Rentaghost

[@andystyper]

you can't beat rentaghost just a great show that encapsulates time.what a wonderful show and thoughtful memories of the three original cast who have now become ghosts themselves.

[@carolinehoward180]

Highlight of my evenings after school. Loved it!

[@mrbret]

I used to love this show.

[@Via_The_Void]

Used to love this. "Don't go down to the cellar" was a gag they used to end the episodes on, and usually they did go down and got torched by the dragon!! Hilarious!!

[@hellonpluto]

what a fantastic program used to watch this!

[@KaFaraqGatri]

You're quite right. It is Michael Staniforth. With his talent of roller skating, he later went on to Starlight Express. Where he played the character of C.B.

[@bugaboom]

I was telling my hubby about this tonight..he hadnt heard of it (he is 8 years younger than me!) Made me feel old!!!

[@MaisieSqueak]

Not sure there's much in my childhood memories of TV that tops this. Knightmare possibly?... Rentaghost rocked. We should have it re-ruined I reckon :)

[@darganx]

You're right... when originally there were 3 ghosts - Mumford, Claypole and an older guy with the next door neighbor that looked like Peter Sutcliffe... but by the time Molly Weir and Audrey from Corrie turned up I grew out of it.. thank god

[@markredding0000]

i love that show, i never missed an ep

[@Isabekka]

Oh wow this is so great even though vI will spend the rest of the day humming or maybe even singing the theme tune, but I don't care. Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

[@AFlavourforLife]

Brings back some weird memories from when I was a kid!! Strange program - dont know if I'd let my kids watch it!!

[@rocksoliddude1]

is it me or was this show a lot like the young ones without the swearing and adult themes

[@tribenine]

Never can be m8, what we need to make us laugh has changed with the growing of that fuzzy hair - rentaghost will rock 4ever in my world.

[@barcyorky]

She was! She played "Nadia Popov", a Russian Ghost who popped off every time she sneezed! She had a Ghost cousin too played by no less than Lynda La Plante!

[@sorvad99]

RIP Michael rentaghost was another fav of mine.sorry to hear he died :(

[@StanPomeray]

Rentaghost was good when it first started, when they had Fred Mumford, the ghost from Southsea, whose parents didn't know he was dead so he had to throw his dinner out of the window (very amusing if you think about it) but once it was just Claypole and the bloody McWitch.....yawn...Crap.

[@Mahler2006]

Yes - likewise! I remember Michael Staniforth making an appearance on Blue Peter, in which he revealed his flair for roller-skating, having just landed a part in the then new Lloyd Webber musical "Starlight Express". Stripped of his motley, there was still something decidely "not right" about him - as my less than liberal father never missed an opportunity of pointing out whenever got in from work early and found me watching "Rentaghost".

[@RobEgertonJazzTranscriptions]

This always made me feel uneasy as a kid!

[@tymemedia386]

This made my childhood

[@chelecossais]

Four channels ? Luxury ! When I were a youg'un we only ever had three channels ! And when we got home from t'mill, our Da would make us watch Play for the Day on BBC2 ...etc...

[@Ashworth6]

No, Number 73 was a Saturday morning ITV show (1982-1984 I think). Rentaghost was shown on BBC 1 in a weekday childrens slot (1975-1984).

[@88888888BBBBBBBB]

This comment is for webbhead92. The girl who played her was called Charlotte Coleman who appeared also in Worzel Gummidge. She died at a very young age.

[@brhodes0]

Timothy Claypole, now sadly a real ghost but he was cocking brilliant. What a top show.

[@chelecossais]

Agreed - I always thought there was something not right about a grown man prancing about in a jesters costume, for the amusement of children.

[@PontiusKak]

I liked the pantomime horse that sleepwalked

[@mistaben2k]

Shown when there were only four channels not like now..

[@rocksoliddude1]

this was the child's version of the young ones

[@BintyMcFrazzles]

:-( Oh, I used to love him. He was my favourite!

[@MoonVision_1]

i had a science teacher who was mr claypole's double..

[@reptongeek]

@Guitar7mark Funnily enough Joanne Froggatt was a Rentaghost fan so she could only see Audrey Nicholls as Miss Popov when she joined the cast of Corrie

[@KookyMiss2]

Ah, those were the days...!

[@southamptongayguy]

Great show shame that they dident do a longer version of the theme tune.

[@gallafey]

no one make great shows like anymore good proper enterainmant in the days we just had 4 channnels well in the 80s at least both BBC & ITV produced great stuff like this

[@mistofoles]

Anybbody else remember Christopher Biggins in this? He played a guy called "ADAM PAINTING" who ran department store!

[@CornCob6000]

Simply spiffing!

[@permaveg]

I think i'm right in saying that Richard Carpenter wrote the series after writing the excellent Catweazle starring the late great Geoffery Bayldon.

[@SophieCalifornia]

Both the actors in this video have now died, can't remember her name, but the Scottish actress who played McWitch died less than two years ago and Timothy Claypole is no more. He sadly passed away from AIDS related pneumonia.

[@Scinders]

Absolute Class

[@KaFaraqGatri]

I never knew Michael Staniforth died of an Aids Related illness. Last i heard (admittedly a good few years ago) he went into Starlight Express.

[@Ashworth6]

Yes, Charlotte Coleman (Marmalade Atkins) died in 2001 after suffering a severe asthma attack.

[@reptongeek]

@elafonisi08 Joanna Froggatt who was in Coronation Street for a time loved this show as well. The first time she saw Sue Nicholls on set all she could think was 'Miss Popov!!"

[@gibbo909]

I used to switch over when this shit was on.

[@darganx]

Claypole's dead? Always reminded me of that dude in Jethro Tull..

[@klisher]

thats brilliant hahahahah!

[@dramaticguy]

Yes he died of an AIDS related disease in the 80s,the other two orginal ghorsts are no longer with us now. Lynda La Plante was the orginal Miss Popov before she left and Corrie's Sue Nichols joined as her cousin.

[@97channel]

@JonnyInfinite Sir, surely not camper than Are You Being Served!

[@jayne1969able]

fantastic

[@dramaticguy]

Yes sadly he died in July 87,he was only 44,very sad.

[@mojopin70]

mr claypole damn scary,..i had a m8 who looked like him as well

[@crystalclearUK111]

Kids programmes between the 70s and 90s were fun and didn't treat kids like they were stupid. The introduction of things like Teletubbies started the downfall and drivel for kids, which I feel there is no turning back from. The only modern diamond in the rough is Horrible Histories.

[@Saternalius]

Ironically, most of the actors in this are real ghosts now...

[@taxidude]

Well, they're all real ghosts now. :(

[@ijk9999]

wasnt the woman who plays audrey roberts in corrie in this?

[@wardie72]

Therymasterwidnes it was an Aids-related illness

[@Andizz1]

yup your not wrong lol

[@tonymontana1974]

@cottonwhiskersuk He didnt did he ? do you know what character he played i dont remember him being in the film.

[@TherymasterWidnes]

How did he die?? Anyone know? He was only 44 when he died!

[@staypress]

@steve998 yeah of course she is still with us man

[@fraserkatie]

@TherymasterWidnes He died of an AIDS related illness.

[@BintyMcFrazzles]

Timothy Claypole infact.

[@sterster]

sooo true

[@steve998]

@staypress Don't think Audrey from Corrie would be too chuffed with your comment...

[@jambohev]

Ha ha audrey fae coronation street was in that lol

[@yesireallyam]

@gibbo909 lol im so glad i wasnt the only one lol

[@dramaticguy]

Molly Weir.

[@illuminatusds]

God yeah, Fred Mumford and Mr Davenport, the rather nervous straitlaced Victorian spook. It was fabulous until the guy who played Davenport died. :(

[@urtube2k9]

@KY0UJlN - Me too,scary how old we are now lol

[@gdsmchris]

@taxidude not all of them

[@KY0UJlN]

OMFG! how old am I? DONT ANSWER THAT!

[@scottyr2]

yes

[@mantadave]

I used to fucking hate this crap when i was a kid ? I was always waiting for a real ghost to come on what a waist of half an hour of my child hood

[@staypress]

all dead now and are really ghosts so wierd

[@dowling1981]

Gar - Mind thy language.

[@carefreejimbob]

melo.DEEEE

[@snoopyprobbing]

well her acting career is dead she is on the soaps now.

[@DJSVADER]

Because you don't a classic tv series if it kicked you bum and said it was a classic series

[@nwlman]

I hated this show it was nonsence, that stupid horse that was in it, just nonsence, boring rubbish, it went on and on for years as well.