This was a little like Father Knows Best visits Hell House. It has the silly sixties "Gee Whiz" feel to it with its bland characters and subdued idiocy. It's still decent fun and has a plot that seems to work fairly well. The ghosts are hokey and the people are naive. The whole business with the hidden money draws everything to a standstill. Marty's after that money and engages the little boy in his secret plot to get it. The way it all wraps up is so uninteresting and so pat, it simply presents no message. This is really an extension of the television of the time with the nuclear family, the Ozzie and Harriet types and their squeaky clean kids who really know so much more than they do. Try it. It's not a total waste of time.
