Werewolf
Young Eric has been bitten by a werewolf. However, he's not particularly thrilled by this turn of affairs and wishes to escape his curse. To do so, he must find and kill the founder of his particular werewolf clan. The series traces his efforts to (A) track down the founder; (B) keep from hurting innocent lives due to his lycanthropy; and (C) stay one step ahead of folks who wish to kill him due to his werewolf nature.
- 1987-1988
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Horror, Suspense
Young Eric has been bitten by a werewolf. However, he's not particularly thrilled by this turn of affairs and wishes to escape his curse. To do so, he must find and kill the founder of his particular werewolf clan. The series traces his efforts to (A) track down the founder; (B) keep from hurting innocent lives due to his lycanthropy; and (C) stay one step ahead of folks who wish to kill him due to his werewolf nature.
Season 1 Episode Guide
29 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Pilot
Sat, Jul 11, 1987 90 mins
Grad student Eric Cord's roommate and best friend Ted gives Eric a gun with silver bullets and confesses that he is a werewolf, bitten while he was working on a boat owned by Captain Janos Skorzeney. A pentagram appears on his palm a few hours before he changes. The only way to end the curse is to kill the original werewolf in this bloodline. Eric ties Ted up but he changes, breaks free and bites Eric, who is forced to shoot him. Charged with murder, Eric jumps bail and begins searching for the werewolf who bit Ted, who turns out to be Skorzeney. Eric is pursued by "Alamo Joe" Rogan, a bounty hunter who saw Eric change and now uses silver bullets.
Episode 2
Nightwatch
Sat, Jul 18, 1987 60 mins
Eric tracks Skorzeny to a shadowy boatyard and begins to keep a journal. He steals a revolver and gets some silver bullets, hoping to kill Skorzeny to end the curse. But Eric is captured by sailors who plan to turn him over to Alamo Joe.
Episode 3
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
Sat, Jul 25, 1987 30 mins
Eric, wounded by Alamo Joe, is saved by a young boy fascinated by monsters, werewolves in particular. But things get hairy when Mom's abusive boyfriend starts slapping her and her son around and Eric saves the day.
Episode 4
The Black Ship
Sat, Aug 1, 1987
Eric locates Otto Renfield, a crippled old sailor who knows Skorzeny and promises to help Eric find him. But Renfield betrays Eric and traps him in the hold of his ship for Skorzeny.
Episode 5
Spectre of the Wolf
Sat, Aug 8, 1987 30 mins
Eric seeks help from college professor Dr. Victor Degoethels who has written a book about werewolves throughout the ages. But Alamo Joe has already warned him about Eric and his crimes.
Episode 6
The Wolf Who Thought He Was a Man
Sat, Aug 15, 1987 30 mins
Tired and worn out, Eric accepts the hospitality of an old man at his home in the woods. He becomes attracted to a young woman named Margaret, but he fears that he may be responsible for a series of brutal murders in the area.
Episode 7
Nothing Evil in These Woods
Sat, Aug 29, 1987 30 mins
Eric meets a good witch in the woods who offers to cure him. She gives a love potion to a girl who's boyfriend dies after taking it. The boys dad, blaming her, shows up with his buddies and burns her house down, with her in it.
Episode 8
Running with the Pack
Sat, Sep 12, 1987 30 mins
Eric, working in a Mom-and-Pop diner, has to save the day when a gang of bikers show up to terrorize Mom, Pop, and a pretty customer. Soups on, werewolf style.
Episode 9
Friendly Haven
Sat, Sep 26, 1987 30 mins
Eric sets out after Janos Skorzeny following the rumors of a Bigfoot sighting. After a ferocious battle with a stronger werewolf, Eric finds sanctuary in the home with a woman named Mary who has a strange and supernatural secret of her own.
Episode 10
Let Us Prey
Sat, Oct 3, 1987 30 mins
Eric seeks safe haven in a monastery, but the monks there have secrets of their own. In the past, the werewolf Skorzeny paid a visit to the monastery and turned at least one of the monks.
Episode 11
A World of Difference: Part 1
Sat, Oct 10, 1987 23 mins
Alamo Joe catches up with Eric in a small town jail, then attempts to grill him about his lycanthropy. Eric tells him he still has hopes for a cure, but later turns into a werewolf, escapes from the jail and Alamo Joe is forced to kill him.
Episode 12
A World of Difference: Part 2
Sat, Oct 17, 1987
When Joe wakes up in the hospital and has a wound which he is initially told is a bite, he wants them to be sure because if he was, it means he is a werewolf. While Joe awaits the doctors to tell him what his wound is, he tells the Sheriff the thing between him and Eric Cord.
Episode 13
The Unicorn
Sun, Oct 25, 1987
Eric tracks the werewolf Janos Skorzeny to Hollywood where Skorzeny has been killing prostitutes. But Eric is mistaken for the killer.
Episode 14
All Hallow's Eve
Sat, Oct 31, 1987 30 mins
On Halloween, Eric sees the pentagram appear on his hand and knows his transformation into a werewolf is imminent. He locks himself in an abandoned house, not realizing that a disfigured recluse still lives there.
Episode 15
Blood on the Tracks
Sun, Nov 1, 1987 23 mins
Taking a job with the railroad, Eric meets and befriends a former prize fighter who was a childhood idol of his, who is on the run from the mob after he refused to throw a fight. But a bar-room brawl draws the mob's attention to the man.
Episode 16
Nightmare at the Braine Hotel
Sun, Nov 8, 1987 23 mins
In a run down hotel in a town where a slasher has killed 7 people, Eric checks in after inquiring about Skorzeny. He meets several people staying at the hotel, including a man in black who reveals that he is also werewolf born in 1468.
Episode 17
Wolfhunt
Sun, Nov 15, 1987
A rancher comes after Eric when he befriends a she-wolf who earlier had attacked the rancher for killing her wolf pups.
Episode 18
Blood Ties
Sun, Nov 22, 1987 30 mins
While working as a grounds keeper on a large estate owned by a kindly old lady, she is brutally murdered in her own home. Both her granddaughter and granddaughter's husband implicate Eric, but Eric knows he didn't do it and knows who did.
Episode 19
Big Daddy
Sun, Nov 29, 1987 30 mins
Eric is kidnapped by a corrupt Southern politician who is dying of cancer and wants Eric to cure him and make him immortal by turning him into a werewolf.
Episode 20
Eye of the Storm
Sun, Dec 6, 1987 23 mins
Eric is stranded by a thunderstorm in an isolated log lodge with six other people who are being killed off one by one.
Episode 21
Nightmare in Blue
Sun, Jan 17, 1988 30 mins
While passing through a small town, Eric is shot and buried by a deranged cop-wannabe who is murdering vagrants while impersonating a police officer. Alamo Joe catches up to Eric and Eric convinces him that the phony cop is a serial killer.
Episode 22
Skinwalker
Sun, Jan 24, 1988
Eric comes into a town looking for Skorzeny after hearing about several murders by a 'skinwalker'. He learns from a Native American medicine man that there may be a cure.
Episode 23
King of the Road
Sun, Feb 7, 1988
Eric jumps a train in his quest for Skorzeny. He finds a band of hobos who are suspicious of him when one of their members has his throat slit while they sleep.
Episode 24
A Material Girl
Sun, Feb 14, 1988 30 mins
When a werewolf murders some homeless kids, Eric tracks it to a mall and finds a homeless girl living there. He runs out of silver bullets and fashions a silver crossbow arrow, slaying the werewolf. Only to find that it's the homeless girl.
Episode 25
To Dream of Wolves: Part 1
Sun, Feb 21, 1988
Eric slays Skorzeny and discovers that he is not the head of the werewolf bloodline and his death will not cure him of the curse. He meets Professor Nicholas Remy, the ancient head of his werewolf line - the one who must die to cure Eric.
Episode 26
To Dream of Wolves: Part 2
Sun, Feb 28, 1988 30 mins
Eric confronts the werewolf Nicholas Remy and discovers that he is more formidable an opponent than Skorzeny ever was.
Episode 27
Blind Luck
Sun, Mar 6, 1988 30 mins
Eric comes to the aid of a blind woman with a talent for trick shooting he meets while working at a carnival when he learns that her fiancé plans on killing her for the insurance money.
Episode 28
Gray Wolf
Sun, Mar 13, 1988 30 mins
Eric teams up with an elderly homeless man who is also a werewolf in an effort to defeat Remy. But discovers that the 'Gray Wolf' hungers for human flesh.
Episode 29
Amazing Grace
Sun, May 22, 1988 30 mins
Eric feels responsible for an elderly woman who is committed to a mental institution by her daughter after she reports to the police she saw Eric in his werewolf form. He takes a job as a custodian at the institution to look after her.