An OK Review by LeeRecord

FOREVER KNIGHT Productions and The USA Network
-BLIND FAITH-  Episode: 3-05
Paragon Entertainment Corporation
Dome Productions and Another Large Production, Date: 10/04/95
Sony Pictures Ent; Columbia Tri Star Television Distribution
Executive Producers: James D. Parriott and Jon Slan
Executive Story Editor: Michael Sadowski
Music composed and performed by Fred Mollin
Writer: James Johnston
Director: Clay Borris

Promo: 00:10 sec
Narrator -"A hound from Hell is on the hunt, on the next -Forever Knight-"

Guest Stars: Diana Zimmer as Jody and Greg Kramer as Screed

- A homeless, low form of vampire, that is snoozing under the dirt in the
  park, decides to have a young policewoman's seeing-eye dog for breakfast!
- The woman, a friend of Tracy's, was a police helicopter pilot until a
  rare form of M.S. caused blindness. Tracy's father helped Jody get a job
  in flight operations.
- Tracy looks through a book of dogs while Nick recalls a hound that
  befriended him many years ago. --Is that a Mastiff, Val?
- Tracy and Nick hit the road in search of a serial rapist/killer.  --The
  worst kind!
- Jody's dog, Perry, shows signs of vampirism! He has acquired a taste for
  blood and has no use for the sun!
- Nick and Tracy save a girl from the rapist, but the actor gets away.
- Later; Perry hears a girl being attacked by the *doctor of love*. He goes
  after the doctor and tears him to pieces.
- The victim tells the police that a wild animal killed her attacker.
- Later at the morgue; Natalie and Nick conclude that a vampire killed John
  Doe Burger. Nick fears that a lower form of vampire might have fed off an
  animal and brought it over. --I hate it when that happens :)=
- Nick goes to see our favorite lower form of vampire, Screed, to see if he
  has accidentally brought a dog over. Screed tells him about a mean droogy
  that is here abouts!
- Tracy takes Nick to see Jody's dog. Nick and the dog give each other the
  red eye.
- As Nick talks to Jody, he recalls the Horrible thing that LaCroix did to
  his Dog, Raleigh. --Sometimes you just want to smack LaCroix silly.
- A policeman accidentally spills coffee on jody and Perry attacks him.
- Will Perry fall in love with Natalie?
- Will Nick have to stake Perry?
- What will happen to poor Jody?
- Oooh! A clothesline full of rats for a Halloween decoration!
- Anyone for some squeak and bubbly?

Review *** It's fright night! Maybe this is the Halloween episode. I know you
won't let old Spot in the house for a few nights! Except for a few minor
problems, I thought this episode was pretty good. Our angst begins; hoping
that Jody's seeing-eye dog is not going to do something horrible, but we know
it will. We also hope when it does do something nasty, the victim will
deserve it. Finally; sadness sets in when the back story causes us to realize
that Nick is going to have to stake the possessed pooch, just as he staked
his hound many years ago. This was the only significant purpose of the back
story.

In the late 1800s, a hound befriends Nicholas. When LaCroix comes to visit,
the dog shows it's dislike of him. LaCroix, being his usual jealous self,
gets a carush to bring Nick's hound over. After the hound attacks a young
Arthur Conan Doyle (Gratuitous famous person) and kills others, Nick has to
stake the vampire dog. Now LaCroix can have his little laugh. As you can see,
this was one of the problems with this story. This was a bit much even for
Lucien. (I will say it now--Tracy's not a dog and she doesn't need staked!)

Did anyone buy the *bringing across animals* bit? I won't say the end of the
story was silly, but it sure was predictable.

Working around these problems takes a little more than blind faith, but it is
possible. Seeing Screed, again, was a fun surprise and Natalie's look of
disgust, because Nick let things get out of hand at the end, was right on.
              ((( Geesh! Nick, can't you do anything right! )))

-- Lee
   leerecord@aol.com

   "Dogs are for breakfast.." -LaCroix

P.S.
   My head researcher has been under the weather with a sinus infection
   and DeltaBelle my source for bayou vampire--Voodoo folklore was not
   available for consultation at this writing. So, I do not know the
   correct spelling of "carush" or if there is such a thing. This might
   have been a figment of the writer's imagination.