By Paul Rudoff on Jun. 25, 2015 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Real Ghostbusters, Cast & Crew

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Hey, everyone! Since today is my birthday, I thought I'd mark the occasion by posting something personal and Ghostbusters-related. As I been scanning in all of my Ghostbusters merchandise, I've been finding long-forgotten items. One item I found tucked inside a folder of Ghostbusters papers was this clipping of a question/letter I wrote in to Long Island Newsday's "TV Line" Q&A column that was printed in their TV listings magazine included in the Sunday newspaper. This would have been published sometime between September 1987 (when the voice cast changed) and July 1989 (when I moved out of Westbury).

For some reason, I pretended to be a father, instead of admitting that I was a kid watching the show. Maybe I thought that they wouldn't have replied to a kid's letter. Even at roughly 10-to-12 years old, I wanted to know the behind the scenes info. Yeah, I learned the names of the voice actors from the show's end credits, but I didn't know who voiced whom. There was no internet back then with which to look up this information. For whatever reason, I didn't ask about Egon, but it's not like I couldn't have figured out that it was Maurice LaMarche from process-of-elimination.