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"Yet I think nostalgia of any kind is a double-edged sword," adds (Frank) Spotnitz (an executive producer and writer on "The X-Files" (both the show and the 1998 movie), whose fall show, "The Night Stalker," is an update of a cult early '70s program). "When people see a TV show title from their youth, they're looking for a piece of that old experience to come back, and the truth is, they'll never recapture it."
"Sitcoms, which are based on character relationships, build a rapport with audiences over many seasons in a way that movies just can't do," says Tim Brooks, author of "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows."
I can't help but wonder if this discussion has somehow attracted the attentions of sinister persons, with evil intent.
In any case, I told my husband to skip the Waterman pen this year, and think "Tiffany earrings" instead. No point putting him in harm's way.........
KDOC is skipping Vestoff's two-parter for the time being.
It is little known that the origin of Barnabas Collins lay in a desperate attempt by TPTB to come up with something as popular as the Silver Filigree Fountain Pen storyline. But sadly, even with the renown of Barnabas, the show never regained the pop-cultural cachet it held during that fabulous Autumn of 1966.
I heard that Jackie Susann planned a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Summit of the Silver Pen, but ABC brass got wind of it, played hardball and threatened to sue.
The long-believed-to-be-lost print of the 1967 feature film, Pen of Dark Shadows, MAY have surfaced in the lower depths of Forrest J. Ackerman's 16 mm film collection. Watch this space for further details.
A bubblegum card set based on the pen (not the storyline, JUST the pen in different 'poses') was in the works back in the 60s.
All the cards vanished the day they went to the printer. No trace of the cards was ever found. Recently, a Dark Shadows: The Silver Filigree Pen video game was planned, but the game developers all died under mysterious circumstances... Drowned, they did. Ayuh.
PS - Silver filigree pen avatar anyone?