The Wanderer (1994 TV series)
The Wanderer is a television series of British origin, first transmitted in 1994 and comprising 13 episodes.
Every episode brings a new adventure, and the story of long-ago brothers Adam and Zachary, Princess Beatrice, and Lady Clare slowly unfolds as the present-day Adam searches for the original Zachary’s grave, a magic stone, and a lost book of power.
The central characters of the programme were created, and its core format was developed, by Tom Gabbay, who also served as Executive Producer of the series, which was filmed on locations in Austria, Germany, Spain, and England, including Helmsley Castle and the Yorkshire Moors, by FingerTip Films (a partnership between Roy Clarke, who wrote the scripts, and producer Steve Lanning) for Yorkshire Television (UK), ZDF (Germany), Antena 3 (Spain), and SkyTV (UK).
In the United States, The Wanderer was transmitted primarily in first-run syndication.
Plot
The shy multi-millionaire businessman Adam ("the Wanderer" of the programme’s title) and his wicked twin brother Zachary (both played by Bryan Brown) are two former knights from the late Tenth Century, both of whom have been born again in the late Twentieth Century. Zachary is after a complicated revenge on Adam, who killed him in the year A.D. 1000, but much more is at stake than mere vengeance. As the turn of the Third Millennium is approaching, people are growing more superstitious, and Zachary plans to use this for his own purpose. He needs his brother Adam dead, and Adam’s death to be seen by witnesses, so he can pose as Adam resurrected.
The other players in both time-zones are Zachary’s beautiful but deadly companion Beatrice(Kim Thomson), Adam’s friend Godbold(in the present day a philosophically-minded plumber and wrestler with a large beard, but once a hermit and monk, played by Tony Haygarth), and Adam’s Tenth-Century lover Lady Clare(Deborah Moore). She has come back in the present day as Clare, a high-spirited photographer, and she does not plan to lose her man a second time.
Wolfgang Mathias (Otto Tausig) is Adam’s personal assistant. Unfortunately for him, as he himself has no roots in the Tenth Century, he finds virtually everything about the Wanderer’s world extremely confusing.
List of episodes
| No. | Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Rebirth" | 14 September 1994 |
| 2 | "Mind Games" | 21 September 1994 |
| 3 | "Bridges" | 28 September 1994 |
| 4 | "False Witness" | 5 October 1994 |
| 5 | "Castle Takes Knight" | 12 October 1994 |
| 6 | "Clare" | 19 October 1994 |
| 7 | "No Bull" | 26 October 1994 |
| 8 | "Everybody Must Get Stoned" | 2 November 1994 |
| 9 | "A Dragon By Any Other Name" | 9 November 1994 |
| 10 | "See No Evil" | 16 November 1994 |
| 11 | "Waste Not, Want Not" | 23 November 1994 |
| 12 | "Home" | 30 November 1994 |
| 13 | "Knight Time" | 7 December 1994 |
Home video availability
ITV Entertainment, owners of the copyright to The Wanderer, was not known to have released it on home video in any format as of the beginning of August 2014.