The Haunted Hathaways is an American sitcom that premiered on Nickelodeon on July 13, 2013. The first season was originally planned to have 20 episodes but was picked up to 26 episodes on August 21, 2013. Season 2 is the final season as no new episodes were confirmed at the 2015/16 upfront.
As of March 5, 2015[update], The Haunted Hathaways has aired 47 episodes over two seasons.
Michelle Hathaway and her two daughters, Taylor and Frankie, move to New Orleans and discover that their new house is already occupied by a ghostfamily composed of dad, Ray Preston, and his sons, Miles and Louie. The Hathaways tell them to leave (especially Taylor) but when Ray refuses and brings a snow storm to the house, Michelle calls in a ghost exterminator to get rid of the ghosts. Ray and Louie think it's fake only to realize their powers have been removed. Meanwhile, Miles helps get Taylor on the gymnastics team. They become friends just as Miles is brought to the family room. The ghosts start disappearing but, Taylor and Frankie don't want them to go. As Ray, Louie and Miles are disappearing Michelle is convinced by her daughters, the ghosts aren't that bad. The exterminator is told to stop the spell but it doesn't work. Worried about Miles, Taylor smashes the orb generating the magic and saves the ghosts. They then decide to live together.
As the newest member of her school gymnastics team, Taylor's worried to find out she's responsible for hosting a team sleepover but Ray promises that Miles and Louie will be on their best behavior. Unfortunately, Frankie and Louie team up to scare Taylor and her friends out of the house.
Taylor assures her gymnastics team she can win the top cash prize at the science fair so they can buy new uniforms, assuming Miles will help with his ghost powers. However, Michelle forbids Taylor from using Miles' short cuts, leaving Taylor to create the project herself. Michelle gets into bigger trouble when she tries to improve Taylor’s project and breaks it, and must rely on Louie’s erratic ghost powers to fix the problem. Meanwhile, Frankie joins Ray and Louie during their bonding time (scaring random people). When Frankie scares a guy Louie couldn't and gets along with Ray better than Louie ever did Louie gets jealous. But later, Frankie makes it up to him by convincing Ray, a mistake with Taylor's project that Louie caused sound like the best scare ever.
An argument between Ray and Michelle causes them to each think they're the better parent so they decide to switch roles. Lo and behold, Michelle is unable to wrangle the boys and Ray is completely thrown by the intricacies of girl social antics.
Ray gives Frankie a one-time boost to help with her volleyball skills. Miles becomes friends with a human named James, who has the ability to see ghosts.
Miles babysits a prankful duo, Frankie and Louie, but it results in chaos. Meanwhile, Ray tries to help Taylor get prepared for a ballroom dancing competition with a hot guy. Once she is prepared for the dancing competition, she finds out that the hot guy ditched her for another girl.
The Hathaway/Preston Yard Sale is the first official “family” activity and everyone is on board until Louie fumbles his attempt at possessing one of the stuffed animals, landing himself in Taylor’s favorite nurse doll. When the doll, with Louie inside, gets sold to a doll collector the kids must all work together to get him back home safely.
It’s Taylor’s birthday and Miles is excited about getting his “new” sister a special gift – a ghost dog named Wags. But when Wags turns out to be a less than a perfect pet, Miles tries to cover it up but gets caught.
Louie gets mad when Frankie writes an essay for a prestigious private school that says he is a horrible ghost and he tries to sabotage the interview for the school. Meanwhile Taylor wants Miles to start to respect boundaries.
Ray and Miles agree to help Taylor with her first Halloween party in the house. When Louie has summoned a ghost to scare everyone, the ghost has the power to wreak havoc at the party.
Miles and Frankie break Michelle's new cookie jar. They jump through hoops to cover up so Michelle would not find out. They try fixing it and buying a new one but without success. It is revealed that Michelle hates the cookie jar because everyone assumes that because she owns a bakery a cookie jar would be perfect for her. Meanwhile, Louie's friend, Teddy gets a crush on Taylor when he comes to the Hathaway-Preston house for a play date with Louie.
Everyone plans to camping, but Louie and Frankie must stay home after misbehaving. Louie and Ray switch bodies and Louie runs off to go camping, with Frankie and Ray staying home with a mean babysitter.
Taylor's friend, Blair (Ciara Bravo) is coming to the house and wants Taylor to see a midnight movie with her. She tricks Ray into letting her go and Michelle and Ray get their revenge. Meanwhile, Miles helps Frankie on a model river boat project making Louie feel left out and Ray trains Michelle for a marathon.
The Great Frankini accidentally hypnotizes Miles to become a bad ghost instead of her intended target, Louie. Frankie must find a way to break the spell before Miles destroys Taylor's school talent show performance.
After Louie and Frankie go too far with one of their pranks, Michelle and Ray separate them. But later on, the two are very miserable so Michelle and Ray try to get the duo back together. Meanwhile, Miles thinks Taylor is hiding something and tries to figure out what it is.
Taylor gets a famous singer, Skyler Makepeace, to perform for the school's fundraiser, but that means Frankie and Taylor cannot do their tradition of "Crazy Cake Day". So, Frankie sabotages Taylor's interview with him. After realizing how much it meant to Taylor, she and Louie try to get him back. Meanwhile, when Miles has a crush on a ghost girl named Wendy, Ray wants to give Miles his "fatherly advice", but Michelle goes too far in trying to get them together.
Ray's dad drops by the house to spend time with the Prestons, but Ray is worried because the Hathaways are living in the house and he kept them a secret from his dad.
Louie lies to his ghost friends about Ray's job; he says Ray's a secret agent but the truth comes out on Career Day. Meanwhile, Michelle, Taylor, and Frankie meet Clay Bannister, the food critic from Pilot, and try to make it up to him by convincing his mother he's not crazy for believing in ghosts.
James, the boy who could see ghosts, is back and informs Miles that he's moving away because his bowling alley is haunted. Miles tries to meet the ghost responsible, but is shocked when it turns out to be Ray. Meanwhile, Michelle's bakery is struggling, so she uses Louie's possession of Frankie to turn their rap video into a live performance at Pie Squared. When James discovers that Taylor and Miles fake-captured Ray, Taylor tells him that Ray and Miles really are ghosts, and he promises not to say anything.
Louie tries to join a boy club of ghosts called the Boo Crew and Frankie disguises herself as a boy to get in. Meanwhile, a conman tries to sue Michelle in court when he gets injured.
Taylor is trying to help her new gymnastic member, a klutzy Meadow while Louie tries to prank her out of revenge, but unsuccessful in every attempts. At the same time, Miles asks Frankie to be his proxy for a spelling bee contest.
Frankie gets help from Louie in taking revenge on her arch-nemesis during the school festival, but conflict arise between them when Louie forgets to attend to help her; a small gathering at the bakery turns into a big party, and Taylor is conflicted on stopping it due to peer pressure.
For accidentally causing her birthday party to be cancelled, Louie turns Frankie into a half ghost and takes her to Ghost World. After a change of heart about the party, Michelle is having a hard time finding entertainment while Ray tries to fill the spot. Meanwhile later Miles and Taylor enter Ghost World to help Louie break out a now fading-out-of-existence Frankie from ghost jail.
Feeling left out as Taylor always spend her time with Meadow, Miles tricks her by overshadowing Meadow and telling her to color her hair by herself. Louie and Frankie move out of the house into the treehouse.
Wanting to get back at Taylor for intruding her room, Frankie plays mind games with her older sister when she's doing her school assignment with Scott. Meanwhile, Miles covers for Louie for haunting the bakery.
After Louie volunteers to take care of the class ferret, he becomes possessed and breaks Miles telescope. Meanwhile, Taylor helps her mom with decorations to get into a party with Scott.
When the Hathaways meet the Thundermans, they befriend each other, but when Phoebe is possessed by the Green Ghoul, they have to work together. Billy works with Frankie, Max works with Taylor and Miles, and Nora works with Louie.
Guest star: Sydney Scotia as Amanda
Note: This is one-hour special combined crossover episode with Nickelodeon's The Thundermans; Part 1 aired as an episode of The Thundermans.
Taylor accidentally hits Meadow in the head while using Madame LaBeuf's staff when Louie tries to scare off Meadow while earning his ghost scouting badge. Meanwhile, Frankie tries to help Miles cope with Mirabella leaving for boarding school.
Taylor and Meadow let the inchworm mascot get stolen by a rivalry and they ask Miles for help. Meanwhile, Louie helps Michelle produce a commercial for the bakery.
After an argument on the phone with Scott, Taylor meets an intriguing guy named Antonio, who turns out to be a ghost. Meanwhile, Louie and Frankie discover swelling hormones in a pastry that Michelle is selling. Taylor must choose Scott or Antonio for a good boyfriend. Taylor changes her thought every second, but then realizes that Scott knows her and loves her more than Antonio, and that she only just met him.
Miles finds himself in an awkward date with Meadow, so Taylor insist of helping Miles hide his secret. Meanwhile, Frankie doesn't want to listen to Michelle's audio, but she also doesn't want to hurt Michelle's feelings, so Louie shape shifts into Frankie, but things get intense, so Louie ask Ray for help, so now Louie is Frankie and Ray is Louie, but then things get tied into a knot, and now Louie's teacher is Ray, Ray is Louie, and Louie is Frankie. Later, Frankie, Louie, and Ray apologizes for lying to Michelle, and for their punishment, she makes them suffer by listening to all of the audio, but it turns out that Miles shape shifted into all three of them.
Frankie and Louie want a toy that cost $4,000, but Michelle thinks that it's too much money to pay for whilst Ray introduces Miles' girlfriend to the family, who looks very similar to Taylor.
Taylor announces to the family that Scott invited Taylor and them to meet his parents and she tell everyone to make a good first impression and not embarrass her. Meanwhile, Frankie is suspicious of one of Louie's classmates when she asks Louie to teach her how to be a better ghost whilst at the grocery store, Michelle talks to other customers while Taylor goes to get croutons. At Scott's house, Michelle looks at a picture of Scott's parents, but then realizes that his mom was the lady she put a plastic bag over, now Taylor must keep Scott's mom from ever seeing Michelle.
Michelle gets the bakery included on a tour of haunted restaurants, and Louie has to pull off the haunt. Meanwhile, Taylor wants to be there for gymnastics, but Michelle needs her to babysit Frankie.
Taylor wants to give Meadow a surprise party, but it accidentally gets complicated when Miles throws a wrench into the plan. Meanwhile, after a tragic sledding accident, Frankie breaks her wrist and is afraid to go to the hospital.
When the ghost council finds out the Prestons have been living alongside humans, the council forces them to make a decision between haunting the Hathaways and leaving their home forever.
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