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The Best Episodes of Beauty and the Beast

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 22 - A Happy Life
    9.0/10(146 votes)

    S1:E22

    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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  2. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 15 - The Watcher
    9.0/10(90 votes)

    S2:E15

    On the night of their second anniversary, Catherine and Vincent are unnerved to think a stalker claims to have seen Vincent, which he reiterates in a frightening phone call to Catherine. Determined to learn his identify, but afraid to involve the police to protect Vincent, Catherine is abducted by the stalker while Vincent and Joe separately try to find her.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writers:M.M. Shelly Moore, Linda Campanelli

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  3. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 18 - A Kingdom by the Sea
    9.0/10(83 votes)

    S2:E18

    The CIA pushes Catherine and Joe off investigating the murder of an old man who proves to be the father of Burch—whose shady dealings in Central America have put him in danger from a country's death squad, leading Catherine to put her own life on the line to help him.

    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:George R.R. Martin

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  4. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 22 - The Rest Is Silence
    9.0/10(96 votes)

    S2:E22

    Following Paracelsus's death, and Father's revelation of the truth about his abandonment and adoption, Vincent comes to terms that the beast within is causing him to lose control until Catherine daringly joins him to comfort him through it.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 12 - Orphans
    8.9/10(102 votes)

    S2:E12

    When Catherine's father dies of a stroke, she retreats to 'The World Below' to grieve. She asks Vincent to let her stay with him and not return to 'The World Above' and though he agrees, he knows that eventually she will need to go back.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writers:Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon

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  6. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 14 - When the Bluebird Sings
    8.9/10(96 votes)

    S2:E14

    Eccentric young artist Kristopher Gentian keeps appears in Catherine's life after meeting her in a bookstore—including near a tunnel entrance where he sees Vincent. Believing he faked his own death to advance his previously obscure works, Catherine tracks his paintings to a warehouse where Vincent joins her, but Kristopher vanishes after showing them the rest of his works.

    Director:Victor Lobl
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 20 - What Rough Beast
    8.9/10(90 votes)

    S2:E20

    Catherine is attacked in rhe park by two men disguised as police officers. Vincent comes to her rescue, only for it to be a set-up created by a shadowy figure who has hired an investigative reporter named Bernie Spirko to expose Vincent's existence to the public at large.

    Director:Michael Switzer
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 7 - A Fair and Perfect Knight
    8.8/10(93 votes)

    S2:E7

    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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  9. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 21 - Ceremony of Innocence
    8.7/10(75 votes)

    S2:E21

    In the aftermath of Spirko's death, Burch and Catherine set out to find the man who hired his killer—unaware the killer is Paracelsus, who fatally stabbed Spirko, setting in motion the next stage of his plan to take over 'The World Below'. Disguised as Father—whom he left bound and hidden in a rented penthouse—Paracelsus lies to Vincent about his birth, which brings Vincent to the verge of madness in a final confrontation.

    Director:Gus Trikonis
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 11 - An Impossible Silence
    8.6/10(117 votes)

    S1:E11

    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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  11. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 12 - Shades of Gray
    8.6/10(106 votes)

    S1:E12

    '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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  12. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 4 - Dead of Winter
    8.6/10(95 votes)

    S2:E4

    '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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  13. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 16 - A Distant Shore
    8.6/10(92 votes)

    S2:E16

    Catherine travels to California as part of an investigation for the New York office. She and Vincent discover just how strong their bond is when Vincent is able to warn her telepathically of an impending attack as she tries to bring a witness back with her.

    Director:Michael Switzer
    Writer:Marie Therese Squerciatti

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  14. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 10 - A Children's Story
    8.5/10(119 votes)

    S1:E10

    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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  15. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 14 - The Alchemist
    8.5/10(112 votes)

    S1:E14

    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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  16. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 16 - Promises of Someday
    8.5/10(103 votes)

    S1:E16

    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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  17. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 21 - Ozymandias
    8.5/10(108 votes)

    S1:E21

    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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  18. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 9 - Brothers
    8.5/10(96 votes)

    S2:E9

    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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  19. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 10 - A Gentle Rain
    8.5/10(93 votes)

    S2:E10

    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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  20. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 17 - Down to a Sunless Sea
    8.4/10(100 votes)

    S1:E17

    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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  21. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 20 - To Reign in Hell
    8.4/10(105 votes)

    S1:E20

    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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  22. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 3 - Ashes, Ashes
    8.4/10(129 votes)

    S2:E3

    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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  23. Beauty and the Beast Season 2 Episode 11 - The Outsiders
    8.4/10(90 votes)

    S2:E11

    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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  24. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 7 - Nor Iron Bars a Cage
    8.3/10(121 votes)

    S1:E7

    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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  25. Beauty and the Beast Season 1 Episode 13 - China Moon
    8.3/10(116 votes)

    S1:E13

    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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Best Episodes Summary

"A Happy Life" is the best rated episode of "Beauty and the Beast". It scored 9/10 based on 146 votes. Directed by Victor Lobl and written by Ron Koslow, it aired on 4/8/1988. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Watcher".