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Calendar Events / Announcements '24 I / Re: Master of Dark Shadows Blu-ray
« on: April 20, 2019, 08:25:40 PM »
For those who may not have had a version of Dialing for Dollars in there area, here's a link to an article that reminisces about one New England version:
Who Remembers…Dialing For Dollars?
(Providence, RI/New Bedford, MA)
And an overview of the show (which lists the Boston version):
Dialing for Dollars
But the main reason I'm posting this is to share transcripts of two promos Jonathan Frid did for Boston's old WNAC (which no longer exists) back when, by popular demand, DS was returning to the Boston ABC affiliate on January 13, 1969 after parent/religious groups had it banished in Boston to a UHF station that showed it at 2:30pm before kids got out of school (lest kids be corrupted by the "satanic plots" and "mayhem" ). The Dialing for Dollars connection will become obvious:
And a shorter, slightly different version:
Unlike with Gloria DeHaven, I've never seen any photos of Frid with Ed Miller. Though Frid/Barnabas did make an appearance on Dialing for Dollars to promote the return of DS to Channel 7.
It's too bad MPI doesn't share more of these local DS promos/appearances. Though who knows if footage of them may even still exist or, if so, if DCP might even have copies?
Who Remembers…Dialing For Dollars?
(Providence, RI/New Bedford, MA)
And an overview of the show (which lists the Boston version):
Dialing for Dollars
But the main reason I'm posting this is to share transcripts of two promos Jonathan Frid did for Boston's old WNAC (which no longer exists) back when, by popular demand, DS was returning to the Boston ABC affiliate on January 13, 1969 after parent/religious groups had it banished in Boston to a UHF station that showed it at 2:30pm before kids got out of school (lest kids be corrupted by the "satanic plots" and "mayhem" ). The Dialing for Dollars connection will become obvious:
Scene: | Billowing fog/smoke as Barnabas slowly steps out into the open. |
Announcer: | Barnabas Collins lives in the tiny fishing village of Collinsport, Maine. He has lived there all his life. For 175 years. He has been able to live this long on a select diet because Barnabas Collins is a vampire. |
Barnabas: | Welcome to the supernatural, where the night is my ray of hope. In the dark shadows of nightfall I make my presence known. I strike with cold steel, my prey is the living. In the dark shadows of night you will see and hear my presence. I am Barnabas Collins. If you crave the mysterious, the strange, you can see me every weekday at four pm right after Ed Miller's two o'clock Dialing for Dollars movie on Channel 7. |
Announcer: | Join Dark Shadows Monday through Friday at four pm on Channel 7. You'll see Barnabas Collins at work. This way he won't see you first... |
And a shorter, slightly different version:
Scene: | Billowing fog/smoke as Barnabas slowly steps out into the open. |
Announcer: | Barnabas Collins lives in the tiny fishing village of Collinsport, Maine. He has lived there all his life. For 175 years. He has been able to live this long on a select diet because Barnabas Collins is a vampire. |
Barnabas: | If you crave the mysterious, follow me on a journey to the unbelievable. In the dark shadows of the night you will see and hear my presence, for I am Barnabas Collins. Join me weekdays at four following Ed Miller's two o'clock Dialing for Dollars movie on Channel 7. |
Announcer: | Join Barnabas Collins weekdays at four pm on Channel 7 before he joins you... |
Unlike with Gloria DeHaven, I've never seen any photos of Frid with Ed Miller. Though Frid/Barnabas did make an appearance on Dialing for Dollars to promote the return of DS to Channel 7.
It's too bad MPI doesn't share more of these local DS promos/appearances. Though who knows if footage of them may even still exist or, if so, if DCP might even have copies?