DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '02 I => Topic started by: denise on March 16, 2002, 09:32:41 PM
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What scene hooked you into being a Dark Shadows fan?
For me it was the one where Naomi is looking out the
window and sees Jeremiah staring back at her. I thought this series has possibilites.
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For me it was when Willie released Barnabas from the coffin. There also were many other great scenes after the initial one that held your interest in the Series. I am one of the individuals that had the privilege of seeing the show during its original run.
SPOILER.......
Another mesmerising one is when Angelique places the Vampire curse on Barnabas.
As I mentioned before on another post, upon one meeting the actors/actresses at the Festival, it seems to solidify the interest.
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What scene hooked you into being a Dark Shadows fan?
LOL, when I first saw the topic title, I immediately thought of the Collinsport "dock ladies." :D :D
I was part of the "original run" audience, but my viewing was hit and miss until the 1897 storyline. However, when that began, I ran home every day to watch it.
When the series re-aired on SciFi in the late 90's, I began watching from the early Barnabas episodes. I enjoyed those and subsequent storylines, but my attention was utterly captivated from the moment Nicholas Blair knocked on the door of Collinwood. My attention held for most of the rest of the series, but I most enjoyed the storylines/episodes that featured Humbert.
Cheers,
Linda
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For me it was when Willie released Barnabas from the coffin. There also were many other great scenes after the initial one that held your interest in the Series. I am one of the individuals that had the privilege of seeing the show during its original run.
For me, it was Willie. I saw the show when it was first on, too, and kept watching just to see John Karlen. What a cutie! :D
SPOILER.......
Another mesmerising one is when Angelique places the Vampire curse on Barnabas. As I mentioned before on another post, upon one meeting the actors/actresses at the Festival, it seems to solidify the interest.
One of these days I will get to a DS Fest. Everyone seems to have a great time meeting the stars and those they've became acquainted with on the message boards
I just discovered that I can now do color! :) Hurray! :D
Carol
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What scene hooked you into being a Dark Shadows fan?
For me it was the one where Naomi is looking out the
window and sees Jeremiah staring back at her. I thought this series has possibilites.
Roger Collins talking about Indian pudding (I'm serious)
Luciaphil
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I watched the very first episode in 1966, and I was captivated by the pretty, and yes, gutsy, Vicki and her hopes of finding out who her parents were. I thought Roger droll and evil, Liz regal and lonely, Carolyn silly and fun, Joe stalwart and sweet, and David homicidal and bright. There was something about every main character that struck a chord with me.
Of course, when Barnabas was released from his coffin, I was completely, irreovocably hooked. The man did something to me that I can't explain completely, even to this day, but I couldn't wait to come home and see him every day, and an episode that didn't feature him, I was usually disappointed.
Love, Robin
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I started to watch everyday after this story. I don't know, do you use spoilers? ???
The episode that hooked me for good was when Barnabas held the gun on Adam. After that I thought it was very exciting.
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I don't know, do you use spoilers??!?
Eleanor_Rigby, thanks for reregistering, and I'm glad you got your registration squared away so quickly. And again, welcome! To answer your question about spoilers, there's no rule against them but it's much appreciated by our readers that are watching the series for the first time or have forgotten plots that writers indicate that spoilage is coming up (as you did in your message). There's also a spoiler icon in the "Message icon" menu that's there for you to use, if you wish, when you're posting. I like to do both to make sure the newbies see it.
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Thank you for the welcome and the help, Midnite.I found the spoiler warning icon, thanks. I will be sure to use it. I like the different things you can do with the messages. ;D
I'm looking at the preview and I see the html language showing up. How do you make it go away so that you have bold, italics, the change of color? ?!?
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Denise, when I first saw this topic, I thought that it was a reference to Roger Davis's picture in today's montage. (However did you come up with that idea, MB?)
It's hard for me to pick one scene. The whole supernatural concept of the show drew me to it, though I was initially unimpressed by the first episodes that I saw. My interest really began to perk up when the show took a turn to 1795. However, the scene that really made me appreciate just what a unique show DS is happens in 1897...
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...when Laura the phoenix tries to stake Barnabas and Angelique holds her back. The ladies then begin a verbal catfight. I watched this and thought to myself, 'Where else can you see a phoenix and a witch dueling over a vampire's coffin?' Only on Dark Shadows...
ProfStokes
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However, the scene that really made me appreciate just what a unique show DS is happens in 1897...
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...when Laura the phoenix tries to stake Barnabas and Angelique holds her back. The ladies then begin a verbal catfight. I watched this and thought to myself, 'Where else can you see a phoenix and a witch dueling over a vampire's coffin?' Only on Dark Shadows...
ProfStokes
I agree, this was another great scene. At last year's Festival, I ask Ms. Millay why her character and Ms. Parker's did not have more confrontational scenes together in the show. As I recall, she didn't have an answer.
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VAM wrote: "For me it was when Willie released Barnabas from the coffin."
So it was for me....but probably for different reasons. I hated the original character of Willie (not to be confused with the original actor who played Willie).
I actually remember commenting to my best friend, with whom I watched every afternoon, "Why doesn't someone please toss that jerk Willie Loomis off Widow's Hill?"
But after Barnabas turned him into a sick, terrified, lost soul, I actually felt guilty, as though I had wished this weird plot device on the poor actor who played him.
After that I was hooked on John Karlen. I guess he's truly my "guilty" pleasure LOL
Raineypark
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For me it was when I found out it was a show with a vampire around 1966 can't remember the 1st show I watched. it was before 1795 Well it was over 30 years ago and I'm starting to need Ginko!
jennifer
I too thought it was about those dock girls Linda when i show the title!
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I first started watching the show in 1969. I first noticed Quentin Collins and the intense look in his eyes. This was during the werewolf segment of the show, and he was standing in the center of a pentagram drawn on the floor, trying not to change. All of this seemed very intriguing
But later when Angelique appeared, a beautiful blond witch, I was really hooked for life.
Mark 8)
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This may seem unusual but it was the episode right before David flew the coop to go to that "little house by the sea" and get toasted by Laura Collins. I kept asking myself why the heck this girl (Vicki) was asking this kid (David) about his mother and lots of fire. Not to mention it was a kinescope episode on at 11:30 pm on the sci-fi channel. At the time I had no idea what I was watching so you can imagine how bewildereed I was. Great stuff.
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For me it was the moment that Willie opened the
coffin looking for jewels and round up with a
hand on his throat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Talk about having
a bad day.
I do have to add that right now I am really missing
Willie and little David too. David could have really
gotten into it if he thought there was a witch around. ;)
Annabelle
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I discovered DS through the primetime revival in 1991....was hooked. Caught it again in 1995 in re-runs on SFC and got hooked again. That fall caught the original series on SFC and got hooked on THAT too. :-)
I loved vampire/supernatural/dark fantasy/historial stories in general and love time-travel stories, so the combination of these elements hooked me on all versions of DS.
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Saw the title of this one and thought of famous DS recreational reptiles as well.
Seriously, (if thats possible), the scene that lit the fire for me was the seance which transported Vicki back to 1795. I remember very clearly watching this episode for the first time on Baltimore's Ch 45 11:30 - 12:30, (4 eps a week two on Saturday & Sunday) around November 1983.
As I barely remember the original run, (bits and pieces of P.T. bro and sis used to run home from the bus stop to watch) 1795 was what started it for me.
B
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I started watching with my Mom so I think it was the vampire thing that got me hooked. I thought Caroline was so pretty with her sleek 60's blonde hair and I thought David was cute. As an adult I have to be honest and say I turned the tv on and saw David Selby and thought hmmm :-*
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For me the initial hook wasn't a particular episode or scene, it was simply watching the opening with the waves crashing against the rocks fading to the house on the hill and Victoria Winter's subsequent voice over. Coupled with the music of that sequence, I found I was tranfixed to the screen. Later, other aspects of the show would lure me in to watching it on a regular basis, but it was that air of distress in Victoria's voice-overs that first caught my interest.
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I watched this the first time around, and I was an avid reader of gothic novels at that time, I really fell for this show.
It was just after this time period they are in now that I began watching it. This is the first time I have seen this part.
Cocoa
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Eleanor_Rigby, I answered your questions on the Testing. 1, 2, 3... board as a topic called "YaBB codes to bold, italicize, and add color". You can access that posting board via the forum home page.
A belated welcome to cocoa! :D
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The first episode I saw was the arrival of Jason McGuire at Collinwood. Right away, I got the feeling there was something different about this show. Like so many others, once Willie released Barnabas from the coffin, I was hooked for good.
As a first time poster, I'd like to thank Midnight and MB for the great job they do. This new board is fantastic!
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I must admit, when I saw the title of this posting, I was hoping we'd have a lively discussion of the doxies Barnabas accosts on the Collinsport wharf.
Ruby Tate, Maude Brown. . .flirtatious ladies looking for a good time with an eye for the handsome, hungry Barnabas.
At least the fledgling vampire went for the ladies instead of the cattle. ;D
Love, Robin
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What a great question!
Interestingly, with the significant exception of Barnabas, I have never really been a fan of vampire lore. However, I have always loved ghost stories and mysteries of various kinds.
I must have seen only about a year or so of DS when it originally aired and I always looked forward to seeing it with Mom, who would first watch GH with me, too.
More than 30 years passed until I rediscovered DS a couple of year ago, largely thanks to GingerCat's recommendation.
As I recalled very little of DS intricate plots from its initial airing, little less was remembered than Barnabas, Julia, Angelique with her evil laugh and that wonderful, eerie score.
Yes, I would have to say the music, Barnabas, Angelique and Julia, about in that order, were the elements that brought me back - quite unexpectedly - to the ranks of DS fandom. Oh, and I must also mention the delicious Quentin, whom I never even had the pleasure of seeing the first time round! ;D
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The first time around it was the Quentin ghost story. My friends and I would race home to watch. Even though it scared the daylights out of us. I was totally hooked.
It is funny I got rehooked when I started getting sci-fi on our cable. My daughter was home sick from school and I saw DS listed so I thought I would share this crazy show with her. She was about the same age I was when I started watching. It was the 1897 story line. I could not believe I could get so involved once again. And I was having a great time with it.
The last year and a half has been a tough one for our family and escaping to the world of DS has been a nice repeal from the stresses of daily living.
Thanks so much to Midnite and the MB for making this such a fun place.
Birdie
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I was hooked when my personal hero, Robert Rooney, resplendent in his flannel shirt, delivered that memorable line to Nancy Barrett in the Blue Whale, "Miss Stoddard, your mother is on the phone for you."
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For me, it wasn't a particular scene, that hooked me on DS........it was those terrible Dan Ross novels..(hangs head in shame) :-[
But hey, I was 14 and being in the UK, this was the first introduction I'd had to DS. I didn't know any better! lol ;)
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Barster
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A number of things got me hooked during my first DS go-around in 1969. One was the alliances between Barnabas, Julia, Prof. Stokes, and Willie. It wasn't until a very brief syndicated run eight years later that I discovered that it was Willie who released Barnabas and how Barn kept such a tight reign over his servant. It wasn't until the 1999 Sci-Fi run that I discovered how adversarial the initial relationship was between Barn and Julia (and what a shock that was). Moreover, Julia's unrequited love for Barnabas had totally gone over my 12-year-old head!
Another hook was the Quentin storyline -- the first full storyline I remember -- and finding it fascinating that a kid close to my age (David) could get entwined in this spooky fantasy involving a magic telephone and ghosts.
Equally riveting was the haunting DS score. I got the first DS soundtrack LP (with the Barn and Quentin poster inside) for Christmas in 1969. The music has never left me. Sometimes, even at work, when bombshell news is announced, one of the musical cues starts playing in my head!
Ben
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Ben i had that Lp too I think it is still up in my mother's attic! my daughter found some of my old lps the other days and wanted to know "what these relics from the past were? where they before tv? As the great Paul Lynde said "what's the matter with kids today? have to hide those old 8 tracks(?)
jennifer
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I have that LP too. Still have all my vinyl. The posters sorry to say are long gone. sob. The album still plays well, I think I mentioned I still have a turntable. My kids are use to my oddities. The ablums are stored in a old crate purchased at my favorite antique store and it sits in front of my cd/stero in the family room ;D I never did get into the eight tracks.
Funny at times I find my self humming Josettes theme lately. Believe it or not I remembered all the words to Quentin's theme.
Birdie--whos kids knows she is nuts
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To the music junkie still having vinyl isnt so strange, (geez, if thats strange than I am in desperate need of help). Allen still has vinyl, 8tracks, (although play them rarely), cassettes and, (hold on to your hat for this one) reel to reel. So dont feel bad about having the gadgets of yesteryear.
Like most of you I still have all the DS vinyl, but would love to get a prerecorded version of DS music vol I on Phillips. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?????
B
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I have that LP too. Still have all my vinyl. The posters sorry to say are long gone. sob. The album still plays well, I think I mentioned I still have a turntable. The ablums are stored in a old crate purchased at my favorite antique store and it sits in front of my cd/stero in the family room ;D I never did get into the eight tracks.
I remembered all the words to Quentin's theme.
Much to the wifeys chagrin, I keep EVERYDAMTHING about 36 of those crates of vinyl, cases of 8 tracks [now coming to collectors appreciation!?!?]and cassettes, TVGuides, all my old toys [just found my Eye Guess, Video Village and Uncle Wiggly - no joke ;) - games recently]. Hardly a day - at least when I am conscious - goes by without the turntable spinning something. [but I am systematically burning much over to CD!]
the collection includes the sheet music to Quentin's theme!
My DS hooker story really stems from noticing the girls huddling around in the band room early in the series run talking about the show - I was home, sick again and Mom was watching the show because of J Bennett I think, and realized I would have something to talk to the little girls about, and became a regular at the daily re-hash sessions, about the only guy, so I picked out the one who looked most like TLATKLS........ I used to take a lot of crapola from the 'he-men' type guys for hanging out with the girls [also wore flowered shirts and bellbottoms - but Hey it was hanging out with the chicks!] but then soon the story itself really hooked me, and about the time of the current storyline my aunt [who had a tape recorder!!!!] would tape the show and play it back when I had to miss it for band practice, or bus trips with the foot-duh-ball team [again, the DS crew sat together on the bus - those were great trips, in so many ways!] One thing, I have said before, on viewing as an adult [jester] when I first saw the show as a kid, I totally missed all the lovey-dovey stuff, that drives so much of the plot! [except the long-term effect a certain cast member had on me!]
Hey, I am feeling much better now with those pleasant, inspriational thoughts! 8)
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I'm an AOL user :-[ so I guess I'll have to try and register from work! I love all the pictures people can put in. I only hope I'll know how to do it when I finally get registerd. ???
Anyway, for me the hooker was.....
The great voices and the music. I love the DS music and I could listen to the DS actors talk all day. My favorites are of course David Selby what a voice. And Humbert Allen Astredo. I just loved him as Nicholas Blair. And Trask well him and his speeches are just too much!
The other thing I liked is that the Collins' were always up all night and prowling around the woods. There was always a cliffhanger, I just couldn't wait to see what wild storyling they came up with next.
HobbiesDS
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Confession time. . while Mom says I always responded to Grayson's voice and obviously still do. . .my first tangible memory of being hooked on DS is the following:
1976, CBS late night movie. I'm 9 years old, sitting 4 feet from the big b/w television watching House of Dark Shadows. The scene after Carolyn has been attacked savagelyby Barnabas and she is sprawled against the banister in her white dress with blood oozing down her neck, her dead eyes all glassy. ..that GOT me for sure! I also loved the scene were old Barney barges into the the Lady Doctor's bedroom, she looks **real scared** and he strangles her in a mad fit of frenzy! Creeped out that little 9 year old!
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My first experience was the very first time I saw DS ( on the original run in '66). There was this lady with " the eyes" 8) with a mirror looking for someone's reflection in it. And so it began that I was always looking to see what she was looking at.
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Vam wrote [under the Fest suggestions thread]
>'Good idea including the escort service!<
but I just thought that line belonged under this one! ;D
and it reminds me of a story about a guy who has his wallet in his mouth . . . .
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When I was little I was hooked during the parallel time story line when everyone was trying to figure out if Alexis was really Angelique.
When I got to see the show again later I was hooked from the start. I remember in one of the 1st eps I saw, Willie staring up at that portrait of Barnabas while his eyes lit up and you could hear the heart beating.
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OK Rainey Park. I have taken you up on your challenge to explain how I became hooked. (As if you didn't know! ;))
I don't remember the actual episode...It was the 1960's - a looooooooooooooong time ago. I used to walk home from school every day with my best friend. She had been watching DS for a while, and talked about almost nothing else. I finally went to her house one day, instead of going home, to see what all the fuss was about. Well, there was not, and never had been, anything like it on TV. Not even close.
Oh sure, the acting was horrible (who knows how many rewrites they were handed just before airtime), the technical stuff worse (crashing & banging in the background , the boom in the picture, stagehands walking onto the set during a scene), costumes (don't get me started! ;D) & props from Orbach's (I used to love that store!), & sometimes the writing was just to fill up time or just plain bad ("This place gives me the Willies" -is that a spoiler??), but we RAN home everyday, for the next I don't know how many years, just to see it.
It was wonderful.
I should have taken "Verbose" as my screen name, shouldn't I? ;D
abbeymarch