The Wanderer

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.

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Wanderer

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Created By: Roy Clarke
First Aired on: Sep 14, 1994
Popularity: 2.9002: 2 votes
Networks: (GB)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 13 episodes

Season 1

Aired 31 years ago

13 Episodes

Episode 1Rebirth55 min
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.
Episode 2Mind Games55 min
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.
Episode 3Bridges55 min
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.
Episode 4False Witness55 min
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.
Episode 5Castle Takes Knight55 min
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.