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Current Talk '04 II / Re: BARNABAS AND QUENTIN ACTION FIGURES NEW FOR 2005!!!
« on: August 04, 2004, 09:09:13 PM »
Quote from: ClaudeNorth on July 29, 2004, 04:39:27 AM
This is very cool news.  Of course, I am now counting the days until the Julia doll is released.  Personally, I'd love to see the company go all out and give us a Julia doll product line that rivals Mattel's Barbie line.  Imagine a line of Julia doll clothing and wigs, plus accessories, a carrying case, and such items as a sports car, townhouse, office, laboratory, and a camper van.   ;D  An entire "World of Julia" for fans of all ages!

Count me in on that! Wow...a Grayson Hall fan's dream come true!

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:How & when you discovered Dark Shadows
« on: January 26, 2004, 05:58:23 AM »
Quote from: Craig_Slocum on January 14, 2004, 04:31:37 AM
I started watching Dark Shadows in 1968 when I was 4, soon going to be 40 this year.  :o My mom got me interested in the show, she was hooked on Barnabas Collins and still is to this day!  ::) I watched the show with her and my brother.

I was 4 also when I started watching DS back in 1966. My mother used to watch it right after General Hospital. I have to say that I found General Hospital alot more frightening that Dark Shadows! I mean those nurses were always having a crisis of some kind and we never got to see them at home (my question, "did they LIVE at the hospital?"). Contrast that with Dark Shadows which in 1967 started color broadcasts and had all those great sets and costumes. On General Hospital we only got to see the cafeteria and the nurses' station. And so, it became one of my life's phobias that I would grow up and find myself working at General Hospital. Well, you might say that couldn't happen as there really IS no General Hospital, but I was recently informed that the General Hospital of the 1960's in the opening sequence was actually Stamford Hospital (in Connecticut) which is where I work now. EEEEEEEEEE!

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Current Talk '03 II / Re:Pre-emption blues
« on: October 07, 2003, 04:02:29 PM »
Thank goodness I went to the DS convention. I got enough tchotchkes to get me through this TV Dark Shadows dry spell. I don't really understand TV executives decision making processes. They know theres an audience for DS, do they think we're gonna watch just any cr*p they put in it's time slot?

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Current Talk '03 II / Re:Never without you, Julia!
« on: August 29, 2003, 03:45:19 PM »
Quote from: Julia99 on August 21, 2003, 07:45:29 PM
Well for those of you going to the Fest. .all I can say is look out for a very public appreciation of that scene . ..on Saturday. . .look for YELLOW. . i shall say no more.  .

I shall be looking for it!  :o

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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Vampire Slay - Fang Fan's Revenge at Times Square Hotel
« on: January 15, 2003, 08:21:43 PM »
Here's the article about the DS fan gone bad:

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/66706.htm

Katherine Leigh Scott is quoted in the article, "Most fans are loyal and enormously devoted," she said. "They're usually quite intelligent and very reasonable - but there's always the odd one."

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Time Paradoxes--1795 & 1897!
« on: November 08, 2002, 09:27:54 AM »
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And just think if the writers had thought that all the time-travelling might've created alternate present-times, they could've come up with a myriad of new stories!  The show might've possibly gone on, at least for several more seasons (who knows? - maybe still be on the air today, just like As the World Turns, et. al.).

Gerard


Has it ever occurred to anyone else that if one had the power of time travel maybe the best place to travel back to is before Barnabas' trip to Martinique? He could have forseen the tragedy that his affair with Angelique would cause and avoided her.  Then there would be more descendents and more storylines. But of course, we wouldn't have all those wonderful Lara Parker moments. Oh well.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Sympathy for the Devilish...or Not
« on: October 04, 2002, 06:43:24 PM »
Any of Jerry Lacy's characters. He plays both attractive and repulsive equally well. That's what makes them compelling.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Barnabas Collins, Outstanding Citizen
« on: October 04, 2002, 05:46:54 PM »
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I got a kick out of yesterday's exchange between the Sheriff and Chris after Barnabas called to tell him that he and Chris had been drinking all night.  Mr. Collins word is all you need in this town.  This, even though Barnabas is usually the #1 suspect when anything funky happens in town i.e. Adam.

Consistency, thy name isn't Dark Shadows.


I don't know, just because Barnabas is usually interrogated doesn't necessarily mean he's a suspect. Who would have suspected that he was in any way responsible for Adam's appearance in Collinwood? It seems to me that they usually suspect he knows something, rather than being responsible for the crimes themselves.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Dark Shadows/Are You Being Served? crossover
« on: July 30, 2002, 03:57:10 PM »
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Does anybody have some "Dark Shadows"/"Are You Being Served?" (Britcom) Crossovers?


That's quite a stretch! There was one episode of Are You Being Served where Joanna Lumley (Patsy Stone of Absolutely Fabulous) makes an appearance, and I think she would have been great as a guest on Dark Shadows. As yet another cousin from England, she could have fit right in chain-smoking with Julia and belting back sherry with Roger. I relish the thought of Joanna doing a Patsy Stone-like replacement for Victoria as David's governess.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Diana Walker
« on: July 29, 2002, 05:59:20 AM »
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Diana Walker filled in for Nancy Barrett as a temopraelly replacement on episode #578 that aired on 9/11/1968 on ABC-TV at 4:00pmEDT/3:00pmCDT and also Diana Walker also appeared in "As The World Turns".

The subsitute was good and I like Nancy Barrett as the better Carolyn Stoddard. My suggestion is to watch "The Brady Bunch Hour" and it has a different actress playing Jan Brady.


Yes, there was an episode of The Simpsons where they kind of lampooned the Brady Bunch Hour when they did a Simpsons "TV Special" and had someone else as Lisa and Homer says, "No one will notice". I wasn't crazy about Diana Walker as Carolyn, but it was common back in the '60's to have someone completely different fill in for an actress when they were out. Think of Joan Crawford's filling in for Christina.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Lucretia Borgia
« on: July 25, 2002, 06:50:42 AM »
Here's a question for everybody: who would YOU choose to conjure up as the female spirit for the life force for Eve? Nicholas had some good suggestions, but I would have suggested maybe Lizzie Borden or some other 20th century woman.

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: To COLORIZE or Not to COLORIZE?
« on: July 23, 2002, 04:48:48 PM »
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Should the B&W Kinescopes and Episodes (including lost COLOR episodes of "Dark Shadows" that now exist only in B&W Kinescopes) should be COLORIZED?

Yes :)  or No :(

Spencer Karter
Age 16


I feel pretty much the same way Bette Davis felt when they colorized Dark Victory: "All the clothes' good taste, gone!"

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Fans of the Show
« on: July 22, 2002, 07:07:03 AM »
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My mother is in a nursing home for a few weeks.  The dumb cable they can get there doesn't include most of the interesting channels, including SciFi.  Fortunately, we've seen all of this a couple of times, so every day I describe to her what's been happening (Robservations is really helpful - I always forget what all I've seen and go back and take notes from it!).

Anyway, her roommate was interested, and in fact, she's the one who asks each day, "Are we going to hear the story?"  All she really remembers of it is Joan Bennett.  Apparently she saw it back when it was originally on.  I figured she probably wouldn't remember what most of them look like, so other day I took the "Companion" and "Almanac" to show her some pictures.

Unfortunately, there weren't too many pictures from this storyline.  I did manage to find a few of Nicholas, a couple of Adam, one of Nicholas had a bit of vampire Angelique behind him, and one of Jeff, along with the "regulars" - so at least she has an idea of them now.  She said she can't wait to go home and watch it!


Funny you should start this thread as I was thinking of starting one myself on the same subject. The other day one of my friends came over to visit with his twenty-something Hispanic wife and Dark Shadows was on the TV. While my friend and I were talking about various things, his wife was glued to the TV. She didn't want to leave because she was loving the program so much! Another unsuspecting victim of Dark Shadows' broad appeal!

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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Listen, do you want to know a secret...
« on: July 17, 2002, 06:06:26 AM »
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Are you kidding? Who doesn't have a secret? I challenge anyone to name just ONE character who didn't have a secret!!



Mrs. Johnson.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '02 II / Re: Who are you?
« on: July 11, 2002, 06:18:03 AM »
Much to my amazement and delight, I came up as:

You are Quentin Collins!

You're a classical figure, who remains unchanged in the face of changing times. You are a solitary figure and patron of the arts, preferring your own company, sometimes appearing to be self-serving or inconsiderate as a result.

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