Monday, June 07, 2010

Mysteries on TV: Ghostwriter and Tales of the Gold Monkey, New This Week on DVD

Mysteries on TV

Mysteries on TV, your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling two series being released this week.

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Information on Ghostwriter: Season One

Developed by the creative force behind Sesame Street, was a series for kids created to improve literacy and writing skills by having the ensemble cast solve mysteries in their neighborhood.

Jamal is just an ordinary kid in Brooklyn, playing on his computer, when he begins receiving strange and mysterious messages. Who or what is trying to communicate with him by manipulating letters and words? It must be a Ghostwriter! Luckily, Jamal is not alone. Lenni, Alex, Gabby, Tina and Rob can also see Ghostwriter's messages! The teens team up to solve a rash of mysteries plaguing their neighborhood. What is a Thabto? Who burned down Mr. Brinkers store? Why is everyone at the community garden getting sick? Following the clues and solving these mysteries puts them closer to helping Ghostwriter figure out who he is.

The Ghostwriter: Season One DVD set of 5 discs contains the 34 episodes that aired on public television from Occtober 1992 through July 1993.

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Information on Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete Series

One of our guilty pleasures is finally available on DVD! wasn't exactly a mystery series, but was a blend of action, adventure, and international intrigue ... and a lot of fun.

The series, set in 1938 and inspired in no small part by the success of the Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark film that came out the previous year, starred Stephen Collins as Jake Cutter, a former Flying Tigers pilot who lives on the island of Bora Gora in the south Pacific with his one-eyed dog Jack, and becomes involved in death-defying hi-jinx, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.

Other characters include Jake's mechanic Corky (Jeff MacKay), the owner of the Gold Monkey bar Bon Chance Louis (Roddy McDowall), Sarah White, an American spy posing as a nightclub singer (Caitlin O'Heaney), a German spy posing a Dutch minister (John Calvin), and Princess Kogi (Marta DuBois) who ruled over a nearby island.

The Tales of the Gold Monkey: The Complete Series DVD set of 6 discs contain the 22 episodes that aired for but one season on ABC from September 1982 through June 1983. Bonus features include the two-hour pilot, in which Bon Chance Louis was played by Ron Moody and Jake had two good eyes (i.e. no eye-patch).

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