New DS-Type Show

[DrJulia]

I need some suggestions for a new "show" that I am doing (in my house with family and friends, using a camcorder and computer). Any are welcome, but I especially want ideas for a title. ?!? Updates as pre-production continues.

[Bj]

I always thought it would be cool for a bunch of DS-lovers to actually film a favorite episode or scene verbatim.  It would be an interesting experiment in drama and filmmaking -- and not to mention a lot of fun!  

Sorry I didn't directly answer your question, Dr. J.  

[jthomas_123]

I know, call it "Dark Shadows: Episode 1246 and Beyond"

[DrJulia]

Thanks, jthomas. That's a good one. What about "Beyond 1246"?

[CastleBee]

Maybe you should do it from your own POV as you arrive at Collinwood - in 2002.  What would you find, who would be there, what would be going on now?

OR, what happened after the final scene right after everyone exited the drawing room?

Then again, there's always.......
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Disco Collinwood, 1974!
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Sorry, couldn't resist.   Of course, if you were going for a comedy this might be a direction to take too...

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Dear CastleBee,

Merely the greatest Dark Shadows posting of all time!!!  Kudos, felicitations and "mega-dittoes" for the most hilarious and wackily-inspired DS photo of this or any future millennium!

Sincerely,

Bob the Bartender, who's getting "Jersey shore" disco fever just looking at Dark Shadows' answer to John Travolta and Karen Gorney!

[Raineypark]

Castlebee, I completely concur with Bob.....probably the funniest photo ever posted.

Have you had that idea in your head, just waiting for someone to give you a plausable excuse?.....or did that just now come to you out of the Heaven of Hilarious Ideas?

Or was it really Vampuppy's idea?  

Rainey

[Cassandra]

Castlebee,  That is priceless!!!  I love it!  

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Have you had that idea in your head, just waiting for someone to give you a plausable excuse?

I won't presume to answer for CastleBee, but I will say that she's quite the talent when it comes to putting these things together - which is why two of her masterpieces from our VantageNet days were uploaded to the Members' Archive this past weekend.

[CastleBee]

Thanks MB.  This was a VNet summer re-run .  

[ProfStokes]

Thank you very much for posting that, CastleBee.  It always gives me a good laugh.  

ProfStokes

[Angelique_s_Sis]

CastleBee - LOVED THE PHOTO!!    

[RingoCollins]

Assuming the show will be a talk-show format...... [anyone remember the time Dave Letterman sub'ed on the show?]
....some titles could be:

The LATE show

Collinsport After Dark [with Hugh Hefner]

Bite Line [with Ted Koppel] [haven't I used that before, too?]

Crossing Over ...into Parallel Time [I'm sure J. E.'s 15 minutes are just about over!] [what ever happened to Auntie Foundling?]

If it is a game show:

'What's In The Box' - hosted by Count Petofi

'Name That Tune' - hosted by Sarah Collins [only lasts one episode]

'I've Got A Secret' - the entire town could be on!

'You Bet Your Life' - loser gets a stake! [or dinner at the Russian Tea room]

or my current Fave: Will It Float?  - from the bottom of Widow's Hill

I am available to be 'musical director'!

hope this helps!

Ringo

[DrJulia]

Great pic, Castlebee. It brightened up my day. Maybe if the show goes into PT we could do that!
Some great ideas, RingoC. Helpful and amusing.

For those of you giving show ideas (p.s.-thanx) please remember that it will be some name similar- Callanwind or something. Don't want to get a mad letter from dear Mr. Curtis.

[DrJulia]

Okay, I'm almost done developing the first storyline. Ghosts, time travel, hypnotism, it has it all!  
Here goes:
Francis Callan, the young teen who comes to Collinwood, finds a letter written by his long-lost GreatGrandpa on the day he died. A PS at the bottom of the letter says "No one but you, my wife, must read this." The letter disappears into thin air and Callanwind (the ancestral house) floods. Francis is engulfed by the waves and passes out. He wakes up on the shore of a beach and looks out to the water to see Callanwind sink to the bottom!! He is summoned to the past by a mysterious spirit who tells him that he must stop his greatgrandpa from writing that letter. He succeeds and goes back to the present. More to follow.