A kids' show with real spirit...
Birmingham Mail
|January 02, 2026
MARION MCMULLEN looks at how children's television was spookily good 50 years ago
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Rentaghost cast members Sue Nicholls, Edward Brayshaw, Molly Weir and Michael Staniforth
EVEN the dead have to make a living and Rentaghost featured spooks of all shapes and sizes eager to find work.
The BBC children's TV series launched 50 years ago on January 6, 1976, and saw Anthony Jackson as the recently deceased Fred Mumford. He had perished in a shipping accident, but unfortunately his parents had no idea that he was now a ghost.
Fred wanted a second chance to make something of his existence and decided to set up a business called Rentaghost.
यह कहानी Birmingham Mail के January 02, 2026 संस्करण से ली गई है।
हजारों चुनिंदा प्रीमियम कहानियों और 10,000 से अधिक पत्रिकाओं और समाचार पत्रों तक पहुंचने के लिए मैगज़्टर गोल्ड की सदस्यता लें।
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