Ghostwriter (1993)
The show is about a group of teens who goes around solving neighborhood crimes and mysteries in New York City as young detectives with the help of a very secretive friend: Ghostwriter! ... See full summary »
-
Episode 1 - Ghost Story: Part 1
Release Date: 4 Oct. 1992Jamal Jenkins' family is preparing for his older sister Danitra to go to college. That night Jamal sees strange things happening in the park, then receives a strange message on his computer from a mysterious being who asks, "Where are the children? Are they all right?" The next morning he revisits the park and finds a strange coded message, then finds a warning in his locker. His attempts to find out what's going on lead him to Lenni Frazier, a girl who lives with her musician father in an apartment above the bodega owned by the parents of Alex Fernandez and his ...
-
Episode 2 - Ghost Story: Part 2
Release Date: 11 Oct. 1992Jamal and Lenni find out their new friend can't see or hear, but can communicate through words, so they type to him on the computer. He doesn't know who he is or where he came from, but knows he used to be a man. They name him Ghostwriter, and try to crack the coded message Jamal found at the park, along with a button that says THABTO. Lenni leads him to Alex, who's an expert on mysteries and codes. Gaby and Tina are making a documentary covering the backpack robberies. Gaby discovers the stolen backpacks are being left in the junkyard, with only the lunch money ...
-
Episode 3 - Ghost Story: Part 3
Release Date: 18 Oct. 1992Alex becomes a member of the Ghostwriter team. Jamal suspects THABTO is connected to the gang of people stealing backpacks, who wear green two-headed masks. The team asks Ghostwriter to find more THABTO buttons, and the search leads them to the Party Animal store where an order was placed for four buttons. Ghostwriter leads them to a locker at school that's connected to one of the THABTO members, but they don't know who. Gaby reveals she also got a coded message in her backpack, and the team now tries to crack two codes and decide to call on Ghostwriter for help. Alex...
-
Episode 4 - Ghost Story: Part 4
Release Date: 25 Oct. 1992Ghostwriter makes contact with Gaby, and she'd made a fourth member of the team. Alex finally catches somebody using the school locker Ghostwriter led them to, and follows the kid to the arcade where he joins three others who are playing a game called Double Defenders, about two headed aliens. Alex finally figures out how to crack the coded message Jamal found, and they discover the THABTOs are meeting in the corner of the navy yard the night before the Double Defenders tournament for "the final secret ceremony". Alex decides to infiltrate the THABTOs to find out what...
-
Episode 5 - Ghost Story: Part 5
Release Date: 1 Nov. 1992Alex gives the wrong name during the THABTO ceremony and is found out, he and his friends are chased through the navy yard by the three remaining members. They manage to escape and regroup to figure out the THABTOs' plan. Going over the tape recording of the THABTOs' ceremony, they decipher the group's chant to figure out their plan for the Double Defenders tournament and finally solve the mystery of what THABTO stands for. After the case is solved, Jamal decides they should stick together and they christen themselves the Ghostwriter Team.
-
Episode 6 - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?: Part 1
Release Date: 1 Nov. 1992Jamal is playing a computer game inside Mr. Brinker's video store, when a man comes in and gives Mr. Brinker a piece of paper that enrages him. Tina comes in to buy a blank videotape, but insists the one Brinker hands her isn't new, he yells at her and runs her out, then yells at Jamal, complaining about kids running off his customers and only buying cheap things. Jamal goes home and writes a complaint letter against Mr. Brinker. He goes back to the store at 7 P.M. and drops it in the slot in the door, then firecrackers go off behind him, and he rips his sleeve in the...
-
Episode 7 - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?: Part 2
Release Date: 8 Nov. 1992Mr. Brinker accuses Jamal of starting the fire in his store. Jamal denies being there the night before, even though the police have a surveillance camera that show somebody at the drop slot at the time before the fire. Ghostwriter starts asking Jamal about the F.B.I. and copyright infringement, so he and Alex head to the library to find out what Mr. Brinker was so upset about the other day. Gaby and Tina work on a video to try and figure out who set the fire, tracking down the cab driver who took the man to Mr. Brinker's and find out he left for Washington D.C. the ...
-
Episode 8 - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?: Part 3
Release Date: 15 Nov. 1992Lenni is furious with Jamal for lying to her about being at the store the night of the fire. Jamal confides in Craig that he's being accused of starting the fire even though he didn't do it. Ghostwriter makes contact with Tina, and the team comes together to explain Ghostwriter to her, and she becomes a member of the team. Ghostwriter warns the kids that 'videos are key' to the fire mystery after finding out the 'blank' tape Brinker sold Tina had a movie on it. Alex suspects the man who came to Brinker's store is an FBI agent. Craig comes to Jamal's defense when Lt. ...
-
Episode 9 - Who Burned Mr. Brinker's Store?: Part 4
Release Date: 22 Nov. 1992Gaby and Tina track down the delivery driver Jamal saw at Brinker's store the night of the fire, and find out he supplies blank videotapes. Craig has Jamal and Alex help him sneak in to Brinker's store to check the back room where the fire broke out, to find the evidence they need once and for all to solve who set the fire.
-
Episode 10 - To Catch a Creep: Part 1
Release Date: 29 Nov. 1992Add a Plot
-
Episode 11 - To Catch a Creep: Part 2
Release Date: 6 Dec. 1992Add a Plot
-
Episode 12 - To Catch a Creep: Part 3
Release Date: 13 Dec. 1992Add a Plot
-
Episode 13 - To Catch a Creep: Part 4
Release Date: 20 Dec. 1992Add a Plot
-
Episode 14 - Into the Comics: Part 1
Release Date: 27 Dec. 1992Lenni persuades the team to enter a scavenger hunt-style contest in order to win the chance to be drawn into an issue of Hoodman. Their efforts are hindered by an embittered comic book artist named Manny Gites, who will stop at nothing to win the contest disguised as his own character, Stoop Dude. Meanwhile, Rob continues to be distant from the team, but makes friends with an eccentric homeless poet.
-
Episode 15 - Into the Comics: Part 2
Release Date: 3 Jan. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 16 - Into the Comics: Part 3
Release Date: 10 Jan. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 17 - Into the Comics: Part 4
Release Date: 10 Jan. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 18 - To the Light: Part 1
Release Date: 24 Jan. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 19 - To the Light: Part 2
Release Date: 31 Jan. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 20 - To the Light: Part 3
Release Date: 7 Feb. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 21 - To the Light: Part 4
Release Date: 14 Feb. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 22 - To the Light: Part 5
Release Date: 21 Feb. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 23 - Who's Who: Part 1
Release Date: 7 Mar. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 24 - Who's Who: Part 2
Release Date: 14 Mar. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 25 - Who's Who: Part 3
Release Date: 21 Mar. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 26 - Who's Who: Part 4
Release Date: 28 Mar. 1993Add a Plot
-
Episode 27 - Over a Barrel: Part 1
Release Date: 11 Apr. 1993Everyone is working in the local community garden, a successful place that's bursting with action. Kids come to play, rabbits live peacefully, and Lenni's friend Sally runs a free food program with the vegetables grown there. Gaby is digging in the garden when she complains of a headache and suddenly collapses. Everyone rushes to help her and they take her home, though Gaby doesn't know why she fainted. While she's resting in bed, Jamal drops off a container of chicken vegetable soup that his grandmother made. Alex assures everyone that his sister will be fine but ...
-
Episode 28 - Over a Barrel: Part 2
Release Date: 18 Apr. 1993The kids find out it will take at least six months until the government can move the barrels of toxic waste out of the garden. They're disappointed until they notice Fanny Mae Banner's show at Lenni's house. She's a well-known journalist who catches wrongdoers live on television. They want her to humiliate the person who dumped the barrels in front of a whole audience but Banner only handles scandals and other hot topics. The team decides to find the culprit themselves and force that person to remove the barrels as soon as possible. Gaby hears that the rabbits in the ...
-
Episode 29 - Over a Barrel: Part 3
Release Date: 25 Apr. 1993Lenni and Rob meet the mysterious person who turns out to be Momo. He's heard about the perc and wants to help them out. He explains that his boss has records in his office of various haulers that take things away from the store but he can't get into it yet. The kids know that probably whoever hauled away the perc dumped it into the garden. Ghostwriter finds the name of the hauler: Miller Haulers, run by John Miller. Lenni comes home to find Sally and her father fixing dinner. Uncomfortable with seeing them together, she snaps at them and runs into her room. She ...
-
Episode 30 - Over a Barrel: Part 4
Release Date: 25 Apr. 1993Alex and Tina head over to Miller Haulers and Tina uses her video camera to catch Mr. Miller feeding the invoices into a shredder. Tina can't see the writing close enough but it shows that he is destroying any evidence against him. They're almost caught by Miller so Alex drags them into a garbage truck to hide. Tina panics until Alex assures her, "Whatever happens, at least we're together." Then they kiss. Back at Lenni's house, they show the video and shredded invoices to their friends but they realize more proof is needed. So they write out a letter to Fanny Mae ...
-
Episode 31 - Building Bridges: Part 1
Release Date: 25 Apr. 1993Lenni and Alex are excited about running Huston's upcoming Star Jam Talent Show but a sudden increase in local violence is making all of the kids worried. Their friend Kiambu is robbed and beaten up. Rumors are spreading that a new gang has moved into the neighborhood. Everyone is sent home with notes to their parents, assuring that Hurston School will do everything possible to keep the students safe. Jamal has daydreams about asking Jasmine to the Star Jam but he's too nervous to ask her in person. Walter is annoyed with Lenni, Alex, and Kiambu so he walks out on the...
-
Episode 32 - Building Bridges: Part 2
Release Date: 2 May 1993The team begins a list of suspects to find out who trashed the school. They've already got the Thunderheads down because their logo was found on the school wall and Walter Haines too because he's furious at the Star Jam committee. The Ghostwriter team wants to put Victor Torres down as a suspect but Rob insists that he's innocent. Rob goes to visit Victor who lives in a noisy rundown neighborhood. He's introduced to Victor's older brother Quincy, who is confined to a wheelchair. Rob asks Victor why he wasn't in school and tells him about the graffiti. Victor insists ...
-
Episode 33 - Building Bridges: Part 3
Release Date: 9 May 1993The students discover their auditorium has also been vandalized. Rob find's Victor's signature gold chain on the ground and thinks someone has planted it there to frame him. While typing in his room, Jamal pours out his frustrations to Ghostwriter who suggests that Jamal writes an apology letter to Jasmine. He delivers it in person and she accepts his apology as well as an invitation to go to the Star Jam with him. The team goes over their evidence and they add a new suspect: Tony Boyd, the second best runner on the track team. He's jealous of Victor's recent success,...
-
Episode 34 - Building Bridges: Part 4
Release Date: 4 Jul. 1993The Thunderheads are furious that Rob found their hangout and start beating him up. Suddenly Victor runs in and yells at them to leave Rob alone. Miguel asks Victor to prove his loyalty to the Thunderheads while Rob begs him to come back to school. Victor reluctantly turns down Miguel's offer. He reminds Miguel that he saved him once in a gang fight so Miguel owes him a favor. He tells the Thunderheads to let Rob go but Victor's no longer accepted into their gang ever again. As they leave the hangout, Victor fumes at Rob for his stupidity but he's glad to see his ...