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Surreal, quirky mystery/educational series on [[PBS]] and [[The BBC]] from 1992-1995. A group of middle-school kids in Brooklyn, New York are the only ones who can see a benevolent, [[Ghost Amnesia|amnesiac ghost]], whom they dub Ghostwriter. He can only see and communicate through writing, and he uses his abilities to help the kids solve mysteries. The show never made it clear who Ghostwriter was, or why he chooses to help people. Although some episodes implied that the ghost retained more memories than he claimed to, Ghostwriter's true identity was never revealed.
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Not recommended for anyone over the age of twelve, but worth seeing just for how the writers managed to come up with tension without much on-screen violence or if you grew up with the show and see well it was back then to now. And keep an eye out for [[Special Guest|Julia Stiles, Samuel L. Jackson, and Spike Lee in guest roles]].
If you're looking for the trope that could have gone here, see [[Playing Cyrano]]. Not to be confused with a ''literary'' [[wikipedia:Ghostwriter|ghostwriter]], defined by [[That Other Wiki]] as "a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person". Also not to be confused with the film ''[[
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* [[Adult Fear]]:
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* [[Brother Chuck]]: Craig.
** The second episode (which was Craig's first, and only, appearance) was actually the pilot of the show; producers would later shoot a new premiere episode to better explain the origins of Ghostwriter.
* [[Can't Get Away
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Tina was around in the first arc, but didn't see Ghostwriter until the second.
* [[City of Adventure]]: Usually Brooklyn, once London, seeing as the BBC co-produced the series.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]
* [[Cousin Oliver]]: Two of them.
* [[Deal
* [[Dream Sequence]]
* [[Education Mama]]: Tina's parents, who especially won't let Tina's older brother drop out of school to join a band, and scold Tina herself for not helping out enough around the home.
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* [[Inexplicably Awesome]]: Ghostwriter is this.
* [[Jerkass]]: Calvin Ferguson.
* [[Jerk
* [[Just a Kid]]
* [[Kid Detective]]
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* [[Poirot Speak]]: Alex and Gaby's family, as well as Tina's.
* [[Post Modernism]]: The anti-finale.
* [[Put
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]
* [[Revival]]: 1997's ''The New Ghostwriter Mysteries'', which aired on CBS, replaced the entire cast, and made a number of other changes to the series ([[Hey, It's That Guy!|Hey, it's that girl from]] ''[[Harriet the Spy]]''!).
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* [[They Fight Crime]]
* [[Time Travel]]
** Specifically [[Intangible Time Travel]] and [[Write Back to
* [[Token Minority]]: Subverted; there are actually fewer white characters on the show than minorities. This is [[Justified Trope|justified]] since it takes place in the ethnically diverse New York.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]
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