Pretty sure it was the West Wing. It was often called "the closed-off wing," if memory serves.

G.

Besides being an important antecedent of the Gothic genre (which ultimately gave birth to Dan Curtis and Art Wallace's original concept for DS), Wuthering Heights contributed some suggested plot points in both the 1840 and, especially, PT 1841 storylines. This is a TV version from 1958 co-starring Richard Burton and Rosemary Harris (who I worshipped in her performance as novelist George Sand in a mid 1970s Masterpiece Theatre serial, "Notorious Woman").  The recording has gone unseen since 1958 and was recently found in an archive. It's being screened on TCM this evening.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/found-a-lost-tv-version-of-wuthering-heights

G.

That sounds fascinating. Pretty sure there was a sort of counter-culture scene in Greenwich Village already during the World War I period and perhaps earlier still. George Chauncey's book Gay New York collected a lot of material specifically relating to queers--but if there was anything avant-garde going on, we were pretty much there.

James Hall seems like a really interesting guy. I personally liked his episodes of Willie. It was so different from the Willie we know and love as brilliantly incarnated by John Karlen that I feel as if James Hall's Willie is a different person altogether--more sleazy and more dangerous.

G.

Seems more in the school of Grandma Moses than the Pre-Raphaelites. And I know I'm being catty, but the traditional end of the Pre-Raphaelite school is around 1880, not the 1920s.

Still, interesting to see!

G.

He wrote this one really outrageous one about one of the 1967 episodes that was headlined something like "Grayson Hall--Hormel has nothing on her ham!" Even though I'm such a big fan of Grayson, I thought that was pretty funny.

G.

Some of these recent Nathan/Willie panels really need to be posted on your "Caption Now" game.

Today's painting probably originally bore the caption, "Nathan, dude! I said MORE LUBE! Please, man!"

cheers, G.

I reviewed Bewitched? Are you sure that wasn't Wickednick? He's a huge Bewitched fan.

I mean, it's possible that I wrote some... it's amazing how little I remember now about the nineties. And I can't even blame it on dissipation, alas.

cheers, G.

Never watched it. It's not from "the same era" as Dark Shadows--the mid to late Seventies was a very different time from the late Sixties, and a filmed weekly primetime series is a very different type of animal from a daily daytime gothic serial.

The "author" of that puff-piece probably never saw a single episode of any of the shows referenced in this PR.

And if the Banana Splits can be "re-booted" as a chainsaw splatter film, why not Fantasy Island--I think it is very unlikely that fans of the original show will bother going to see the film, in any event.

G.