Ya see, in the early days of Rentaghost, it was all quite different.
It wasn't a weekly panto on yer telly, replete with Dobbin the horse, it was a little darker and more interesting.
As I remember, the first series pretty much focused in on one character - whose name I have entirely forgotten. But basically he had only recently died and was still coming to terms with it. He was a rubbish ghost who, unlike the others, still couldn't walk through walls or transport himself with that nose holding trick they all used.
Was his name Mumford? Mr Mumford? Or was it Mumford / Mumphord who was the original Mr Meaker?
So, back to this original ghost. He hadn't told his parents he was dead. So it was real dark humour. WE'd see him visit his parents and try to remain as human as possible.
Why am I talking about it? I just found a clip on YouTube, that's why. Here it is for you
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The man in question was called Fred Munford and he had fallen off a cross channel ferry, itself a rather dark death for childrens television.
That first series was excellent because it only really had Fred, Mr Davenport and Timothy Claypole (who I found deeply annoyine even though I was only about 9 at the time). Once Fred left it got silly.
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