History Series / BeautyAndTheBeast1987

* OpeningNarration: Paired voiceovers from Vincent and Catherine describing their love for each other. [[spoiler:Until Catherine is killed, after which Vincent gives a solo voiceover.]]

* RunawayFiancee: One episode has Catherine and Vincent helping a young Chinese woman escape an arranged marriage. Unfortunately, the man she was to marry was the son of a high-ranking member of a [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad]] which knew all about the World Below.

** Vincent's mother died (still leaving it unexplained as to how the hell Vincent came to be).
** Devin's mother Grace, which keeps Father from acknowledging Devin as his son until he becomes an adult.
** Hell, even [[spoiler:Catherine]] suffers this by the end, [[spoiler:although it isn't the birth that kills her, but a morphine injection by the doctor who oversaw the birth, who was a minion of BigBad Gabriel]].

** Hell, even [[spoiler:Catherine]] suffers this by the end, [[spoiler:although it isn't the birth that kills her, but a morphine injection]].

** Averted by the end of the series; Vincent and Catherine have sex [[spoiler:and she gives birth to their child. She dies soon after giving birth, but not due to the birth itself, and it's never stated or even implied that sex with Vincent harmed her]]. To be fair, most of the previously mentioned implications were made by Vincent, who was never very good at believing the best in himself.

* TheUnfavourite: Vincent's childhood friend and surrogate brother Devin was constantly singled out for criticism by Father as a boy, which is part of the reason he ran away to travel the world. It is revealed Father was unfairly harsh with Devin because [[spoiler:he is his biological father and he didn't want to show favoritism so he overcorrected into not favoring Devin at all, not even making him aware of the fact. Also, there was a bit of MaternalDeathBlameTheChild involved]].

* TheUnfavourite: Vincent's childhood friend and surrogate brother Devin was constantly singled out for criticism by Father as a boy, which is part of the reason he ran away to travel the world. It is revealed Father was unfairly harsh with Devin because [[spoiler:he is his biological father]] and he didn't want to show favoritism so he overcorrected into not favoring Devin at all. Also, there was a bit of MaternalDeathBlameTheChild involved.

* TheUnfavourite: Vincent's childhood friend and surrogate brother Devin was constantly singled out for criticism by Father as a boy, which is part of the reason he ran away to travel the world. It is revealed Father was unfairly harsh with Devin because [[spoiler:he is his biological father]] and he didn't want to show favoritism so he overcorrected into not favoring Devin at all.

* AScarToRemember: In the pilot Catherine is kidnapped off the street by thugs who have mistaken her for a woman scheduled to testify against their boss in court. They make a number of ugly cuts on Catherine's face, intended to serve as a reminder every time she looks in a mirror for her to keep her mouth shut. After she is saved by Vincent and Father and returns to the World Above, Catherine gets expert plastic surgery, but one scar remains below her ear, and when she locates the witness she was mistaken for, she shows her the scar, saying, "I think this was meant for you."

* BeastAndBeauty: Obviously. But not uncreatively -- although she's the beauty and he's the beast, a lot of the time it's ''him'' bringing out the best in ''her''.

''Beauty and the Beast'' is a [[TheEighties 1980s]] Creator/{{CBS}} TV series produced by Creator/RepublicPictures, (and later integrated into the library of [[Creator/AaronSpelling Spelling Television]] when Spelling Entertainment Group bought Republic in 1994) loosely inspired by [[Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast the fairy tale of the same name]] but set in modern-day UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. The series lasted from September, 1987 to August, 1990. A total of 56 episodes in three seasons.

''Beauty and the Beast'' is a [[TheEighties 1980s]] Creator/{{CBS}} TV series produced by Creator/RepublicPictures, loosely inspired by [[Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast the fairy tale of the same name]] but set in modern-day UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity. The series lasted from September, 1987 to August, 1990. A total of 56 episodes in three seasons.

A remake/reinterpretation of this series, starring Creator/KristinKreuk and Jay Ryan, premiered Fall 2012 on Creator/TheCW. [[Series/BeautyAndTheBeast2012 Its page can be found here.]] All tropes for the new series should be placed there.

* ArtifactTitle: Catherine dies in the first episode of the third and final season, making it all about Vincent, but "Beauty" remained in the title. There was a new attractive female lead in the person of Diana, but she and Vincent weren't a couple and she didn't appear in the new introductory sequence.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Diana Bennett replaces Catherine Chandler in the final season after [[spoiler: she is killed in the season opener]]. In the new dynamic, Vincent has no romantic bond at all with Diana, while her budding attraction to him is mostly just suggested by her having a recurrent dream about him.

* ArtifactTitle: Catherine dies in the first episode of the third and final season, making it all about Vincent, but "Beauty" remained in the title. There was a new attractive female lead in the person of Diana, but she and Vincent weren't a couple.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: In "Fever", Mouse, one of the tunnel dwellers unearths a cache of gold objects. They come to Vincent and Catherine's attention. When questioned, Mouse answers that he found them. He adds that when melted down, they make good wires.

** Averted by the end of the series; Vincent & Catherine have sex [[spoiler:and she has their child. She dies soon after giving birth, but not due to the birth itself, and it's never stated or even implied that sex with Vincent harmed her]]. To be fair, most of the previously mentioned implications were made by Vincent, who was never very good at believing the best in himself.

** Averted by the end of the series; Vincent & Catherine have sex [[spoiler:and she gives birth to their child. She dies soon after giving birth, but not due to the birth itself, and it's never stated or even implied that sex with Vincent harmed her]]. To be fair, most of the previously mentioned implications were made by Vincent, who was never very good at believing the best in himself.

** Averted by the end of the series; Vincent & Catherine have sex [[spoiler: and she has his child. She dies soon after giving birth, but not due to the birth itself, and it's never stated or even implied that sex with Vincent harmed her]]. To be fair, most of the previously mentioned implications were made by Vincent, who was never very good at believing the best in himself.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: In one episode, Mouse, one of the tunnel dwellers unearths a cache of gold objects. They come to Vincent and Catherine's attention. When questioned, Mouse answers that he found them. He adds that when melted down, they make good wires.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: In one episode, one of the tunnel dwellers unearths a cache of gold objects. They come to Vincent and Catherine's attention. When questioned, said tunnel dweller answers that he found them. He adds that when melted down, they make good wires.

* ArtifactTitle: Catherine dies in the first episode of the third and final season, making it all about Vincent, but "Beauty" remained in the title.

* BadassInDistress: Catherine is very brave and skilled in self defense, but still gets into several dangerous situations that Vincent has to rescue her from.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Inverted: Vincent is kind and sweet, and his appearance doesn't change, in the beginning Catherine was shallow and petty and Vincent's kindness gave her something more to live for.

** Vincent's mother dies (still leaving it unexplained as to how the hell Vincent came to be).
** Devin's mother, which keeps Father from acknowledging Devin as his son until he becomes an adult.

* RiddleForTheAges: Vincent's origin is never definitively revealed and likely was never meant to be.

The premise was simple. Catherine Chandler (Creator/LindaHamilton), a lawyer, is abducted, beaten and left to die in Central Park. She is then rescued by Vincent (Creator/RonPerlman), a leonine member of [[WainscotSociety a secret community of outcasts living in tunnels under the city]] ("The World Below"). The series then focused partly on the attraction between the two characters, and partly on the cases Catherine encountered in her new career as an assistant district attorney, facing crime drama situations that affect both her world and his.

* CreatorCameo: George R.R. Martin plays a guy who runs from a couple subway punks in the opening scene of "Terrible Savior."

* BeneathTheEarth: "The World Below", an elaborately gothic underground colony secretly constructed long ago and connected with the sewers and subways of New York.

** Hell, even [[spoiler: Catherine]] suffers this by the end, [[spoiler: although it isn't the birth that kills her, but a morphine injection]].

* GoldFever: In the episode "Fever", the underground tunnel community discovers a buried treasure ship, and starts to violently fracture over the question of what should be done with it.
* HeartbrokenBadass: Vincent, after [[spoiler: he loses Catherine]].

* TheLoad: In far too many episodes, Catherine's only role is to get in trouble, thus forcing Vincent to risk all by rescuing her. But despite this....

* OverlaidSocieties: The tunnels beneath New York City are occupied by The Tunnel People, who have created a subterranean world of their own. They are aided by some allies who live Above and help provide supplies to the Tunnel society, but most New Yorkers have no idea they exist.

* EvilCounterpart: Paracelsus is this to Father. They were both involved in creating the hidden society in the World Below. However, Paracelsus became obsessed with modeling a perfect - and morally bankrupt - community, which forced Father and the others to exile him. Also an EvilFormerFriend.