Timeline of Beauty and the Beast (TV) Fandom

Fandom:	Beauty and the Beast (TV)
Dates:	1988 - present
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1987

The show premiered on September 25.

1988

• Safe Places, the first fiction zine series begins (March)
• Beauty and The Beast: The Newsletter, the first letterzine/newsletter begins (March)
• Above & Below zine series begins
• writers strike beings (March)
• Roy Dotrice makes his first convention appearance at a Creation Con in Denver (other guests were George Takei and Michael Dorn)
• Ron Perlman makes his first appearance at a con, the Creation Con Los Angeles (Guests: Ron Perlman, David Schwartz) (June)
• Ron Perlman attends a Creation Con in St. Louis (June)
• writers' strike ends (August)
• David Peckinpah tells fans to stop sending scripts/treatments/story ideas to Ron Koslow, Republic Pictures and the writers (October)
• the show was cancelled with a cliffhanger finale at the end of Season Two. However, after an strong fan petition for its return, the series was brought back.

1989

• CBS announced the show was cancelled and would not be returning in the fall. (May)
• "Portrait of Love" comic by Wendy Pini – June 1989
• Beauty and the Beast novelization by Barbara Hambly – October 1989
• Catherine Chandler dies and Diana Bennett appears. (December 1989)

1990

• The show returns with a planned 12 episodes. (January)
• the controversial zine, Black Cover, is published, and it leads to much talk about censorship
• Night of Beauty, (for-profit) comic by Wendy Pini is published – April 1990
• "Once Upon a Time...Is Now" Open Letters are published (April 1990)
• The show ended on August 4.
• The show is shown in a syndicated and edited version on Family Channel (September)
• the first fan-run con TunnelCon begins (July)
• Masques (tie-in novel) by Ru Emerson is published – September 1990
• Song of Orpheus (tie-in novel) by Barbara Hambly is published – November 1990

1991

• Masquerades (con)
• South of Oz: Where Magic Meets the Sea and Dreams Become Reality (con)

1992

• Tunnelcon II: A Carousel Fantasy

1993

• Beyond Words, Beyond Silence by Nan Dibble – January 1993
• Great Expectations: A World of Dancing Lights
• Masquerades

1994

• Tunnelcon III: A Family Reunion
• Masquerades

1995

• A Distant Shore: The Fairy Tale Continues…

1996

• A Kingdom by the Sea: A Romantic Celebration
• A Moment In Time

1997

• A Moment In Time

1998

• Beauty at the Beach: To See the World in a Grain of Sand

1999

• A Moment In Time
• A Kingdom by the Sea Revisited: The Romance Continues

2000s

• Masquerades (2000)
• A Distant Shore II: Remember Love (2000)

2010s

• relaunch of the Crystal Rose Lending Library (2011)