Ghostwriter

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Aired: 1992 - 1995
Show Type: Live Action
Country of Origin: US

Ghostwriter was a television series co-produced by what was then the Children's Television Workshop and the BBC. It aired on PBS in the United States from October 1992 to February 1995 and as reruns for some time after.It also had a run on the childrens channel noggin from 2000-2001.The series featured a group of teenagers in New York City that solved mysteries with the help of a ghost that communicated through writing. The show was intended to teach writing skills to young viewers. Ghostwriter was critically acclaimed and honored for presenting a realistic, racially diverse world in its two-hour mystery stories. By the end of its third season, Ghostwriter ranked in the top five of all childrens' shows on American television. Ghostwriter has been broadcast in 24 countries worldwide, and generated a number of foreign-language adaptations, including the top-rated program on Discovery Kids Latin America (Fantasma Escritor).

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This_guyPosted: 10/30/2008

I used to watch this all the time when it first aired on PBS on weeknights (I think). I used to think it was weird that all the kids had the exact same type of penmanship when writing.

CGxSMASHPosted: 12/23/2008

aww ghostwriterr! i was such a dork when i was younger that my friends and i re-created the club with us. i was lenny cuz i looked most like her. we had these note pads we'd write on and crap lol & i even have the board game haha

KenickiePosted: 12/27/2008

Ghostwriter is one of my favorite shows of all time! I watch it all of the time on YouTube, and I'm even loading an episode now. My favorite was Alex...he was a total babe. I wonder what they're doing now...

Melee5466Posted: 01/02/2009

I love there first movie!! WHAT WAS GHOSTWRITER IN HIS OTHER LIFE i need to know....

thefredsfamilyPosted: 06/23/2009

I used to watch this show all the time on the old PBS Kids. I found the first episode on VHS at a antique shop!!!

"He's a Ghost, and He Writes to us...Ghostwriter!"

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