I haven't seen the Ghostbusters cartoon since I was a kid, and I only have a few sparse memories of it. But I'm interested in finding an episode I read about online. My source didn't give a title, and I can't track down who wrote it to get that info, so that's why I'm here.

I'm a fan of Babylon 5, and according to one website the episode “Grey 17 Is Missing” is a rewritten version of a script J. Michael Straczynski wrote for The Real Ghostbusters. In its B5 incarnation, it's about a floor in an obscure part of the station that's been hidden by renumbering the other floors and programming the elevators to skip it. Garabaldi notices the elevator takes twice as long as it should to go between two adjacent floors, and discovers the missing Grey 17 (and the horrors that lurk there) in between.

Does this sound like the plot of any episode of Ghostbusters?

I'd also be interested in seeing a couple episodes I saw when I was little. I only remember bits, but one involved a hole in the water, and in another everyone thought Slimer was dead (even though he was already a ghost). I think that second one had the new Janine.

If someone can tell me the titles of these episodes, especially the “Grey 17” prototype, I'd be very grateful.

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I haven't seen the Ghostbusters cartoon since I was a kid, and I only have a few sparse memories of it. But I'm interested in finding an episode I read about online. My source didn't give a title, and I can't track down who wrote it to get that info, so that's why I'm here.

I'm a fan of Babylon 5, and according to one website the episode “Grey 17 Is Missing” is a rewritten version of a script J. Michael Straczynski wrote for The Real Ghostbusters. In its B5 incarnation, it's about a floor in an obscure part of the station that's been hidden by renumbering the other floors and programming the elevators to skip it. Garabaldi notices the elevator takes twice as long as it should to go between two adjacent floors, and discovers the missing Grey 17 (and the horrors that lurk there) in between.

Does this sound like the plot of any episode of Ghostbusters?

It doesn't sound like any of JMS' episodes, except maybe “The Haunting of Heck House”, as my memory of that one is very foggy. Or it could have been an unused script it was based on.

I'd also be interested in seeing a couple episodes I saw when I was little. I only remember bits, but one involved a hole in the water, and in another everyone thought Slimer was dead (even though he was already a ghost). I think that second one had the new Janine.

If someone can tell me the titles of these episodes, especially the “Grey 17” prototype, I'd be very grateful.

The latter is probably “Big Trouble for Little Slimer”. The former, I'll need more info on.

For the latter two, those sound like Venkman's Ghost Repellers, which dealt with the New Jersey Parallelogram - a gateway into a crumpled up reality which was swallowing up ships, and Big Trouble with Little Slimer, where Walter Peck attempted to dispose of Slimer with a Cyclotron, and at one point the team felt he had been lost.

Grey 17 is missing is one of my favorite episodes. Although there isn't a whole episode centered around the concept, there is a plot point which must be what was being talked about, which can be found in Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster.

While tracking down the big bad of the story, Proteus, Janine arrives at a skyscraper, and notices that it takes twice the length of time to travel from floor 12 to floor 14 (the building has no 13th floor) than it did to travel one level between any of the other floors, deducing that there is a hidden 13th floor, which is where she needs to get to.

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For the latter two, those sound like Venkman's Ghost Repellers, which dealt with the New Jersey Parallelogram - a gateway into a crumpled up reality which was swallowing up ships, and Big Trouble with Little Slimer, where Walter Peck attempted to dispose of Slimer with a Cyclotron, and at one point the team felt he had been lost.

Grey 17 is missing is one of my favorite episodes. Although there isn't a whole episode centered around the concept, there is a plot point which must be what was being talked about, which can be found in Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster.

While tracking down the big bad of the story, Proteus, Janine arrives at a skyscraper, and notices that it takes twice the length of time to travel from floor 12 to floor 14 (the building has no 13th floor) than it did to travel one level between any of the other floors, deducing that there is a hidden 13th floor, which is where she needs to get to.

“Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster” crossed my mind, but that episode was written by Michael Reaves, IIRC.

In any event, am I right in thinking that American buildings don't usually have a 13th floor, out of superstition?

Depends on how superstitious the owner of the building is. I have seen some that do and some that don't. Even seen American hospitals with no 4th floor…and that is more of a Japanese superstition than American.

Wow, that was quick. I was going to guess the water weirdness one was “The Devil in the Deep,” but I had no clue about the second one. I can't really give any more information, since these are just disjointed memories from my early childhood. Just that one episode had a hole in water, which seemed like a real mindscrew to me when I was four, and there was some neat and scary animation in it.

I.M.D.B. does credit “Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster” to Michael Reaves, so I guess it's a not a case of J.M.S. reusing his own idea. My source on that was the T.V. Tropes Wiki, so I knew it wasn't necessarily the gospel truth. And yeah, Kingpin, I've always thought “Grey 17 Is Missing” was a good solid episode. I don't see why there's so much negativity toward it.

Thanks for the info, guys. Now I know which discs to get from Netflix.