Ghost Whisperer (2005-2010)

The fifth and final season leaps five years into the future, where Melinda's son Aiden is already conversing with ghosts and her husband Jim has become a doctor. This latter development gives Melinda plenty of reasons to hang out at Rockland Hospital, which oozes with ghosts and becomes the central battleground for a new layer of Ghost Whisperer's mythology: just as Melinda can see ghosts that most people can't, Aiden can see supernatural beings called "shinies" and "shadows" that even ghosts can't see.

Ghost Whisperer explores the spiritual side of life and death as Melinda navigates among the dead and the living in her sometimes chilling, sometimes heart-rending and sometimes amusing attempts to act as an intermediary between the ghosts and those they haunt. Jim, her husband, worries about the emotional toll this work is taking on his wife as they embark on a new life together.

With the assistance of her hunky husband Jim, her skeptical best friend Delia, and a wisecracking professor of the occult, Melinda helps ghosts cross over to the other side. But woven through the entire third season is Melinda's investigation into her own family secrets, culminating in a high-stakes season finale.