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[Ripclawe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Knight

Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a cop on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on 5 May 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on 17 May 1996.

Hulu has the first two season up
http://www.hulu.com/search?query=forever+knight&st=1

Is it my nostalgia or was this pretty darn good considering the budget and laid the groundwork for other series afterwards at least in terms of show setup like Angel(not quality wise calm down you), Vampire Dairies, Moonlight.

Nigel Bennett as LaCroix was awesome.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

parts of the movie it was based on, Nick Knights, were filmed at my uncles junkyard in North Hollywood. He made us watch that shit so many times just for the scene where he walks through the background. Fuckin Rick Springfield.

 

[Angelus Errare]

wtf is Moonlight?

 

[Medalion]

I still remember this show, cuz I'm canadian and old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPhIEG3JYtg <---the intro

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

Awesome show, Chiller is an amazing channel.

 

[Cardon]

I watched the show back in the day and loved it, aside from the craptacular final season. Definitely feel it's a bit underrated if not forgotten but I chalk that up to the somewhat poor syndication and re-airings the show had. The station that carried it in Chicago showed it at like 10:35pm on Saturday so it seemed like it didn't have a prime time slot in the U.S. compared to the Canadian network that aired it.

But it's nice that the show is on Hulu now and hopefully more folks will check it out. And yes, Nigel Bennett was amazing as LaCroix.

 

[AkuMifune]

I used to watch this show when I was falling to sleep late at night. Think I liked the movie it was based on too, but it's been years.

Holy crap, is that Nobody? :lol

 

[Shiv47]

I enjoyed this back in the day, though the final season was shitty, when some of the original cast had bailed. It had that Highlander format, where every episode had to have a flashback element tying into the modern day plot. Decent enough show. The main character drank cow blood he kept in a fridge, as I recall?

 

[Medalion]

Fairly certain this show inspired Angel

 

[charsace]

I remember this show. Used to come one late nights in NYC on either CBS or NBC.

 

[HeySeuss]

Wow I used to watch this show and I actually liked it. Not sure how well it would hold up today watching it again though.

 

[CabbageRed]

I used to watch this and a Dracula-themed show that I can no longer remember. I remember Knight being a fairly cool character.

Fairly certain this show inspired Angel

I think that was probably more of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer thing.

Spoiler

I know what you mean, and I agree.

 

[anaron]

Fun fact: Natalie has voiced Jill Valentine and Jean Grey.

 

[Rabid Wolverine]

An awesome show indeed.

Own the 3 dvd sets. Third season was a bummer

Janette was smoking. As was the chemistry between Nick and Skank.

 

[Urban Scholar]

I recall watching this as a kid. I always thought it was cool and was totally worth staying up for.

 

[Router]

I remember this. It was pretty awesome.

 

[industrian]

I still remember this show, cuz I'm canadian and old.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPhIEG3JYtg <---the intro

I'm not Canadian and I remember both the intro of Forever Knight and Due South (bonus point: I even watched The Raccoons, motherfucker!)

Yeah, watching that intro brings back memories of late night Sky One when I was in primary school. Star Trek TNG would be on from 10pm-11pm, Forever Knight had the 11pm time. I'd go to bed at around 11.20pm.

 

[ElectricThunder]

A great show from back when the Sci-Fi channel knew what was up. I think it was my first vampire TV series...with the second a fair bit later being that shortlived mini-series thing on FOX whose name escapes me at the moment---modern setting, had clan stuff going on like Brouha (Brewha?), and so on.

 

[sooperkool]

This was good stuff. Makes me think of Silk Stalkings too.

 

[Enron]

This was good stuff. Makes me think of Silk Stalkings too.

Yep. Both were part of a rotation of really-shitty late night shows on CBS in the early 90s.

Mitzi Kapture though was <3

 

[Ceres]

wtf is Moonlight?

A show that came 1 year too early to get swept up in the Twilight craze. Got canceled by CBS like 6 episodes into the first season. Main vampire is the main detective on Hawaii 5-0.

 

[Fritz]

Is it my nostalgia or was this pretty darn good considering the budget and laid the groundwork for other series afterwards at least in terms of show setup like Angel(not quality wise calm down you), Vampire Dairies, Moonlight.

I love their milkshakes!

I remember that show, but strangely I never watched it. Funny, considering I loved everything "Vampire". I was probably in my early teens and thought this wasn't good enough for my eclectic taste.

 

[Enosh]

A show that came 1 year too early to get swept up in the Twilight craze. Got canceled by CBS like 6 episodes into the first season. Main vampire is the main detective on Hawaii 5-0.

I liked Moonlight

and Blood Ties

oh and the most forgoten vampire show has to be

Spoiler

if you are reading this you are proving my point it's Kindred: The Embraced

 

[Manmademan]

no, "dracula: the series" is the forgotten vampire show. I haven't met another person who remembered it even existed in decades.

 

[BattleMonkey]

Lets not forget Baywatch Nights when it went supernatural. :lol

 

[Dorrin]

I liked Forever Knight, I think Sci-fi channel had it running quite a bit when I was in college in the late 90s. I never saw the final episode or two.

Now does anyone remember this werewolf series that was on Fox in the late 80s?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfEEVi4DO8&feature=related

Keep in mind this shit like the following was on at like 7pm Central time in 1987. I was around 10..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71P5ly2t-W8&feature=related

 

[Ripclawe]

no, "dracula: the series" is the forgotten vampire show. I haven't met another person who remembered it even existed in decades.

I remember that as well.:lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula:_The_Series

Geraint Wyn Davies, who played Gustav's son Klaus, who'd been turned into a vampire. He went on to play the vampire Nick Knight in the series Forever Knight.

and a young Mia Kirshner who played a vampire on Vampire Diaries.

 

[Medalion]

For anyone interested

A blooper real from Forever Knight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQU7EN4ALIk

Pay attention to the ending blooper

 

[Aika'svyse]

Kindred was great, too bad the main guy died in a motorcycle accident.