AboutMike Hensel Expertise I will try and answer all questions dealing with television...show names, plots, actors, roles, networks, etc...US shows primarily; not real knowledgeable on TV from other countries...I lean heavily into past, more so than current, television...and, my knowledge dealing with "reality" shows is limited, due to the fact that I really can't stand the genre (my apologies to all the "Reality" fans out there...)
Experience Years of watching and cataloging television shows
Question Hi Mike! Can you please help me in remembering the name of a short lived US vampire series from the early 1990s? It was about the different families or "houses" of vampires. The Nosfaratus were underground dwellers. There were several more sophisticated above ground "houses" with different names. A young man(vamp) named CASH drove a motorcycle and was in love with a red headed vamp girl from another "house" ala Montegues and Capulets. Theirs was not the main storyline, but all I can remember. Lot's of shady dealings. Hope you can help. Id appeciate it! Thanks
Answer Fran, that would be "Kindred: The Embraced", shown on the FOX Television Network from April 2nd, 1996 to May 8th, 1996... very short, indeed...
The show starred C. Thomas Howell as Det. Frank Kohanek, who discovered the presence of the vampires in San Francisco after falling in love with one of them, named Alexandra, who was killed in the first show... Alexandra forced the head of one of the 5 vampire clans, Julian Luna, (played by Mark Frankel) to watch over her detective lover... Julian headed the Ventrue clan...
Julian also tried to keep the peace between the "families"...
There was the warlike Brujah, led by Eddie Fiori (Brian Thompson)...
The artistic Torreadors, headed by Lillie Langtry (Stacy Haiduk), who ran The Haven, a club where the vampires usually converged...
The violent Nosferatu, led by Daedalus (Jeff Kober)...
and the fella you mention, Cash, (played by Channen Roe), who led the motorcycle-riding Gangrels...
This show was adapted by a book written by Mark Rein-Hagen, "Vampire: The Masquerade"...
