Ghostbusters: After The Call!
Updated: Jun 24, 2026 Ghostbusters: After The Call! A Composite Timeline positing various Ghostbusters properties, as set in a single Universe by Kevin Heim Notes highlighted in Yellow are recent additions to the timeline . Behind the scenes, GHOSTBUSTERS began as THE GHOST BUSTERS , a Filmation Saturday Morning live action show in 1975. It lasted one season. Even THAT wasn't the first use of the term, though. In 1952, RKO Pictures made a comedy short called THE GHOST BUSTER , which had no genuine supernatural elements (and really, not much comedy, either). Before this, there were Ghost Chasers, Ghost Breakers, Ghost-Finders, Ghost Exterminators, Ghost Catchers, and Spook Busters, so the over-all concept was well established before Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman, and Harold Ramis decided to make their supernatural spectacle. The more well-known 1984 Columbia movie GHOSTBUSTERS borrowed the title from Filmation...