She-Wolf of London (TV series)

American graduate student Randi Wallace (Kate Hodge) travels to Britain to study mythology with Prof. Ian Matheson (Neil Dickson). She arrives expecting a stodgy old academic, but Ian is young and the two are immediately attracted to one other. Their attraction increases but a complication quickly arises when Randi spends a night on the moors and is bitten by a werewolf. She survives what the local hospital thinks was an attack by a large rabid wolf; she insists that it was not a true wolf but instead something supernatural and she seeks Ian's help. For the rest of the series, Randi and Ian investigate supernatural phenomena together while they search for a cure for her lycanthropy and he becomes her keeper during her transformations. Randi's curse draws the attention of various supernatural creatures: another werewolf, spirit possession, succubus, a possessed bookstore, a bogeyman, an evil carnival, a Guy Fawkes spirit, a killer horseman, in a small town, zombies who ultimately confront Randi in her werewolf form (Diane Youdale). Eventually, their search takes them from British academe to American TV, when they move back to Randi's native California and Ian becomes host of a trashy TV talk show focusing on psychic phenomena.

The series was an old-style romantic comedy with a touch of horror. The romantic comedy comes from Randi and Ian's relationship, and their relationship to the Matheson family and the people she and Ian work for. Randi's transformations did not occur every episode but only during the full moon. This gave her and Ian a chance to investigate the supernatural without having to face possible lycanthropic transformations every week.

• Kate Hodge as Randi Wallace
• Neil Dickson as Prof. Ian Matheson
• Scott Fults as Julian Matheson
• Jean Challis as Mum Matheson
• Arthur Cox as Dad Matheson
• Dorothea Phillips as Aunt Elsa
• Diane Youdale as Randi (She-Wolf)
• Dan Gilvezan as Skip Seville

Kate Hodge – As a graduate student Randi Wallace, who after surviving a werewolf attack, fears what she will become every time there's a full moon.

Neil Dickson – As mythology professor Ian Matheson, who helps Randi (Kate Hodge), search for a cure, he develops a sense of humor and he is the protector of randi.

She-Wolf of London was part of the Hollywood Premiere Network, an early attempt by Universal Television to create an "ad-hoc" syndication network. The series premiered along with two other shows, Shades of L.A. and They Came from Outer Space, on October 9, 1990. The package aired on many of the stations that would later become either UPN or WB affiliates.

The series included female nudity in some episodes, something not uncommon to European television, but considered taboo for U.S. non-cable television programming.{{cite web|url=http://xoomer.virgilio.it/amasoni2002/shl/originals/she-wolf_of_london_(1990).htm |title=Show Biography |publisher=Xoomer.virgilio.it |access-date=2012-06-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716191648/http://xoomer.virgilio.it/amasoni2002/shl/originals/she-wolf_of_london_(1990).htm |archive-date=July 16, 2012 }}

Midway through the first season, HTV pulled their financial backing, and the lower budget forced production to move to Los Angeles for the final six episodes. The series was retitled Love and Curses; Neil Dickson's character was dismissed from his position as a British professor and moved to L.A. to become the host of a talk show investigating the paranormal (explained by the success of one of his books after it was issued with a trashy mass market title). The joint UK/US production ended after its first season, along with the cancellation of two other Hollywood Premiere Network shows.{{cite web|url=http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/r/randi.htm |title=Character Biography |publisher=Internationalhero.co.uk |date=1990-10-09 |access-date=2012-06-05}}

Episodes of the series ran on the Sci-Fi Channel for a short time following its cancellation. For these airings, the Love and Curses episodes were retitled She-Wolf of London. The opening sequence for these episodes were replaced by the show's original opening. These episodes were also retitled when run in Britain on Sky One, with the opening moments of the She-Wolf titles used to establish the series's title logo, before the titles cut to the Love and Curses opening credits sequence.

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| Title = She-Wolf of London

| DirectedBy = Dennis Abey

| WrittenBy = Mick Garris & Tom McLoughlin

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| EpisodeNumber = 2

| Title = The Bog Man of Letchmoor Heath

| DirectedBy = Roger Cheveley

| WrittenBy = Anthony Adams

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|16}}

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| Title = Moonlight Becomes You

| DirectedBy = Brian Grant

| WrittenBy = Valerie West

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|23}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 4

| Title = The Juggler

| DirectedBy = Gerry Mill

| WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|10|30}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 5

| Title = Nice Girls Don't

| DirectedBy = Roger Cheveley

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Abbie Bernstein & Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin|t= William Rabkin & Lee Goldberg}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|6}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 6

| Title = Little Bookshop of Horrors

| DirectedBy = Gerry Mill

| WrittenBy = William Rabkin & Lee Goldberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|13}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 7

| Title = Can't Keep a Dead Man Down: Part 1

| DirectedBy = Roger Cheveley

| WrittenBy = Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|20}}

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| Title = Can't Keep a Dead Man Down: Part 2

| DirectedBy = Roger Cheveley

| WrittenBy = William Rabkin & Lee Goldberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|27}}

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| Title = The Wild Hunt

| DirectedBy = Brian Grant

| WrittenBy = Diana Ayers & Susan Sebastian

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|4}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 10

| Title = What's Got Into Them?

| DirectedBy = Dennis Abey

| WrittenBy = Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|1|12}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 11

| Title = Big Top She-Wolf

| DirectedBy = Brian Grant

| WrittenBy = Kate Boutilier

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|1|19}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 12

| Title = She Devil

| DirectedBy = Dennis Abey

| WrittenBy = William Rabkin & Lee Goldberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|1|26}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 13

| Title = Voodoo Child

| DirectedBy = Roger Cheveley

| WrittenBy = Terry Erwin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|2|2}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 14

| Title = Beyond the Beyond

| DirectedBy = Brian Grant

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Arthur Sellers & Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin|t= Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|2|9}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 15

| Title = Curiosity Killed the Cravitz

| DirectedBy = Brian Grant

| WrittenBy = William Rabkin & Lee Goldberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|3|6}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 16

| Title = Habeas Corpses

| DirectedBy = Chuck Bowman

| WrittenBy = Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|3|13}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 17

| Title = Bride of the Wolfman

| DirectedBy = Bruce Seth Green

| WrittenBy = Kate Boutilier

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|3|20}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 18

| Title = Heart Attack

| DirectedBy = Chuck Bowman

| WrittenBy = William Rabkin & Lee Goldberg

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|3|27}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 19

| Title = Mystical Pizza

| DirectedBy = Bruce Seth Green

| WrittenBy = Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|4|3}}

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| EpisodeNumber = 20

| Title = Eclipse

| DirectedBy = Gary Walkow

| WrittenBy = Richard Manning & Hans Beimler

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|4|10}}

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It was announced on November 18, 2009 that all 20 episodes of She-Wolf of London/Love and Curses would be released in a complete series box set from Universal Studios Home Entertainment.{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/34615/she-wolf-london-hitting-dvd |title=She-Wolf of London Hitting DVD |publisher=Dreadcentral.com |date=2009-11-19 |access-date=2012-06-05}} The DVD set titled She-Wolf of London: Love and Curses was released on February 2, 2010, as a four-disc set.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/She-Wolf-London-The-Complete-Series/12994 |title=DVD release information |publisher=Tvshowsondvd.com |access-date=2012-06-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010094014/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/She-Wolf-London-The-Complete-Series/12994 |archive-date=2012-10-10 }} The boxed set contains no extras and the opening credits of the series were changed. As aired originally, the fourteen UK-based She-Wolf of London episodes had ominous, moody title music; the six L.A.-based Love and Curses episodes had title music with the same melody but in a more upbeat, saxophone-heavy arrangement. All twenty episodes in the DVD begin with the Love and Curses title music (and the onscreen title Love and Curses).

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Category:1990 American television series debuts

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Category:1990s American horror television series

Category:Television about werewolves

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Category:Television shows produced by Harlech Television