Ghost Whisperer season 1 Pilot - Metacritic

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TV-PG
CBS
Sep 23, 2005
45 m

TV-PG
CBS
Sep 23, 2005
45 m

Ghost Whisperer

Summary Melinda Gordon is a young newlywed with the unique ability to communicate with the earthbound spirits of people who have died, and who seek her help. Melinda uses her gift to relay significant messages and important information to the living, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. As a result, she is often met...

Written By: John Gray

TV-PG
CBS
Sep 23, 2005
45 m

TV-PG
CBS
Sep 23, 2005
45 m

Ghost Whisperer

S1 • Episode 1

Pilot

Air Date: Sep 23, 2005

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Summary Melinda Gordon is a young newlywed with the unique ability to communicate with the earthbound spirits of people who have died, and who seek her help. Melinda uses her gift to relay significant messages and important information to the living, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. As a result, she is often met...

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Episode 1 • Sep 23, 2005 • 45 m

It's Melinda's wedding day, and her husband, Jim, has a surprise for her.

Episode 2 • Sep 30, 2005 • 43 m

Melinda must reunite a child's spirit with his family before another tragedy occurs, all while coping with her Mother-in-Law's visit.

Episode 3 • Oct 7, 2005 • 44 m

Ghost, Interrupted

Melinda helps an institutionalized teenager come to terms with being haunted by her dead, aggressive identical twin sister, whom she can feel if not hear or see.

Episode 4 • Oct 14, 2005 • 42 m

After Jim saves the life of a woman who attempts suicide in order to be with her deceased fiancé, Melinda tries to help the fiancé cross over by finding the person who received his donated heart.

Episode 5 • Oct 21, 2005 • 45 m

Melinda aims to help a trio of boys and their dog, all fifty-years-dead, pass into the light before the destruction of the inn they haunt dooms them to remain Earth-bound spirits.

Episode 6 • Oct 28, 2005 • 55 m

Melinda helps an upset teenage ghost and in the process learns something that will affect the lives of everyone this boy left behind.

Episode 7 • Nov 4, 2005 • 55 m

A woman who passed away during a pregnancy will not cross over until she can get her husband to stop blaming himself. Andrea deals with a con artist in a very revealing manner that tells us a little more about her murky past.

Episode 8 • Nov 11, 2005 • 45 m

On the Wings of a Dove

As Jim connects empathically to the scary feelings of a heavily-tattooed dead ex-con who died in his ambulance, an ex-best friend from Melinda's past keeps trying to reconnect with her.

Episode 9 • Nov 18, 2005 • 45 m

Melinda finds a mother's lost spirit through electronic voice phenomenon, and then works with the woman to reconcile with her son and help him deal with his father.

Episode 10 • Nov 25, 2005 • 44 m

Melinda intervenes when the spirit of a woman who didn't make it through her wedding night begins terrorizing the fiancée of her husband.

Episode 11 • Dec 9, 2005 • 42 m

Melinda tries to reunite a father and son before a crucial decision is made.

Episode 12 • Dec 16, 2005 • 45 m

Talk about performing before a dead crowd, Melinda discovers a comedy club with a late night afterlife, and a deceased comic that should have become the next Lenny Bruce.

Episode 13 • Jan 6, 2006 • 44 m

Friendly Neighborhood Ghost

When a new neighbor moves in, he brings a ghost as part of his baggage and Melinda's attempts to reach the hostile and increasingly dangerous ghost lead to strain between her and Jim.

Episode 14 • Jan 13, 2006 • 44 m

Episode 15 • Jan 27, 2006 • 45 m

Melinda's First Ghost

Nine-year-old former classmate Sarah Applewhite haunts Melinda - the first ghost Melinda ever saw - which prompts bad childhood memories to haunt Melinda as well.

Episode 16 • Feb 3, 2006 • 43 m

Dead Man's Ridge

One of Andrea's friends has gone missing while on a hike. She enlists Melinda to help find her friend.

Episode 17 • Mar 3, 2006 • 44 m

Episode 18 • Mar 10, 2006 • 45 m

The circus arrives in town and brings with it the spirit of a man who thinks his brother murdered him. Melinda must help this ghost come to terms with his death and his brother.

Episode 19 • Mar 31, 2006 • 43 m

Vehement over racial injustice, the rage of Melinda's latest ghost sets a storm over Grandview (thunder and lightning on clear days) till an honored judge can be set right on the facts of a case he once waved aside.

Episode 20 • Apr 7, 2006 • 45 m

A head injury caused by an accident puts Melinda's abilities at risk. Melinda must deal with the possibility of permanently losing her gift as she attempts to help a young girl whose boyfriend has recently died.

Episode 21 • Apr 28, 2006 • 45 m

Melinda experiences a sense of intuition when she realizes that a plane is going to crash when the spirits of the pilot and flight attendant contact her.

Episode 22 • May 5, 2006 • 45 m

Melinda meets an evil spirit while helping crash victims. Part 2 of 2.

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