Production order:
20
Airing order in the USA:
20
Original air date:
March 18, 1988
Writers:
Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon
Director:
Christopher Leitch
Director of Photography:
Steven Larner
Production Designer:
John Mansbridge
Editor:
Drake P. Sullivan
Supervising Producer:
Ron Koslow
Co-Supervising Producer:
Stephen Kurzfeld
Producers:
David Peckinpah
George R. R. Martin
Kenneth R. Koch
Music:
Don Davis - main theme by Lee Holdridge
Cast:
|
Vincent |
Ron Perlman |
|
Catherine Chandler |
Linda Hamilton |
|
Father |
Roy Dotrice |
| Joe (voice on the phone) | Jay Acovone |
| Jamie | Irina Irvine |
| Mary | Ellen Geer |
| Narcissa | Beah Richards |
| Paracelsus | Tony Jay |
| Pascal | Armin Shimerman |
| Winslow | James Avery |
| Erlik the Giant | Big John Studd |
Literary references:
Episode title, and Paracelsus to Vincent:
"Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven"
from
John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667.
Paracelsus to Catherine:
Nietzsche said: "That which does not kill me, makes me stonger"
from
Friedrich Nietzsche, Götzen-Dämmerung ("Twilight of the Idols"), 1888.
Musical references:
none