The Best Episodes of Ghost Whisperer Season 5
Every episode of Ghost Whisperer Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Ghost Whisperer Season 5!
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Ghost Whisperer" season 5 is "Birthday Presence", rated 7.4/10 from 241 user votes. It was directed by Jennifer Love Hewitt and written by Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds. "Birthday Presence" aired on 9/25/2009 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "See No Evil".
7.4/10 241 votes#1 - Birthday Presence
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2009
Melinda gives birth to a baby boy who has inherited her gift of seeing spirits. However, the baby has one important difference in gift which will have extreme consequences.
Director: Jennifer Love Hewitt
Writer: Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds
7.2/10 207 votes#2 - See No Evil
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2009
Melinda looks into a chain email that appears to be preying on the citizens of Grandview.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Jeannine Renshaw
7.6/10 219 votes#3 - Till Death Do Us Start
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/2009
A messy family reunion ensues after Eli's father suffers from a heart attack. Eli also has a reunion with his mother who has been unable to cross over for ten years
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Mark B. Perry
7.2/10 193 votes#5 - Cause for Alarm
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/2009
Melinda help Eli with a patient who is being haunted by his sister. Meanwhile, Jim and Melinda have concerns over something Aiden has been seeing.
Director: Ian Sander
Writer: Melissa Blake, Joy Blake
7.3/10 207 votes#6 - Head Over Heels
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/2009
The Headless Horseman from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow is haunting Melinda and when the legendary book mysteriously shows up at Aiden's school Melinda becomes worried for Aiden's safety.
Director: Steven Robman
Writer: Laurie McCarthy, Stephanie Sengupta
7.4/10 186 votes#7 - Devil's Bargain
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/2009
Jim, surprised by his colleague's nonchalance to a paranormal encounter, suspects that he is involved in a med student's sudden disappearance. Meanwhile, Melinda senses trouble when Aiden continues to mention his fear of "the shadows".
Director: James Chressanthis
Writer: Mark B. Perry, P.K. Simonds
7.4/10 201 votes#8 - Dead Listing
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/2009
Melinda is pulled into a murder mystery by a real estate power couple when a ghost leads her to his own corps.
Director: Peter Werner
Writer: Laurie McCarthy, Mark B. Perry
7.7/10 201 votes#9 - Lost in the Shadows
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/2009
When the ghost of a little girl who passed away from leukemia befriends Aiden and threatens Melinda to stay out of her way, Melinda worries for her son's safety.
Director: Kim Moses
Writer: Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds
7.3/10 210 votes#10 - Excessive Forces
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2009
When the ghost of a high school boy accuses a Grandview cop of murdering him, Melinda is convinced that his death wasn't a mere skateboarding accident.
Director: Kenny Leon
Writer: Stephanie Sengupta
7.4/10 480 votes#11 - Dead Air
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/2010
Melinda must help Ned stop a ghost out for revenge when the Grandview radio station broadcasts the humiliating secrets that led to his death.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Laurie McCarthy, Mark B. Perry
7.3/10 185 votes#12 - Blessings in Disguise
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2010
Melinda must discover the truth hidden within a family before it threatens to tear the her family apart.
Director: Jan Eliasberg
Writer: Jeannine Renshaw, Ben Chaney
7.2/10 180 votes#13 - Living Nightmare
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2010
When Melinda discovers a family secret, madness grips the hospital and the town when a ghost who is making no sense haunts a patient who's making even less. Melinda must unravel the mystery behind a madness that grips Jim's (David Conrad) hospital - and the rest of Grandview.
Director: Ian Sander
Writer: Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds
7.6/10 190 votes#14 - Dead to Me
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2010
Ned's Occult Anthropology professor is stalked by the ghost of a secret admirer. Ned tries to use a Ouija board to help solve the mystery but instead is warned that someone they know is going to die soon.
Director: Ralph Hemecker
Writer: Pamela Norris
7.3/10 188 votes#15 - Implosion
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 3/5/2010
A ghost who knows of a hidden munitions dump with unexploded bombs confides in Melinda that one of those bombs is missing and in the wrong hands
Director: John Gray, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Writer: John Gray
7.9/10 227 votes#16 - Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 3/12/2010
Dark forces are fighting for the soul of a little girl that cannot escape the haunted house she has been trapped in for years.
Director: Jefery Levy
Writer: Mark B. Perry
7.4/10 192 votes#17 - On Thin Ice
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 4/2/2010
Damon is a graphic (comic) novelist; kind of hip and edgy, he is being haunted by the ghost of a teen boy as he is ready to release his new novel and strange things start to happen to him and the ghost is tormenting him until Melinda can help him find out who is trying to stop his work, while the things the ghost does to Damon are predicted in his comics.
Director: Ian Sander
Writer: Melissa Blake, Joy Blake
7.4/10 181 votes#18 - Dead Eye
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 4/9/2010
When a confused ghost dressed as a clown begins haunting Melinda's house, it's up to her and Eli to look for answers in the ghost's final case as a private investigator - a love story involving greed and suspicion.
Director: John Behring
Writer: Laurie McCarthy, P.K. Simonds
7.3/10 180 votes#19 - Lethal Combination
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 4/30/2010
When Aiden is put in danger, Melinda won't accept anything but the truth and sets out on a shocking investigation into the life of an angry murdered ghost. Meanwhile, Jim is caught snooping through files in the file room at his work by the morgue coroner Dr. Mavis.
Director: Kim Moses
Writer: Stephanie Sengupta
7.3/10 176 votes#20 - Blood Money
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 5/7/2010
Henry was 18 years old when he was killed, with a gunshot wound in his chest. In life he was a decent boy from a wealthy, loving family, whose parents believed that he should earn his own living and not rely on their handouts. He masterminded his own kidnapping with a friend of his, and seems relieved to be able to explain to his mother, via Melinda, that he's felt guilt and remorse ever since.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Laurie McCarthy
7.5/10 183 votes#21 - Dead Ringer
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 5/14/2010
When the ghost Melinda is trying to help suddenly turns up alive, she finds herself in the middle of a dangerous revenge plot and battling enemies she was unaware she had.
Director: Ian Sander
Writer: Mark B. Perry, Stephanie Sengupta
7.8/10 309 votes#22 - The Children's Parade
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 5/21/2010
Jim's hospital is being haunted by the ghosts of kids from an abandoned polio ward in the early 1900’s. And the connection of Aidan, Melinda, the Shinies and the Shadows will come to a climax and Melinda and Jim will realize that they know almost nothing about Aiden's powers.
Director: John Gray
Writer: John Gray
