The Best Episodes of Beauty and the Beast
Every episode of Beauty and the Beast ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Beauty and the Beast!
Beauty and the Beast is an American drama series which first aired on CBS in 1987. Creator Ron Koslow's updated version of the fairy tale has a double focus: the relationship between Vincent, a mythic, noble man-beast, and Catherine, a savvy Assistant District Attorney in New York; and a secret Utopian community of social outcasts living in a subterranean sanctuary. Through an empathetic bond, Vincent senses Catherine's emotions, and becomes her guardian.
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Beauty and the Beast" is "A Happy Life", rated 9.1/10 from 136 user votes. It was directed by Victor Lobl and written by N/A. "A Happy Life" aired on 4/8/1988 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Rest is Silence".
9.1/10 136 votes#1 - A Happy Life
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/1988
Catherine's pain about her fragmented life almost causes her to end her relationship with Vincent.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
9.0/10 86 votes#2 - The Rest is Silence
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 6/2/1989
A stress-aggravated illness triggers Vincent's collapse. Vincent goes far back through the catacombs of the tunnels to hide in a cave. While in there he continually growls and thrashes about as if he's gone mad. Catherine goes after him because she says that she can't stand to see him like that. After all he is the love of her life.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
8.9/10 119 votes#3 - Ashes, Ashes
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/2/1988
Dimitri, a Russian sailor unknowingly brings the plague below.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.9/10 79 votes#4 - A Fair and Perfect Knight
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/1989
Michael leaves to the tunnels to go to college above. Vincent deals with jealousy issues of not being able to go to college above. Catherine befriends him and helps him settle in. Michael eventually falls for Catherine and winds up kissing her. Then he is afraid of what Vincent will do when he finds out about the kiss.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.9/10 87 votes#5 - Orphans
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 3/6/1989
Catherine's father dies and Vincent allows her to come below to grieve. He also makes her go back above because he knows that she does not belong there no matter how he feels. Catherine finally agrees and goes back above.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
8.9/10 76 votes#6 - The Watcher
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 4/7/1989
Catherine is harrassed by a peeping tom. The worst part is that this man has seen Vincent!
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: M.M. Shelly Moore
8.9/10 79 votes#7 - What Rough Beast
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 5/12/1989
An insistent reporter sets off Vincent's confrontation with himself.
Director: Michael Switzer
Writer: N/A
8.8/10 82 votes#8 - When the Bluebird Sings
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/31/1989
Catherine meets a strange man who says that he is an artist. His name is Kristopher Gentian. But when strange things begin to happen it leads both Vincent and Catherine to wonder if the man is really an artist or a ghost.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
8.8/10 74 votes#9 - A Kingdom by the Sea
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/28/1989
Elliot Birch is pursued by a death squad. Catherine puts her own life on the line to help him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 99 votes#10 - A Children's Story
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1987
Vincent alerts Catherine to possible wrong-doing at a well-known, renowned orphanage. Her investigation leads to the discovery of a child-selling scheme operated by the orphanage's owner and a thief who uses the children to steal for him. Catherine rescues a brother and sister (Eric and Ellie) and takes them to live in the tunnel world.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: N/A
8.6/10 99 votes#11 - An Impossible Silence
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1987
Laura, a deaf-mute tunnel dweller, witnesses the murder of a police officer, for which another man is framed. She goes above with Catherine, but is kidnapped by the real murderers, who are also police officers. Cuffed to a pipe in the basement of the murderer's house, Laura taps out an SOS, which is heard by Pascal and Vincent rescues her. She decides to return Above to live.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
8.6/10 78 votes#12 - A Distant Shore
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/14/1989
Catherine must travel to L.A. for information about a murder case. Even this far away, Vincent still has a sense of her. But because she is so far away there is nothing that Vincent can do if she does encounter danger. On the flight home Catherine remembers special moments with Vincent.
Director: Michael Switzer
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 92 votes#13 - Shades of Gray
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/8/1988
Attempting to aid an injured child (Eric) in the Maze, a cave-in traps Vincent and Father. Catherine, after facing Elliott Burch, who has agreed to be a witness against an extortionist, senses something is wrong and rushes to the tunnels. When her attempts to contact someone fail, she wanders the tunnels, tripping a trapdoor which sends her tumbling down to Mouse's quarters. He leads her to the others. Mouse can save Vincent and Father, but needs demolition supplies. Catherine goes back to Elliott Burch, who gives them to her, no questions asked. Mouse succeeds; Vincent and Father are freed. Father is much more understanding of Vincent and Catherine's relationship. Catherine tells Vincent she loves him and he watches her as she returns to her world.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 98 votes#14 - The Alchemist
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1988
Paracelsus, a former friend of Father's, sells an hallucinatory drug in the world above.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
8.5/10 84 votes#15 - Down to a Sunless Sea
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/19/1988
Steven Bass, Catherine's ex-fiance resurfaces. He has all ready been in a mental institute and is very strange. Vincent has dreams of disaster connected to Catherine. He warns her but she thinks that he is paranoid or jealous. When trouble does come to her Vincent is right there.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 90 votes#16 - To Reign in Hell
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/18/1988
Paracelsus kidnaps Catherine, which causes Vincent to begin a quest to rescue her.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
8.5/10 87 votes#17 - Ozymandias
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/1/1988
Construction of the Birch tower is causing many problems in the tunnels. To help the problems stop Catherine agrees to marry Elliot Birch. This should halt the construction of his tower and also leave the tunnels as a safe place once again.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/10 78 votes#18 - Dead of Winter
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/9/1988
Winterfest is a celebration of great importance to those who live below. This is Catherine's first Winterfest. But this year Winterfest is interrupted by Paracelsus.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: George R. R. Martin
8.5/10 63 votes#19 - Ceremony of Innocence
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/1989
Paracelsus' lie about Vincent's birth brings Vincent to the verge of madness.
Director: Gus Trikonis
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 84 votes#20 - Promises of Someday
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/12/1988
Vincent's foster brother, who is also Father's son, Devin, returns to the tunnels after a 20 year absence.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 72 votes#21 - Labyrinths
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/1989
Brian, an unhappy young Dungeons and Dragons player, discovers the tunnels.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 82 votes#22 - Brothers
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/3/1989
Devin, rescues a man who has elephant man's syndrome from a cruel circus man. The owner leaves the poor man locked in a cage like an animal. Devin, then brings him below where he knows that he will be safe.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/10 79 votes#23 - The Outsiders
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/24/1989
A murderous "family" takes up residence in the tunnels.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Estrin
8.3/10 107 votes#24 - Nor Iron Bars a Cage
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1987
Vincent is captured and held hostages by two scientists who stick him in a cage. Catherine considers a new job in Providence.
Director: Thomas J. Wright, Ron Perlman
Writer: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
8.3/10 86 votes#25 - Everything is Everything
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/4/1988
After faking that Catherine hit him young Tony Ramos winds up living with Catherine. She tries to help him by talking to Vincent. Vincent tries to help as well. But it is Tony who winds up trying to reverse unjust banishment of his family before a Gypsy court.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A