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Does anyone remember this great Gothic soap opera from the late Sixties/early Seventies? I remember as a kid running home from school to catch it. Although much of the acting was atrocious (people constantly forgot their lines) and production values were worse (microphones clearly dangled from the ceiling, the vampires fangs were falling out of the actors mouth), the show still was one of a kind. Kate Jackson (Charlies Angels), David Selby (Falcon Crest), and Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line) were among those who got their start here. And the cast was probably the gayest group ever assembled on TV.
 
I do remember it, and it was very cool, well back then, if I saw it now I might be ashamed to admit I had a crush on that sexy werewolf withthose mutton chops!
 
I remember it but the baby sitter didn't like me to watch it....to adult for a young kid back then.
 
My mom tells me I used to hide in the kitchen and peek around the corner when she watched it back then.

They used to rerun it on SciFi and I actually got to watch the entire series. A friend of mine is up to the werewolf plotline on the videos.

Yeah, it was really low budget and filmed two hours before it aired, but there was many truly shocking moments. Like you just never knew when Angelique the witch was going to pop up again. :twisted: And the relationship between Barnabus Collins and the doctor trying to cure him was so poetic.
 
I too rushed home from school to watch it.

I have a couple of compilation books about it, including one written by Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Maggie/Josette.

Though i haven't been to his site for a few years, Jonathan Frid (Barnabas) used it reminisce about the show on his site. I'm not sure if he's still alive or not.

There's talk in Hollywood of making a new Dark Shadows movie. Johnny Depp wants to play Barnabas.
 
Oh, I forget, the Sci-Fi channel ran it in reruns throughout the nineties. They might start showing it again.
 
Ivaguely remember seeing it when I was maybe 3- My mom always said I called the vampire "lugly teeth". Other than that, I never watched it .
 
I was always amazed at how many cast members were gay, including Louis Edmonds (Roger Collins), Joel Crothers (Nathan Forbes/Joe Haskell), Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) and many others. I also read that hunk Don Briscoe (the werewolf Chris Jennings) was not gay , but hustled gay men before getting the show. BTW, the actress who played Angelique (Lara Parker) was fantastic!
 
i heard about it.
never seen the show before, but i watch passions and my mom says its alot like dark shadows.
 
^^She's a laugher and she had terrible trouble keeping a straight face, especially when something went wrong.

It wasn't so easy to fix things back then, so a lot of bloopers wound up going out on the broadcast.

I've seen her interviewed a few times and she seems like a really nice person.

Joel Cruthers died very young. I originally thought it must have been AIDs, but it was a drug overdose.
 
scrapple said:
Does anyone remember this great Gothic soap opera from the late Sixties/early Seventies? I remember as a kid running home from school to catch it. Although much of the acting was atrocious (people constantly forgot their lines) and production values were worse (microphones clearly dangled from the ceiling, the vampires fangs were falling out of the actors mouth), the show still was one of a kind. Kate Jackson (Charlies Angels), David Selby (Falcon Crest), and Donna McKechnie (A Chorus Line) were among those who got their start here. And the cast was probably the gayest group ever assembled on TV.
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Are you KIDDING ME? I used to run home also!!! I am in the process of buying all of the DVDs from MPI home video as a Christmas gift to myself - all 1245 episodes. The parallel time episodes were I feel among the best. I had a crush on David Henesy -who was/is my age. Jonathan Frid - That wonderful actor from canada IS still alive but retired. His website jonathanfrid.com is a very good site.

I have a bloopers tape and it is HILARIOUS!
 
That's funny. If you go to the website "jump the shark", it polls people about when TV shows went bad. For "Dark Shadows", the Leviathan story and Parallel Time were both big vote getters. I hated the parallel time story, I though DS was at its peak with the first time travel, when Victoria Winters went back to the 1700s.
 
Clearly they were running out of good ideas the last year or so. Dan Curtis, the creator and exec producer, had run through most of the great stories in the horror canon.
 
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