In honor of the April 22, 2025 (Earth Day) release of the Captain Planet: The Complete Franchise Blu-ray (reviewed here), it seemed like a great time to re-visit and update this September 12, 2018 article in my "Ghostbusters Cast Spotlight" series. The text below is, pretty much, untouched, but the images and both video clips have now been pulled from the Blu-ray. The quality is soooooo much better than the old Boomerang-watermarked highly-compressed VHS clips.

Welcome to Spook Central's special "Summer of Spotlight" event. Throughout the Summer, I'll be posting Ghostbusters Cast Spotlight entries every Wednesday at Noon (Eastern). Each entry in this series will showcase a cast member of the Ghostbusters franchise - Ghostbusters 1 & 2, The Real Ghostbusters, Slimer!, Extreme Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, and maybe even Ghostbusters 2016 - in a role that you may not be familiar with. Maybe it will be from a long-forgotten movie, a television appearance before they were a Buster, or some really weird bit part that I'm sure they no longer include on their resume! There is a HUGE SPOILER WARNING if you read this article, as I am highly likely to go into plot details.

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Premiere Publishing recently released the Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters: A Cast and Crew's Memoir of Ghostbusters hardcover book by Claire Bueno in the United Kingdom. Read on to find out more about it...

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Last night, Bill Murray starred in a Yahoo commercial that aired during Super Bowl LIX. The rather unconventional ad was more than what it appeared to be. Read on to find out more...

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I have an old iPod Touch with the now discontinued Beeline Ghostbusters & Paranormal Blast games installed on it that I'm looking to sell. Read on to find out more...

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It's Christmas Eve for some of you, and what better way to celebrate than with a poem pulled from a 35-year-old book. Taken from pages 74-76 of the "Ghostbusters II Joke, Puzzle, and Game Book" by Jim Razzi & Jack Looney, let's read Ghostbusters' Xmas Eve, or A Visit From Vigo...

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I have just mailed out a holiday gift to all eligible Spook Central VIPs, which is everyone who has been a VIP from this past January 1st (or earlier) through December 1st. If that includes you, and you want to be surprised when you receive the package, DON'T READ ANY FURTHER!!! Here's an animated gif of Beetlejuice scaring Lydia and her fiancee from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to act as a buffer between you and the photos below of the holiday gifts.

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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries premiered on ABC in January of 1977. Alternating between Hardy Boys stories featuring Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy, and Nancy Drew stories featuring Pamela Sue Martin (later replaced by Janet Louise Johnson), the series ran for three seasons, with the last season (retitled The Hardy Boys) focusing solely on Frank and Joe Hardy. Despite taking place in other locations, much of the series was filmed in California; mostly on the Universal backlot. The second season episode "The Lady on Thursday at Ten" (aired on January 1, 1978) takes place in Manhattan, but was filmed all around California, including at some locations used in the original Ghostbusters films.

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Sony's Waxwork Records label is set to release the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Original Motion Picture Music album on vinyl record on November 22nd. Read on to find out more about it...

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For the past 12 years, I posted a special Spook Central "Halloween Treat" every October 31st. It was never intended to be an annual thing, but I've managed to keep it going. This year, I didn't know if I would, as I had nothing planned that I could work on quickly. Well, I found something. It's not much, but it's something, and it's a "something" that I have been meaning to finish for eight years now.

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In early October 2024, Krispy Kreme released Ghostbusters doughnuts (henceforth "donuts") to various regions around the world. One of those regions was the United States, where the donuts were released in several different configurations. Join me as I do an unboxing review of them.

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