Cupid
Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, and uncommonly intelligent--and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love. Probably not, but he thinks so. Trevor's insistence that he is Cupid lands him in a mental hospital, where he meets psychologist Claire Allen, a renowned authority on romance. Trevor tells Claire that he has been stripped of his godly powers by Zeus, and exiled from Mount Olympus as a punishment for arrogance. To win his way back among the gods, Trevor must unite 100 couples in everlasting love--without his bow and arrows. Claire does not believe in Cupid, but she risks her career by releasing Trevor from the hospital and assuming responsibility for his behavior. Trevor finds work as a bartender, and regularly disrupts Claire's group therapy sessions, all while he plots his campaign to promote romance, and earn his way back to Olympus. While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains celibate, believing that engaging in sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever.
- 1998-1999
- 1 season
- ABC
- Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
- TV-14
Trevor Hale is attractive, witty, and uncommonly intelligent--and he may be Cupid, the Greco-Roman god of erotic love. Probably not, but he thinks so. Trevor's insistence that he is Cupid lands him in a mental hospital, where he meets psychologist Claire Allen, a renowned authority on romance. Trevor tells Claire that he has been stripped of his godly powers by Zeus, and exiled from Mount Olympus as a punishment for arrogance. To win his way back among the gods, Trevor must unite 100 couples in everlasting love--without his bow and arrows. Claire does not believe in Cupid, but she risks her career by releasing Trevor from the hospital and assuming responsibility for his behavior. Trevor finds work as a bartender, and regularly disrupts Claire's group therapy sessions, all while he plots his campaign to promote romance, and earn his way back to Olympus. While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains celibate, believing that engaging in sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever.
Season 1 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Pilot
Sat, Sep 26, 1998
A psychologist, Dr Claire Allen, is ready to abandon her plans for her latest book on love and romance when a colleague introduces her to an institutionalised patient claiming to be Cupid. After a weeks of therapy sessions, the man "remembers" his "real" name: Trevor Hale. Believing that he is cured, the state mental health board agrees to release Trevor's on the condition that Claire continue to monitor his progress.
Episode 2
The Linguist
Sat, Oct 3, 1998
Linguist Jennings Crawford is hired to teach elocution to a lower-class woman so that she can impress her upper-class fiance's family, but the teacher and student find that they have chemistry of their own.
Episode 3
Heaven... He's in Heaven
Sat, Oct 10, 1998
A woman seeks Claire's help when she fears her marriage is in jeopardy because her husband feels frequent and sudden urges to sing and dance in public.
Episode 4
A Truly Fractured Fairy Tale
Sat, Oct 17, 1998
Claire is receiving strange gifts from a secret admirer. While she slowly begins to fall for him, Trevor helps one of her patients meet the man of her dreams: a man whom she sees everyday on a billboard across the street from her work. Meanwhile, Champ is asked to do some modelling; reluctant, he finally decides to go for it when he realises how much this exposure can help his burgeoning career as an actor.
Episode 5
First Loves
Sat, Oct 24, 1998
Champ introduces Claire and Trevor to his long-time friend Sophie, a would-be singer who just signed a contract with a record company. When Sophie claims she does not believe in love, Trevor feels obliged to prove her wrong. They start discussing the past and Sophie's one-time crush, when she was a kid, comes to the surface. They decide to go back to her hometown and see what her old love interest has become, hoping that maybe something magical will happen. Claire is concerned and quite against the whole idea until her superior says that Trevor may have to be committed to a mental institute. She then feels that this little adventure may help her further her knowledge of Trevor and help decide on what to do with him.
Episode 6
Meat Market
Sat, Oct 31, 1998
With Halloween just around the corner, Trevor feels there is an opportunity to make Champ's dream come true to experience a one-night stand. He also invites Claire's other patients to the party, telling them to forget their inhibitions and to just have fun.
Episode 7
Pick-Up Schticks
Sat, Nov 7, 1998
A new guy in the singles group introduces Trevor to an alternative and aggressive method of dating, which just might be his ticket back to Mt. Olympus. However, Helen has put Trevor's libido to the test. if he gives in, he could be stuck on Earth forever.
Episode 8
Heart of the Matter
Sat, Nov 21, 1998
Trevor tries to match two strangers despite one's terminal illness and destiny delivers a magical twist-of-fat. Claire and Alex have growing pains as the next step in their relationship becomes more of a hurdle.
Episode 9
End of an Eros
Sat, Dec 12, 1998
Claire is delighted when her old professor shows up at her office.
Episode 10
Hung Jury
Sat, Dec 19, 1998
While Christmas shopping, Claire and Trevor get caught up in jury duty.
Episode 11
A Great Personality
Thu, Jan 7, 1999
Trevor tries to help a new member of the singles group, a woman who wants to be loved for her personality rather than her looks; Claire revisits an old nemesis in hopes of discovering clues to Trevor's true identity.
Episode 12
Grand Delusions
Thu, Jan 14, 1999
Trevor tries to arrange a match between a man who thinks that he's Don Quixote and an exotic dancer, while Claire has a reunion with her jazz-musician father.
Episode 13
Bachelorette Party
Thu, Jan 28, 1999
Trevor ruins a bachelorette party that Claire is giving for her best friend when he reveals that her fiancé has been having a long-term affair with a promiscuous former classmate.
Episode 14
The Children's Hour
Thu, Feb 11, 1999
Precocious twins ask Trevor to find a match for their single, down-on-men mother, triggering Champ's memories of a former relationship.
Episode 15
Botched Makeover
Tue, Sep 7, 1999
When Trevor visits the set of Champ's TV show, he meets an intelligent, modest assistant who never got much respect from her colleagues. When he hears that she sends herself flowers to spice up her boring life, he invites her for one of Claire's sessions. During the first session, she already gets in contact with Tom Caighne, a first class womanizer.
