History Series / TheGhostAndMrsMuir

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: With no one having occupied Gull Cottage since his depth, Captain Gregg is a little ignorant of many of the changes in modern society, such as the march of women's rights.

* FriendlyGhost: The ghost of Captain Gregg pretends at being fearsome and blustery, but he is really rather sweet and in love with Mrs. Muir.

** Captain Gregg tries to convince everyone that a celebrated local hero was a ne'er do well and braggart. Yet when his grave is uncovered, the headstone reads of a man 'who did not hesitate', it seems the ghost has not a chance of changing any minds. When the dedication ceremony occurs, Gregg summons a wind-storm to completely uncover the headstone, which then reads 'He did not hesitate – He Ran Like Hell!'.

** Captain Gregg tries to convince everyone that a celebrated local hero was a ne'er do well and braggart. Yet when his grave is uncovered, the headstone reads of a man 'who did not hesitate', it seems the ghost has not a chance of changing any minds. When the dedication ceremony occurs, Gregg summons a wind-storm to completely uncover the headstone, which then reads 'He did not hesitate - He Ran Like Hell!'.

* JuryOfTheDamned: The episode "Not So Faust". After Claymore tries to cheat Mrs. Muir, the Captain decides to teach him a lesson by giving him a dream about an old enemy of his, the Devil, who puts him on trial before a panel of three judges: Nero, Blackbeard, and Jesse James.

* AltarTheSpeed: "Haunted Honeymoon". On their way to get married, Gladys and Harvey's car breaks down outside Gull Cottage on a very wet night. Mrs. Muir puts them up, much to the captain's annoyance, as he wants to update his sea charts and Harvey is to sleep in his alcove (room). As Claymore is a justice of the peace, the captain gets him to marry the couple so they can sleep together in the spare room.

* BaseballEpisode: In "No Hits, No Runs, No Oysters", the Oysters are the local baseball team, of which Claymore is the manager. The family and the captain want Jonathan to play for the team, but even he realizes that he is no good.

** In "Medicine Ball", Mrs. Muir has a mystery illness. The captain does not trust the doctor, so he gives her some of his medicine. She dreams and finds herself in a party in the captain's time period.
** In "The Ghost of Christmas Past", the captain gives the Muirs, Martha, and Claymore a dream of when he was alive 100 years ago (they all play parts), [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol loosely based on]] ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.

* FlyingDutchman: In "The Great Power Failure", the cursed ghost ship ''Sea Vulture'' drifts into the area of Schooner Bay and while it remains there, the captain loses most of his powers, so he can do nothing about the women's PTA meeting held at the cottage.

* IdenticalStranger: In "Double Trouble", the captain has been getting rid of Mrs. Muir's suitors. The latest one, Sean Callahan, is his double and claims to be a descendant of the captain.

* JuryOfTheDamned: The episode "Not So Faust". After Claymore tries to cheat Mrs. Muir, the captain decides to teach him a lesson by giving him a dream about an old enemy of his, the Devil, who puts him on trial before a panel of three judges: Nero, Blackbeard, and Jesse James.

* LovableCoward: Claymore Gregg, the captain's great-nephew, who has inherited Gull Cottage and rents it to Mrs. Muir.
* LovecraftCountry: A historic fishing village in Maine. Fearsome haunted house just outside of town (especially in the pilot, when Claymore apprises the captain he had rented the seaside cottage to Mrs. Muir).
* MeatPuppet: In "Centennial", the captain takes over Claymore's body so he can dance with Mrs. Muir.

** A variant occurs in "Vanessa". A woman turns up in Schooner Bay with some old love letters from Captain Gregg to her great-great-grandmother, who was also named Vanessa. The captain finds himself falling for her, as he did for her ancestor in the 1840s.
** In "Mister Perfect", Mrs. Muir's old boyfriend (Creator/WilliamDaniels) turns up on his yacht and wants to marry her. At first, the captain tries to stop them; then he decides to help them get together.
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Interestingly (see HistoricalHeroUpgrade for proof), this is how the captain's ghost views his ''living'' self.
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The captain chooses to be visible to the widow and her young son, but not to the widow's daughter or the housekeeper, both of whom assume that the ghost is merely the boy's imaginary friend. In the second season, Candy can also see the ghost.

* SeadogBeard: Capt. Gregg sports a very neat and well-groomed one. It does add considerably to his raffish charm.

* SickEpisode: In "Medicine Ball", Mrs. Muir has a mystery illness. The captain does not trust the doctor, so he gives her some of his medicine. She dreams and finds herself in a party in the captain's time period.
* SouvenirLand: In "Tourist, Go Home", a millionaire wants to make the town into a tourist site, starting with the museum. The captain is against it, until he finds out that he will have an important part in it. The revamped museum ends up as a sideshow mocking the captain, which angers him.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: In "Host to the Ghost", Mrs. Muir desperately needs some work done on her kitchen. The only way she can get workmen to stay is if the captain leaves for a while, so he goes to stay with Claymore and turns into a very unwelcome guest.

* WithAFootOnTheBus: In "Martha Meets the Captain", Martha has to go to Florida permanently to look after her mother. The only way the captain can stop her leaving before her surprise party is to appear to her. The show ends with her staying.

** In "The Ghost of Christmas Past", the captain gives the Muirs, Martha, and Claymore a dream of when he was alive 100 years ago (they all play parts), [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol loosely based on Scrooge]].

* ChristmasEpisode: "The Ghost of Christmas Past". For Christmas, the captain gives the Muirs, Martha, and Claymore a dream of when he was alive 100 years ago (they all play parts), [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol loosely based on]] ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''.

* ChristmasEpisode: "The Ghost of Christmas Past". For Christmas, the captain gives the Muirs, Martha, and Claymore a dream of when he was alive 100 years ago (they all play parts), loosely based on Scrooge.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: "The Ghost of Christmas Past". For Christmas, the captain gives the Muirs, Martha, and Claymore a dream of when he was alive 100 years ago (they all play parts), loosely based on Scrooge.

** In "Mister Perfect", Mrs. Muir's old boyfriend (William Daniels) turns up on his yacht and wants to marry her. At first, the captain tries to stop them; then he decides to help them get together.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Creator/HopeLange), her two children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage--a quaint old seaside abode near Schooner Bay, Maine--they discover that their new home is haunted by the spirit of its former owner, an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest. Also in the mix is Claymore Gregg (Creator/CharlesNelsonReilly), the captain's venal, cowardly grandnephew who inherited the cottage and rented it to Mrs. Muir.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Creator/HopeLange), her two children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage--a quaint old seaside abode near Schooner Bay, Maine--they discover that their new home is haunted by the spirit of its former owner, an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Creator/HopeLange), her two children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage outside Schooner Bay, Maine, they discover that the quaint seaside abode is haunted by the spirit of its former owner, an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Creator/HopeLange), her two children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage near Schooner Bay, Maine, they discover that the quaint seaside abode is haunted by the spirit of its former owner, an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest.

* HollywoodNewEngland: Set in the fictional Maine fishing village of Schooner Bay.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Creator/HopeLange), her two children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage, they discover that the New England seaside abode is haunted by the spirit of its former owner, an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest.

* Accidental Suicide: Captain Gregg is commonly believed to have committed suicide by opening the gas valve in his room, but he admits that he actually kicked the valve open in his sleep by accident.

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: InUniverse examples. Captain Gregg tries to convince everyone that a celebrated local hero was a ne'er do well and braggart. Yet when his grave is uncovered, the headstone reads of a man 'who did not hesitate', it seems the ghost has not a chance of changing any minds. When the dedication ceremony occurs, Gregg summons a wind-storm to completely uncover the headstone, which then reads 'He did not hesitate - He Ran Like Hell!'. Played with in a later episode, when Gregg realizes his recall of a second-hand account about two of the American Founding Fathers may not be perfect, and nearly ruins Mrs. Muir's son's school report by insisting they were bitter adversaries, not the friends the boy originally believed. While Gregg's stubbornness nearly derails the reputation of another rival-in-life by showing the school he supposedly founded was in fact founded much earlier, his historian descendant is delighted; it means their school is among the oldest in all of New England.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Creator/HopeLange), her two young children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage, they discover that the New England seaside abode is haunted by the spirit of its former owner, an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest.

* HollywoodNewEngland: Set in a Maine fishing village.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Creator/HopeLange), her two young children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage, they discover that the New England seaside abode is haunted by its former owner -- an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest.

''The Ghost & Mrs. Muir'' is an American {{sitcom}} based on the [[Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir 1947 film of the same name]], which was based on the 1945 novel by R. A. Dick. It premiered in September 1968 on Creator/{{NBC}}, which cancelled it after one season; it was then picked up by on Creator/{{ABC}} for a second and final season.

After lovely young widow Carolyn Muir (Hope Lange), her two young children, their housekeeper and the family dog move into Gull Cottage, they discover that the New England seaside abode is haunted by its former owner -- an old salt named Captain Daniel Gregg (Edward Mulhare). Gregg at first resists this intrusion, but he develops a ghostly love for his uninvited guest.

* AdaptationNameChange: Lucy Miller from the original movie becomes Carolyn Miller.