Ghostbusters II Studio Wall Photos

This article is meant to serve as a permanent home for a research project I first started on November 16, 2014. The project was to identify all of the shows represented by the photos hanging on the World of the Psychic studio office walls in Ghostbusters II.

After Peter's World of the Psychic show, he and Norman walk through the production offices of the studio. Lots of photos are seen on the walls, taken from real television shows. I was able to identify most of them, and Alex Newborn was able to identify #4, but there are still some that can't be identified. (According to Derek Osborn, the scene was filmed in an accounting office at The Burbank Studios, now Warner. It's possible that some of these shows were shot there, or maybe had production offices there.)

I took the liberty of digitally ripping movie frames from the Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs, and put together a numbered index of the photos. A zip file of original 1920x800 Blu-ray and 3840x1606 4K UHD framegrabs is downloadable for reference. Do be aware that the original framegrabs won't make the quality of the small photos in the background of the scene that much clearer.


Here is the photo list, numbered as per the index above. Each identified show is linked to its IMDb page.

01. Nakia (1974)
02. Top Cat (1961)
03. World of the Psychic (original version, as seen on the 2022 4K/Blu-ray collection)
04. Gidget Gets Married (1972) (TV Movie)
05. Special Edition (1977)
06. World of the Psychic (original version)
07. That's My Mama (1974)
08. Police Woman (1974)
09. World of the Psychic (original version)
10. ??? (looks like a game show)
11. ??? (too blurry to be identifiable?)

Gidget Gets Married was identified by Alex Newborn, who found some images that match what's seen in the Ghostbusters II photo. "Check out the actor's profile, his tie, the material on the front of her dress, the wreath in her hair, etc."


With three of these series coming from 1974, it's possible that the unidentified photos are from various 1974 TV series as well. Close-ups of the three unknowns are below. They are displayed as enlarged as possible.


Alex Newborn thinks it might say "Special Edition", which the 4K framegrab seen above (cropped and reshaped) seems to confirm. Special Edition was a 1977 show hosted by Barbara Feldon (of Get Smart fame). Alex found an interview where she referred to it as a "magazine format show", so a publicity photo surrounded by magazines might have been something they would have done to promote it. Alex only found one promo image from it, where she's in hockey pads, but her hairstyle looks like a match for photo #5. Since the 4K framegrab appears to confirm the text under the photo as "Special Edition", and the woman does resemble Barbara, I'm confident enough to call this. That said, I would still like to find the photo framed on the wall.


This looks like a game show, which doesn't narrow it down at all.


I think this one is too blurry to be identifiable.

Ideally, it would be great if we could find the original images that are on the walls. I looked for the That's My Mama and Police Woman photos, but most of the images Google shows are screenshots and DVD cover art. Even adding "promo" to the search (to look for promo/press images) didn't help.

- Paul