I don't know about still going on, but maybe its ripe for a 'reboot' now, with the public's 'new' fascination with Vampires and undead in general (varioius TV shows with Vamps from the 'classical' versions to 'viral' vampires, and even vamps in only name like the 'superhero mutants' of "Twilight" [ugh, don't turn over now, stomach ^_^]).
I agree. This was a good show and part of the CBS late night lineup in the early 90's which included Silk Stalkings, Dark Justice, and Dangerous Curves.
MOONLIGHT had been much like it and the Computer game VAMPIRE THE MASQUARADE. BLOODLINES 3:13 Not really new. FLASHBACKS were an old method even in some elder Western Shows but of course the idea really became a top concept with series like KUNG FU and THE HIGHLANDER As a fan of the show I love this interview/review thing
What I just did not get was that never came up the concept of LIGHT ALLERGY/LIGHT POISENING some people really suffer under more correctly known as Photodermitis. The first wife of the former German Chancelor Helmuth Kohl suffered from it.
i watched this show from start to finish including the Pilot with Rick Springfield.. then when it ended i decieded to make a vacation and drove from Connecticut straight thru to toronto in 11hrs and visted every place i could find from watching that show including the mourge.. the CNN tower..and so many more.. i have the entire show on VHS still to this day and all the dvds available.
As a teenager watching this, Forever Knight and Anne Rice's books meant the world to me. I was such a tired teenager and I always wanted to tell Gaint Wayne Davis, Nigel Bennett, and Brad Pitt (Interview with the Vampire) that they saved my life. As a teenager I was a special ed kid and I hated myself, and this series involved how I felt, it inspired me to be a writer. I also wanted to tell Anne Rice too that she did a lot for me
I fell in love with Gaint Wayne Davis during this show. At first I wasn't sure if I liked a blonde vampire. (lol) I have been doing research on vampires since the age of 9. I'd go to a book store and search my way to find ONE vampire book. Now-a-days, you can find vampire books on a whole aisle. I also joined the FOREVER KNIGHT FAN CLUB back in the day. I have a Forever Knight Fan Club Card. It's just so cool. They wrote me back and I have their letters. I'm blessed. V"""""V
@jenniferdavis6115 ahhhhh! I was in the fanclub too back in the day. I still have all my club newsletters and tshirt & hat. I will never get rid of them. Ever.
I knew CJ Fidler, one of the stuntwomen who worked on the show. Great lady. Spent an entire day with John Kapelos in Toronto and it was a lot of fun. Hes a very gracious and down to earth guy and he gave my daughter his expired Actors Guild card. He also told me some great insider stories about the show. One of the best television shows ever.
God I miss this show. Watching it again now brings back all those memories of that life. The internet started for me with the second season and that opened up a whole virtual FK world. Remember L-FORKNI mail list? Fan fic? What fun we had.
The list serv is still active and hosted on PSU. I think you can google it. You can subscribe. It is old school and text based. It isn't super active but a great place to reconnect with the fanbase.
I just grabbed the first season from a used bookstore and I haven't watched it since the mid-90's. It still holds up and I'm enjoying bingewatching it.
The whole dynamic between Nick and LaCroix, Nick’s remorse, and LaCroix’ taunting of him, is a straight lift from the relationship between Lois and Lestat.
I've been watching my first season boxset and I forgot how much I enjoy is perforamce as Nick. Sure he was dark and brooding sometimes okay a lot of the times, but he also had a sense of humor and enjoyed giving Stanky a hard time. I also liked in the show that vampires had reflections.
I loved the storylines,The constant struggle with Nicholas and his trying to regain his humanity amid Vampiric desires with the taking of Human blood and immortality!
I find it amazing that the fans are still out there for a show that has had no after life no comics only three tie ins. I caught it in marathons in the afternoon on the Sci Fic channel.
I saw a pix of him with his 2 adult kids.He had another son a few years ago with his 2nd wife.I would have loved to have seen a TV interview with Geordie Johnson who was in Dracula,The Series.
Decided to hunt up some information on the show after seeing Nigel Bennet on an episode of "The Strain"; still playing a 'vampire' after all these years ^_^ Loved this show back in the day, during my 'vampires are so cool!' phase (which consisted of this show, Anne Rice's novels, and a silly game called "Vampire The Masquerage"). Grew out of that as I got older, but ahhh, nostalgia ^_^
My boyfriend and I are going to start a vampire masquerade game and the setting is in the 90s. He used to love the show when he was younger and started watching the show again and has roped me into watching it now for research, lol.
I loved this show & the fact that they had shown the flashbacks to a time before, I hated that they killed off Skanky & that they humanized so to speak Jeanette :o/ the 3rd season was ok but not as good as the first 2, still wished it was stil on though great show :o)Geriant has played one of my favorite vampires in a show or movie so far :o)
+Wolfkins1972 I preferred Tracy, and I loved season 3 because it gave Lacroix and Nick a new level, they got closer to one another, my favourite seasons were 2 and 3, but I agree with you about human Jeanette. I think it ruined the idea that there was no cure, I liked the idea of it being an unobtainable goal and that people like Jeanette liked their vampire ways, plus Jeanette falling in love with fireman made the chemistry go what was happening between Nick and her.
I must have missed some episodes... have zero recall of Janette becoming human and falling in love with a fireman. At the end the show lost some luster (as most shows do at the end) and tried to bring in youth with Vachon and Tracy. However, Nick looked older and gained weight so a little of his charm dissipated.
I really loved the show. I’m glad to see that these guys aren’t all jaded and look back on it in some kind of embarrassed way. I was 18 when it first was on television. But I have to say that as time went on they really handled certain things poorly. Janette was handled poorly. Having her become human and the method through which she did was just so out of the blue. And the ending was awful. I would’ve preferred they left the ending open without just killing off all but one character.
I am binging this series again now (every night before bed an episode or two). Much as I love Skanky and the others, Nigel is my spirit animal and I think he played LaCroix PERFECTLY down the middle as being cruel, but wise.
To this day few shows have made me fall so in love. I think Blood Ties and Moonlight are very close to the feel. I was able to get copies of all three seasons...I just wish it was easier to get digital copies on Google or Amazon (I got FK seasons 1&2 on Prime; FK 1, 2, & 3, on Apple TV; Blood Ties is currently free on UA-cam if you have Premium, and Moonlight I bought on Apple TV too.) While I'd love a reboot/remake, I know that the main cast can't really reprise their rolls, but they could, if amenable, have cameos.
I actually love the original TV movie Nick Knight. Rick Springfield had good intensity in the role, John Kapelos actually seemed to have more enthusiasm for Schanke, and the soundtrack is KILLER. But both LaCroix and Jeanette were WAY better in Forever Knight and ultimately it was a fantastic show.
Yeah, I've always kinda wondered if letter writing campaigns actually help or not because in the end these guys will just do whatever they feel like doing anyway. It actually kinda pisses me off that the letter writing for Forever Knight was having the opposite effect. I imagine it's probably like this for all shows that are close to getting cancelled. A campaign helped keep Jericho on for one more season, at least enough to kind of come to an acceptable stopping point, but it didn't help Blood Ties At All. It even left off on a cliffhanger. Ugh! Fuckers...
I always loved flashbacks, ever since Kung Fu. (Dang, I am old) Highlander, The Pretender, Buffy, Angel and Nick Night, give me flashbacks and I am in.
I find it interesting the the main characters name is nicholus and that the main from the show The Originals name is nicklaus...both variations of the same name..what are the odds?
I wish forever knight was still going. few shows were as good as this.
I don't know about still going on, but maybe its ripe for a 'reboot' now, with the public's 'new' fascination with Vampires and undead in general (varioius TV shows with Vamps from the 'classical' versions to 'viral' vampires, and even vamps in only name like the 'superhero mutants' of "Twilight" [ugh, don't turn over now, stomach ^_^]).
I agree. This was a good show and part of the CBS late night lineup in the early 90's which included Silk Stalkings, Dark Justice, and Dangerous Curves.
I think it was a show a head of its time!
MOONLIGHT had been much like it and the Computer game VAMPIRE THE MASQUARADE. BLOODLINES
3:13 Not really new. FLASHBACKS were an old method even in some elder Western Shows but of course the idea really became a top concept with series like KUNG FU and THE HIGHLANDER
As a fan of the show I love this interview/review thing
What I just did not get was that never came up the concept of LIGHT ALLERGY/LIGHT POISENING some people really suffer under more correctly known as Photodermitis. The first wife of the former German Chancelor Helmuth Kohl suffered from it.
i watched this show from start to finish including the Pilot with Rick Springfield.. then when it ended i decieded to make a vacation and drove from Connecticut straight thru to toronto in 11hrs and visted every place i could find from watching that show including the mourge.. the CNN tower..and so many more.. i have the entire show on VHS still to this day and all the dvds available.
I STILL love the show and have it all on DVD. I found it as a 19 year old insomniac flipping thru the channels and I loved it.
it have a lot of things from highlander 86......
As a teenager watching this, Forever Knight and Anne Rice's books meant the world to me. I was such a tired teenager and I always wanted to tell Gaint Wayne Davis, Nigel Bennett, and Brad Pitt (Interview with the Vampire) that they saved my life. As a teenager I was a special ed kid and I hated myself, and this series involved how I felt, it inspired me to be a writer. I also wanted to tell Anne Rice too that she did a lot for me
I fell in love with Gaint Wayne Davis during this show. At first I wasn't sure if I liked a blonde vampire. (lol) I have been doing research on vampires since the age of 9. I'd go to a book store and search my way to find ONE vampire book. Now-a-days, you can find vampire books on a whole aisle. I also joined the FOREVER KNIGHT FAN CLUB back in the day. I have a Forever Knight Fan Club Card. It's just so cool. They wrote me back and I have their letters. I'm blessed. V"""""V
Great story, thanks fircsharing.
@jenniferdavis6115 ahhhhh! I was in the fanclub too back in the day. I still have all my club newsletters and tshirt & hat. I will never get rid of them. Ever.
I'm rewatching the series for like the 5th time. I miss the characters.
Great retrospective, on a great show. Even today, the show still has a timeless quality about it.
I knew CJ Fidler, one of the stuntwomen who worked on the show.
Great lady.
Spent an entire day with John Kapelos in Toronto and it was a lot of fun.
Hes a very gracious and down to earth guy and he gave my daughter his expired Actors Guild card.
He also told me some great insider stories about the show.
One of the best television shows ever.
You should share some of those stories!
God I miss this show. Watching it again now brings back all those memories of that life. The internet started for me with the second season and that opened up a whole virtual FK world. Remember L-FORKNI mail list? Fan fic? What fun we had.
The list serv is still active and hosted on PSU. I think you can google it. You can subscribe. It is old school and text based. It isn't super active but a great place to reconnect with the fanbase.
@@FoxyLibrarianChick thank you my love!!!
Yes....showing Toronto as TORONTO caught and kept my interest.
Loved watching the show, wish it was still on now
Lol I’m totally knew to this show... found it by accident but I’m hooked. They’re right it’s goofy but great too. Such a great combination ❤️
I just grabbed the first season from a used bookstore and I haven't watched it since the mid-90's. It still holds up and I'm enjoying bingewatching it.
I KNEW they were Anne Rice fans! I could feel it!!
The whole dynamic between Nick and LaCroix, Nick’s remorse, and LaCroix’ taunting of him, is a straight lift from the relationship between Lois and Lestat.
@@Laudon1228 or it have a lot from higlander 86......mc leod and the kurgan
@@Laudon1228 i prefere this serie with these actors than interview with cruise and pit
I've been watching my first season boxset and I forgot how much I enjoy is perforamce as Nick.
Sure he was dark and brooding sometimes okay a lot of the times, but he also had a sense of humor and enjoyed giving Stanky a hard time.
I also liked in the show that vampires had reflections.
I loved the storylines,The constant struggle with Nicholas and his trying to regain his humanity amid Vampiric desires with the taking of Human blood and immortality!
My favourite TV series of all time when I was a kid growing up in Adelaide in South Australia.
Carrie Anne Moss was so smoking hot in that episode.
The 2 that disliked this will be taken across to the year 1228!
I find it amazing that the fans are still out there for a show that has had no after life no comics only three tie ins.
I caught it in marathons in the afternoon on the Sci Fic channel.
Geraint looks great. He didn't seem to age too much. Perhaps he has some of that immortality rub off in RL. ^_^
I saw a pix of him with his 2 adult kids.He had another son a few years ago with his 2nd wife.I would have loved to have seen a TV interview with Geordie Johnson who was in Dracula,The Series.
Lol
I miss this so much.
Decided to hunt up some information on the show after seeing Nigel Bennet on an episode of "The Strain"; still playing a 'vampire' after all these years ^_^
Loved this show back in the day, during my 'vampires are so cool!' phase (which consisted of this show, Anne Rice's novels, and a silly game called "Vampire The Masquerage").
Grew out of that as I got older, but ahhh, nostalgia ^_^
My boyfriend and I are going to start a vampire masquerade game and the setting is in the 90s. He used to love the show when he was younger and started watching the show again and has roped me into watching it now for research, lol.
I loved this show & the fact that they had shown the flashbacks to a time before, I hated that they killed off Skanky & that they humanized so to speak Jeanette :o/ the 3rd season was ok but not as good as the first 2, still wished it was stil on though great show :o)Geriant has played one of my favorite vampires in a show or movie so far :o)
+Wolfkins1972 I preferred Tracy, and I loved season 3 because it gave Lacroix and Nick a new level, they got closer to one another, my favourite seasons were 2 and 3, but I agree with you about human Jeanette. I think it ruined the idea that there was no cure, I liked the idea of it being an unobtainable goal and that people like Jeanette liked their vampire ways, plus Jeanette falling in love with fireman made the chemistry go what was happening between Nick and her.
I must have missed some episodes... have zero recall of Janette becoming human and falling in love with a fireman. At the end the show lost some luster (as most shows do at the end) and tried to bring in youth with Vachon and Tracy. However, Nick looked older and gained weight so a little of his charm dissipated.
WHY they killed off Schanke and why John Kapelos left the show is interesting as well.
@@Makeminemetal1Why did it happen?
I love the memories of this show but i dont want cast and crew to live back in the past. Its good to remember!!
The acting was exceptional and the script writing brilliant. It doesn’t get any better than Germaine, Nigel, and Kathy.
I really loved the show. I’m glad to see that these guys aren’t all jaded and look back on it in some kind of embarrassed way. I was 18 when it first was on television. But I have to say that as time went on they really handled certain things poorly. Janette was handled poorly. Having her become human and the method through which she did was just so out of the blue. And the ending was awful. I would’ve preferred they left the ending open without just killing off all but one character.
I was so hooked. I started watching in 1997. Very deep and not really all about vampire; a lot to it.
it was a very deeply layered show and made more so by its flashbacks ..i loved it too
I was 17 at the time and loved it
I am binging this series again now (every night before bed an episode or two). Much as I love Skanky and the others, Nigel is my spirit animal and I think he played LaCroix PERFECTLY down the middle as being cruel, but wise.
I could have watched this for another few hours. V""""V I LOVE Forever Knight. :)
Thanks fo posting these gems.
Sería genial, que vuelva forever kinhgt. Con nuevas historia y aventuras junto con naty. Lo amo mucho, geraint. Me encanta la serie de forever.
"Damn you, Nicholas..."
To this day few shows have made me fall so in love. I think Blood Ties and Moonlight are very close to the feel. I was able to get copies of all three seasons...I just wish it was easier to get digital copies on Google or Amazon (I got FK seasons 1&2 on Prime; FK 1, 2, & 3, on Apple TV; Blood Ties is currently free on UA-cam if you have Premium, and Moonlight I bought on Apple TV too.)
While I'd love a reboot/remake, I know that the main cast can't really reprise their rolls, but they could, if amenable, have cameos.
I actually love the original TV movie Nick Knight. Rick Springfield had good intensity in the role, John Kapelos actually seemed to have more enthusiasm for Schanke, and the soundtrack is KILLER. But both LaCroix and Jeanette were WAY better in Forever Knight and ultimately it was a fantastic show.
Yeah, I've always kinda wondered if letter writing campaigns actually help or not because in the end these guys will just do whatever they feel like doing anyway. It actually kinda pisses me off that the letter writing for Forever Knight was having the opposite effect. I imagine it's probably like this for all shows that are close to getting cancelled. A campaign helped keep Jericho on for one more season, at least enough to kind of come to an acceptable stopping point, but it didn't help Blood Ties At All. It even left off on a cliffhanger. Ugh! Fuckers...
I really liked the flashbacks Both on this show, as well as on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and on Angel.
I always loved flashbacks, ever since Kung Fu. (Dang, I am old) Highlander, The Pretender, Buffy, Angel and Nick Night, give me flashbacks and I am in.
I forgot Arrow😊.
I find it interesting the the main characters name is nicholus and that the main from the show The Originals name is nicklaus...both variations of the same name..what are the odds?
I loved it when Rasputin turned out to be a vampire. Of course.
This show was awesomesauce BUT IT’S NOT OATMEAL!!!😆
Ah the Nigel Bennett Oatmeal Crisp adverts that Geraint teased him about in the bloopers reel 😆
Just wish they had the chance to redo the terrible final show!
Also not a fan of the final episode
@@FoxyLibrarianChick should have had natalie stay alive and have nick shown moving away
I remember it and I do feel a bit posessive and rather fond over/of it.
“Whole mess of actors” Is James Parriot from the South?
Gay
Not sure if that is a question or a statement. If you don't like the show, fair enough. But please don't use slurs.