From: boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The Man from Another Place)
Subject: Re: Forever Knight (Details wanted)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:57:26 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.193503.27228@cognet.ucla.edu>, ladc@cogfog.cognet.ucla.edu (Laura Da Costa) writes...

} In article <1992Aug12.181329.23695@watson.ibm.com> lutz@shredder.raleigh.ibm.com writes:

}} Anyway, I'm interested in the history of the series. Like what happened
}} in the premiere?  What's the basis of the story? How did Nick meet his
}} doctor friend? How many episodes are there? Will there be any new
}} episodes? Is there a Episode Guide for FK?

}} As far as I can tell, Nick has been a vampire for hundreds (thousands?)
}} of years. He's spent the last hundred years trying to become human and
}} do good (thus becoming a police detective). Currently, his doctor friend
}} is helping him to become human and falling in love with him(?). A bunch
}} of vamps hang out at a nearby bar (what's Nick's association with this
}} motley crew?).  

} The premiere episode was actually a two parter. Nick and his doctor friend
} were already friends, and if they gave the history of how they met--I
} missed it.

They never showed how Nick and Natalie met.

} The pilot shows were very similar to the movie pilot that was originally
} done starring Rick Springfield a few years ago

Not just "very similar". With a few exceptions of detail (like setting
the show in Toronto instead of in California), it's almost exact. I was
astounded when I finally caught up with the original last month and a
lot of the dialogue was unchanged in the FK premiere.

} (Springfield one is shown occassionally on other stations like the
} Lifetime network--

Yes, Lifetime currently has it locked up. They just showed it in the
middle of July, so I don't know when they'll show it next.

} I think it is called Nick Knight, but I am not sure).

It is.

} I think there are only about 6 episodes other than the pilot pair of
} episodes.

Exactly right.

} I believe Nick has been a vampire for 800 years; he was formerly a
} knight who was convinced by Natalie and Lacroix to accept the role
} of a vampire after Lacroix bit him.

Correct, except that it wasn't Natalie, it was Jeanette. Natalie is
Nick's pathologist friend.

} I don't know if the Doctor is falling in love with Nick, but they do
} hint that she might want more than a friendship occassionally--I hope
} they stick with the friendship idea.

So far, we've seen them only as close friends, and the 8/11 episode was
the first time I've seen any indication that Nat might feel anything
more than friendship (she seemed to be a tad bugged by Jeanette's being
in Nick's arms, but it could simply be that she thinks that Nick might
"backslide" if he hangs out with Jeanette). In fact, the previous
episode, which had ended with a scene of Nick and Nat sitting watching
KING KONG was really the first time we'd ever seen them just "hanging
out" together; every other time we've seen them together, it's been at
work or in work-related situations.

As far as the other questions from the original poster go:

(1) About the "vamp club": The Raven is owned and managed by Jeanette,
who is that extremely sexy vampire who helped save Nick from Dr. Chung
in this most recent episode. She's an old lover of Nick's, and hung
out with Lacroix over the centuries as he tried to prevent Nick from
becoming human again. She also seems to be a good source for information,
which is why Nick drops in there from time to time.

(2) I assume that there will be more episodes. They ran six in a row,
then reran all six, then showed two new ones (the last two weeks). The
episode that TV GUIDE describes for next week is a repeat [for some
reason, TVG never notes when the late night series show repeats] --
and one of the better ones at that (the third episode, in which Nick
goes after a serial killer who seems to be connected with a church).
After that, who knows?

(3) As soon as I update my guide with the info from the most recent episode,
I'll post it.

-- 

	"She's my radiation baby.
	 She's my teenage fallout girl."

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)

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