Shadow Chasers
Sleazy scandal-sheet reporter Benny and stiff British college professor Jonathan team up to investigate UFO sightings, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts and other paranormal mysteries.
- 1985-1986
- 1 season
- ABC
- Fantasy, Suspense
Sleazy scandal-sheet reporter Benny and stiff British college professor Jonathan team up to investigate UFO sightings, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts and other paranormal mysteries.
Season 1 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
Shadow Chasers: Part 1
Thu, Nov 14, 1985 100 mins
Dr. Jonathan MacKensie, professor of anthropology at Georgetown Institute of Science & Technology is 'persuaded' to take over the directorship of Dr. Moorhouse's newly established Paranormal Research Unit to investigate unexplainable phenomena, starting with reports of poltergeist activity in a little town in northern California. Once in Fartham, his reluctant investigation leads him to a dark cemetery and a fateful meeting with Edgar ('Call Me Benny, Edgar's Just For the Press') Benedek, who is also prowling around the tombstones on the scent of the same story. Although the flamboyant, self-aggrandizing author (and infamous tabloid reporter) immediately grates on Jonathan's nerves, he recognizes that Benny is considerably more experienced in the investigation of paranormal phenomena than he is (or ever wishes to be) and a partnership is born. The inhabitants of Briarwood Road feared their neighbor, Robert Pence, a professional occultist who claimed to derive his dark powers from his infamous ancestor Angelica Pence, a Salem witch. When Pence died in a mysterious fire, the neighbors stayed behind locked doors and drawn curtains while Pence's young son, Billy, futilely begged for their aid. Now those same neighbors are being plagued by mysterious and threatening phenomena, as though Pence were reaching out from beyond the grave to exact his revenge. Before long, Jonathan and Benny are on the trail of what's really behind the seemingly paranormal attacks, but not before their own lives are threatened by the same circumstances that took Pence's life.
Episode 2
Shadow Chasers: Part 2
Thu, Nov 14, 1985 60 mins
Jonathan and Benny investigate the mysterious "Stone of Tutankhamun" in St. Louis. As two national museums dispute its ownership, the duo encounter the legendary Curse of King Tut. and a street gang venerating the Egyptian Boy King.
Episode 3
Spirit of St. Louis
Thu, Nov 21, 1985 60 mins
Jonathan and Benny investigate the mysterious "Stone of Tutankhamun" in St. Louis. As two national museums dispute its ownership, the duo encounter the legendary Curse of King Tut. and a street gang venerating the Egyptian Boy King.
Episode 4
Amazing Grace
Thu, Nov 28, 1985 60 mins
During a near death experience, Benny has a vision of Grace, who recently died in the hospital he is being treated in, and follows her lead to a string of mysterious deaths. Johnathan plays chicken to save him from a similar demise.
Episode 5
The Middle of Somewhere
Thu, Dec 5, 1985 60 mins
Jonathan, Benny and Dr Moorhouse survive a 'plane crash and find themselves in a mysterious, isolated place called "Whitewood." Whitewood is inhabited by historic individuals like Elvis. Are our protagonists in purgatory or a weird asylum?
Episode 6
Parts Unknown
Thu, Dec 12, 1985 60 mins
When a dead man fights his way out of a grave at midnight, Benny suspects a zombie plot, and goes deep undercover - six feet deep. Jonathan desperately tracks Benny's last movements.
Episode 7
The Many Lives of Jonathan
Thu, Dec 19, 1985 60 mins
When Benny and Jonathan investigate a recently fire-gutted residential hotel, Jonathan is possessed by the various residents who died in the fire, providing clues to the cause of the blaze.
Episode 8
Phantom of the Galleria
Thu, Dec 26, 1985 60 mins
Seeking the shambling shape lurking about a newly opened galleria might cause Benny and Jonathan to uncover a much older taint on past inhabitants.
Episode 9
How Green Was My Murder
Thu, Jan 9, 1986 60 mins
A botanist experimenting with plant communication is murdered - his extensive estate left to those same plants. The local paranormal club helps Benny and Jonathan investigate murder.
Episode 10
Let's Make a Deal
Thu, Jan 16, 1986 60 mins
When a politician comes to Benny and Jonathan for help, citing a weird pact she made in grad school, they must face down a wizard for the soul of her son.
Episode 11
Cora's Stranger
Mon, Sep 8, 1986 60 mins
Looking into a 40 year old UFO sighting, Benny and Jonathan encounter a town with tight lips and an elderly woman with a weighty secret.
Episode 12
Curse of the Full Moon
Mon, Sep 8, 1986 60 mins
Sent to search for werewolves, Benny and Jonathan uncover a tragedy and find something that piques the professor's interest - but might get them devoured by a very perceptive wolf pack.
Episode 13
Blood and Magnolias
Mon, Sep 8, 1986 60 mins
Jonathan and Benny go to North Carolina to investigate a vampire encounter. They find the victim, Joan Collingswood, has died of anemia and learn of a vampire hunting the Collingswood family, leading them to an old man in a moldy mansion.
Episode 14
Ahead of Time
Mon, Sep 8, 1986 60 mins
Jonathan meets Laurie Wilson, who claims to have been sent from 2016 by "Doctor Benedek" to prevent a present-day event that could lead to nuclear war.