The Ghost Breaker is a 1909 haunted house farcical play written by Paul Dickey and Charles W.
[2][3] It later was the basis of the 1953 Martin and Lewis film Scared Stiff and was also an inspiration for the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
A pilot for a 1971 television series was made but the series wasn't picked up by the networks.
It was to star Warren Berlinger and Bob Denver of Gilligan's Island fame.
[4] Media related to The Ghost Breaker (play) at Wikimedia Commons