The Wanderer

1994
The Wanderer

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EP1 Rebirth Sep 14, 1994

Adam, a rich and reclusive financier living in a country house in a rural backwater near Salzburg, Austria, gets a visit from his brother Zachary, from whom he was separated at birth. Zachary quickly pins him to a tree with an ancient spear through the chest. As the wounds miraculously heal, Adam begins to remember his past life as a knight a thousand years ago... but at the same time, the people he knows start dying around him. To save his friends' lives, Adam decides to leave his home and become a wanderering knight errant.

EP2 Mind Games Sep 21, 1994

In his travels, Adam meets a young woman recently released from an asylum for the criminally insane. Some years before, she had been framed for a murder she didn't commit... and history seems to be repeating itself, so that she needs Adam's help and protection.

EP3 Bridges Sep 28, 1994

Adam is in Bavaria, where he meets a gang of bikers and helps an old man the bikers are trying to drive out of his home, confronting the gang in a rough part of Munich. Meanwhile, Godbold faces a difficult wrestling match and finds himself fighting Beatrice, who has morphed into another shape.

EP4 False Witness Oct 05, 1994

Adam meets a father who is desperately anxious to find his missing daughter, and he helps in the search for her - but he finds out too late that the woman is a psychiatrist and the man is a former patient who is stalking her. Meanwhile, Adam continues the hunt for Zachary's grave and makes a little progress.

EP5 Castle Takes Knight Oct 12, 1994

Zachary leads Adam into an ancient castle furnished as it would have been a thousand years before and calls up the shade of a fighter who once almost killed Adam long ago. As a result, Adam's memories of his past life get better. In particular, he remembers the Lady Clare, who nursed him after the fight and whom he planned to marry. Then Adam realizes he still loves her.

EP6 Clare Oct 19, 1994

The present-day Clare, who is a photographer living in Spain, is planning to marry her Spanish boyfriend, but Zachary steps in to stop the marriage from happening. Clare cancels her wedding, to the distress of her parents. Meanwhile, Adam finds out that in his past life he did marry Clare, and Zachary plans a kidnapping. Clare meets Adam and does not understand how she knows him. Adam helps to rescue her and departs - but Clare makes up her mind to find him again.

EP7 No Bull Oct 26, 1994

Clare catches up with Adam and tags along with him. Zachary plans to grab Adam's sword, using Beatrice, who poses as a worried Spanish mother, to trick him. Adam and Zachary meet for the second time in their present lives. They come face to face in a bull ring, and Adam loses a stone from his sword - but he does not recognize the significance of it.

EP8 Everybody Must Get Stoned Nov 02, 1994

Adam gets mixed up in a troubled love story and helps to solve the lovers' problems. In talking to Clare, Adam remembers that his brother's grave is in England, so he sets off to go there. Clare stays behind with her parents.

EP9 A Dragon By Any Other Name Nov 09, 1994

Zachary's man in London's Chinatown is fighting for control of a local restaurant and the owner's daughter. Adam takes sides against him, heading for the gangster's offices in the Docklands when the villain abducts the girl. Meanwhile, Adam's assistant Mathias gets a message which will take their search in the direction of the ancient city of York.

EP10 See No Evil Nov 16, 1994

Adam is now in Yorkshire and believes he is getting near to his brother's grave. He runs into two car thieves and also meets a woman caled Fay who has gone blind as a result of the shock of her parents being killed in a road accident. Adam's sight also begins to blur, and he realizes that there is an important connection between Fay and the two car thieves. Meanwhile, the hunt for the grave continues.

EP11 Waste Not Want Not Nov 23, 1994

Clare travels to Yorkshire to join Adam. In a flashback to the tenth century, Princess Beatrice, daughter of the King, travels to Yorkshire on her father's orders to marry Zachary. On the way there, she breaks her journey at Lady Clare's castle and meets and falls for Adam, who rejects her. In fury, Beatrice burns down the castle. Returning to the twentieth century, one thousand years on, a shopping mall stands on the site of Clare's castle, and there the present-day Clare and Beatrice meet again. Meanwhile, a chemical plant owned by Adam is blamed for toxic waste - but Zachary is distorting the truth for his own purposes.

EP12 Home Nov 30, 1994

Everyone converges on the ruins of Fenton Abbey, Yorkshire, at the heart of Adam and Zachary's ancient feudal lands, for a showdown. On the way there, a young man tries to kill himself by jumping out of a train, and Adam stops him. Back in the tenth century, Beatrice travels on towards her wedding with Zachary, meets him, and plans her revenge on Adam. The brothers come face to face again, and Beatrice offers Adam the Book, but he refuses. The Book, together with the Stone, is a source of great power... In the present day, the Book is lost, like Zachary's grave, but Adam is getting very near to finding the answers he needs.

EP13 Knight Time Dec 07, 1994

Past and present converge. In the tenth century, Adam rejected Beatrice, so she had him killed, after his showdown with Zachary and his wedding to Clare. Adam sees into the past and finds he was drugged, to become a sacrifice to Zachary's dream of immortality... Back in the present, Adam finally finds his brother's grave, and the Stone, but not the Book. Zachary goes off to find it...
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Released: 14 September 1994 Ended
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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 show was created 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 for Yorkshire Television, ZDF, Antena 3, and SkyTV. In the United States, The Wanderer was transmitted primarily in first-run syndication.

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Linda_S It is rare that a television series can leave such a lasting impression upon one however THE WANDERER starring the delightful Australian actor Bryan Brown is such a series. From its theme song and delightful intro to the very last episode, 13 in all, this 1994 TV series explored some very profound spiritual concerns that frankly I don't find done with any genuine class in the last decade or so. Filmed all over Europe it is both a delight from a visual perspective and also from a performance and writing and directorial view.Bryan Brown is one of the most underrated actors extant. The supporting cast is wonderful and the characters are remarkably fresh and interesting.It is truly a shame that this is not available AT ALL, either DVD or VHS, to the public. I would very much love to have all 13 episodes. Most readers of IMDb would surely agree that we see all too many trashy, worthless films, TV series, with easily available DVDs, VHS, and at low prices. Why is there not some concern for these lost gems?Knights, business leaders, reincarnation, chivalry, it had it all. I hope others will one day have the opportunity to see the remarkable performance by Bryan Brown, he has the time of his life.Let there be a REBIRTH of this on DVD.
zlajonja I just loved this series when I was young. It has that melodramatic touch and fictional link between the characters and is well made and acted. Though.. those sword fights are ridiculous :DThey had covered medieval and modern times in fight of good and evil. The two twin brothers, one extremely good, and other too evil, were separated at birth and now they must fight to determine whether the next age of thousand years would be *blaaah* or *weee*. :) What has cut into my mind is especially one scene when evil twin Brown sings a Liberty Wallace song. Will never forget that.And i never watched the Wanderer till the end. :( I would like to watch it all over. :)
icehole4 This series was rather well-written and well performed, except for the sword fighting scenes. Basically the Wanderer is a show about a set of twins separated at birth. One became good, the other evil. They have to fight each other at the turn of the millenia to determine whether good or evil will rule in the next millenia. The good one is visited by his past incarnation - it seems that 1000 years ago, two knights did the exact same thing. The story weaves the modern tale with the medieval one. Once the evil grave has been found, they discover a book necessary for the battle to take place has been taken away.They did not have the final fight in the series, but the overall effect was pretty good.