The Collect Call of Cathulhu is an episode of the television series The Real Ghostbusters. It first aired October 21, 1987.
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When The Necronomicon, the most powerful book of spells in the world, is stolen from the New York Public Library, the Ghostbusters find themselves up against the Spawn, and Cult, of Cthulhu, who have stolen the book in order to bring the malevolent god back to Earth.
Barely escaping from the Spawn when their weapons prove useless against them, as the Spawn are capable of super-regeneration, the guys turn to Professor Alice Derleth, a beautiful scholar and spell user, from Arkham, Massachusetts, to help them stop Cthulhu's return. The guys raid the Cult's meeting place, only to get attacked by another Spawn-like creature, called a Shoggoth, and Alice uses her spells to turn it to stone. The guys then turn to an old friend of Ray's who has access to old pulp magazines that tell how to defeat Cthulhu (which H. P. Lovecraft and other authors wrote based on the Necronomicon).
When the team heads to Coney Island, they are unable to stop the resurrection as Cthulhu rampages through the park. The Ghostbusters' proton packs and Alice's spells prove useless in stopping the powerful 'Old One', and the boys are left with one option. Peter lures Cthulhu towards the roller coaster by shooting it in the head, so that the guys can ionize the coaster enough to attract a lightning bolt, blasting Cthulhu with 100 gigavolts of electricity, which they succeeded in doing and sends the creature back into hibernation.
The Cult of Cthulhu has failed and is arrested by the cops, and Alice returns the Necronomicon to Arkham, but not before Peter takes her out on a date, though her version of a date is very different from Peter's.
| The Real Ghostbusters TV series | ||
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| Season 1 | Ghosts R Us • Killerwatt • Mr. Roger's Neighborhood • Slimer, Come Home • Troll Bridge • The Boogieman Cometh • Mr. Sandman, Dream Me a Dream • When Halloween Was Forever • Look Homeward, Ray • Take Two • Citizen Ghost • Janine's Genie • Xmas Marks the Spot | |
| Season 2 | Knock, Knock • Station Identification • Play Them Ragtime Boos • Sea Fright • The Spirit of Aunt Lois • Cry Uncle • Adventures in Slime and Space • Night Game • Venkman's Ghost Repellers • The Old College Spirit • Ain't NASA-Sarily So • Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional? • A Fright at the Opera • Doctor, Doctor • Ghost Busted • Beneath These Streets • Boo-Dunit • Chicken, He Clucked • Ragnarok and Roll • Don't Forget the Motor City • Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie? • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Ghost • Hanging By a Thread • You Can't Take It With You • No One Comes to Lupusville • Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin • The Man Who Never Reached Home • The Collect Call of Cthulhu • Bustman's Holiday • The Headless Motorcyclist • The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic • Egon on the Rampage • Lights! Camera! Haunting! • The Bird of Kildarby • Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster • Apocalypse—What, Now? • Lost and Foundry • Hard Knight's Day • Cold Cash and Hot Water • The Scaring of the Green • They Call me MISTER Slimer • Last Train to Oblivion • Masquerade • Janine's Day Off • The Ghostbusters in Paris • The Devil in the Deep • Ghost Fight at the O.K. Corral • Ghostbuster of the Year • Deadcon I • The Cabinet of Calamari • A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn • The Revenge of Murray the Mantis • Rollerghoster • I Am the City • Moaning Stones • The Long, Long, Long, Etc. Goodbye • Buster the Ghost • The Devil to Pay • Slimer, Is That You? • Egon's Ghost • Captain Steel Saves the Day • Victor the Happy Ghost • Egon's Dragon • Dairy Farm • The Hole in the Wall Gang | |
| Season 3 | Baby Spookums • It's a Jungle Out There • The Boogeyman Is Back • Once Upon a Slime • The Two Faces of Slimer • Sticky Business • Halloween II 1/2 • Loathe Thy Neighbor • The Grundel • Big Trouble With Little Slimer • The Copycat • Camping It Up • Transylvanian Homesick Blues | |
| Season 4 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | The Joke's on Ray • Flip Side • Poultrygeist • Standing Room Only • Robo-Buster • Short Stuff • Follow That Hearse • The Brooklyn Triangle | |
| Season 5 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | Transcendental Tourists • Something's Going Around • Trading Faces • Elementar My Dear Winston • Slimer's Curse • Partners in Slime • Til Death Do Us Part • Three Men and an Egon • Kitty-Cornered • If I Were a Witch Man • It's About Time • The Halloween Door • Jailbusters • Surely You Joust • Future Tense • Venk-Man! • Loose Screws • The Ghostbusters! Live from Al Capone's Tomb! • Revenge of the Ghostmaster • Slimer Streak • The Ransom of Greenspud | |
| Season 6 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | Janine, You've Changed • You Can't Teach an Old Demon New Tricks • The Haunting of Heck House • Ghost World • Mean Green Teen Machine • Spacebusters • My Left Fang • Russian About • The Slob • Deja Boo • Afterlife in the Fast Lane • Guess What's Coming for Dinner • Stay Tooned • Very Best Friends • Busters in Toyland • The Magnificent Five | |
| Season 7 (Now titled "Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters") | The Treaure of Sierra Tamale • Not Now, Slimer! • Attack of the B-Movie Monsters • 20,000 Leagues Under the Street | |
| Slimer! sub-series | Slimer for Hire • Cruisin' for a Bruisin • Nothing to Sneeze At • A Mouse in the House • Cash or Slime • Doctor Dweeb, I Presume • Quickslimer Messenger Service • Pigeon-Cooped • Go-Pher It • Scareface • Sticky Fingers • Don't Tease the Sleaze • Room at the Top • Tea But Not Sympathy • Special Delivery • Out with Grout • Dr. Strangedog • The Dirty Half-Dozen • Movie Madness • Slimer's Silly Symphony • Little Green Sliming Hood • Monkey See, Monkey Don't • Beach Blanket Bruiser • Class Clown • Dog Days • Up Close and Too Personal • Sweet Revenge • Rainy Day Slimer • Slimer & the Beanstalk • Space Case • Show Dog Showdown • The Not-So-Great Outdoors • Unidentified Sliming Object | |