Ghostwriter (1992)

Genre

fantasy television series

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Length

4 seasons, 87 episodes

Rated

TV-Y

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of kids in Brooklyn solve neighborhood mysteries with the help of a ghost who communicates by moving letters and words. The ghost only appears to them and they use puzzles and clues to catch criminals.

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What happens

Ghostwriter is an educational children's mystery television series produced by Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop) and BBC Television. The series revolves around a multiethnic group of friends from Brooklyn who solve neighborhood crimes and mysteries as a team of youth detectives with the help of a ghost named Ghostwriter. Ghostwriter can communicate with children 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. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the last episode aired on February 12, 1995. It reran on Noggin, a channel co-founded by the Children's Television Workshop, from 1999 to 2003. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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