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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 335805" data-attributes="member: 2740">Having read this I now feel strongly that they should have held off on the Peter Richards storyline for a year and cast Ray Parker Jr. in the role to capitalize on his #1 hit of the summer of ‘84, the jaunty, undeniably catchy Ghostbusters.Why settle for mere middle-aged woman/barely pubescent boy taboo when you can shatter prime-time racial barriers while you’re at it?  Ray was only 30 in 1984 and could have easily played a college kid in his early 20s with the right coaching and makeup and cutoff t-shirts.John Parker wasn’t writing music for the show in those years (thankfully, some would say) but they could have brought him back to write a special Sue Ellen/Peter love theme - a jazzy, sexy mashup of Sue Ellen’s sultry sax theme,The Adulteress, from earlier seasons and, of course, Ghostbusters.  (admit it, the result’s going through your head now and it’s triumphant!)With all that star power on the screen, is there any doubt the ratings would have approached and possibly even surpassed Who Shot JR levels?</blockquote>