This is no relation to the popular Ghostbusters movie, let’s just get that out of the way first. Good. The Ghost Busters was a sitcom starring two F-Troop veterans, Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker.

Storch and Tucker played Eddie Spenser and Jake Kong, respectively, two blundering detectives who habitually went hunting for ghosts in an old manor house. Accompanying them on their excursions was a gorilla named Tracy (actually actor Bob Burns in an ape suit).

The show’s episode’s followed a set formula: Kong would send—get ready for it—Spenser and Tracy (hyuk hyuk hyuk) to the hardware store in town to receive instructions about their next mission, left by their contact, a man called Zero. The two would find the message hidden inside a different object every week and after listening to it, the tape recording would self-destruct. Poor Tracy usually got the brunt of the booby-trapped missives.

Zero always sent the team to the same old house, where they would encounter any number of familiar monsters, like Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and a mummy. Deceased historical characters like Napoleon, Merlin and Eric the Red also showed up to bedevil the detectives, who dispatched the apparitions with their Ghost Dematerializer.

The series ran for only a year but after the success of Ghostbusters with Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, the original concept was retooled into a cartoon, featuring the grown sons of Kong and Spenser who had taken over the business.