Song of the Day: Blaze Berdahl - You Gotta Believe

I confess, I'm a little obsessed. After a great Easter dinner compliments of the Zeller/Haiser union, Henry, Eric and I had a conversation of some of our favourite shows while growing up. I must admit I was a big PBS fan (Public Broadcasting Station was the shit back in the day). So my top three shows were

3. Street Cents (CBC, but close enough)

2. Square One TV especially Math Net (if you know Mathnet, you rule!)

1. Ghostwriter!

"Aww yeah, Aww yeah, you gotta believe!"
As Henry and Eric mentioned the show, I was totally taken back down memory lane. I mean I watched this show religiously on Sunday evenings for like three years. It was the first show I watched that had a Vietnamese character in it ( I never watched 21 Jumpstreet. Dustin Nguyen is a punk-bitch!). It was funny how vividly I remembered all the episodes. It was a moment of verbal diarrhea as I recalled almost every episode from memory and I was pretty damn accurate too. Note that this show was on from 1991 to 1994, so it was quite some time ago. Anyways, the show was so good because, it was a show where kids were solving mysteries. It wasn't your typical 22 minute-problem-solved show, but it was a series of episodes where the gang would solve a mystery. What also made it good was that it was 1 full hour of Ghostwriter. Back-to-back episodes where previous week's episode was aired before the current installment. I really think MTV programming ripped PBS off on this. The episodes were smart and the cases were tricky. Every character was different:


L to R: Alex, Tina Jamal, Lenny, Gaby, Rob

Lenny - the rock star (and super hot babe. I still have a crush on her)
Jamal - the science whiz kid who explained to me what a modem was
Tina - the token Vietnamese kid who had instinctive journalist skills
Alex - the heartthrob of the show who was the tough, but loving big brother
Gaby - the naive little sister of Alex
Rob - the streetwise poet who has a passion for writing

I was seriously glued to the television when GW was on T.V. Seriously, I don't think I was ever as devastated as the week where I turned onto PBS to find Bob Ross painting instead of a fresh and hip episode of GW. Now back to present time. After the great dinner, I rushed home to 'google' the show to find out what ever happened to the show and where I could get my grubby little hands on some episodes. Turns out I'll have to wait a while since this educational series was never released on DVD. Also, to my delight, I wasn't the only one who misses this show. There's network of people my age who have a dire love for this show as well. There's documented accounts of why everyone loved the show:

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