Rentaghost with limited success, to involve the ghosts in his latest business enterprise. When actor Michael Darbyshire (who played the role of Davenport) died in 1979, Anthony Jackson (Mumford) declined to appear in the next series, leaving Michael Staniforth's Claypole the sole original ghost; Davenport and Mumford's absences were explained at the start of the series by the pair having gone on an extended tour of stately home hauntings. After Mumford's departure, the business was taken over by Harold Meaker and his wife Ethel, who suffered from the various problems the ghosts brought to their lives. The long-suffering neighbours of Rentaghost
Rentaghost Ben Stiller had now been signed for the project. "Night at the Museum" writers Tom Lennon and Robert Ben Garant had been hired to write the script, reuniting the two writers with Stiller. In 2017 Fox decided not to take up the rights to "Rentaghost", but it is now being looked at by film companies in the UK. In series 6, the Perkins are given a magical amulet that grants all their wishes. They do not realise this, however, and persist in expressing odd wishes, which the amulet then proceeds to grant. One of the more frequent running jokes in