The Best Episodes of Ghostwriter
Every episode of Ghostwriter ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Ghostwriter!
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.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Ghostwriter" is "Over a Barrel (3)", rated 8.8/10 from 8 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Over a Barrel (3)" aired on 4/25/1993 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "To the Light (5)".
8.8/10 8 votes#1 - Over a Barrel (3)
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/25/1993
Tina and Alex learn from Momo that someone substituted his boss's barrel's but he has no access to his files. They ask Ghostwriter for some help and learn who substituted the barrels. They go straight to Miller's place and learn that he also sponsors a children's program. They overhear him arguing over the phone about the barrels and planing to destroy some invoices that prove he is responsible for the toxic waste. They head town to Momo's place to get the invoices but someone has gotten to the invoices first. They realize that Miller is probably the thief but have no proof.
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8.7/10 8 votes#2 - To the Light (5)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1993
The team learns of Rob's whereabouts and the tunnel he's trapped in. With the help of Jamal's dad, Double T sets out to rescue Lisa and Rob.
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8.7/10 8 votes#3 - Over a Barrel (4)
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/25/1993
The team writes a petition for reporter Fannie Mae Banner who does reports on people caught doing something wrong. They decide to picket while Alex and Gaby video tape Miller destroying the evidence.
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8.7/10 19 votes#4 - Attack of the Slime Monster (1)
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/22/1995
Casey is writing a scary story for a local contest about ""Gooey Gus: the Slime Monster"", a doll that spits out grape bubblegum. Casey thinks her story isn't scary enough, so she asks for Lenni's help. Lenni adds atmosphere and writes how the Slime Monster is about to come after Casey. Alex and Gaby come to help, too, and Gaby writes about Alex and Jamal finding the Slime Monster seemingly alive in an alley, and then Alex, Gaby, and Casey find the Slime Monster in a crock pot.
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8.6/10 10 votes#5 - Who's Who (4)
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/28/1993
The gang gets all set for the award show, but the trouble begins when Lana goes to work on her speech. Tina is suspicious when she discovers an imposter in Lana's room.
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- 8.6/10 9 votes
#6 - Get the Message (1)
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1993
Tina is videotaping Max setting up his instruments when he is nearly killed in a car accident caused by Mr. Fernandez. Fernandez says that he swerved to avoid hitting someone that ran in front of his car, but Max thinks he did it deliberately. Lenni begins accuse Fernandez of being a reckless driver and Alex angrily begins stalking Lenni. Gaby breaks up her friendship with Tina when Tina writes an unpleasant story in the paper.
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Writer: Carin Greenberg Baker
- 8.6/10 7 votes
#7 - What's Up With Alex? (4)
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 5/1/1994
The ""mysterious stranger"" turns out to be a drug dealer that Kevin had to pay back. Alex talks to Mr. Oliver about Kevin's drug problem. Meanwhile, the team tricks Spencer into telling them that the Dragons player in the video was Kevin. Jamal, Alex, & Jeffrey finish their school project. Then, Ghostwriter gives clues that Kevin has been selling the stolen items to pay back his drug dealer and is planning on selling his grandfather's prized trophy. Alex goes to the basketball court to try and help him. Later, Alex's father entertains the thought of Alex getting his own room.
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Writer: Carin Greenberg Baker
8.5/10 11 votes#8 - Building Bridges (4)
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 7/4/1993
Rob gets into a confrontation with the thunderheads while trying to prove Victor's innocence. Victor agrees to let Rob find out who's been trying to frame him.
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- 8.5/10 15 votes
#9 - Who is Max Mouse? (1)
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 12/26/1993
Jamal is writing an essay for a high school he wants to get into. Just then, Ghostwriter appears with a warning. Suddenly he is kicked out of the computer. A weird message appears from someone or something called Max Mouse. At the auditorium, the computer teacher informs everyone that a hacker is loose. He warns the students not to use any disks. Strange things start happening: the sports page advertisments for basketball tryouts is changed, and Jasmine is arrested because she is suspected of using stolen credit cards. While Tina was trashing in the computer lab, she finds strange words on a sheet of paper with a wad of gum on it, along with Janice Hall's computer quiz, which was very hard, and she had gotten an A on that quiz. [Why would it be in the trash? --minnymouse35] Then Ghostwriter informs the team that Lenni could be in trouble with the police, and they learn that the words Tina found on the sheet are passwords to get into the school computer.
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8.4/10 14 votes#10 - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store? (3)
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1992
The team learns that they have only a few days to clear Jamal before his arrest.
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8.4/10 10 votes#11 - Building Bridges (3)
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/9/1993
Rob feels that somehow Victor is being framed for the vandalism. He suspects either Tony Boyd, because he's no longer the best player on the team, or Walter Haines. because he fought with Victor the other day. Victor considers quitting after finding out that he's been accused of the vandalism.
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- 8.4/10 7 votes
#12 - Just in Time (3)
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1993
Frank and Catherine learn that the brush salesman might have been a con artist. Jamal's dad is getting sick. The team learns that Frank and Catherine helped catch the thief years ago but history will change if they don't send the information soon.
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- 8.4/10 11 votes
#13 - A Crime of Two Cities (1)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1994
Jamal and his family visit London. England. Jamal and his friends discover a plot to kidnap the son of a famous author. Jamal uses Ghostwriter to warn the team about the plot since the author is in New York.
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- 8.4/10 7 votes
#14 - A Crime of Two Cities (3)
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1994
Jamal, Becky and Sam find out that the bicyclist's real name is Danny Winkler, and Wise Rita is his aunt. Then Becky and Sam discover something...They can see Ghostwriter! Jamal gets captured by Danny Winkler, and they read the Sophie Madison books for clues to solve the mystery.
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- 8.4/10 16 votes
#15 - Attack of the Slime Monster (4)
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/1995
The team trys to come up with a conclusion. Tina and Casey discover the Slime Monster's weakness, cold. Just before the discover their plan, He attacks Lenni and the rest of the team! Luckily, Tina escapes and Jamal and Tina melt the Slime Monster with vegtable oil.
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8.3/10 8 votes#16 - To the Light (4)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1993
The team learns of Double T's whereabouts. When they find him, he confesses that he was the one who broke his broom and tore his journal. The team asks where Rob is, but he says that he doesn't know. He agrees to help the team look for Rob.
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8.3/10 10 votes#17 - Building Bridges (2)
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1993
Miss Kelly considers canceling the talent show but the students convince her not to. Rob learns the reason why Victor left his gang but then more vandalism occurs.
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- 8.3/10 9 votes
#18 - Am I Blue? (1)
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1993
Gaby is excited when she learns that her heroine, Galaxy Girl, is making a special show at Hurston. She wants to buy a Galaxy Girl costume to wear at the assembly but she doesn't have enough money, so she borrows some money from her parents cashier planing to return the costume and get a refund. At the show something goes wrong and the model spaceship is stolen. She can't return the costume because it was on sale. Gaby is heart broken when she doesn't get to meet Galaxy Girl. She becomes more worried when the team leaves to confront Calvin but is even more scared when she finds the space ship model in her toy chest.
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- 8.3/10 8 votes
#19 - Don't Stop the Music (1)
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 1/23/1994
Lenni, Max and Sally are all watching Lenni's video from the Star Jam episode Building Bridges. Just then, they get a call from Smash Records. Jade Morgan is inspired by the video and wants Lenni to star her in a music video. Lenni has writer's block so she writes a song about self-confidence. Jade is inspired by the song and decides to allow the team to be in the video.
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8.2/10 16 votes#20 - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store? (4)
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1992
The team later learns that Mr. Brinker copies video tapes, which is against the law. They also learn that Mr. Brinker set fire to his own store, but shut off the smoke alarm, so Mr. Brinker is arrested. Also, according to Tina and Gaby, Mr. Brinker set his clock 1 hour earlier than when the fire happened.
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- 8.2/10 7 votes
#21 - Just in Time (2)
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1993
The Team sends Frank and Catherine some information. They list suspects Ms. O'Boyle the housekeeper and Lucy since they hate Frank. They also learn that two other people were in the house: a brush salesman and the coal man.
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- 8.2/10 8 votes
#22 - Who is Max Mouse? (2)
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/3/1993
Max Mouse continues to wreak havoc in Hurston. Jamal Lenni, and a lot of other kids grades get changed, false alarms go off and a child is nearly killed in a fire because the fire department is responding to a false alarm. Ms. Kelly has had enough. The kids have never seen her so upset. Then there's a new message on the computer but this one looks serious. The team's three suspects are Calvin, Erica and Janice.
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- 8.2/10 9 votes
#23 - Who is Max Mouse? (3)
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/10/1994
Jamal suspects that Janice lied about having her own computer. The team challenges Max Mouse to some online games and creates their own screen name and get the phone numbers of their suspects. Then they learn Calvin had another screename: Red Parrot, so they take him off the list. Hector gets some tutoring from Alex on how to face up to a bully. Just then Lenni and Jamal's names and phone numbers appear on the police suspect list.
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8.1/10 26 votes#24 - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store? (1)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1992
A mysterious man delivers a letter to Brinker. Whatever it says makes Brinker so mad he takes his anger out on Jamal and his friends. Jamal writes a letter to calm Brinker down and delivers it to him on the same night a fire is set.
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- 8.1/10 13 votes
#25 - Just in Time (1)
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1993
Ghostwriter travels back in time to the 1920's before the Ghostwriter team existed. There he learns of a young boy named Frank who's living with a foster family named the Camilans. Frank is accused of stealing a priceless tea set. Nobody believes Frank except his best friend Catherine.
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