We asked Extreme Ghostbusters Production Supervisor Shannon Muir (Darkness at Noon, Back in the Saddle) to share with GBHQ viewers information
that might not have been available elsewhere. Here's what she had to say, and she promised more to come!

- "Darkness at Noon" was originally a one part script. It made it all the way through storyboards before we realized it was far too long -- either eight minutes needed to go on, or I think about eleven minutes had to go. Going into detail about building the new equipment is where we bought most of the time, though there's other additions scattered throughout. The actual production numbers are 101 (part 1) and 140 (part 2); this was at my suggestion because it was just easier to deal with. Otherwise part 2 would have been production number 121 -- that's how far along we were when the splitting decision was made -- and I found that to be a lot less neat. Thankfully those with the power said OK.

- "The Sphinx" aired last in many markets, but was the first script to enter the production phase. For reasons largely not the fault of the script (people getting assigned to other shows, character design issues, other stuff I wasn't privy to) it got completed much later than the others. We had "The Sphinx" in our hands before "Darkness at Noon." Its first Production Supervisor was called back to work on JUMANJI and that episode languished for a bit even before those other issues I mentioned. So Egon was SUPPOSED to experience his mid life crisis right after the team formed. It does make an interesting ending though. "Back in the Saddle Part One" (production number 137) and "Back in the Saddle Part Two" (production number 139) were envisioned as the finale originally.

- The episode where Janine dons the old costume is "Temporary Insanity," there's no "A" in front of it. Gramatically yes there probably SHOULD be one, but that's not the script title. I was originally assigned to work on the episode and traded it with someone else; I believe I traded it to work on "Witchy Women" but could have been "Back in the Saddle Part One." Why? In one of those uncanny twists of fate, early on in the production process, I'd done a spec script in which Egon acquired a teaching assistant who really had a supernatural background. Some elements (very few!) were common, enough so that I felt uncomfortable seeing that script through production. Mine was not of a level to be produced, largely because parts of the show concept were still in flux when I wrote it. Life happens.

- I did the research to help the artists design the US Online logo for "Greased." The person assigned to make it wasn't terribly internet-literate, so I came all the way back to my apartment and did sign on screen captures of AOL, CompuServe, and any other freebie disc I had, then busted my rear back. Had to be out of the office for TWO HOURS! I installed things just to get their screen captures then uninstalled them! The result is that spiffy highway logo on Garrett's laptop. (This episode was later turned over to and completed under the supervision of my friend Scott Bernstein, who later went to Warner Brothers to Production Coordinate on BATMAN BEYOND and STATIC SHOCK).

For more information about Shannon Muir check out our past interview with her as well as the Extreme Ghostbusters area here on GBHQ!