According to the DS Almanac's list of literary sources for DS, the inspiration for the Dream Curse is a 1968 story called "The Dream Deceivers."  I've never read it, I've never heard of it, and since the author is unknown I'm afraid I can't tell you much more.  Maybe somebody else (one of our librarians, perhaps) will be able to provide more information.

Okay, I had to take up that challenge. I have searched every source that we have at LAPL (short story index back to 1949, in house extensive short story index, card catalog, even the Internet) and can find no short story with that title. I did find a 1985 documentary film by that title but nothing else. Also, if the story was written in 1968, it had to be very new when the dream curse aired on DS. Didn't the writers of DS mostly take from stuff that would have been in public domain? Much as I admire KLS, I do have to say that she has been known to get her facts wrong    so maybe this information is not entirely correct? Luciaphil, you're good at this, maybe you can find a short story called "Dream Deceivers." 

Bette 

I just checked the Sci-Fi ScheduleBot, and if The Outer Limits was on at 10am, it looks like where you're staying in Arizona has the Sci-Fi East feed, which means that DS should be on at 7am, Julia99.

As MB says, different cable companies get different feeds. Midnite, even though you and I live within an hour of each other in sunny southern cal    I think that you see DS at 10:00 a.m. but in Pasadena we get it at 7:00 a.m., which is good because I can see at least some of it before I leave for work. 

Bette

I ALMOST share a birthday with David Selby. Mine is Feb. 4 and Selby's is Feb. 5. 

Bette

Julia confronts Barnabas in her bedroom when he comes to kill her.

All the scenes between Julia and Tom Jennings. 

Barnabas and Julia in 1995, just after he learns that she has betrayed him to the sheriff.

Bette

I'm pretty sure that Grayson played both Julia and Magda in the 1897 episode in which Petofi has Barnabas look into the future and Barnabas sees Julia and David in the Old House.

Grayson also played both Natalie and Julia in the episode in which Barn returns from the second trip to 1796.

Bette

No contest for me. Julia Hoffman has kept me loving this show for 35 years.

Bette

Of course I love Julia dearly, but don't think I'd want to play that part.

As a child, I was always dressing up as a gypsy, so I think I'd like to try to play Magda. Since I look like my northern European ancestors I would need even more make-up than Grayson did to look the part, but I'd love the wig and the clothes. I think I could even fake an accent.

Bette

Congratulations, ProfStokes!



Bette