I have really sad news. I tried my damnest to find the Ghost Hunter from the BBC Archives. After my visit to their offices in London, I had direct contacts with several BB/CBBC Staff who tried to help me, until they found the one in charge, who couldn’t. Some extracts from the letters are cited here:
“The programme was produced for the BBC by Zenith North, who are no longer trading…
…Sorry not be able to help any further. However we do have lots of more recent CBBC Dramas that are available that I hope would be equally useful for your teaching, such as Worst Witch, which is available internationally on Netflix…
…I’m not sure that contacting Zenith would be much help as the programme rights – the right to use the programme – are probably with the BBC, but as we are not able to locate the paperwork and contracts associated with the programme we wouldn’t be able to make any further sales as we wouldn’t be able to make payments due to actors, writers etc.
Your best bet would be to try to track down a DVD of the programme.
Bet wishes, Rosemary”
I also learned that some of the original DVDs may be for sale at eBay, but it is no use ordering copies from FoundThatFilm, as they are of really poor quality. The best I can offer is this collection with fair quality but without subtitles on YouTube.
Hi! The rights to the Zenith library were purchased by Simply Media Tv in 2016 which just so happens to be the same company that put out the Demon Headmaster DVD recently.
Thank you for the information. I have sent them an inquiry.
Dear JO3,
Is there anything more you know? I have sent them a message, but not received any reply. Is there another way to contact them?
Hi!
If you succed to get a copy I would be happy to have one copy as well.
The serie is really good to us in class.
Regards
Malin E
This was an old post. There are no quality copies to be found, but there is a newer video series on Youtube, unfortunately without subtitles. https://webenglish.se/links/movies-7-9/the-ghost-hunter/
All the best,
Outi