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
Beauford H. Jester segregated, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He married Mabel Buchanan after graduation. Jester later studied law at Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His studies were interrupted by the First World War. After the United States entered World War I, he joined the US Army, eventually achieving the rank of captain, and serving from 1917 to 1918. In 1919, Jester resumed his law studies at the University of Texas, from which he received his LL.B a year later. He returned to Corsicana to practice law. There, he also served as president of the Navarro County Bar Association