Roland Jackson, an African-American student who maintains/upgrades the Ghostbusters’ tech.Eduardo Rivera, a cynical Latino student who only took Egon’s course for an “easy grade.”.Kylie Griffin, a goth student interested in the supernatural.When New York’s threatened by a new batch of supernatural spirits, Egon (now a college professor) assembles a new group of Ghostbusters, using the few students in his class (all resembling “next generation”-style analogues of the original cast): In this series, the original Ghostbusters have all disbanded (since they ran out of ghosts to bust), and went their separate ways. “ Extreme Ghostbusters” ran for 40 episodes in syndication, and was meant as a “next generation”-style 90s update of the original series. “Extreme Ghostbusters”Īfter the end of the series, Winston and the other Ghostbusters remained unseen for some years (merchandise aside), until 1997’s “ Extreme Ghostbusters.” Since “The Real Ghostbusters” was a TV series, there was also room to give more of a backstory for each of the characters, including African-American Ghostbuster Winston Zeddemore.Īs the series went on, we learn (among other things): Winston’s father runs a construction business Winston enjoys reading mystery novels and that Winston’s the reincarnation of an ancient African shaman (who’d fought an also-ancient evil spirit). Michael Straczynski of “Babylon 5” fame served as story editor. The writing of the series managed to be fairly strong for its time, which aided its success J. The series continues the adventures of the quartet of heroes (Egon, Ray, Peter, and Winston) from the original film, as each episode sees them deal with some particular supernatural threat. This week’s minorities in cartoons entry is yet another 80s pop cultural item: the animated series “ The Real Ghostbusters.” Running from 1986 to 1991 on ABC, the series was based on the popular 1984 movie “Ghostbusters” (and its 1989 sequel “Ghostbusters II”).
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