What was this series called?

[DWW]

I remember being forced to watch this series as a kid in public school like once a week in the library. From what I remember it was a girl and a boy, and they had this basement lab like area with a computer that I think talked or sent them hints.

Now that I think of it more I'm pretty sure it printed out cards with words or phrases on them meaning something. Something talked to them like a robot though I think. Or maybe they talked to it and asked it for help.

They went on all sorts of crazy trips and experiences.

 

[Chucko]

Ghostwriter?

 

[sygyzy]

Ghostwriter on PBS. Awesome show!

 

[FuZoR]

hahaha i totally forgot i use to watch that show!!

 

[Kaiser__Sose]

Originally posted by: Chucko
Ghostwriter

 

[randomlinh]

what every happened to ghostwritter... i remember they were going to find out who the ghost was or something...

 

[RabidMongoose]

teenage mutant ninja turtles?

 

[Triumph]

The computer didn't talk in Ghostwriter. It read whatever they would write, then write something back. They could write it on the computer, on a piece of paper on the wall, etc. Then Ghostwriter would rearrange the letters to say a response or something like that.

And of course it was multicultural. There was a white chick, a black dude, an asian chick, a hispanic brother and sister, etc.

 

[nycxandy]

OWNAGE SHOW!

The show was moved to CBS primetime I believe and then it just ended.

 

[DWW]

No it is not Ghostwriter

It predates that.

 

[aircooled]

Whiz Kids
link

 

[CanOWorms]

i believe it's HBO's Real Sex

 

[DWW]

I think there were puzzles they had to solve and the computer could only answer so much for them.

Trust me though its not Ghostwriter, not even close. I never saw this show on TV but rather at school in our library once a week. I don't even know if it was on TV ever.

 

[DWW]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Whiz Kids
link

Nope not that either.

 

[joe678]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Ghostwriter on PBS. Awesome show!

i used to go to class with the kid that played the latino kid, hector or soemthing like that ...

 

[DWW]

Aha!

It was called "Read All About It"

http://members.rogers.com/ambrozic/tvo/read.html

Edit: No wonder none of you knew about it... it was TVOntario (I went to an Ontario School). By the looks of it, there was limited exposure in the USA

 

[DWW]

Accord to this article:
http://www.papmag.net/cgi-bin/frontend/frontend.pl?page=story&sid=73

I won't be reliving my childhood memories anytime soon
"order all 40 episodes of Read All About It! on two scratchy, grainy VHS tapes from International TeleFilm for the princely sum of $1,290"

 

[Chronoshock]

"You laughin' at me, you laughin' at me?!"
- obscure Ghostwriter reference

 

[thomsbrain]

good old ghostwriter