Season 1 • Episode 10
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Shadow Chasers is a 1985 American mystery television series created by Brian Grazer and Kenneth Johnson. Thirteen episodes were produced, nine of which were shown on the ABC television network, the remaining four on the Armed Forces Network. It debuted on November 14, 1985, and was produced by Warner Bros. Television. Shadow Chasers features strait-laced British anthropologist Jonathan MacKensie, who is blackmailed by his department head, Dr. Julianna Moorhouse of the fictional Georgetown Institute Paranormal Research Unit, into investigating a supposed "haunting" involving a teenage boy in return for a research grant. He paired up with flamboyant tabloid reporter Edgar "Benny" Benedek in an attempt to short-cut the time involved, and over Moorhouse's objections.
Writing
Creator Kenneth Johnson also made The Bionic Woman and Alien Nation.
Acting
Trevor Eve's exasperated Britishness vs. Dennis Dugan's chaos gremlin energy.
Production
Brian Grazer's first TV series—before he became Oscar royalty.
Creators
Brian Grazer, Kenneth Johnson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Four episodes only aired on Armed Forces Network—literally deployed to troops before civilian audiences ever saw them.
This was ABC's attempt to ride the Ghostbusters wave; it premiered two weeks after Back to the Future and died quietly.
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