There's a few that come to mind...

Ezra Braithwaite making a house call and running into Quentin's ghost

Tom Jennings signing on to work for Nicholas

Willie dropping into the mausoleum hidden room

Tim Braithwaite who Gabriel bribed into taking his place in the lottery room

Oh, my God, those are great ones, Patrickm!     

I got to thinking, IF we had seen Hannah Stokes in “Real Time” Collinsport, she could have been like an “Auntie Mame” type on the show.

And, wouldn’t the jittery and perpetually angst-ridden Hallie Stokes have been a heck of a lot better off staying with her fun-loving and devil-may-care Aunt Hannah, rather than staying at old and gloomy (not to mention, evil spirit infested) Collinwood immediately after the tragic death of Hallie’s mother and father in an automobile accident?

Happy Birthday, Pennydreadful! 

And, many thanks for your very informative and enjoyable podcast, “Terror at Collinwood.”

Bob

Oh, heaven, I didn't even think about that.

I’ll bet that when Dameon Edwards arrived at the Pearly Gates (after Angelique finally got rid of the feckless fop) and Saint Peter took one look at that unbelievably ugly-@SS leisure suit of Dameon’s, old Saint Pete must have said something like, “Son, you’ve got to be ‘expletive-deleted’ kidding with that outfit! You look even worse than Herb Tarleck on ‘WKRP in Cincinnati!’”   

Hey, gang,

I venture to say that every Dark Shadows fan, especially those of a “certain” age, can perfectly recite the truly enigmatic words of Angelique’s Dream Curse:

Through sight and sound and faceless terror,

Through endless corridors by trial and error,

Ahead a blazing light does burn,

And one door leads to the point of return.

One question about these stirring words that I’ve thought about over the years, is which DS writer actually wrote those famous words? Was it Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, Ron Sproat or one of the other DS writers? Some of the most memorable lines on DS were written by Gordon Russell, such as Barnabas’ pithy remark, which he uttered in the Blue Whale, “Serenity is my favorite emotion.”   

You know, several lifelong, rabid fans of the Green Bay Packers have made arrangements to have their coffins interiors lined in Packer bay green and cheese gold colors and to be attired in Packer sweatshirts featuring the retired numbers of such Packer greats as Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke and Herb Adderley. Some diehard Packer fans even have the numbers of those Packer greats carved into their gravestones along with the inspirational words of the great Green Bay Packers coach, the legendary Vince Lombardi. (I wonder if our DS cousin, Gerard, being a proud native of The Badger State, regularly wears Packer green and gold to display his undying Packer allegiance?)

Well, I wonder if some equally loyal and fanatical DS fans have made similar pre-arrangements to insure that their coffins with be decorated exactly the same as the coffin Barnabas crammed into during his four years on the show? Will some DS fans make arrangements to be clothed in their coffins, wearing the same Inverness coat Barnabas always wore on the show, even during the warm summer months in Collinsport? (Even the legendary Bela “Dracula” Lugosi arranged to be attired in his famous Dracula cape in his coffin.)

Who knows, maybe some more loyal and dedicated DS fans will even arrange to have some memorable DS quotes, carved into their headstones, such as, “Don’t Go Tomcatting Around Collinsport!” (the unfailingly gracious Mordecai Grimes), “What Do You With  a Drunken Sailor?” (the water-logged ghost of poor and unfortunate Bill Malloy) and “Let the Legions of the Damned Salute You!” (Warlock Nicholas Blair’s Especially Touching Love Paean to Maggie Evans). 

I could go on, but what limits could there possibly be for any lifelong DS fan to express their love and affection for the beloved residents of Collinsport, Maine as they pass over to the other side?

Bob the Bartender, who looks forward to being attired in my coffin, wearing my stylish Bob Rooney Sears-Roebuck Royal Stewart flannel shirt and with a pack of Bob’s trademark El Producto cigars placed in my breast shirt pocket to accompany me throughout eternity. 

That’s an excellent point, Anne. Old Judah was the only DS character who actually suffered the “Anne Boleyn treatment.”

Come to think of it, just imagine how much trouble would have been avoided if numbskull Desmond Collins had NOT brought back Judah Zachery’s severed noggin from Asia to Collinwood as a “somewhat” unique gift for his cousin, Quentin? 

I wonder what New Year’s Eve was like in Collinsport, Maine? It’s another moment that we all would have liked to have seen on the show.

I suppose that the observance of the holiday at Collinwood would be a rather subdued and staid affair, with Elizabeth, Roger, Carolyn, Barnabas, Quentin, Professor Stokes, Maggie and the ubiquitous Julia Hoffman enjoying a brandy to ring in the New Year. Perhaps Roger would be uncharacteristically gracious and invite long time employee, Mrs. Sarah Johnson, in for a drink as well?

The real New Year’s Eve celebration in Collinsport would be at The Blue Whale, of course! Willie Loomis, Harry Johnson, Buzz Hackett, Susie the (formerly) silent waitress, Ezra Braithwaite, Tony Peterson and the Eagle Hill Cemetery caretaker (a veritable hell raiser) would be hugging and kissing everyone else in the joint when the clock struck midnight as the wise and introspective Bob Rooney surveyed the joyous scene with great delight. (No doubt, the ageless Quentin and the free-spirited Carolyn would quietly withdraw from the New Year’s snooze-fest at Collinwood to go party with the uninhibited crowd down at Collinsport’s most popular watering hole.)

Ah, yes, another scene, Dan Curtis SHOULD have thought to portray on our favorite show.

Happy New Year!

Bob

Yes, as Mordecai Grimes, the “beloved” Kris Kringle of Collinsport, Maine was wont to say at this most festive and holy time of year: