Ghostwriter

1992
7.9| 0h30m| TV-Y| en
Synopsis

Ghostwriter is an American television program created by Liz Nealon and produced by the Children's Television Workshop and BBC One. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the final episode aired on February 13, 1995. The series revolves around a close knit circle of friends from Brooklyn who solve neighborhood crimes and mysteries as a team of young detectives with the help of an invisible ghost named Ghostwriter. Ghostwriter can communicate with the kids only by manipulating whatever text and letters he can find and using them to form words and sentences. The series was filmed on location in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

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Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Mjeteconer Just perfect...
Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
bkoganbing Ghostwriter was this interesting show aimed for the juvenile trade to encourage folks to read. That's something you have to encourage at a young age. It was shot in and the episodes were located in some familiar areas of New York City and watching the show it all looked quite familiar to me.Just who or what was Ghostwriter. He was this other worldly being who could only and who chose to only communicate with a select group of adolescents by writing wherever, be it on a computer or on a bathroom wall. The kids got involved in solving a mystery and their method was to read Ghostwriter's clues and keep a case notebook of what they learned. Eventually they put things together.I remember one episode where Ghostwriter brought up some painful memories for people in Brooklyn. He had them go to Sullivan Place because an old ballpark was located there and that had something to do with the mystery. Kids their age in the 1990s would have no memories of Ebbetts Field, but they did the required research to learn. A show that teaches how to research is a valuable thing indeed.I wish it were still running.
thesecrethour This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid! Each new mystery held something else new and completely terrifying for a little kid! And that purple goo in some of the episodes scared the hell out of me and my sister. You can't imagine how insanely awesome this show is. If you're a little kid looking for a show, or an teen/adult looking for a blast from the past, you'll love Ghostwriter.Kids saving New York from weird and terrible beings, come on, what's not to love, no matter who you are! And if you're a girl ages 7-10 you'll find Alex incredibly hot! I had the biggest crush on him when I was little.The acting is pretty good too for a bunch of kids in the 90's.
tlboberick I loved watching Ghostwriter when I was little. It was a mystery show for kids where this ghost would help solve mysteries by reading clues, and would appear to the kids only as words/text. The idea was great, but I've come to realize the acting wasn't very good.On another note, I was just watching the premier episode of Real World Philadelphia, and noticed that William "Willie" Hernandez is on it. He is now around 23, and is a personal shopper. He said that his passion, though, is not in shopping, but in the arts. When he was a kid he played Hector on "Ghostwriter." Turned out to be a pretty good looking guy!
Joe-551 I remember when I was young watching this on PBS. It wasn't the same sparkled shows meant for the demographic. With a little rewritting, it could have easily made it in primetime (don't flame me for it, with a budget and better direction, along with some slightly more mature storys, it could survive). The stories were fairly good, but a little aged by today's standards (the one with the whole hackers thing).It even seemed like a sub-plot between plots was forming with that rob person, if I remeber right that is, in the middle of its run, but thats just me. There was so much more potential with it, like wtf is ghostwriter (beyond the little summary it gives). Another thing is, the characters had more depth then most children show charaters. I sure miss the show (watched on noggin when I got it, o well).A notch above the rest