I am watching the Roku “Time Portal TV” app right now, and my second favorite show featuring vampires just popped up-Forever Knight. I watched it from beginning to pretty much inevitable end. I even watched the pilot movie with Rick Springfield.
I’ll bite. What have you got, good, bad, and so bad their good?
I used to watch Dark Shadows as a child. I wish I hadn’t.
There’s Kolchak, The Night Stalker though it hasn’t much vampire in it.
Moonlight, where the star is a Vampire Private deceive.
And then-
Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern-day Toronto, Ontario. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992, and concluded with the third-season finale on May 17, 1996.
and of course Buffy, no explanation needed
Which of the first two did you like better?
Hmm, IIRC we liked both but Forever Knight edged out the other.
After the vampire punctures the neck vein, in order to drink he has to withdraw his fangs. Then he drinks, but how does he stop the flow once he’s had his fill? He never leaves so much as a drop of blood, just a couple of curious little red marks.
More of a thread about vampire shows, not vampires. There are probably as many answers to your question as there are fictional vampire series.
Maybe there are some shows that address my questions.
Buffy and Angel, great shows.
I really don’t dig vampires as a genre, but I absolutely love What We Do In The Shadows. It’s so funny!
Not a regular show, but an episode in one show, but I have to mention it because it’s such an odd case.
In a 1967 episode of F-Troop Vincent Price plays Count Sforza, who arrives in a hearse, has very pale skin, and wears a tux and a cape. He lives in a mansion full of trap doors and the like.
It’s intriguing, because, as far as I know, it’ the only time that Vincent Price played vampire (or an almost-vampire) in his career. As David J. Skal pointed out in his book V is for Vampire (which is also the title of this episode), you’d think that Price would be the perfect vampire. But as far as Skal and I know, he never played one again (or even did in this episode, I think). He did come close, killing vampires in The Last Man on Earth, the 1964 first adaptation of Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend
Not if you are looking for a singular answer.
My guilty favorite is a Canadian series, Blood Ties, based on a Tanya Huff book series that I read first. Blood Ties (TV series) - Wikipedia
Also Midnight Texas.
On the run from his past, young psychic Manfred Bernardo is told by the ghost of his grandmother to seek out refuge in the fictional town of Midnight, Texas. There, he will find a community that can help him. Full of diverse characters—including a vampire, a witch, a fallen angel, a half-demon and a werecreature—Midnight faces numerous threats from the outside world as it welcomes the newcomer.
Which other than maybe Kolchak, is my favorite “Vampire Show”.
This guy was a formative part of my education
IMO Tru Blood was the only vampire show worth watching.
He doesn’t count.
This past weekend I watched, first time ever, House of Dark Shadows. Don’t bother.
I’ll put another +1 for Forever Knight and have the first two (and in my mind, ONLY) seasons on DVD.
Most shows that have substantial vampiric cast oversell it, or undersell their non-vampiric characters and arcs. The only Vampire TV series I enjoyed was the short run of Blade: The Series, which while imperfect, had several moments of genius. The biggest problem (leaving out the recasting) was that the two different main stories didn’t connect well.
I think it would really have worked better by being it’s own thing in the Blade Universe and leaving Blade out of the story.
Not a Vampire series, but an honorable mention to the Space Vampire from Buck Rogers - as a kid, this one creeped me out a bit, and was before we had the avalanche of sexy vampires. I was used to the portrayal of various Legosi-clones, and this was different enough to stay in my head for a long time to come.
You still don’t get it, do you? That’s what he does! That’s ALL he does!
— Kyle Reese