The Best Episodes of Beauty and the Beast

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   #1 - A Happy Life

   S1:E224/8/1988

   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.

   Director:Victor Lobl

   Writer:Ron Koslow

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   Director:Victor Lobl

   Writer:Ron Koslow
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   #2 - Nor Iron Bars a Cage

   S1:E711/13/1987

   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.

   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Thomas J. Wright

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   #3 - Song of Orpheus

   S1:E811/20/1987

   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.

   Director:Peter Medak

   Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

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   Director:Peter Medak

   Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
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   #4 - Dark Spirit

   S1:E911/27/1987

   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.

   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Robin Bernheim Burger

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   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Robin Bernheim Burger
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   #5 - A Children's Story

   S1:E1012/4/1987

   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.

   Director:Gabrielle Beaumont

   Writer:B.F. Barnett

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   Director:Gabrielle Beaumont

   Writer:B.F. Barnett
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   #6 - An Impossible Silence

   S1:E1112/18/1987

   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.

   Director:Christopher Leitch

   Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

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   Director:Christopher Leitch

   Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
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   #7 - Shades of Gray

   S1:E121/8/1988

   '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.

   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writers:George R.R. Martin, David E. Peckinpah

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   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writers:George R.R. Martin, David E. Peckinpah
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   #8 - China Moon

   S1:E131/15/1988

   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.

   Director:Christopher Leitch

   Writer:Cynthia Benjamin

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   Director:Christopher Leitch

   Writer:Cynthia Benjamin
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   #9 - The Alchemist

   S1:E141/22/1988

   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.

   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Thomas J. Wright

   Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - Promises of Someday

    S1:E162/12/1988

    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.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright

    Writer:George R.R. Martin

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    Director:Thomas J. Wright

    Writer:George R.R. Martin
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    #11 - Down to a Sunless Sea

    S1:E172/19/1988

    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.

    Director:Christopher Leitch

    Writer:Don Balluck

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    Director:Christopher Leitch

    Writer:Don Balluck
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    #12 - Everything Is Everything

    S1:E193/4/1988

    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.

    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:Virginia Aldridge

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    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:Virginia Aldridge
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    #13 - To Reign in Hell

    S1:E203/18/1988

    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.

    Director:Christopher Leitch

    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

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    Director:Christopher Leitch

    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
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    #14 - Ozymandias

    S1:E214/1/1988

    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.

    Director:Frank Beascoechea

    Writer:George R.R. Martin

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    Director:Frank Beascoechea

    Writer:George R.R. Martin
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    #15 - Chamber Music

    S2:E111/18/1988

    After enjoying a park performance of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony joyously with Catherine, Vincent discovers Rollie, a former resident of 'The World Below', once a gifted pianist who played the classics stunningly by ear, but now a drug addict struggling to survive in the city. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn Rollie feels responsible for the death of a helper who taught him to read music.

    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:Ron Koslow

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    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:Ron Koslow
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    #16 - Remember Love

    S2:E211/25/1988

    Catherine longs for Vincent to escort her to a secret hidden, childhood place in Connecticut. Yet Vincent realizes that there is too much danger if he were to venture above. He then begins having visions of an angel who takes him on a journey of what life would have been like if he had never existed with one of them having involved Paracelsus successfully taking over 'The World Below'.

    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:Virginia Aldridge

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    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:Virginia Aldridge
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    #17 - Ashes, Ashes

    S2:E312/2/1988

    Vincent rescues sailor Dimitri Benko from drowning and brings him to 'The World Below' to recuperate. Little does anyone know, Dimitri is carrying the pneumonic plague which soon becomes an epidemic amongst the residents of the tunnels and begins taking lives. Meanwhile, Catherine discovers that Dr. Peter Alcroft is an old friend of Father when it comes to helping the infected.

    Director:Gus Trikonis

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Gus Trikonis

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    #18 - Dead of Winter

    S2:E412/9/1988

    'The World Below' plans an annual winter event called Winterfest with Catherine and the other 'Helpers', unaware that Paracelsus schemes to crash the party. Catherine and Vincent suspect that someone at the party is actually Paracelsus in disguise.

    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:George R.R. Martin

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    Director:Victor Lobl

    Writer:George R.R. Martin
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    #19 - God Bless the Child

    S2:E512/16/1988

    Catherine convinces Vincent and Father to welcome pregnant former prostitute Lena to 'The World Below' where she can have her baby and be part of the community, but a crush on Vincent turns to more for Lena after her baby is born.

    Director:Gus Trikonis

    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

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    Director:Gus Trikonis

    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
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    #20 - Sticks and Stones

    S2:E61/6/1989

    Deaf Laura Williams now lives in surface New York but backs away as a helper for 'The World Below' when she falls in with a gang of young, angry deaf people whose leader, Lincoln, is investigated for a security guard's murder. Laura's boyfriend in the gang, Jerry, is an undercover cop who reveals his secret to her, prompting her to run away.

    Director:Bruce Malmuth

    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

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    Director:Bruce Malmuth

    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
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    #21 - A Fair and Perfect Knight

    S2:E71/13/1989

    Catherine befriends and takes in young Michael Richmond, who's lived in 'The World Below' since childhood but now begins college in the city. However, the revelation of his real parentage and a crush on Catherine drive him to second thoughts until Catherine and Vincent convince him to try again.

    Director:Gus Trikonis

    Writer:P.K. Simonds

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    Director:Gus Trikonis

    Writer:P.K. Simonds
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    #22 - Labyrinths

    S2:E81/20/1989

    Brian, a D&D obsessed teen who lives in Catherine's apartment building, inadvertently discovers 'The World Below' while seeking refuge from his divorced parents' testy joint custody and following unsuspecting Catherine into the tunnels. The tunnel dwellers convince him to keep their secret while offering him a refuge if he wants it.

    Director:Dan Attias

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Dan Attias

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    #23 - Brothers

    S2:E92/3/1989

    Devin Wells returns to 'The World Below' with Charles, a deformed man with Proteus syndrome who seeks sanctuary from his abusive brother while escaping from a carnival where he's billed 'The Dragon Man'. Vincent befriends Charles but the deformed man's fear and awkwardness lead to complications until Devin agrees to care for Charles at a mountain retreat.

    Director:Bethany Rooney

    Writer:George R.R. Martin

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    Director:Bethany Rooney

    Writer:George R.R. Martin
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    #24 - A Gentle Rain

    S2:E102/17/1989

    A resident of 'The World Below' named Kanin—about to celebrate his first wedding anniversary below—is recognized by a woman in 'The World Above' as the driver who killed her small son in an accident sixteen years ago, the real reason Kanin retreated to the tunnels. Catherine inadvertently discovers his warrant and doesn't want to force Kanin to leave his family, but Vincent convinces him to face his responsibility and give closure to the grieving woman.

    Director:Gus Trikonis

    Writers:M.M. Shelly Moore, Linda Campanelli

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    Director:Gus Trikonis

    Writers:M.M. Shelly Moore, Linda Campanelli
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    #25 - The Outsiders

    S2:E112/24/1989

    When a group of homeless people find their way into 'The World Below', Father decides to welcome them. Vincent is wary as it seems that the indigents are violent and disturbed.

    Director:Thomas J. Wright

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:Thomas J. Wright

    Writer:Unknown