The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series)

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Genre	Situation comedy
Starring	Hope Lange Edward Mulhare
Theme music composer	Dave Grusin
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	50 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	David Gerber
Producer(s)	Howard Leeds Gene Reynolds Stanley Rubin
Running time	30 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC (1st season) ABC (2nd season)
Original run	September 28, 1968 – March 13, 1970

The Ghost & Mrs. Muir is a situation comedy based on the 1947 film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which was based on the 1945 novel by R.A. Dick. It starred Hope Lange as Carolyn Muir, a young widow who rents Gull Cottage, near the fictional fishing village of Schooner Bay, Maine along with her two children, housekeeper and their dog. The cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner: Daniel Gregg, a 19th-century sea captain, played by Edward Mulhare. While the earlier film was set in early 1900s England, the sitcom employed a contemporary American setting.

The story was developed as a series for TV by Jean Holloway and filmed at the Hollywood Studios. Hope Lange won two Emmy Awards for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. The show ran for two seasons, starting in 1968, part of a spate of supernatural TV shows in the 1960s which included Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Nanny and the Professor, and others.

Cast

• Hope Lange as Carolyn Muir, a writer.
• Edward Mulhare as Captain Daniel Gregg. The captain is a poltergeist, able not just to affect things in the house, but also at a distance, and can appear and disappear at will. He can only be seen and heard by the people he chooses. His bad temper can affect the weather.
• Charles Nelson Reilly as Claymore Gregg, the town clerk among many other jobs, a descendant of the captain (although the captain is ashamed of this), and Mrs. Muir's landlord
• Reta Shaw as Martha Grant, the housekeeper
• Kellie Flanagan as nine-year-old Candace 'Candy' Muir, Mrs. Muir's daughter. A tomboy with short hair.
• Harlen Carraher as Jonathan Muir, Mrs. Muir's son
• Scruffy as Scruffy, the Muirs' Wire Fox Terrier.

Episodes

Main article: List of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (TV series) episodes

External links

• The Ghost & Mrs. Muir at the Internet Movie Database