ORBzine - 2004 UK Television Review: "Blood Ties"

Christina Cox as Victory "Vicki" Nelson

Kyle Schmid as Henry Fitzroy

Dylan Neal as Mike Celluci

Gina Holden as Coreen Fennel

Season 1

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 1] Blood Price (1)
Shown 11 Mar 07

This is based on Tanya Huff's Blood novels.

Victory "Vicki" Nelson [ Christina Cox ] is a former cop turned Private Investigator. She coincidentally witnesses a murder ...

The tabloids (and the victims Goth GF) think the serial killer is a vampire. Meanwhile, a REAL vamp (Henry FitzRoy) investigates.

The killer is a Mockney Demon, summoned by a nerdy loser guy who looks too damn old to be a College Student!

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 2] Blood Price (2)
Shown 11 Mar 07

Vicki accepts there is a supernatural angle to the crimes, and her new associate is a 450-year-old vampire.

Vicki's ex-partner (from her days as a Police detective) is suspicious. She still hangs out with him, having him over for Chinese food ...

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 3] Bad JuJu
Shown 18 Mar 07

Vicki is hired to find a missing refugee from Hurricane Katrina. She has to fight Zombies and defeat a Voodoo priest.

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 4] Gifted
Shown 25 Mar 07

A wee girl's imaginary friend starts killing people. Her daddy [Seamus Harper from Andromeda ] is a deadbeat.

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 5] Deadly Departed
Shown 1 April 2007

A lawyer is murdered by a vengeful ghost. Vicki is hired to solve the case, before the ghost kills everyone on his hit list!

Vicki's cop pal is still suspicious of Henry, and tries to get his fingerprints. Have we got a story arc beginning?

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 6] Love Hurts
Shown 8 Apr 07

Someone is killing sexually frustrated suburban housewives. They may have been seduced by an Incubus - a male Succubus. And Vicki starts having erotic dreams ...

The cop's jealousy of Henry starts to boil over.

This show may have the trappings of Buffy & Angel , but it lacks the humourous dialogue. It just falls flat in comparison.

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 7] Heart of Ice
Shown 15 Apr 07

A big hairy monster is eating people. It turns out to be a Wendigo, a Native American spirit (also fought by Mutant X ).

The cop is approached by Julian Sands [ Warlock ], who claims he can Cure Henry's vampirism. And the cop wants to believe him.

To be continued.

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 8] Heart of Fire
Shown 22 Apr 07

Part 2 of a 2-parter, Vicki and the cop must track down Sands and save Henry.

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 9] Stone Cold
Shown 29 Apr 07
Shown 6th June 2008 [Friday]

Vicki is hired to solve a missing persons case. She begins to suspect that a Gorgon is responsible. Unfortunately her Cop buddy is interested in the main suspect ...

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 10] Necrodrome
Shown 6 May 07
Shown 13th June 2008 [Friday]

A deceased boxer gets up and walks out of a funeral parlour. Someone's using corpses for cage-fights!

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 11] Post Partum
Shown 13 May 07
Shown 20th June 2008 [Friday]

A man is concerned about his wife's welfare. She's in an isolated pregnancy clinic, with a cult-like philosophy of negative energy and Positive auras. Vicki pretends to be married to the cop, and infiltrates the clinic as a .

Henry and the secretary interview the clinic's previous customers. A Dark Elf is spreading his daemon seed, creating a horde of little Damiens!

Blood Ties [Season 1, Episode 12] Norman
Shown 20 May 07
Shown 27th June 2008 [Friday]

The Demon-lover from the pilot ep is back again. He needs to get his magical artefacts back, to summon his master. To do this he seduces Vicki and Henry - disguising himself so each thinks he is the other!

Season 2

Blood Ties [Season 2, Episode 1] D.O.A.
Shown 12 Oct 07

Vicki is hired to investigate the murder of an undercover cop (Steve Bacic - Andromeda ). Her client is his ghost!

The monster responsible seems to have escaped from Angel: Season One .

 14.   2- 2                19 Oct 07   Wild Blood
 15.   2- 3                26 Oct 07   Five: fifty-five
 16.   2- 4                 2 Nov 07   Bugged
 17.   2- 5                 9 Nov 07   The Devil You Know
 18.   2- 6                16 Nov 07   Drawn and Quartered
 19.   2- 7                23 Nov 07   Wrapped
 20.   2- 8                30 Nov 07   The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 21.   2- 9                 UNAIRED    We'll Meet Again
 22.   2-10                 UNAIRED    Deep Dark

Blood Ties [Season 2, Episode ]
Shown
Shown th July 2008 [Friday]

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