the local ghosts.

Broken Ghosts

My Take: The Ghostbusters have dealt with vampires before, first a town of them and then a retired one.  This one is a great concept: a vampire of ghosts.  I knew the Count Von Blukenporken was doomed the moment he touched Slimer however.

                Now for my stray observations:

•         I would have never got in the car with Boris.
•        Why didn’t they use this as an opportunity to clean out their Containment Unit?
•        After those traps in the castle I would have found a different place to sleep.
•        Was it Slimer that made the “No” sign change itself?
•        Actually Ray figured out how to alter the packs for artificial sun light the first time they took down a vampire.  Sorry continuity points.

A really good episode one that I remember from childhood.