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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast
★ 7.4/10•1987•47m•TV-PG•Sci-Fi & Fantasy•Crime•Drama
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Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.

StatusEnded
Runtime47m
LanguageEN
First Air DateSep 25, 1987

Episodes

Episode 1 - Once Upon a Time in the City of New YorkE147m

Once Upon a Time in the City of New York

Street savvy Assistant DA Catherine Chandler hails from a rich family and works for her father’s law firm. After leaving a party early, she’s mistaken for someone else and is pulled into a van full of thugs. They slash her face and beat her up, then push her out of the van, leaving her for dead. A shadowy figure appears and carries her to secret set of forgotten tunnels below the city.

Sep 25, 1987

Episode 2 - Terrible SaviorE247m

Terrible Savior

A 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 learns about the case, she starts to suspect Vincent, as she remembers how he rescued her from the attackers in the safe house.

Oct 2, 1987

Episode 3 - SiegeE347m

Siege

Vincent helps the residents of an apartment building defend themselves from thugs trying to chase them out so the building can be torn down—unaware the mastermind is Elliot Burch, a megabucks developer courting Catherine.

Oct 9, 1987

Episode 4 - No Way DownE447m

No Way Down

Upon being injured in an explosion, a half-blind Vincent is captured by a vicious street gang. Catherine, with the help of her self-defense teacher Isaac, set out to find Vincent.

Oct 16, 1987

Episode 5 - MasquesE547m

Masques

Able to blend in among 'The World Above' on Halloween, Vincent becomes the guardian of an Irish peace activist targeted for assassination.

Oct 30, 1987

Episode 6 - Beast WithinE647m

Beast Within

Catherine has a nearly fatal confrontation with an ex-tunnel dweller, named Mitch Denton.

Nov 6, 1987

Episode 7 - Nor Iron Bars a CageE747m

Nor Iron Bars a Cage

After Vincent is accidentally caught on film. he is captured by two men. One, Dr. Edward Hughes, is a scientist desperate to learn the truth about Vincent. The other, grad student Jonathan Gould, believes Vincent is a freak of nature, and wants to reveal him to the public and become famous. Meanwhile, Catherine considers a new job in Providence.

Nov 13, 1987

Episode 8 - Song of OrpheusE847m

Song of Orpheus

When Father ventures to 'The World Above' for the first time in decades, he is arrested for murder. Catherine and Vincent must dive into Father's past—where they learn of his true identity, Jacob Wells, a physician; his blacklisting during the McCarthy era; and, of his long-lost wife—to clear his name and reunite him with his now-dying wife.

Nov 20, 1987

Episode 9 - Dark SpiritE947m

Dark Spirit

While investigating a businessman's mysterious death, Catherine becomes a target for a mysterious voodoo cult, who makes her see and experience terrifying hallucinations. They then turn her against Vincent, making her believe he is responsible for the visions.

Nov 27, 1987

Episode 10 - A Children's StoryE1047m

A Children's Story

Catherine learns that renowned orphanage Ridley Foster Home holds a dark secret: selling orphaned children to criminals who force them to steal. She saves one such orphan, Eric, and brings him to 'The World Below' where he's welcomed by Father—who promises his missing sister Ellie a similar refuge—while Vincent helps Catherine find Ellie and end the child-selling racket.

Dec 4, 1987

Episode 11 - An Impossible SilenceE1147m

An Impossible Silence

Upon witnessing a shooting, deaf Laura Williams must decide if she should leave the sanctuary of 'The World Below' to free an innocent man. While Catherine is investigating the same case, she is attacked in her apartment by the men behind the murder.

Dec 18, 1987

Episode 12 - Shades of GrayE1247m

Shades of Gray

'The World Below' shun Mouse for his acts of thievery, until they need him and his mechanical and engineering intelligence to help rescue Father and Vincent following a cave-in. Mouse, in turn, needs Catherine's help, which sends her reluctantly to Burch for specialized construction equipment that may free Father and Vincent in time.

Jan 8, 1988

Episode 13 - China MoonE1347m

China Moon

Chinatown is the setting of a 'Romeo and Juliet'-like story of a woman who is friends with Vincent and who has fallen in love with one man, but—through an arranged marriage—has become engaged to the son of a Triad leader.

Jan 15, 1988

Episode 14 - The AlchemistE1447m

The Alchemist

Catherine believes a deadly new hallucinatory drug on the street is supplied by someone from 'The World Below'. Catherine, Vincent and Father discover Father's former friend Paracelsus—who originally helped him build 'The World Below'—is behind it.

Jan 22, 1988

Episode 15 - TemptationE1547m

Temptation

Joe spearheads the investigation of a major firm, so the firm's attorney begins using dirty tactics to derail Joe, and Catherine discovers that Joe's new girlfriend is a vital to the conspiracy. Meanwhile, Vincent travels to a deep chamber to find a gift for Catherine, in celebration of the one-year anniversary of their first meeting.

Feb 5, 1988

Episode 16 - Promises of SomedayE1647m

Promises of Someday

New Assistant DA Devin Wells turns out to be Vincent's long-lost childhood friend from 'The World Below'. His vagabond way of life began after a falling-out with Father over his endangering Vincent aboard a park carousel. The uneasy reunion leads to the revelation of one of Father's long-kept secrets, but ends in their reconciliation and with Devin now knowing he has a home to return to.

Feb 12, 1988

Episode 17 - Down to a Sunless SeaE1747m

Down to a Sunless Sea

Vincent has foreboding dreams when Catherine's ex-fiancé Steven Bass returns, and with good reason: Catherine is barely aware Steven—whose parents are now dead and who's dying of brain disease, but whose becalmed manner at first belies that he's still a control freak—is obsessed with making her the wife she doesn't want to be, and goes to troubling extremes to make it happen.

Feb 19, 1988

Episode 18 - FeverE1847m

Fever

A necklace Mouse gifts Catherine turns out to be made of antique gold, found in a buried ship Mouse discovered by accident deep in 'The World Below'. When he shows Winslow and stone-worker Cullen, it leads to an unheard-of spell of raw greed among their fellow tunnel dwellers, especially when Cullen tries to claim the ship's treasure as his own for sale, until Catherine, Vincent and Father find a surprising resolution.

Feb 26, 1988

Episode 19 - Everything Is EverythingE1947m

Everything Is Everything

Vincent and Catherine become involved with a gypsy boy banished from his tribe because of a crime his father allegedly committed and who claims that his father is actually innocent.

Mar 4, 1988

Episode 20 - To Reign in HellE2047m

To Reign in Hell

Catherine receives an unexpected visitor on her balcony: Paracelsus's minion Erlik, who captures her in a plot to lure Vincent to the lower parts of 'The World Below' and kill him so that Paracelsus can overthrow Father and take over the tunnels. Despite knowing what Paracelsus would do, Vincent goes to rescue her with the help of Pascal, Winslow, and Jamie.

Mar 18, 1988

Episode 21 - OzymandiasE2147m

Ozymandias

Burch's great construction project "Burch Tower" threatens the existence of 'The World Below', and Catherine agrees to marry him if he will halt construction.

Apr 1, 1988

Episode 22 - A Happy LifeE2247m

A Happy Life

Depressed on the anniversary of her mother's death, Catherine struggles emotionally between her relationship with Vincent and her working life, enough so that Vincent tries to end their relationship.

Apr 8, 1988

Actors

Ron Perlman

Ron Perlman

Vincent

Roy Dotrice

Roy Dotrice

Jacob 'Father' Wells

Jay Acovone

Jay Acovone

Joe Maxwell

Stephen McHattie

Stephen McHattie

Gabriel

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