Rentaghost was a children�s telly stalwart for many years, running for nearly sixty episodes from 1975 to 1984.

Written by Bob Block (who went on to do Galloping Galaxies), it featured a group of ghosts trying to set up their own business enterprise.

The phantom businessmen were a motley bunch:

Timothy Claypole the cod-medieval court jester's was the most memorable.
Miss Popov, the ghost with hayfever.
Hazel McWitch, the very Scottish ghost.
Dobbin the �hilarious� pantomime horse.
And, of course, Mister and Mistress Meaker, the long suffering suburbanites.

Their plans always went very, very wrong, with hair-raising slapstick consequences. Like people turning into Batman. Or falling asleep.