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Ghostbusters was a syndicated television cartoon that ran 65 episodes in late 1986. The show was created by Filmation as aspinoff of its 1970s live-action show The Ghost Busters, capitalizing on the name recognition created by the unrelated 1984 film Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray. Filmation sued Columbia Pictures in 1985 over the use of the title. In the settlement, Columbia agreed it would not use the title "Ghostbusters" for the cartoon based on the 1984 film, and so Columbia instead used the title The Real Ghostbusters for its 1986-1991 animated series. Filmation's series is therefore technically the only cartoon officially called Ghostbusters, although it is far more obscure and generally referred to as "Filmation's Ghostbusters" to distinguish it from the series about Peter Venkman, Slimer, and company. Christian Weston Chandler is among the minuscule number of people who ever gave a shit about this show.

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