Beauty and the Beast (1987)

Crime · Drama · Fantasy

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.

IMDb rating: 7.0 (8,795 votes)
Episode average: 8.2 ↑ +1.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 3
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1987)

8.19 avg 22 episodes 8.0 → 9.0 49 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Once Upon a Time in the City of New York	8.0	280
2	Terrible Savior	7.4	170
3	Siege	7.5	150
4	No Way Down	7.4	138
5	Masques	7.8	136
6	Beast Within	7.9	115
7	Nor Iron Bars a Cage	8.3	120
8	Song of Orpheus	8.2	112
9	Dark Spirit	8.1	110
10	A Children's Story	8.5	118
11	An Impossible Silence	8.6	116
12	Shades of Grey	8.6	105
13	China Moon	8.3	115
14	The Alchemist	8.5	110
15	Temptation	8.1	97
16	Promises of Someday	8.5	102
17	Down to a Sunless Sea	8.4	99
18	Fever	8.0	98
19	Everything Is Everything	8.2	101
20	To Reign in Hell	8.4	104
21	Ozymandias	8.5	107
22	A Happy Life	9.0	145

Season 2 (1988)

8.55 avg 22 episodes 8.3 → 9.0 48 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Chamber Music	8.3	102
2	Remember Love	8.3	93
3	Ashes, Ashes	8.4	128
4	Dead of Winter	8.6	94
5	God Bless the Child	8.1	96
6	Sticks and Stones	8.3	90
7	A Fair and Perfect Knight	8.8	91
8	Labyrinths	8.3	89
9	Brothers	8.5	95
10	A Gentle Rain	8.5	91
11	The Outsiders	8.4	89
12	Orphans	8.9	100
13	Arabesque	8.3	91
14	When the Blue Bird Sings	8.9	94
15	The Watcher	9.0	89
16	A Distant Shore	8.6	91
17	Trial	8.2	83
18	A Kingdom by the Sea	9.0	82
19	The Hollow Men	8.2	83
20	What Rough Beast	8.9	89
21	Ceremony of Innocence	8.7	74
22	The Rest Is Silence	9.0	95

Season 3 (1989)

7.56 avg 11 episodes 8.3 → 7.0 50 min avg

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Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Though Lovers Be Lost...	8.3	107
2	Walk Slowly	8.1	78
3	Nevermore	7.6	67
4	Snow	7.5	75
5	Beggar's Comet	7.6	80
6	A Time to Heal	7.4	74
7	The Chimes at Midnight	7.6	72
8	Invictus	8.3	73
9	In the Forests of the Night	7.3	78
10	The Reckoning	6.5	74
11	Legacies	7.0	86

Beauty and the Beast (1987)

Cast

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