Melinda Irene Gordon[1] is the title character of the American paranormal television series Ghost Whisperer created by John Gray.

Melinda shared her secret with her husband Jim, friends—Professor Rick Payne, Andrea Marino, Delia Banks—and her son, Ned Banks, RU psychology professor Eli James, and her son Aiden, as well as all the relatives or friends of ghosts she has helped.

Romano uses the massive death count to his advantage, "keeping" the souls that Melinda is unable to cross over, one of whom was Andrea, who died in the crash.

Melinda meets several new people in Season 2, including an occult professor, Rick Payne, who often helps her with troublesome ghosts without realizing it until she tells him about her gift.

Melinda invites Delia to take the place of Andrea as her business partner and confides in Ned about her gift.

Delia, a sceptic in anything beyond the normal things she can see, slowly begins to believe Melinda.

With the introduction of a second ghost whisperer, Gabriel Lawrence, it is learned through the earthbound spirit of Payne's wife that dark forces "are trying to make the dead stronger than the living."

In the season finale, dark spirits try to kill four special children (each child was the sole survivor of a terrible disaster or accident).

Melinda searches continually for her father, believing him to have died, and for her brother, whom by now she suspects is Gabriel.

He hands Melinda a package that leads her to an underground church, as well as to her ancestor and great-great-grandmother, Tessa Lucas, also a ghost whisperer.

When things begin to get more dangerous and suspicious, Melinda asks her mother to be honest with her and tell her everything.

Tom later shows up and takes Melinda to their old home where she once lived as a child, and tries to jog her memory, to see what she remembers of the night Paul Eastman came to her house.

At the end of the season, what seems to be a happy moment is spoiled when Payne makes a shocking observation.

In a fire, Eli and the patient, named Fiona (who died in the incident) suffered a near-death experience, and when he was revived, he discovered that he can hear the dead.

In "Big Chills", Melinda helps a ghost that has to have the truth come out about an accidental death on a boat.

One girl needed help to talk to the owner of the boat about the accidental death when she waited for him in the same room where she met him many years before.

Melinda meets a teenage ghost who dies on the tennis court from a blood clot in her lung.

The detective pulls out the gun and shoots but appears to hit Jim, who falls in front of the window.

Melinda finally gives up and painfully tells him to leave, thinking that no matter how hard she tries, Jim will never be back.

He knew they agreed not to find out, but he told her to ease her mind, so she'd see her visions and dreams were wrong and her was actually about Zoe, who was Eli's ex-girlfriend and was killed accidentally when she fell down the steps, startled by a thief (who is being controlled by the Watcher Carl) in her house.

Melinda, however, couldn't get the idea something was wrong out of her mind and convinced Eli to show her the book.

Carl tells Melinda that white light spirits are watching over her, but the balance can shift and her son is the key.

Jim and Melinda marry again at the same place they met – in front of witnesses, Eli James (best man) and Delia Banks (matron of honour), and a full gathering of spirits.

Thanks to Carl, the Shinies, Jim, Detective Blair, Eli, Delia, Ned, and Melinda, they find Aiden and help Julia cross over.

Karin Beeler calls her a "younger, postfeminist heroine than the women in Medium and Afterlife, sporting low-cut outfits that have often been identified with the body-conscious television characters of the third wave or postfeminist generation (e.g. Buffy, the witch sisters in Charmed, Tru Davies in Tru Calling).