Word. We don’t know where he came from. He just showed up one night. What is that thing? He’s not an alien. What is he? We think he might be a ghost, and he wants to be friends with us. He can’t hear, and he can’t talk; he can read anything. He takes letters and he writes with them. If you can see him, that means he wants you on the team. He’s a ghost and he writes to us – Ghostwriter! Ghostwriter, what a trip!
Ghostwriter goes down in history as one of the best shows PBS has ever aired. It was one of the few shows that could combine mystery (who burned down Mr. Brinker’s store?) with lessons about the importance of having a library card. And it remained cool because all the kids got to wear pens around their necks, write Rally “the first letter of your name” to gather the gang during emergencies, and have parents like Samuel L. Jackson. Well, only Jamal got Samuel L. Jackson, Lenny had to settle for a musician father who influenced her to pursue music even though her strengths clearly laid elsewhere. But it didn’t matter because she along with brother-sister team Alex and Gaby (who shared a bedroom), Tina, and Rob were all part of their own secret society named the Ghostwriter Team. And the Abelson children sat every Sunday night, the only night they could a
ctually sit in front of the television and eat their dinner, and watched as the team solved the important mysteries that plagued their local neighborhood. Ghostwriter really was a trip.
Ghostwriter goes down in history as one of the best shows PBS has ever aired. It was one of the few shows that could combine mystery (who burned down Mr. Brinker’s store?) with lessons about the importance of having a library card. And it remained cool because all the kids got to wear pens around their necks, write Rally “the first letter of your name” to gather the gang during emergencies, and have parents like Samuel L. Jackson. Well, only Jamal got Samuel L. Jackson, Lenny had to settle for a musician father who influenced her to pursue music even though her strengths clearly laid elsewhere. But it didn’t matter because she along with brother-sister team Alex and Gaby (who shared a bedroom), Tina, and Rob were all part of their own secret society named the Ghostwriter Team. And the Abelson children sat every Sunday night, the only night they could a
ctually sit in front of the television and eat their dinner, and watched as the team solved the important mysteries that plagued their local neighborhood. Ghostwriter really was a trip.
