Thanks, Darren, for the notice.  I saw that DVD on eBay, too, and was pretty sure it was not legal.

Brian

LOL...I'm getting ready to transfer my VHS copies to DVD, so they'll last longer--at least till I die, since WB is not likely to release them in my lifetime (sorry, Darren. . .I know what you've been told, but I'm not confident. . .)

Brian

Interesting to read all these comments.  For those who may be familiar with the DS Concordances published by Kathy Resch, the 1840 Concordance includes a thought-provoking essay by Arthur Warren Oddsson titled "Causality at Collinwood: Time Travels in Dark Shadows."  A section of it called "A Private Hell" focuses on PT.  The 1970 PT Concordance includes an expanded version of "A Private Hell."

I don't know if those books are still available form Kathy;  if  not, you might come across them on eBay.  They make for good reading--and back in the 80s, before DS hit home video and SciFi Channel, they were the only way some of us "old-timers" could relive the series.

Brian

I've watched the second part of this movie, and it sounds like Thayer David even more to me.  Can anyone confirm his involvement?  Darren?  MB?

By the way, who is "BLC63"?  I used to be "Brian."  How did my name change?  :-

Unlike most contemporary shows, which have the luxury of being shot and reshot to perfection (and often sterility). . .Given its time and relatively limited budget, DS was a huge accomplishment.  The only way the viewer -- old or new -- can appreciate what DS was all about is to see the show -- brilliance, warts, and all.

Ben

WHAT HE SAID!!!   

(That means I agree.)

Brian

It's been a long time since I watched the MPI tapes, but I thought I'd share some of my reactions:

Most welcome character (the one you were happiest to see)?

Angelique

Your favorite character in Leviathans, period.

Julia--period

Favorite romantic pairing?

Quentin and Amanda

Finally, what was your reaction to the storyline the very first time you watched it?

I LIKED it! in 1970

Vlad. . .you came to DS in the days of VCRs - not in the days when on Friday afternoons, after you had to meet your mom when she got out of work so you could get a ride home from school, you had to constantly pester her to get the grocery shopping done quickly so you could get home to see DS. And more often than not, I ended up missing parts if not some entire episodes. I'm quite sure I was not alone in that - and the ONLY way for us to find out what had happened was if one of our friends had seen what we'd missed.

Fortunately, when I was watching DS from 1969-1971, I rode the school bus from junior high school and was home by 3:30, so at 4:00 I was right there in front of the color TV in the living room (while my brothers and sister had to watch the portable B&W TV in the family room--I was the oldest so I got the first pick of TVs--LOL).  About 4:10, Dad came home from work (Mom didn't have a "job"--but being a "homemaker," "housewife", whatever, with 4 kids was a pretty big job in and of itself--never underestimate the challenges of being a full-time mother [or father, for that matter])--anyway, as soon as DS went off at 4:30, supper was on the table.  (Mom and Dad waited for "my show" to be over.)  I don't think I missed a single episode between June 1969 and April 2, 1971--except for a week in the summer of '70 when we went on a vacation to Canada, and a very short time--maybe a month--when my "local" ABC station (Channel 9 out of Cincinatti at that time--I was in Dayton, and the ABC channel didn't air DS) stopped airing DS sometime during the latter part of 1970 I think.  But we had what was then called an antenna rotor, I think from Channel Master--anyone else remember those?--that rotated the outside antenna, so I could turn it toward Columbus and pick up DS on Channel 6 out of Columbus.  (This was WAY before cable!)   I guess I wouldn't even remember all this if it weren't for DS.   

IRMA VEP, in case you don't know it, is a wonderful parody of "the old dark house" genre, including vampires and werewolves, all acted by two actors playing multiple roles with increasing fast costume changes. I was involved in a production of VEP in Florida in 1989--it's still one of my favorite plays--and, yes, though there are no DS references "per se", in general we can find them if we look.