Dark Shadows Documentary

[Uncle Roger]

This was done by the NYC PBS station to promote their airing the episodes. It's the early days of the DS festivals, as a lot of it was filmed at the Gateway Hilton in Beautiful Downtown Newark. In addition to the actors, you can catch a glimpse of some longtime fans. The clips from the costume contest are classic.
The interview with Nancy Barrett was a big deal back then, since Nancy had yet to appear at a festival and wouldn't for several years.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Well, if I'd seen it before, for some reason I'd completely blocked it out of my mind, so more than likely today is the first time I've ever seen it. And watching it was quite the experience, from Frid's embracing attitude of the show (which just four years later would completely change due to the actions of a certain someone), to a certain someone else claiming to have a "good memory", to the repeated insistence of the host to refer to "Collinswood", to a really great interview with Clarice Blackburn, to a truly fantastic interview with Nancy Barrett, and to all the costume gala performances which were all a complete hoot and a half! Great fun for several reasons.

[Uncle Roger]

Apparently I'm in it for a second. Just a cameo. No dialogue.

[Gerard]

I think, MB, that MPI made the documentary around '91, for the 25th anniversary, and was aired a year-or-two later on Sci-Fi when the network hit the airwaves.  I remember videotaping it and kept it for years until the DVD came out.  Again, I'm not sure of the date when it was made; it might've been a few years after the anniversary.

Gerard

[dom]

Oh, I thought this was the Current documentary we were talking about - which of course didn't surprise me, lol.

[Patti Feinberg]

On YouTube, the first 2 things aren't DS; one is a trailer for "The Girl on the Train" (which I want to own), 2nd another commercials.

Since you said it's just under an hour, there's one, at 59:xx minutes, "Casting DS" from 1987?...?

And there's pt3 of 'bloopers'.

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ok....just started watching it.

I've never heard Jonathan Frid speak...'normally' (if you catch my drift).

Just panning through....there's Miss Joan Bennett!!!!

[Uncle Roger]

Joan was an absolute trouper. I think it was at her first festival where she stayed signing autographs well after midnight, long after the other actors had left. She would not hear of disappointing anyone. And her signature never varied. An extremely classy lady.