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Episodes
Disc One: “Dark Knight”, “Dark Knight (Part2)”, “For I Have Sinned”,
“Last Act”, “Dance By The Light Of The Moon”
Episodes
Disc Two: “Dying To Know You”, “False Witness”, “Cherry Blossoms”,
“I Will Repay”, “Dead Air”
Episodes
Disc Three: “Dead Issue”, “Hunters, Father Figure”, “Dying For Fame”
Episodes
Disc Four: “Spin Doctor”, “Only The Lonely”, “Unreality TV”,
“Feeding The Beast”
Episodes Disc Five: “1966”, “If Looks Could Kill”, “Fatale Mistake”, “Love You To Death”
Stars:
Geraint Wyn Davies, Gary Farmer, Catherine Disher, Deborah Duchene, John Kapelos,
and Nigel Bennett
Writers:
James D. Parriott, Barney Cohen, Philip John Taylor, Brad Wright, Roy Sallows,
Tony Sheer, Naomi Janzen, Alison Bingeman, Lionel E. Siegel, Peter Mitchell,
Michael Sadowski, Shelly Goldstein, Susan Martin, and Nicolas J. Gray
Directors:
Alan Kroeker, Gerard Ciccoriti, Rene Bonniere, Michael Levine, Brad Turner,
Jorge Montesi, Steve DiMarco, Mitch Gabourie, Gary Farmer, Jon Cassar, Leon
Marr, Clay Borris, Richard Lewis, Nicholas J. Gray, and Don McCutcheon
Created
By: James D. Parriott and Barney Cohen
Executive
Producers: James D. Parriott and Jon Slain
Feature
length: 17.4 hours
Extras:
Trailers
Languages:
English Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
English Closed Captions
Packaging:
Five-Disc Digipack Gatefold Within A Cardboard Slipcase
Sound:
Stereo Sound
Year
of Theatrical Release: 1992-1993/DVD Release: 2003
Home
Video Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: Not Rated
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
“Forever
Knight” is sort of a combination between Anne Rice’s “Vampire
Chronicles,” the “Highlander” TV series and the cop show genre with an
immortal trying to undo his damnation and free himself from the hell of being a
vampire while solving crimes that often deal with vampires much like the way the
“Duncan MacLeod” character in “Highlander: The TV Series” often
encountered villains doing wrong to others, who also were immortals. Both series
make extensive use of flashbacks to acclimate the viewers to the character’s
backstory and interactions and both series in a way featured a sought after
prize that in the case of the “Forever Knight” protagonist’s plight, might
as well be the only vampire with any hope for winning back his mortality. This
is not unlike the prize in the “Highlander” feature film where a part of the
sought after assets of being “The One” was that the last remaining immortal
becomes mortal and can live out a normal life and have kids with great knowledge
and wisdom. This was changed somewhat for the “Highlander” TV series, but in
short both series were about characters seeking something beyond the ordinary
realm of understanding. It doesn’t matter that the prize in “Forever
Knight” is simply becoming a normal mortal human being again when one
considers what the extraordinary circumstances that caused him to loose it.
Nicholas
Knight (Geraint Wyn Davies) was a thirteenth century Knight from the Crusades
who was seduced into becoming a vampire by the immortal master and his former
dark mentor LaCroix (Nigel Bennett). Now Nicolas Knight is a detective in 20th
century Toronto on the nightshift who seeks to redeem himself for his crimes of
the past by protecting the innocent. In the process he comes into conflict with
the vampire who created him Lucien LaCroix, who has his own selfish reasons for
keeping Knight forever out of the light. In many ways the relationship between
Knight and LaCroix reminded me of the relationship between Louis and Lestat in
“Interview With The Vampire.” Much like Anne Rice’s creation and the
“Highlander” franchise, a strong cult audience developed around “Forever
Knight” while it aired on CBS in the mid 1990s. Since then Geraint Wyn Davies
has appeared in a number of Canadian produced genre films while Nigel Bennett
has had villainous roles in sci-fi series like “LEXX” and “Gene
Roddenberry’s Andromeda.”
All
22 episodes from the series first season are presented across five dual layered
DVDs in their original (1.33:1) television broadcast aspect ratio with English
Stereo Sound and optional English Closed Captions for the hearing impaired.
Unfortunately the picture quality is disappointing at best because the video
masters used seemed to have degraded a bit from age. The colors also look a bit
washed out and there is a visible grain throughout. The English Stereo
Soundtrack is actually pretty full sounding considering it is just a Stereo
Soundtrack, but I wish the picture quality were better. I also wish that
considering the cult audience for this show, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
would have added some extra features like maybe commentary tracks for select
episodes with the cast members and producers. It is a missed opportunity and a
shame that nothing as far as extra features related to the series are included
in this box set. I hope the future sets will offer more for the fans and
consumers alike.
The
menus are standard interactive still frames that are easy to navigate. Bonus
trailers for “Underworld” (1:38), “Tsui
Hark’s Vampire Hunters” (1:29), and “John
Carpenter’s Vampires” (1:39) are included on the first disc.
“Forever
Knight: The Trilogy: Part One: The Complete First Season On DVD” box set is
available on DVD-Video now at retailers on and offline from Columbia TriStar
Home Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2003 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.
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