History Series / Ghostwriter

* SixStudentClique
* SixthRanger: Rob.

* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Rob gets treated like this during his introduction, when he becomes a suspect for the Ghostwriter team for not much more than being unsociable and writing fiction (Granted, they didn't know it was fiction at the time). Ghostwriter communicating with him helped to clear his name, and he later joins the team.
* MoralityPet: JerkAss Calvin really loves his pet parrot Attila and is devastated when it dies. In fact, losing Attila seems to have been the catalyst to Calvin's [[CharacterDevelopment semi-redemption.]]

* MultigenerationalHousehold: Jamal's grandmother lives with his family.

* OneHitWonder: [[invoked]] Leif, the electrician when Lenni makes a music video, was teen popstar in the 70s with a [[SillyLoveSongs hit called "Girl".]] It's implied that the success didn't continue because he tried to follow the same formula and refused to branch out.

** 1997's ''The New Ghostwriter Mysteries'', which aired on CBS, replaced the entire cast, and made a number of other changes to the series (including the girl from ''Film/HarrietTheSpy''!).

** Specifically IntangibleTimeTravel and WriteBackToTheFuture: Ghost Writer is the one doing the {{TimeTravel}}ing, and he carries messages back and forth. Ends up having to take TheSlowPath when he finally got too weak to return to 1993.
* TokenMinority: Subverted; there are actually fewer white characters on the show than minorities. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since it takes place in the ethnically diverse New York.

* UnbelievableSourcePlot: the basic premise of the show. The main cast is a bunch of teen [[AmateurSleuth Amateur Detectives]] who are helped by a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghost who can cannot see anything but words and can only interact with the world by reading said words and then rearranging letters and words elsewhere to show what he read]]. The team uses the information from Ghostwriter to solve crimes but they also have to collect conventional evidence [[AdultsAreUseless to get adults to believe them]] since telling them that [[YouHaveToBelieveMe a ghost gave them the clue]] is not gonna help the kids or the victim.

A reboot of the series is scheduled to air on the Apple+ streaming service starting sometime in 2019.

** Apple TV+'s ''Ghostwriter2019''.

* {{Revival}}: There are two:

** Apple TV's ''Ghostwriter2019''.

* {{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 (including the girl from ''Film/HarrietTheSpy''!).

* StepfordSmiler: Safira, a Mozambican girl who actually the daughter of the Mozambican ambassador and his wife and whom Tina later befriends, is this as despite her apparent wealth and privilege, she is actually unhappy because she misses her older brother, Malenga, who walked out on the family after a very bitter and nasty feud with their father.

Not recommended for anyone over the age of twelve, but worth seeing for how the writers managed to create tension without much on-screen violence or if you grew up with the show and see well it was back then to now.

* NotHimself

* Leitmotif: Tina has a four-note string piece that plays in scenes about her, including her appearance in the show's opening.

* HollywoodHacking: Who is Max Mouse? To be fair, it's a little more plausible than other examples

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Rob and Double T, a homeless poet and Vietnam War veteran. Tina and Lana Barnes, a Golden Age movie star. Most of the Ghostwriter team and Jamal's grandma (especially Lenni and Gabi)

-->'''Hector''': When I was living in Puerto Rico, my grandfather told me about this old Hacienda hotel that started going broke. People stopped coming to stay there, and the food got really bad, and there were more animals inside the hotel than outside. (laughs) Once they found this donkey...
-->'''Alex''': Hector, is there a point to this?

* SassyBlackWoman: Jamal's grandma. Jamal's older sister also applies but she doesn't appear much.

Surreal, quirky mystery/educational series created by Sesame Workshop and aired on Creator/{{PBS}} and Creator/TheBBC from 1992-1995. A group of middle-school kids in [[BigApplesauce Brooklyn, New York]] are the only ones who can see a benevolent, [[GhostAmnesia amnesiac ghost]], whom they dub Ghostwriter. He can only see and communicate through writing, and 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.[[note]]That is, until [[WordOfGod a 2010 interview]] revealed that he was a runaway slave that was killed while teaching other runaway slaves how to read.[[/note]]

* {{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 (including the girl from ''HarrietTheSpy''!).

* BreakingBadNewsGently: This is usually the first reaction that the team has when a new kid first sees Ghostwriter.

Surreal, quirky mystery/educational series created by Sesame Workshop and aired on Creator/{{PBS}} and Creator/TheBBC from 1992-1995. A group of middle-school kids in [[BigApplesauce Brooklyn, New York]] are the only ones who can see a benevolent, [[GhostAmnesia amnesiac ghost]], whom they dub Ghostwriter. He can only see and communicate through writing, and 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. (That is, until [[WordOfGod a 2010 interview]] revealed that he was [[spoiler: a runaway slave that was killed while teaching other runaway slaves how to read.]])

If you're looking for the trope that could have gone here, see PlayingCyrano. Not to be confused with a ''literary'' [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter ghostwriter]], defined by ThatOtherWiki as "a writer who writes books, articles, stories, reports, or other texts that are officially credited to another person" (which frequently overlaps with ExtrudedBookProduct). Also not to be confused with the film ''Film/TheGhostWriter''.

* BondVillainStupidity: Spoofed in one episode.