The BEST episodes of Beauty and the Beast
Every episode of Beauty and the Beast ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Beauty and the Beast!
Beauty and the Beast is a story that tells just how powerful love is. The show takes place in New York. Catherine Chandler is a wealthy woman who thinks that her life has no meaning beyond anything superficial. She longs for something more. Vincent is from a different world. He lives below the city in tunnels that have been forgotten. He must stay hidden because of his appearance. Though his appearance is different he has the heart of a man. He and Catherine share a bond that is stronger than friendship or love. Somehow they want to make their love work. Neither one of them knows how, but they are determined and refuse to give up.
#1 - 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!
#2 - Once Upon a Time in the City of New York
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1987
Catherine Chandler comes from a rich family. She works for her father at his law firm. Her life is full of people that are nothing more than acquaintences. She feels as if everything in her life is superficial. While at yet another party she decides to just leave. As she is walking through the park she is mistaken for someone else and is pulled into a van full of thugs. They slash her face and beat her up, then they push her out of the van and leave her for dead. A shadowy figure appears and carries her to secret set of forgotten tunnels below the city. There he bandages her wounds and helps to nourish her back to health. One day when Catherine is feeling better and has regained her some of her strength she begins to take the bandages off of her face. She walks to the wall and finds something to look into and she sees what the thugs have done to her face for the first time. Then she sees finally who her rescuer was. She screams at his apperance and throws what she was looking in at him
#3 - 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.
#4 - Legacies
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 8/4/1990
The son of a past cave-in victim wants revenge on Father. He tries to bury him alive.
#5 - Labyrinths
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/1989
Brian, an unhappy young Dungeons and Dragons player, discovers the tunnels.
#6 - 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.
#7 - A Gentle Rain
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/17/1989
Catherine must turn in Kanin. He is a tunnel dweller who is wanted for a past DWI vehicular homecide.
#8 - The Outsiders
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/24/1989
A murderous "family" takes up residence in the tunnels.
#9 - 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.
#10 - Arabesque
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/13/1989
Ballerina, Lisa's return to the tunnels opens up old wounds for Vincent.
#11 - 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.
#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.
#13 - Trial
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/21/1989
Catherine prosecutes a case of fatal child abuse. The wife won't testify against her husband.
#14 - 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.
#16 - What Rough Beast
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/12/1989
An insistent reporter sets off Vincent's confrontation with himself.
#17 - Ceremony of Innocence
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/19/1989
Paracelsus' lie about Vincent's birth brings Vincent to the verge of madness.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Though Lovers Be Lost (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/12/1989
Catherine finds out while visiting Joe in the hospital that she is pregnant. As she heads to her car in the parking garage she is kidnapped. Due to Vincent's recent illness he can not sense where she is. He knows nothing of the child that she carries. The kidnappers lock her in a cell. They want only the child. They think that if they take the baby they will get Vincent to emerge and that is exactly what they want. They continue to hold Catherine captive as Vincent frantically searches for her. It seems completely hopeless without his sense of her. Yet he vows to find her no matter the cost.
#20 - Though Lovers Be Lost (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/12/1989
As the child grows inside of Catherine, Vincent begins to have strange dreams. He doesn't know what they are at first, but eventually he figures out that they are related to Catherine. He begins to look for her again. Meanwhile Catherine goes into labor. She tries to hide it by not making any noise. Eventually her captors figure it out and tie her down in a chair to deliver the baby. Vincent has entered the building where she is. Now all he has to do is find her. Catherine gives birth to a little boy. She begs to see him as Vincent frantically searches for her. They refuse to let her see the baby. They take the child and escape after they have given her a shot of poison that will kill her. Just as the helicoptor takes off Vincent reaches the roof, but he is too late. He still hasn't found Catherine. Suddenly he turns as he hears her call out to him. He runs to her as she begins to fall. She tells him that there is a child. He seems surprised, but now he knows that he is a father. As sh
#21 - Walk Slowly
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/13/1989
Vincent takes Catherine from the rooftop back to her apartment. He lays her on her bed. He stays with her until the morning just watching over her. The D.A. finally finds her body. They begin to investigate not only who killed her but also who brought her back to her apartment. Vincent begins the search for his son.
#22 - Nevermore
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/20/1989
Elliott goes to Joe's apartment (#751) because Joe's on a leave of absence from work in order to stop him from investigating Catherine's death. Elliott gives Joe the address of the building where Catherine was killed (1900-6th Avneue, tower off of 53rd Street) and warns Joe not to trust Moreno, the current D.A., because Catherine was betrayed by someone working in the D.A.'s office and because Moreno put Joe on a leave of absence and insisted that Joe stop investigating Catherine's death. That night, Joe goes to Moreno's office and accosts him. He also throws the address out at Moreno and gets a reaction! Moreno meets Gabriel and tells him about Joe's accusations. Moreno tells Gabriel that he'll handle Joe and dispose of Elliott Burch himself. Private investigator Cleon Manning (working for Elliott) is killed by Gabriel's hitmen as a warning to back off the case. Elliott has his first meeting with Vincent at the abandoned carousel in Central Park. Diana goes to Catherine's apartment and finds the secret entrance to the 'threshold Below' in the sub-basement of the apartment building. Diana brings the withered rosebush from Catherine's apartment back to her own.
#23 - Snow
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/27/1989
Vincent begins to have nightmares about a bad snowstorm reaching the tunnels. No one wants to listen because the tunnels are too far below ground to be touched by the weather. Vincent continues to worry. Finally he figures out that Gabriel has sent a man to try and kill him. The man's name is Snow. This is what Vincent has seen. Vincent leads Snow into the catacombs to confuse him. Snow fires and with a lucky shot hits Vincent. But the wound is not fatal. Vincent eventually kills Snow. He removes the ring from Snow's finger. Gabriel has a matching ring. He carries his body back to the top of the building where Catherine was killed. As he stands there he holds both arms up in the air and screams the name of Gabriel into the night.
#25 - A Time to Heal
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/10/1990
Diana notices things in Catherine's apartment that have Vincent's name on them. She begins to realize that Vincent was her lover and probably the father of her child. She then decides to go to where Catherine is buried and wait for Vincent to do the same. One night it works. Vincent is sick and literally falls on top of Catherine's grave. Diana finds him and carries him back to her apartment where she nurses him back to health.