Best actor: David Selby. Although Barnabas remains my favorite character, Selby not only remembered his lines perfectly, but he created a complex character in Quentin that had equal amounts of rakishness and vulnerability.
Best actress: Lara Parker. Angelique is undoubtedly one of DS's most intriguing, tragic, and memorable characters. And with the 1841 PT Catherine character, Lara proves that she also has range. And - darn it all! - the lady can even write!
Most memorable score: Quentin's theme.
Scariest moment: Barnabas' and Julia's arrival in 1995, although the appearance of Quentin's ghost is a very close second.
Most satisfying finale: Barn's and Julia's return to Collinwood in 1970. "All is well with the world".
Best supporting role (female): Grayson Hall as Julia Hoffman. Her range wasn't the greatest, but she took what she had and really ran with it. To see such a strong but touchingly vulnerable female of a certain age cast in a positive light must have been the exception for 1960s TV.
Best supporting role (male): For me, it is a tie between John Karlen as Willie Loomis and Thayer David as Professor Eliot Stokes or Ben, his ancestor.
Most underrated actor: Robert Rodan as Adam. I may be in a minority here, but I still think he did very well in a somewhat thankless and difficult role.
Actor with the broadest acting range: Nancy Barrett, who gets to sulk, fall in love, rebel, play a spoiled little rich girl, dance, sing, scream, marry, be bitten by Barnabas, be possessed by spirits, attempt murder, see into the future, go insane and age very ungracefully. It seems Barrett could do just about anything convincingly.
Character I most love to hate: Jerry Lacy in any of the 3 Trask incarnations. He is always the fly in the ointment for poor Barnabas!
Most comforting character: Professor Eliot Stokes - Every time he appears, you know that help has arrived.
Best scream: Julia Hoffman (who else?)
Best laugh: Angelique (no big surprise there)
Best smoocher: Quentin - no other kissing scenes look quite this juicy!
Most clueless character: although this condition is endemic on DS, the prize goes to Alexandra Moltke as poor Vicky Winters. Didn't she coin the phrase "I don't understand"?
Most annoying character: Roger Davis as Jeff Clarke.
Most elegant actor: Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Stoddard. You can tell she was a film diva from way back! I've always pictured her as a 50-ish Scarlett O'Hara.
Most evil character: Judah Zachery. Unlike him, most of the other ghouls relent; even Angelique is redeemed by love in the end, and Nicholas Blair finds his Achilles heel in Maggie Evans.
Dumbest f/x: the Leviathan paper cutout. ¢â‚¬ËœNuff said!
Happy Holidays Everyone!!