Beauty and the Beast
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1. Once Upon a Time in the City of New York
First aired: 9/25/1987 Production Code: 001The series begins when Catherine Chandler becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is viciously attacked and left for dead in Central Park. A shadowy figure named Vincent rescues her and takes her to a mysterious Tunnel World that exists below the city streets of New York City to recuperate. During this time, Catherine develops a strong bond with Vincent and later she discovers that Vincent is half man/half beast. Later, Catherine's new job with the District Attorney puts her life in peril and somehow Vincent is able to sense when she is in danger.
Director: Richard Franklin
Guest star: Bill Marcus (D.A. Moreno) , Tony Mockus Jr. (Lieutenant Herman), Jason Allen (Kipper), John Petlock (Surgeon), Don Stark (Stocky Guy), Sanford Clark (Punk), Rawn Hutchinson (Driver), Richard Fancy (Worker #1), Joel Hershman (Worker #2), Arlene Banas (Worker #3), Charles Champion (Clerk), Barbara Allyne Bennet (Receptionist), Neil Elliot (Patrolman), Lora Zane (College Friend), Kimber Sissons (Beautiful Woman), John McMartin (Charles Chandler), Ron O'Neal (Isaac Stubbs), Ray Wise (Tom), Ava Lazar (Carol Stabler)
2. Terrible Savior
First aired: 10/2/1987 Production Code: 004A subway slasher that kills with claws and leaves the victims looking as if they were mauled by a bear is on the prowl. When Catherine finds out about the case she begins to suspect that perhaps Vincent is the slasher. This lack of trust begins to strain their relationship. Meanwhile, the real culprit, begins to get uncomfortable when Catherine begins to investigate him.
Director: Alan Cooke
Guest star: Kirk Arnold (Punk #1), Orwin Harvey (Transit Cop), Michael Bacall (Runner), Lisa Alpert (Pretty Girl), Hal Havins (Punk #2), Irvin Mosley Jr. (Old Man), Clay Wilcox (Creep), Dorian Harewood (Jason Walker), Tracee Lyles (Mrs. Dalby), Iilana B'tiste (Suki), Anthony Peck (Red), Delroy Lindo (Isaac Stubbs)
3. Siege
First aired: 10/9/1987 Production Code: 003While attending a party, Catherine catches the eye of megabucks developer, Elliot Birch who begins to wine and dine her. Vincent realizes that Catherine has met a man and must deal with the fact that she's beginning to fall in love. Meanwhile, elderly people are being threatened out of their homes and Vincent and Catherine begin an investigation.
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Edward Albert (Elliot Burch) , Buff Brady (Old Man #2), Herta Ware (Sylvia), Ralph Manza (Old Man), Benny Baker (Herman), Richard Biggs (Reporter), Audree Chapman (Receptionist), Stuart Charno (Bennie), Pat Crawford Brown (Old Woman #1), Jeanette Miller (Old Woman #2), Tom Morga (Hired Hand), Leslie Neale (Woman), Charles Picerni (Thug #2), Wally Rose (Old Man #3), Daryl Wood (Receptionist), Robin Gammell (Lewis Arthur), Louis Giambalvo (Leo Mundy), Albert Hague (Micha Langer), Eda Reiss Merin (Sophie), Maarten Goslins (Man)
4. No Way Down
First aired: 10/16/1987 Production Code: 005When Catherine and Vincent get caught in the middle of a gang war, Vincent is blinded during an explosion and becomes seperated from Catherine. When he awakens he discovers he has become a captive of a street gang that is holding him hostage. Later, he escapes and must find his way back to the tunnels despite the fact that he can't see.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: James Cavan (Wino), Mayim Bialik (Ellie), Paul T. Murray (Tony), Fran Montano (Grimes), Al Mancini (Cab Driver), Bernie Pock (Sco), Charles Picerni Jr. (Savage #2), Jimmy Ortega (Dice), A. Michael Lerner (Cheeck), Jack Jozefson (Cabbie), Thomas Dewier (Savage #1), Russ Marin (Red), Chris Nash (Chris), Tony Longo (Howie), Nancy Lenehan (Lucy), Merritt Butrick (Shake), Jeffrey Combs (Python), Elizabeth Gorcey (Cozy), Delroy Lindo (Isaac Stubbs), Gela Nash (Miss Patricia)
5. Masques
Community Score
| 8.3 Great |
On Halloween night, the only night that he is safe above ground, Vincent goes above to attend a fancy gala honoring an Irish writer named Brigit O' Donnell. Meanwhile, Catherine attends the same party unaware that danger lurks behind masks as Brigit has become the target for a kidnapping.
Director: Alan Cooke
Guest star: Cory Danziger (Kipper) , Michael T. Laide (Butler), David Dario (Jogger), Gregory Cooke (Waiter), John David Conti (Doorman), Frank Patton (Henry VIII), Roger Scott (Greg), Lindsay Parker (Little Girl), Harry Moses (Jeff), Alex Powers (Brennan), Kate Stern (Marie), Michael Bacall (David), Kimberly McCullough (Abbey), Caitlin O'Heaney (Briget O'Donnell), John McMartin (Charles Chandler), Eric Pierpoint (Donald), Aubrey Morris (Sean), Gerry Gibson (Michael), Martin Garner (Moe), Ernie Lively (Cavanaugh)
6. Beast Within
Community Score
| 7.4 Good |
Mitch Denton, a man who grew up in the tunnels and was a childhood friend of Vincent, returns to New York and becomes the center of an ongoing investigation that Catherine is working on. This leads to a near fatal confrontation, when Mitch shoots Catherine.
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Cory Danziger (Kipper), Bill Marcus (D.A. Moreno) , Michael J. London (Shanks), Jack McGee (McQuade), Robert Factor (Garza), Gisela Caldwell (Mrs. Sweeny), Glen A. Fagin (Tom), Lindsay Fisher (Laura), Tom Flynn (Nico), J. Bill Jones (Frazer), Asher Brauner (Mitch Denton), John McLiam (Sam Denton), Mike Pniewski (Frank De Corsia), Stan Kamber (Jack Sweeney), Monty Bane (Rado), Michael Alldredge (Nat)
7. Nor Iron Bars a Cage
Community Score
| 6.7 Fair |
Catherine is offered a prestigious job in Rhode Island but has a hard time accepting it as it would mean leaving New York and Vincent. Meanwhile, two scientists seeking prestige, drug and capture Vincent and hold him hostage in a cage for scientific expirements.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: Cory Danziger (Kipper) , Michael Ensign (Edward Hughes), Christian Clemenson (Gould), Basil Hoffman (Trask), Darryl Hickman (Quint), Ellen Albertini Dow (Anna Lausch)
8. Song of Orpheus
Community Score
| 7.4 Good |
Father's past is revealed when he goes above for the first time in over thirty years to see a friend. When he arrives at his destination, he stumbles upon a murder and is quickly arrested and charged with murder. Vincent summons Catherine's help as they unravel Father's mysterious past.
Director: Peter Medak
Guest star: Gray Daniels (Customer), William Fair (Cop), Stan Lachow (Parker), Stephen Rollman (Reporter #2), Clive Rosengren (Lou), Gary Berner (Connor), Vinny Argiro (Investigator), Castulo Guerra (Detective), Diana Douglas (Margaret Chase), Paul Gleason (Henry Dutton), Robert Symonds (Alan Taft), Neil Reinhold (Reporter #1)
9. Dark Spirit
First aired: 11/27/1987 Production Code: 010A suspicious death that Catherine is investigating leads her to the world of the occult and voodoo. Later, the man suspected of the murder also turns up dead. Meanwhile, Catherine seeks help from a professor who has secretly put a voodoo curse on her. After a series of frightful bizarre incidents, Catherine's worst fears begin to get the best of her.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: Beah Richards (Narcissa) , David Sabin (Arthur), David Erskine (Medic), Gary Carlos Cervantes (Rafael Cruz), Cliff DeYoung (Alexander Ross), Diana Barton (Lindsay Gates), Obaka Adedunyo (Hector Ocala), Jessie Ferguson (Roy Ocala), Brett Hadley (William Coleman)
10. A Children's Story
Community Score
| 7.7 Good |
When one of the children of the Tunnel World, Kipper witnesses a bizarre kidnapping of a young boy, he goes to Vincent who has Catherine investigate a foster home that is secretly selling children to the highest bidder.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Cory Danziger (Kipper) , E'Lon (Boy #2), Danny Capri (Boy #1), Elisabeth Harnois (Little Girl), Nike Doukas (Margaret), Steve Zettler (File Clerk), Rachel Resnikoff (Deb), Laura Mellencamp (Receptionist), Fred Killensmith (Friend), Roz Bosley (Matron), Josh C. Williams (Boy #3), Matthew Newmark (Kid), Richard Herd (Richard Barnes), Kamie Harper (Ellie), Richard Portnow (Naj), Joshua Rudoy (Eric), Vito D'Ambrosio (Custodian)
11. An Impossible Silence
Community Score
| 7.3 Good |
When Laura, a deaf tunnel dweller, witnesses a murder she must decide whether or not to come forward and exonorate the man who has been wrongfully arrested for the murder. When she finally chooses to testify she soon finds herself at the mercy of the murderer, despite Catherine's efforts.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Guest star: Armin Shimerman (Pascal) , Richard Brailford (Reporter #1), Bill Pugin (Sign Language Interpreter), Terrylene (Laura Williams), Michael Lewis (Costanza), Kathleen Heller (Sharon Lewis), Rick Garia (Cop), Phil Diskin (Officer), David Matzke (Reporter #2), Kate Mulligan (Reporter #3), Sue Rihr (Maggie), Virginia Watson (Sgt. Walker), Chris Mulkey (Danny Yates), John M. Jackson (Laine Keller), Jason Bernard (Jack Davis), Dana Gladstone (Det. Snyder), Robert Pastorelli (Tony Perotta), Glenn Plummer (Curtis Jackson)
12. Shades of Grey
Community Score
| 7.9 Good |
Mouse, one of the tunnel dwellers receives the silent treatment after admitting to stealing from above. However, when Vincent and Father become trapped in a cave-in, the other tunnel dwellers debate whether or not to turn to him for help. Meanwhile, Catherine's romantic past with Elliot Birch leads her to seek help from him.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: David Greenlee (Mouse), Edward Albert (Elliot Burch), Cory Danziger (Kipper), Armin Shimerman (Pascal), Irina Irvine (Jamie) , Joshua Rudoy (Eric), Kamie Harper (Ellie), Rutanya Alda (Mary), Kevin McDermott (Worker), James Avery (Winslow)
13. China Moon
Community Score
| 7.4 Good |
Chinatown is the setting of a "Romeo and Juliet" like story of a woman, who is friends with Vincent, and has fallen in love with one man but through an arranged marriage has become engaged to the grandson of a very powerful man, who intends to invade the tunnels with an army.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Guest star: James Lew (Tong #3), Steven Ito (Tong #2), Brian Imada (Tong #1), Craig Ryan Ng (Yueh), Phil Chong (Kuo), Keye Luke (Master), Jerry Tondo (Eddie), Rosalind Chao (Lin Wong), Vincent Wong (Dr. Wong), Dennis Dun (Henry Pei), James Hong (Chiang Lo Yi), Jeff Imada (Bruce), Leigh C. Kim (Tommy), Peter Kwong (Peter Chiang)
14. The Alchemist
Community Score
| 8.0 Great |
Paracelsus, a former friend of Father's who has been exhiled, has been selling a deadly hallucinatory drug in the world above. Meanwhile, Catherine has volunteered to go undercover on this ongoing drug investigation and turns to Vincent for help. Father and Vincent soon must decide how to handle Paracelsus.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: Tony Jay (Paracelcus), Ellen Geer (Mary) , Albie Selznick (Zeke), Laura Harring (Carmen), Katherine Heard (Mary), Joey Aresco (Jimmy Morero), James Avery (Winslow), Jeffrey R. Nordling (Tyler), Dana Gladstone (Claude)
15. Temptation
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
A conflict of interest arises when Joe becomes involved with a woman who works for a firm that the DA's office has under investigation. Meanwhile, Vincent takes a trip to a lower cavern to retrieve a gift for Catherine in honor of their one year anniversary of when they first met.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Guest star: David Greenlee (Mouse) , Jason Ross (Franklin), John Petlock (Dr. Sanderle), Andrew Magarian (Cop #2), Robert Crow (Cop #1), Robert F. Hoy (Cassut), Carl Ciarfalio (Hopkins), Mark Schubb (Ted), Isabella Hofmann (Erika Salven), Milo O'Shea (Evan Brannigan), Herb Edelman (D.A. Levinson)
16. Promises of Someday
Community Score
| 7.0 Good |
Catherine gets a new co-worker at the D.A.'s office and soon discovers that he has a connection to the Tunnel World. It seems that he is Father's long lost son and childhood friend of Vincent's, who has returned to New York after a 20 year absence.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: John Franklin (Young Vincent), Andrew Held (Young Devin), Holly Sampson (Tomboy), Janet Cole Notey (Travel Clerk), Bruce Abbott (Devin Wells), Fred Lerner (Mounted Cop), Fred Dennis (Inspector), Max Battimo (Young Mitch)
17. Down to a Sunless Sea
Community Score
| 7.7 Good |
Catherine's ex-fiance, Steven Bass, resurfaces and becomes friendly with Catherine again and appears to have alterior motives. As, she allows him back into her life despite their rocky past, Vincent begins having dreams of disaster connected to Catherine and her rekindled relationship.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Guest star: Cory Danziger (Kipper), Terri Hanauer (Jenny Aronson) , Jim Metzler (Steven Bass), Thomas Trujillo (Tony), Roger Nolan (Concierge), Raymond Garcia (Hal), Marla Adams (Helen Thompson), Christine Jansen (Marcy O'Neill), Robert Cornthwaite (Morrison), Eric Poppick (Mercer)
18. Fever
Community Score
| 7.4 Good |
While exploring a secluded section of the tunnels, Mouse uncovers a treasure ship that had sunk centaries prior. This quickly throws the Tunnel dwellers in an uproar as greedy Cullen demands his fair share. Meanwhile, Mouse's gift to Catherine of a golden necklace, catches the eye of an unscrupulous antiques dealer.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Guest star: Irina Irvine (Jamie), Terri Hanauer (Jenny Aronson), Cory Danziger (Kipper), Ellen Geer (Mary), David Greenlee (Mouse) , Kay E. Kuter (Alain Viso), Raye Birk (Edmonton), Alan Blumenfeld (Saul), David Clennon (Cullen), Stan Ivar (Jonathan Thorpe), James Avery (Winslow)
19. Everything is Everything
Community Score
| 7.7 Good |
A Gypsy boy, Tony Ramos, cons Catherine and runs off with her purse. Later, she has another run-in with Tony, when he shows up at her doorstep, singing a sad story about how he is istrying to reverse unjust banishment of his family before a Gypsy court. She soon realizes his story is true and turns to Vincent for help.
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Cory Danziger (Kipper) , Barbara Pilavin (Female Gypsy), Bob Maroff (Gypsy #2), Sam Ingraffia (Gypsy #1), Josh Blake (Tony Ramos), Robert Pastorelli (Vick Ramos), Will Kuluva (Milo Ramos), Renata Vanni (Eva Ramos), Jennifer Balgobin (Maria), Paul Greco (Joe)
20. To Reign in Hell
Community Score
| 8.2 Great |
Catherine receives an unexpected visitor on her balcony, a visitor who hardly turns out to be Vincent but a servant of Paracelsus who sets into motion a plan to lure Vincent to a lower section of tunnels in order to kill him and then proceed to overthrow Father and take over the Tunnel World.
Director: Christopher Leitch
Guest star: Ellen Geer (Mary), Tony Jay (Paracelcus), Beah Richards (Narcissa), Armin Shimerman (Pascal), Irina Irvine (Jamie) , James Avery (Winslow), John Minton (Erlik)
21. Ozymandias
Community Score
| 8.1 Great |
Elliot Burch's dream of building the Burch Tower is beginning to become a reality for him, however, it has turned into a nightmare for those living below as the construction threatens the discovery of the Tunnel World. Meanwhile, Elliot makes a bold move and proposes marriage to Catherine.
Director: Frank Beascoechea
Guest star: Bill Marcus (D.A. Moreno), Edward Albert (Elliot Burch), David Greenlee (Mouse) , Carl Strano (Roth), Alexander Folk (Guard), Sue Giosa (Ronni), Gerald Castillo (Simons), Rutanya Alda (Sarah), Julie Carmen (Luz Corales), Linda Porter (Elizabeth)
22. A Happy Life
First aired: 4/8/1988 Production Code: 022The anniversary of her mother's death leads Catherine into a deep depression which brings to the surface all of the pain that she endures for not being able to share her life with Vincent. This leads Vincent to make a painful decision, to end his relationship with Catherine.
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Mimi Craven (Rebecca), Caryn West (Mom), Marina Suriano (Jill), Patrick Pankhurst (Paul), Kelly Kehoe (Young Cathy), Zachary Benjamin (Jeremy), Dianne Turley Travis (Kay), Annette McCarthy (Jenny), John McMartin (Charles Chandler), Betsy Brantley (Nancy Tucker), Sam Freed (Dr. Grafton), W.K. Stratton (Patrolman), Richard Young (Buddy)
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