Volume 6 should complete all of the Pre-Barnabas episodes as well as be the last DVD set releases for the TV series.

Up until Volume 4, MPI had been releasing the sets every two months. That would have put volume 5 at a release date at the end of June. However they extended the release date by one month. I suspect they will do the same with Volume 6 so that it's release date will be end of October. I suppose this is to coordinate the release with Halloween.

I haven't checked MPI's web site for a while but they were releasing the DVD sets to their subscribers several months in advance of when Amazon customers can get it. Volume 6 may have already been released there.

I to never saw HODS or NODS in the theatre. In 1970 I was not old enough to drive and someone had tipped off my parents about the gore in the films. Every time I saw a preview for the show on TV, I pestered my parents about going, but to no avail.

I remember doing some channel hopping in the late 1980's and came across a movie with Kate Jackson in it. I said to myself " Their's Kate Jackson, she used to be in Dark Shadows". Then there was John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, and then David Selby. At that point I realized I had to be watching NODS for the first time. It was like seeing old friends again.

I checked the TV listings to confirm what I was watching and was horrified to find out that NODS had played just before and I missed it. This was on TBS and they were playing as some Friday the 13th or Halloween marathon. I religiously checked the listings for the next marathon they would have and was finally rewarded with the double showing again. At last I got to see NODS and the complete HODS. I loved every second of it.

I also taped it that evening, and despite having bought the official release tapes years later, I still have those taped copies with comercials and everything. It wasn't long after that when MPI started releasing the show on video.

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Jeffrey

I just saw that SciFi will be showing Passions starting next week at the 9:00 am time slot. I have seen the show referenced several times here on this board and just wanted to know what everybody thinks of it. I'll probably watch it for the first week at least just ot satisfy my curiosity.

Also for any Doctor Who fans, SciFi will start airing the new BBC version of Doctor Who starting on March 17th at 9:00 pm. I believe there are thirteen episodes in this first season set. SciFi might redeem themselves yet.

I divide the DS experience into two eras, the Victoria Winters era and the Barnabas era. I take no position as to which era was better because I love both. Angelique was critical to the Barnabas era as she was the third leg of an important love triangle. Her and Doctor Hoffman both loved Barnabas but showed it in two completely different ways and this is what created the intensity of the stories. This was complicated by the fact that Barnabas seemed to love every other young thing except these two. The result seemed to be that no one was very emotionally satisfied.

As far as I know this never happened, but can you imagine the pandimonium if one of the actors had dropped Josette's Music Box during a scene? Even to this day when I see a scene with someone holding it I think to myself " I hope they have a good grip on that thing".

Does the Barnabas Doppelganger in 1897 count as empty or filled?

I have strange crossover dreams from time to time. A couple of weeks ago, I was watching an early episode of Dr. Who, and had a dream I was wearing a kilt, working for Perry Mason, who wanted me to deliver a supeona (sp) to Collinwood. To much pizza for dinner that night.

It is expected that MPI is going to release the DS Collector's edition on DVD once the end of the regular season DVD's is complete. This would be the 210 pre-Barnabus episodes.

By my calculations, they should be close to completing the series release by DVD 25 that should be released at the end of July. As of yet I have not heard for sure that MPI is planning to release the pre-Barnabus episodes. Perhpas someone on the board has some inside information. Because they no longer have any stock of the VHS copies may be a good sign of an eventual release on DVD.

I would suggest waiting to see what happens. Trying to purchase the 50-something Collector's tapes would be time consuming if they have to be tracked down individually.