Beetlejuice ( TV Series 1989 - 1991 )

 

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Plot



 

Loosely based on the film of the same name, this show features Beetlejuice, a wild ghost from the "Neitherworld," and his mortal best friend, a young girl named Lydia.





 

Episode Guide



 

Season 1

 

Season 1, Episode 1: Critter Sitters
Original Air Date9 September 1989

Season 1, Episode 2: The Big Face Off/Skeletons in the Closet
Original Air Date16 September 1989

Season 1, Episode 3: A Dandy Handy Man/Out of My Mind
Original Air Date23 September 1989

Season 1, Episode 4: Stage Fright/Spooky Tree
Original Air Date30 September 1989

Season 1, Episode 5: Laugh of the Party
Original Air Date7 October 1989

Season 1, Episode 6: Worm Welcome
Original Air Date14 October 1989

Season 1, Episode 7: Bad Neighbor Beetlejuice/Campfire Ghouls
Original Air Date21 October 1989

Season 1, Episode 8: Pest O' the West
Original Air Date28 October 1989

Season 1, Episode 9: Bizarre Bazaar/Pat on the Back
Original Air Date4 November 1989

Season 1, Episode 10: Poopsie/It's the Pits
Original Air Date11 November 1989

Season 1, Episode 11: Prince of the Neitherworld
Original Air Date18 November 1989

Season 1, Episode 12: Quit While You're a Head
Original Air Date2 December 1989

Season 1, Episode 13: Cousin B.J./Beetlejuice's Parents
Original Air Date9 December 1989





 

Season 2

 

Season 2, Episode 1: Dragster of Doom
Original Air Date8 September 1990

Season 2, Episode 2: Scare and Scare Alike/Spooky Boo-tique
Original Air Date15 September 1990
Lydia opens a goth-themed clothing store, and Beetljuice helps her sales through subliminal advertising... well, actually through brainwashing.

 

Season 2, Episode 3: Driven Crazy
Original Air Date22 September 1990

Season 2, Episode 4: Scummer Vacation
Original Air Date29 September 1990

Season 2, Episode 5: Bewitched, Bothered, and Beetlejuiced
Original Air Date9 October 1990
On Halloween, Lydia's cat Percy gets kidnapped by witches in the Neitherworld.



 

Season 2, Episode 6: Dr. Beetle & Mr. Juice/Running Scared
Original Air Date13 October 1990
Beetlejuice pretends to be Betty Juice so he can run against Claire Brewster for student body President.



 

Season 2, Episode 7: The Really Odd Couple/A-Ha!
Original Air Date20 October 1990
Doomie suddenly disappears, and in order to find him, Beetlejuice transforms himself into the Neitherworld's greatest detective -- Sherlock Homely.



 

Season 2, Episode 8: Uncle B.J.'s Roadhouse/Scarecrow/The Son Dad Never Had
Original Air Date27 October 1990
Beetlejuice gets a job as a scarecrow for a beetle farm.

 

Season 3

 

Season 3, Episode 1: Mom's Best Friend
Original Air Date7 September 1991

Season 3, Episode 2: Back-to-School Ghoul
Original Air Date14 September 1991

Season 3, Episode 3: Doomie's Romance
Original Air Date21 September 1991
Doomie falls in love with Mayor Maynot's car, despite the fact that it never had a soul, like he did.

 

Season 3, Episode 4: Ghost to Ghost
Original Air Date28 September 1991

Season 3, Episode 5: Spitting Images/Awards to the Wise
Original Air Date5 October 1991

Season 3, Episode 6: The Prince of Rock and Roll
Original Air Date12 October 1991

Season 3, Episode 7: A Ghoul and His Money/Brides of Funkenstein
Original Air Date19 October 1991

Season 3, Episode 8: Beetledude/The Farmer in the Smell
Original Air Date26 October 1991





 

Season 4

 

Season 4, Episode 1: You're History
Original Air Date9 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 2: Raging Skull
Original Air Date10 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 3: Sore Feet
Original Air Date11 September 1991
Beetlejuice's feet go on strike against him.

 

Season 4, Episode 4: Fast Food
Original Air Date12 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 5: Queasy Rider
Original Air Date13 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 6: How Green Is My Gallery?
Original Air Date16 September 1991
Delia's art is a flop in Peaceful Pines, so Lydia and BJ decide to take her to a Neitherworld art colony, where her art will be truly appreciated. The trouble is, not only do they want her art on permanent display, they want her on display as well!

 

Season 4, Episode 7: Keeping Up with the Boneses
Original Air Date17 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 8: Pranks for the Memories
Original Air Date18 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 9: Caddy Shock
Original Air Date19 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 10: Two Heads Are Better Than None
Original Air Date20 September 1991
Beetlejuice's head gets stuck to the Monster Across the Street's body.



 

Season 4, Episode 11: Beauty and the Beetle
Original Air Date23 September 1991
Despite feeling extraordinarily self-conscious about her appearance, Lydia is kidnapped by a beast from the Neitherworld named "Thing Thong" who collects beautiful things because he thinks he's ugly. While being held hostage, Lydia decides to help give him self-confidence, while Beetlejuice tries to track Lydia down by disguising himself as famed explorer Grimdiana Bones.



 

Season 4, Episode 12: Creepy Cookies
Original Air Date24 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 13: Poe Pourri
Original Air Date25 September 1991
Edgar Allen Poe stays at B.J.'s Road House, and agonizes over his lost Lenore so much that it irritates him, but since he keeps throwing money around in his direction, he tries to tolerate Poe's depression as best as he can.



 

Season 4, Episode 14: Ear's Looking at You
Original Air Date26 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 15: Beetlebones
Original Air Date27 September 1991

Season 4, Episode 16: Smell-A-Thon
Original Air Date30 September 1991
While Lydia works the phones at a local Save The Whales telethon, Beetlejuice gets an idea for another money-making scam involving a similar charity to "Save the Smells."

 

Season 4, Episode 17: The Miss Beauty-Juice Pageant
Original Air Date1 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 18: Sappiest Place on Earth
Original Air Date2 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 19: Brinkadoom
Original Air Date3 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 20: Foreign Exchange
Original Air Date4 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 21: Family Scare-looms
Original Air Date7 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 22: Them Bones, Them Bones, Them Funny Bones
Original Air Date8 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 23: Hotel Hello
Original Air Date9 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 24: Goody Two-Shoes
Original Air Date10 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 25: Vidiots
Original Air Date11 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 26: Ship of Ghouls
Original Air Date12 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 27: Poultrygeist
Original Air Date15 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 28: It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Original Air Date16 October 1991
Beetlejuice gets depressed one day when none of his friends fall for his pranks. Believing that they'd be better off without him, Beetlejuice wishes that none of his friends had ever met him. After a strange man grants his wish and Beetlejuice sees how different things are without him, will he realize what an important role he plays in the lives of his friends?



 

Season 4, Episode 29: Ghost Writer in the Sky
Original Air Date17 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 30: Cabin Fever
Original Air Date18 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 31: Highs-Ghoul Confidential
Original Air Date21 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 32: Rotten Sports
Original Air Date22 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 33: Mr. Beetlejuice Goes to Town
Original Air Date23 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 34: Time Flies
Original Air Date24 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 35: To Beetle or Not to Beetle
Original Air Date25 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 36: A Star Is Bored
Original Air Date28 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 37: Oh, Brother!
Original Air Date29 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 38: Snugglejuice
Original Air Date30 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 39: In the Schticks
Original Air Date31 October 1991

Season 4, Episode 40: Recipe for Disaster
Original Air Date1 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 41: Substitute Creature
Original Air Date4 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 42: Ghoul of My Dreams
Original Air Date5 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 43: Prairie Strife
Original Air Date6 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 44: Moby Richard
Original Air Date7 November 1991
Lydia decides to direct her own episode of "Disasterpiece Theater," with Beetlejuice in the starring role of Captain Ahab in Moby Dick. But all may not go so well, when the haughty whale refuses to work with B.J., who lets his part go to his head and vows to rewrite the play his own way.



 

Season 4, Episode 45: The Unnatural
Original Air Date8 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 46: Forget Me Nuts
Original Air Date11 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 47: The Birdbrain of Alcatraz
Original Air Date12 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 48: Generally Hysterical Hospital
Original Air Date13 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 49: Super Zeroes
Original Air Date14 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 50: Beetle Geezer
Original Air Date15 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 51: A Very Grimm Fairy Tale
Original Air Date18 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 52: Wizard of Ooze
Original Air Date19 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 53: What Makes BJ Run
Original Air Date20 November 1991
After a slight dip in the ratings, Mr. Monitor threatens to cancel Beetlejuice' show. BJ's negotiation attempt backfires and he gets fires, leaving Lydia to do a watered down version of their on her own. He then has to work his way up from the mail room. But soon his star is rising once more after stealing a co-workers new ideas for TV shows.

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Season 4, Episode 54: The Chromazone
Original Air Date21 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 55: It's a Big, Big, Big, Big Ape
Original Air Date22 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 56: The Neitherworld's Least Wanted
Original Air Date25 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 57: Don't Beetlejuice and Drive
Original Air Date26 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 58: Robbin Juice of Sherweird Forest
Original Air Date27 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 59: Midnight Scum
Original Air Date28 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 60: Gold Rush Fever
Original Air Date29 November 1991

Season 4, Episode 61: Relatively Pesty
Original Air Date2 December 1991

Season 4, Episode 62: King BJ
Original Air Date3 December 1991

Season 4, Episode 63: Catmandu Got His Tongue
Original Air Date4 December 1991

Season 4, Episode 64: Journey to the Centre of the Neitherworld
Original Air Date5 December 1991

Season 4, Episode 65: Not So Peaceful Pines
Original Air Date6 December 1991