Rentaghost Rentaghost Rentaghost was a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the spirits for various tasks. The company, located in South Ealing, is run by Fred Mumford, a recently deceased loser who feels he can find work for ghosts whose lives were as unsuccessful as his. His first (and only) recruits are Timothy Claypole, a mischievous jester with a comical lack of knowledge about modern technology; and Hubert
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