i totally agree.as much as i dislike this period on the show in general this was a great scene.i love the repartee' between nicholas and cassandra.

there is a scene that follows where cass looks into the fireplace to locate vicki that is really good too.
it's both sad and funny that vicki thought the best place she could possibly "hide" was at her best friend maggie's house.
sad and funny also that cass needed to use magic to locate her there.

this was a great little group of episodes that i believe concluded with a much loved moment between julia and cassandra.

i just realized that all my choices were actresses.

obviously jonathan frid,john karlen,david selby,louis edmonds,thayer david and dennis patrick are tops as well.

early actors like mitch ryan,david ford and joel crothers brought alot to the table too.sad,once barnabas and later quentin take over there is little room left for this type of male character.

nancy:"kathy i'm serious...i could swear once we did this totally bizarre storyline where i played this spoiled teenage girl and you played a waitress!"

kathryn:"oh nancy you're crazy...that's just too outrageous!"

this is a great thread.

i had to give this alot of thought and found myself surprised by some of my picks.keep in mind i haven't seen the whole show so some of the characters these actors played i haven't seen yet.

1.joan bennett as elizabeth,naomi and judith collins.icy and secretive as early liz i liked her when she developed a bit more complexity during the laura collins story.she was amazing during the jason mcquire storyline when she revealed strength and also great sadness and vulnerability(although liz really irritated me during the buried alive storyline).besides barnabas naomi brought the most pathos to the 1795 storyline and again brought a touching sadness to the role.i just started to watch 1897 but i'm greatly enjoying her portrayal of judith.she's feisty and has great chemistry with david selby.

2.grayson hall as dr.julia hoffman and countess natalie dupres.grayson can bring a great hautuer to a character as well as sense of drive and ambition.but there can also be a sense of lonliness,resign and,of course,unrequited love.
as magda the jury is till out.to tell you the truth i find her to be sort of cartoonish and not very subtle.

3.lara parker as angelique and cassandra collins.i really wanted not to like her at first but she totally grew on me.
i loved cassandra but ultimately feel as if her storyline was taken away from her by adam and nicholas.i wanted more of her and less of those two.

4.nancy barrett as carolyn stoddard.great early on as snotty and petulant.she also showed strength and resolve when her family(especially her mother)needed her.i loved her rebelliousness when liz was with jason and also her strange,zombie-like attitude when she was under barnabas' control.she was a great "flawed" but ultimatly decent character.

5.marie wallace as eve and jenny collins.her eve was the only part of the detestable adam plot that i enjoyed.
i'm watching the jenny storyline now and she really takes it to new heights of insanity.completely nuts but there is something there you can care about.she's not a throw-away psycho killer.great performance!

i also really like kathryn leigh scott as early maggie evans.less so once she replaces vicki as collinwood governess.she loses alot of her "maggieness".i loved josette but don't think the character was as fleshed-out as she could have been.rachel drummond isn't that interesting to me.

ironically my favorite character from the show(as if you guys don't know)is alexandra moltke as vicki but she's actually not what i'd consider to be one of the show's best actors.she doesn't have a huge amount of range and can turn in a performance this side of bland.but she projects extreme sweetness,naivety and vulnerability.that combined with extrordinairy beauty was a winning combination for me.

honorable mention also needs to be given to clarice blackburn as mrs.johnson and abigail collins and to diana millay as laura collins.

finding herself trapped in a black and white kinescope episode amy jennings sulks and refuses to recite her lines until dr.hoffman cajoles her with the promise that tomorrow they'll all be in color again.

i don't know how to ask this question without there being lots of spoilers in both the question itself and the answers but here goes.

after dr.lang "cures" barnabas he remains free of the affliction throughout the rest of the 1968/69 present time episodes.however when he briefly returns to 1796 to save victoria he is again a victim of the curse.when he travels back to the year 1897 he is it's victim once more.
i understand that during the 1970PT episodes he is also under the affliction(i haven't seen that storyline yet).

so my question is this.is dr.lang's "cure" permanent in the present but ineffective in other time periods where adam does not exist?or does barnabas ever become a vampire again in the present time?

i just started dvd collection 13(oh you'll hear more later!)

so i am just becoming aquainted with miss sabrina stuart.here she appears to be some sort of psychic invalid in the care of her dear brother nedbradfordjeffpeterclarkstuart.

now a stand-up kind of fellow all around he also appears to be her primary caregiver.so i would assume that he is responsible for this poor girl's grooming as well.so i wonder what made him think that applying an inch thick layer of seafoam green eyeshadow was doing her any favors?

i guess that we're also suppossed to assume that the visual implication of the phylis diller style fright wig is the shock of witnessing the transformation of chris jennings caused her hair to go white.

but i'd like to think that if my sister was in my care i would run a brush through her hair once in awhile.wouldn't you?

and finally why in the year 1969 in this sad girl being pushed around in a 19th century wood and cane wheelchair?was this a visual metphor for the storyline to come?

maggie:"vicki i keep having the strangest dream.in it you've traveled back in time and i've taken your place at collinwood."

vicki:"maggie that's just plain silly...people just don't travel back and forth in time."