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Season 5 of The Real Ghostbusters aired in 1989 as part of the syndicated "Slimer! and The Real Ghostbusters" programming block. It was the season that the cartoon was re-tuned to line up with Ghostbusters II, which opened in theaters that summer. The most visible change was the arrival of Louis Tully as a recurring character, carried over from the film.1
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For Season 5 the hour-long "Slimer! and The Real Ghostbusters" block was rearranged into a 15-minute slot of The Real Ghostbusters, a 30-minute slot of The Real Ghostbusters, and a 15-minute Slimer! slot.1 That structure is why the season splits into two groups of episodes: a run of standard half-hour stories, and a set of paired 15-minute segments.
The season reused the title sequence and end credits introduced in Season 4. Intro 2 and Credits 2 both ran across Seasons 4 and 5 before the show was re-tooled again for Seasons 6 and 7.1
The first part of the season (sometimes labeled 5a) consists of eight half-hour episodes:
The second part (5b) is made up of paired 15-minute segments:
The Halloween Door, a half-hour special written by J. Michael Straczynski, also falls within the Season 5 run.1
Air dates for the later seasons of The Real Ghostbusters are uncertain. The dates commonly cited for Seasons 5 through 7 come from the Spook Central episode listing, whose webmaster has noted that they are most likely incorrect.1 Where a precise broadcast date matters, treat the Season 5 dates as approximate rather than confirmed.
