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Season 1 Cast SEASON ONE

Dark Knight, Part 1
Transmitted: 5 May, 1992

Season: One
Written by: James D. Parriott
Directed by: Allan Kroeker
Guest Starring: Graham McPherson, Nikki de Boer (Star Trek), George Buza (The Adventures of Sinbad), Zack Ward, Phil Jarrett, Christina Reeves
Synopsis: The murder of a museum security guard looks like the work of a serial killer who has been targeting members of the homeless community. While Don Schenke investigates human suspects during the daylight hours, Nick Knight uses the night shift to track another suspect - the man who made him a vampire 800 years before.
Flashback: France 1228, Janette seduces disillusioned crusader Nicola du Brabant and hands him over to her master LaCroix who brings him across and into the family fold.


Dark Knight: The Second Chapter, Part 2
Transmitted: 6 May, 1992

Season: One
Written by: James D. Parriott
Directed by: Allan Kroeker
Guest Starring: Same as above.
Synopsis: Nick confronts his maker, General Lucien LaCroix and kills him. But when a homeless friend of Nick's is murdered Nick rethinks his conclusion, is Schenke on the right track for once?
Flashback:


For I Have Sinned
Transmitted: 12 May, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Philip John Taylor
Directed by: Gerard Ciccoritti
Guest Starring: Maria del Mar, Michael McManus, Lawrence Bayne, Christine Cox, Colin Fox (Psi-Factor)
Synopsis: Nick tracks a killer murdering the female parishners of a church in the name of God. A priest must make a choice, keep the secrets of the confessional and let a killer continue murdering, or break his sacred oath and stop the massacre.
Flashback: Nick meets Jeanne d'Arc and discusses faith and the paths to enlightenment and damnation.


Last Act
Transmitted: 19 May, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Brad Wright
Directed by: Rene Bonniere
Guest Starring: Torri Higginson, Mackenzie Gray, Robert Bockstael, Laura Press, Allison Mang
Synopsis: As Nick and Schenke investigate a case of spontaneous cobustion on a park bench, Nick is forced to deal with his own suicidal tendencies. At the same time, Nick also decides to investigate the supposed suicide of a young female doctor. Once he discovers she was pregnant, his gut feeling leads him to an alternatve conclusion.
Flashback: Nick and his vampire lover, Erica, celebrate their mutual zest for life on the stage and in the dressing room.


Dance By the Light of the Moon
Transmitted: 26 May, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Roy Sallows
Directed by: Michael Levine
Guest Starring: Cyndy Preston, Patrick McKenna, Michael Killinger, Murray Oliver, Betty-Lou Buckindale
Synopsis: When the body of a well-liked cop turns up at the sight of a double murder, and the only trace of evidence is the same theatrical lipstick on both men, Nick and Schenke head to the red light district to do some behind-the-scenes investigating. But when Nick becomes involved with their lead suspect, Schenke thinks he's gone over to the dark side.
Flashback: France 1228, More of Janette's seduction of the mortal Nicola.


Dying to Know You
Transmitted: 9 June, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Tony Sheer
Directed by: Brad Turner
Guest Starring: Elizabeth Marmur, Brett Halsey, Pia Sotham, Victor A. Young, Richard McMillan
Synopsis: When the wife and daughter of noted philanthropist Conrad Hedges are kiddnapped, Nick and Schenke are assigned to work with renown psychic, Denise Fort, to uncover evidence. Unfortunately, the psychic is zeroing in on images of Nick's tortured past instead of the Hedges' troubled situation. If he doesn't reveal himself to her, she may go insane and they will lose their best chance of locating Hedges's missing family.
Flashback: Nick is staying with Brother Matthew, a devout Pilgrim who opened up his house to the wandering vampire without knowing the monster behind the man. When he begins seeing visions of Nick as a demon flying through the air, he confronts Nick with his demonic theory and begs for answers Nick cannot give.


False Witness
Transmitted: 4 August, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Naomi Janzen
Directed by: Jorge Montesi
Guest Starring: John Evans, Ellen Dubin, Martin Doyle, Kelly Fiddick, Monique Mojica
Synopsis: Nick arrives too late to save informant Pete Farber from being shot to death when his surveillance of pornographer and murder suspect Murray Kozak goes sour. Nick puts his conscience on the line when he lies about seeing the shooting happen. Kozak will go free without his testimony. Can Nick live with the lie or will he be forced to convict him another way?
Flashback: Nick, LaCroix, and Janette stop for dinner and pause to admire the skill of the musicians. When Janette chooses the young woman for her supper and her partner is accused of the murder, Nick stays behind to defend the young man against an unfair accusation and lying witnesses.


Cherry Blossoms
Transmitted: 11 August, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Roy Sallows
Directed by: Brad Turner
Guest Starring: James Hong, Ho Chow, Shirley Cui, Oscar Hsu, Janet Lo, Daniel Lee
Synopsis: Nancy Leung and her family are targeted by the Hong Kong crime syndicate to keep them from testifying in a trial against them. When her brother is killed, Nancy barely escapes with her life and goes into hiding. While Nick and Schenke, with the help of immigration officer, Ray Quan, search for the injured girl, her wounds are treated by elderly acupuncturist, Dr. Chung. Nick finds her, but doesn't realize Dr. Chung knows who and what he is, or what the old Doctor has in store for him.
Flashback: San Francisco, . Nick's search for a cure to his "condition" leads him to a renown acupuncturist who immobilizes him with a well-placed needle. Nick underestimates LaCroix's anger at the rejection of his gift, and is forced to watch helplessly as LaCroix kills the innocent woman.


I Will Repay
Transmitted: 15 September, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Brad Wright
Directed by: Jorge Montesi
Guest Starring: Lindsay Merrithew, Shelley Young, Louise Cranfield, Nancy Cser, Dean Gabourie
Synopsis: After Natalie's brother is fatally wounded by a gunman, she asks Nick to turn him into a vampire. When bad guys begin to die, Nick and Natalie are forced to decide if Richie is too out of control to live.
Flashback: (Not completely sure about this one - Admin.) Nick brings across a young, female leper. When she regains her beauty, she uses it for revenge - to hunt and kill, to destroy life without thought to the consequences. Nick is forced to destroy her or take on all the guilt for the deaths she caused.


Dead Air
Transmitted: 22 September, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Alison Bingeman
Directed by: Steve DiMarco
Guest Starring: Diane Cary, David Hewlett, Johnathan Wise, Justine Campbell, Reiner Schwartz
Synopsis: A pop radio psychiatrist is horrified when one of her callers murders someone on the air. Turns out she's being stalked by an ex-patient with a media comlex.
Flashback: LaCroix meets a man who reminds him of his father. He tortures him before making the killing stroke.


Hunters
Transmitted: 29 September, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Peter Mitchell
Directed by: Michael Levine
Guest Starring: Daniel Kash, William Colgate, Rachel Luttrell, Bill MacDonald, Robert Hollinger
Synopsis: When Schenke's close friend and ex-partner, Macavoy, is shot to death by a sniper, he swears to catch the man behind the gun. But when it becomes apparent that Schenke is the assassin's next target, Nick flies into high gear to save his partner's life.
Flashback: A mob of would-be vampire slayers chase Nick, Janette, and LaCroix through the woods on horseback until the sun begins to rise. The trio sends their horses off as a diversion and takes shelter in a rundown shack, hoping the hunters would follow the trail and pass by them. They don't and Nick remains above ground to defend his family while Janette and LaCroix take cover underground.


Dead Issue
Transmitted: 6 October, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Lionel E. Siegel
Directed by: Mitch Gabourie & Nicholas J. Gray
Guest Starring: Lori Hallier, Marc Strange, Louis DiBianco, Tony De Santis, Davis Ferry
Synopsis: The wife of Captain Stonetree's best friend, Lynn Fiore, admits to killing a known criminal in self-defense during a breaking and entering. But Nick smells something funny - and it's not Schenke's dinner. Despite being told by Stonetree to drop the investigation, Nick puts his career on the line to find the killer and set an innocent woman free of the guilt she's been forced to harbor.
Flashback: Nick tries to convince a young model he was posing with that she was not to blame for the unwanted attraction the Master Painter held for her. His efforts to gain her trust fail after the artist rapes her, for which she blames herself. In the end, she chooses to give up and end her life with a poison called 'LadyKiller'.


Father Figure
Transmitted: 13 October, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Michael Sadowski
Directed by: Gary Farmer
Guest Starring: Chantellese Kent, Illya Woloshyn, Allan Aarons, Marvin Ishmael, Jocelyne Saint-Denis
Synopsis: After she witnesses the murder of mob accountant Marty Angelo, Stonetree assigns Nick to watch over ten-year-old Lisa Cooper until her father returns from an out-of-town job.
Flashback: Wartime London, Nick and Janette adopt a young orphan boy they find wandering the streets. Nick attempts to get the boy out of his family's vampiric clutches, but we are left wondering if he succeeded.


Spin Doctor
Transmitted: 27 October, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Michael Sadowski
Directed by: Leon Marr
Guest Starring: Lisa Howard (Earth Final Conflict), Dixie Seatle, Barry Flatman, Christa Daniel, Sandi Ross, Anita La Selva (Earth Final Conflict)
Synopsis: After freelance reporter Gilbert Reeves is found electrocuted in his hotel bathtub, Nick comes across notes indicating Reeves was investigating mayoral candidate Clifford Hiatt. Nick is forced to rely on his own impartial judgement alone during the investigation, while mediating the arguments between Natalie and Schenke, who are on opposite sides of the ballot box.
Flashback: Nick is caught up in the Red Menace fear of post WWII politics. The McCarthy hearings destroyed his reputation and his life when he was accused of being a communist and put on trial because they found blood in his refrigerator.


Dying For Fame
Transmitted: 10 November, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Shelly Goldstein
Directed by: Jon Cassar
Guest Starring: Tracey Cook, Richard Eden, Nahanni Johnstone, Chandra Galasso, Dani Elwell
Synopsis: Rock superstar, Rebecca, is accused of the murder of one of her fans. Nick realizes that she wants out of her lonely, drunken life and believes in her innocence. But someone is out to end Rebecca's reign. Can Nick prove her innocence and find the would-be assassin before it's too late?
Flashback: Odd collection of images. Nick and LaCroix at Woodstock. Scenes of Nick's separation from the mortal world and his longing to be an accepted part of it. Artistic.


Only the Lonely
Transmitted: 17 November, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Susan Martin
Directed by: Clay Borris
Guest Starring: Barclay Hope (Psi-Factor), Nancy McClure, Sandi Ross, Scott Walker, Karen Racicot
Synopsis: A dating service is the central collection center for a serial rapist whose victims end up dead. Natalie meets Richard, who Nick is instantly suspicious of. Natalie thinks he's being overprotective, but hopes a bit of jelousy is behind it. Could the two events possibly be related?
Flashback: Nick was killed in an explosion set off to cover up a gan robbery. Presumed dead, he was taken to the morgue in a body bag. While the solitary coroner is busy elsewhere, Nick's body sucks back all it's lost blood, healing him. When she returns to start the autopsy, Natalie is confronted not with a grotesquely mangled corpse, but a hottie, sexy guy she doesn't mind looking over. When he sits up, jumps off the table, and drinks down a bag of blood from her cooler, she nervously falls head over heels for the undead hunk.


Unreality TV
Transmitted: 24 November, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Michael Sadowski
Directed by: Clay Borris
Guest Starring: Laura Robinson, Jason Blicker, Greg Spottiswood, Daniel Macivor, Rodger Barton
Synopsis: Nick and Schenke are chosen as the subjects in a "Top Cops" report on crime. Reporter Tawny Teller puts herself in danger when her cameraman Bobby gets film of Nick in vampire form, doing the impossible.The Enforcers take great pains to see that no proof of their existence is allowed out for public consumption. Including the removal of those possessing the information. The existence of the tape is enough to get the Enforcers on their trail and Nick must convince Tawny to erase the tape and let him erase her memory - before the Enforcers show up to erase her life.
Flashback: Civil War, Nick is a doctor for the Union Army. He saves those he can, but once they are dead... can you say free lunch? And then LaCroix shows up. A photographer gets a grainy image of the vampire feeding on the dead and wham bam the Enforcers show up to remove the threat, and the photographer.


Feeding the Beast
Transmitted: 1 December, 1992

Season: One
Written by: Alison Bingeman
Directed by: Richard Lewis
Guest Starring: Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Marina Anderson, Hadley Obodiac, Diego Chambers, Peter Messaline
Synopsis: Nick joins a twelve-step program to find the members' killer. Seeing the program's success, Nick decides to try it himself to see if he can break his addiction to blood. And it works - for a while. When his sponsor tries to seduce him, he tumbles off the wagon head first. Can he get himself back under control and solve the case before the murderer strikes again?
Flashback: (Forthcoming - Admin.)


If Looks Could Kill
Transmitted: 9 February, 1993

Season: One
Written by: Naomi Janzen
Directed by: Michael Levine
Guest Starring: Terri Hawkes, Jennifer Dale, Alison Hossack, Kymberly Huffman, Davis Spooner
Synopsis: A doctor who specializes in plastic surgery has developed a new way of keeping women looking young, but with some unforseen consequences. As for the doctor herself, she's a bit older than she looks...
Flashback: A vain Countess seeks Nick's youthful immortality without a complete understanding of the cost. But when he refuses, she turns to a more understanding Janette.


Fatal Mistake
Transmitted: 16 February, 1993

Season: One
Written by: Michael Sadowski
Directed by: Don McCutcheon
Guest Starring: Simon Reynolds, David Stratton, Cynthia Belliveau, Linda Goranson, Ken James
Synopsis: While searching the scene of a teenager's death, Nick sees a vision from the past - one of his own victims. Captain Stonetree believe's the teenager's death is his fault and as usual, it's up to Nick to find out the truth, while averting an angry remnant of his past.
Flashback: Nick's relationship history is explored here with a human woman he met before the guilt complex caught up with him. After a night of passion, he left the woman, assuming she was dead. She wasn't, and LaCroix being the wonderful nasty that he is, brought her across. He never bothered to tell Nick.


1966
Transmitted: 23 February, 1993

Season: One
Written by: Brad Wright
Directed by: Nicholas J. Gray
Guest Starring: Cali Timmins, George Touliatos, Christopher Kennedy, Michael Rhoades, Don Carrier
Synopsis: A gunman takes Natalie hostage in the police station. Can Nick get her out unharmed?
Flashback: Berlin 1966, While searching for a book rumored to contain a cure for vampirism, Nick agrees to help a family escape from East to West Berlin. But someone arrives to complicate matters, as he always does, and the book is lost in a fire.


Love You to Death
Transmitted: 2 March, 1993

Season: One
Written by: Tony Sheer
Directed by: Michael Levine
Guest Starring: Andrea Roth, Jonathan Potts, Paul Ehrmann, Mary Patterson, Michael Millar
Synopsis: A lingerie model is murdered and Nick must find the killer before he strikes again.
Flashback: Nick falls in love with a young dancer, but LaCroix interfears and convinces him that she is unworthy of his love. Feeling betrayed, Nick kills her. When LaCroix reveals that he set her up, and that she was actually an innocent, Nick swears off killing altogether and refuses to forgive LaCroix for the injustice.


* NOTE:

The synopsis for these episodes were taken from recollection, except for those few episodes that remain unseen. Particular information was collected from CULT TIMES MAGAZINE, Special Issue #9.