Rentaghost - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Rentaghost

Genre

Sitcom

Broadcast

1976 - 1984

Channel

BBC 1

Episodes

58 (9 series)

Stars

Michael Staniforth, Edward Brayshaw, Anthony Jackson, Michael Darbyshire, Betty Alberge, John Dawson, Ann Emery, Molly Weir and more

Writer

Bob Block

Director

David Crichton

Producers

Paul Ciani and Jeremy Swan

Company

Fred Mumford comes back from the dead with a business idea: Rentaghost, offering ghosts and poltergeists for hire. But the spooks on his staff, fussy Victorian Hubert Davenport and mischievous medieval jester Timothy Claypole, make the lively business of life after death a far from smooth affair...

Additional details

Production

Studio

Picture

Colour

Soundtrack

Theme by Michael Staniforth, incidental music by Jonathan Cohen.

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Tuesday 6th January 1976 at 5:15pm on BBC One

All previous repeats