Shadow Chasers

Shadow Chasers features strait-laced British anthropologist Jonathan MacKensie (played by Trevor Eve), who works for the fictional Georgetown Institute Paranormal Research Unit (PRU). In the pilot, MacKensie's department head, Dr. Julianna Moorhouse (Nina Foch), withholds a research grant to force him into investigating a supposed "haunting" involving a teenage boy (Bobby Fite). Despite this, she continued to promote the partnership of Benny and Jonathan in their investigations. ==Cast==

• Dennis Dugan as Edgar 'Benny' Benedek • Trevor Eve as Dr. Jonathan MacKensie • Nina Foch as Dr. Juliana Moorhouse • Teresa Ganzel as Christy ==Episodes==

Only nine episodes (counting the two hour pilot as a single episode) were shown in the U.S. Four others were only shown overseas on the Armed Forces Network during the original run of the series. The pilot frequently appears on cable, particularly on the Mystery Channel. The show was the lowest-rated of 106 programs during the 1985-1986 TV season, (due in part to being broadcast in the same time slot as NBC's The Cosby Show and Family Ties and CBS's Magnum P.I. and later, Simon & Simon) averaging only a 5.8/9 rating/share. This competition had been the focus of a series of humorous commercials for the series, starring such luminaries of the time as Ricardo Montalbán and Ron Howard. While heavily promoted during the network's mini-series North and South, the commercials proved to be prophetic, in that the series drew small audiences, and was frequently pre-empted in some markets. ==Ratings==

Source: A.C. Nielsen Company via Los Angeles Times ==References==