Plot
Shy multi-millionaire businessman Adam ("the Wanderer" of the show's title) and his wicked twin brother, Zachary (both played by Bryan Brown) are two former knights from the late Tenth Century, both of whom have been born again in the late Twentieth Century. Zachary is after a complicated revenge on Adam, who killed him in the year A.D. 1000, but much more is at stake than mere vengeance. As millennium is approaching people becomes more superstitious and Zachary plans to use this for his own purpose. He needs his brother dead and seen by witnesses so he can pose as Adam resurrected.
The other players in both time-zones are Zachary's beautiful but deadly companion Beatrice (Kim Thomson), Adam's friend Godbold (in the present day a philosophically-minded plumber and wrestler with a large beard, but once a hermit and monk, played by Tony Haygarth) and Adam's Tenth-Century lover Lady Clare (Deborah Moore). She has come back in the present day as Clare, a high-spirited photographer, and she does not plan to lose her man a second time.
Wolfgang Mathias is Adam's personal assistant. Unfortunately for him, as he himself has no roots in the Tenth Century, he finds virtually everything about the Wanderer's world extremely confusing.
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