Ghosts
Welcome to Button House
Ghosts is a BBC One supernatural sitcom about Alison and Mike Cooper, a cash-strapped young couple who unexpectedly inherit Button House, a crumbling country estate. Their dream of a fresh start is complicated by the fact that the house is crowded with the ghosts of people who died there across the centuries, each trapped in the era-specific clothes they died in. After a near-fatal fall, Alison alone can see and hear them. What follows is a warm, character-driven comedy as the living couple and the long-dead residents, from a caveman and a Regency poet to a scout leader and a trouserless MP, learn to share one very haunted home.
Start a quizAt a glance
- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes
- 34
- Years
- 2019-2023
- Quizzes
- 3
Quizzes
How did they all die, and what happens at Button House? A fiendish round for Ghosts devotees.
15 questions
Take the quizThe living, the dead and everyone in between. How well do you know the residents of Button House?
13 questions
Take the quizFrom Alison and Mike moving in to the arrival of baby Mia, how well do you know life at Button House?
12 questions
Take the quizMain cast

Charlotte Ritchie
as Alison Cooper

Kiell Smith-Bynoe
as Mike Cooper

Mathew Baynton
as Thomas Thorne

Jim Howick
as Pat Butcher

Ben Willbond
as The Captain

Lolly Adefope
as Kitty
Awards and recognition
Multiple BAFTA nominations for Best Scripted Comedy (including 2021 and 2023)
Best New British TV Sitcom at the Comedy.co.uk Awards
Created by the writer-performers behind Horrible Histories
Created by
Mathew Baynton and Simon Farnaby and Martha Howe-Douglas and Jim Howick and Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond