Nearly Departed

Season

1989

USA

6.6

When an English professor and his wife are killed in a freak rockslide, their ghosts must share their former home with a wildly dysfunctional new family, of whom only one--an elderly grandfather--can communicate with them.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Grant Meets Grandpa

When Grampa Jack moves in, the deceased Grant and Claire soon realize that he can see them. Grampa agrees to hit the road if his new ghost friends help him pass his driver's test.

S1 • E2

Adventures in Babysitting

Jack asks Grant to watch Derek, who invites a girl over the moment that his grandfather walks out the door.

S1 • E3

Altared States

When a box of old possessions surfaces, Claire discovers Grant's divorce wasn't finalized until a month after they were wed.

S1 • E4

TV or Not TV

TV privileges are revoked when Derek's grades drop, which sends Grant into a tizzy, so he follows the boy to school to get to the root of the problem.