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Calendar Events / Announcements '08 I / Re: Can use your help, We are doing great!
« on: April 03, 2008, 11:53:06 PM »
I've always liked that shot of Beth and Quentin. Very good choice.
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Mysterioso darling, Grayson Hall (Praise be upon Her Name!) mentioned in a fan interview tape recorded in March 1973 (btw, this is the same item that has circulated for years on the fan bootleg market as an interview taped in '74) that the ratings started to go down during the "Quentin/Petofi mind-switch thing." I think she actually uses those words to describe it. I can't recall whether she mentions that they received letters complaining about it or simply that the monthly figures were down during that time--probably both.
All sorts of arguments keep being mentioned about DS and the ratings and I have come to take all talk of such matters with more than just a scattering of salts. I seem to recall years ago someone trotting out figures that showed that during the early 1967 Laura Collins storyline, the show actually had very respectable viewing figures, which calls into question the notion of the introduction of Barnabas saving a foundering show that had barely registered on anyone's radar theretofore.
then some vaguely pornographic hunk in a uniform would wander into camera range and read some really stilted dialogue off a cue card. I'm really surprised it lasted as long as it did; the show did not seem to be directed at all and apart from Mills, none of the performers seemed to have had any acting experience or training of any description. But, as I said, I'm making those observations based on a couple of brief sequences I watched before switching off the series because the proceedings were too preposterous even for my looneytunes taste.
The perception among the writers and the crew was that the Petofi storyline in 1897 dragged on way too long for the patience of viewers--this was blamed for a perceived initial drop in ratings. The Petofi/Quentin body switch storyline which lasted a month and featured some really way-out plot twists (and one of my personal all-time favorite moments on DS--that shot of the DS skeleton tarted up in Wanda Paisley's tea-gown, wig, and big feathery aigrette--not to mention the whole return-of-Judith storyline, which I LOVE) was blamed in particularly for turning into a major turn-off for much of the viewership. From what I can determine, it seems to me that they received a lot of hate-mail from the fans complaining about this, and the root of the complaints may have really been Jonathan Frid's one month vacation from the show, not the Petofi story and character in particular.
I've read something about Frid wanted to take a month off from the show, due to exhaustion.
I always thought it would have been cool if Petofi had come back to assist Gerard's ghost (under the guise of trying to exorcise him) to destroy the Collins family.