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The Best Episodes of Ghost Whisperer Season 5

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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...
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  • Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
    7.9/10(234)
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    #1 - 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

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  • The Children's Parade
    7.8/10(315)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Lost in the Shadows
    7.7/10(207)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Till Death Do Us Start
    7.6/10(229)
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    #4 - 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

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  • Do Over
    7.6/10(218)
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    #5 - Do Over

    Season 5 Episode 4

    Aired 10/16/2009

    Melinda helps a dead doctor who is reliving a surgery that went wrong.

    Director: John Gray

    Writer: John Gray

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  • Dead to Me
    7.6/10(198)
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    #6 - 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

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  • Dead Ringer
    7.5/10(188)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Birthday Presence
    7.4/10(250)
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    #8 - 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

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  • Devil's Bargain
    7.4/10(193)
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    #9 - 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

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  • Dead Listing
    7.4/10(208)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Dead Air
    7.4/10(486)
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    #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

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  • On Thin Ice
    7.4/10(199)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Head Over Heels
    7.3/10(216)
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    #13 - 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

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  • Blessings in Disguise
    7.3/10(191)
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    #14 - 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

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  • Implosion
    7.3/10(195)
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    #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

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  • Dead Eye
    7.3/10(186)
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    #16 - 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

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  • Lethal Combination
    7.3/10(187)
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    #17 - 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

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  • Blood Money
    7.3/10(181)
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    #18 - 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

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  • See No Evil
    7.2/10(214)
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    #19 - 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

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  • Cause for Alarm
    7.2/10(202)
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    #20 - 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

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  • Excessive Forces
    7.2/10(217)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Living Nightmare
    7.2/10(186)
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    #22 - 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

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Old Sins Cast Long Shadows" is the best rated episode of "Ghost Whisperer" season 5. It scored 7.9/10 based on 234 votes. Directed by Jefery Levy and written by Mark B. Perry, it aired on 3/12/2010. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Children's Parade".