Alternate versions

All German TV versions omit the line by Peter Venkman: "He's a sailor, he's in New York, we get this guy laid, we won't have any trouble." The video and DVD versions are uncut.

The version that aired on ABC-TV in 1987 (and later) featured several alternate takes for broadcast television. During the scene in mayor's office, Ray's "dickless" line was changed to "Wally Wick". As the Ghostbusters emerge from the Sedgewick ballroom after catching the green ghost (Slimer) Venkman's "We came, we saw, we kicked its ass!" line was changed to "What a knockabout of pure fun that was!" Venkman's claim in the mayor's office that Walter Peck "has no dick" was changed to call him "some kind of rodent, I don't know which," Zeddmore's claim to have seen "stuff" rather than "shit" that'll turn you white, and Egon's later outburst of "shit" at the Keymaster's disappearance was changed to a milder "oh, no!"

On the 70mm prints, the shot featuring the cover of The Atlantic, during the montage, is composited differently: the shot opens 'clean', then the cover slides in from the right, holds and then wipes to the left. On 35mm prints, the shot opens with the cover already in place.