MB and Gerard,

Thanks for the information. I think MPI is selling the complete dvd series for $399.99. I do recall some of the regular posters here reporting that some of the DS dvd sets from other sources were counterfeit and were of poor quality.

MPI states that their dvds are genuine. I still have my DS vhs tapes from the old SCI-FI broadcasts dating back to the early 1990s. So, after nearly 30 years, they still play okay. Although watching the DS dvds, which my local library used to have in their entirety (all 120 dvds), was much more convenient, with 10 episodes per dvd. The dvd extras are neat, with the interviews with many of the DS actors, writers and film crew.

Bob

Gerard,

Somehow, I think that Roger, Sarah Johnson, Maggie Evans, Bob Rooney and the rest of the town would be on a very long line today playing a “certain” national lottery game.

Bob

PS As that old skinflint, Mordecai Grimes, was wont to say, “You’ve got to be in it, to win it!” 

Oh yes what a naughty boy he was .We must keep him in his room.
Somehow . 🎃👻👻👻💀

Anne,

The little brat probably had a hidden door in his bedroom leading to one of those many secret passageways honeycombed throughout the great house of Collinwood.

Aunt Elizabeth should have insisted that Roger send his oh-so-naughty son to a strict military school, like Tony and Carmella Soprano almost did with their perpetual problem child, A.J. Soprano. 

I didn't.

From Sabrina, the Teenage Witch RewindTV Trivia:

1330 Collins Road, Collinsport, Maine now rightfully takes its place among the hallowed ranks of
truly great American horror/supernatural addresses with 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Heights, Ohio (?), the residence of Herman and Lily Munster & family and 4019 Highway 88, Fairvale, California, the motel and home address of Norman Bates and his beloved (not to mention, extremely well-preserved) mom, Norma.   

Oh, Anne,

Can you imagine actually walking up that tall hill to knock on the front door of Collinwood and, as you say, asking Mrs. Johnson, a real “softie,” or, perhaps, even the unfailingly “cheerful” and “convivial” Roger Collins for some Halloween treats? Ugh!

Come to think of it, do you think Maggie Evans, Joe Haskell, Buzz Hackett, Harry Johnson, Susie, the silent waitress, and the two Jennings brothers, along with the rest of the young kids in Collinsport, were brave enough (or foolish enough) to trek up to the great house on the hill to trick-or-treat in 1956? Roger would have probably sent the “grandfatherly-like” Matthew Morgan out to chase away all of those annoying young kiddies.

And, what did David Collins do on Halloween? We never saw him hanging out with the other kids in
town. No doubt, David’s patrician father would not want his only son and heir associating with the
youthful riffraffs and guttersnipes of Collinsport.  Maybe David just spent the Halloween holiday alone in the decrepit Old House, chilling out with his only real friends, the ghosts of Josette, little Sarah Collins, Bill Malloy and the wailing widows?

And, instead of dressing up like Spider-Man, Superman or even Fred Flintstone, the uniquely inventive David dressed up like cute, little Alexander, the Leviathan child, Damien, the child Anti-Christ or possibly even the pig-tailed and kindly Rhoda Penmark from “The Bad Seed”?

Yes, no doubt, Halloween was THE most popular and anticipated holiday in Collinsport, Maine for obvious reasons!     

Hi, Anne,

Are you going to go trick-or-treating tonight and, if so, who (or whom?) are you going out as?

As for me, if I do go out trick-or-treating tonight, I’ll probably go out as either the Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker or the venerable Ezra Braithwaite, which shouldn’t be that much of a stretch now for me at my “somewhat” advanced years.   

Bob, the Aging Bartender, avid “AARP:The Magazine” reader.

Yes, Uncle Roger, I wish I could be there with the other DS fans to hear KLS describe the various filming locations for HODS on the Jay Gould estate.

The first time I toured the Lyndhurst Mansion was in 1983. There was a very nice lady there, who was a tour guide at the estate. I very “innocently” asked her if the two DS movies had been filmed there and she told me that she was there in 1970, when Dan Curtis & company arrived to begin filming HODS. This lady remembered that Dan Curtis had large tarpaulins hung in several of the rooms to control the lighting in those rooms and make them look gloomier during filming.

Walking around the grounds of Lyndhurst, I spotted what appeared to be the remaining foundation of the building that had been used for the outdoor shots of the Old House on the original DS series. Apparently, this building burned down to the ground while DS was still on the air. There was a great deal of underbrush surrounding the ruins back in 1983.

 I wonder if you can still see the ruins today and if KLS will be showing the DS fans, where she once danced around the Old House veranda as the winsome ghost of Josette DuPre in 1966?

Not too far from that site on the estate, there was a tree-lined road, that looked like the spot where  Barnabas put the bite on Daphne in HODS. In addition, the small house, where Nancy Barrett and John Karlen (as Claire and Alex Jenkins) stayed in “Night of Dark Shadows,” was also on that same road.

That elevated train trestle next to the Hudson River, where Quentin wrestled with the demented Gerard in NODS, was gone in 1983 as I recall.

When I toured Lyndhurst nearly forty years ago, you could not go up into the tower room, which Quentin used as his art studio in NODS. (Remember when you could spot the Tappan Zee Bridge, now the Mario Cuomo Bridge, when Quentin admired the panoramic view up there of the Atlantic Ocean along the rocky coast of Maine? Oy vey!)  Maybe Ms. Scott will be able to get a few fans up there to enjoy the view?

The large dining room in Lyndhurst is very impressive. That was a great scene in HODS, when a frantic David Colllins ran in to tell everyone assembled at the dinner table, that he had just encountered the resurrected Carolyn Stoddard on the grounds of Collinwood. Maybe KLS will reveal to the tour-goers which specific epicurean “delight,” Mrs. Johnson prepared for the dinner attendees in that scene?

I hope we get an in-depth account of Ms. Scott’s tour today. I wish that ProfStokes were there to provide us with another one of her highly informative and engrossing reports on a DS event.