Barnabas: "Strangers in the Night"/"Walkin' After Midnight"/"Release Me"/"We Kiss in the Shadows"/"I Love the Nightlife"
Quentin: "Girls! Girls! Girls!"
Elizabeth: "I Am Woman"
Angelique: "And I'm Tellin' You I'm Not Going"/"You'll Never Get Away From Me"
Julia: "I Will Survive"
Cassandra: "Sweet Dreams"
Carolyn: "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
Joe: "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
Willie: "Stayin' Alive"
Adam: "Being Alive"
Eve: "How Lovely to Be a Woman"/"You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman"
Chris: "It's Only a Paper Moon"/"Brand New Day"
Amy: "Thank Heavens for Little Girls"
Amanda Harris: "You Make Me Feel So Young"
Mrs. Johnson: "Respect"
Sheriff Patterson: "Wanted - Dead or Alive"
Bob the Bartender: "The Joint is Jumpin'"
Charity Trask: "Papa Don't Preach"
Pansy Faye: "There's No Business Like Show Business"
Diablos: "No Bad News"
and
Victoria: "U Can't Touch This"

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard: Joan Crawford
Barnabas Collins: Montgomery Clift
Roger Collins: James Mason
Carolyn Stoddard: Carroll Baker
David Collins: Kevin Corcoran
Quentin Collins: James Dean
Victoria Winters: Jean Simmons
Willie Loomis: Sal Mineo
Dr. Julia Hoffman: Ava Gardner
Angelique: Elizabeth Taylor
Prof. Stokes: Peter Ustinov
Maggie Evans: Natalie Wood
Amy Jennings: Haley Mills
Laura Collins: Lana Turner
Burke Devilin: William Holden
Mrs. Johnson: Thelma Ritter
Joe Haskell: Rock Hudson
Buzz Hackett: Marlon Brando
Sam Evans: Spencer Tracy

Barnabas: 1776 ("It was very authentic, except I don't remember all that singing.")
Elizabeth: Mommie Dearest
Roger: The Stingiest Man in Town
Carolyn: Where the Boys Are
Quentin: Girls Gone Wild
Laura: Some Like it Hot
Angelique: Fatal Attraction
Vicki/Maggie: Adventures in Babysitting
David: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Megan: The Bad Seed
Mrs. Johnson: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Julia: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Adam: Kings Row (contains his favorite line: "Where's the rest of me?")
Chris: Into the Wild
Aristede: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Prof. Stokes: Ghostbusters
Nicholas: Heaven Can Wait
Jeff: Shampoo
Cassandra: Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Joe: On the Waterfront

Barnabas: I've Got a Secret
Elizabeth: Prison Break
Roger: Keeping Up with Kardashians
Carolyn: Gossip Girl
Vicki: What's Happening!!/Supernanny/Nanny 911
David: Dennis the Menace
Quentin: The Girls Next Door/Swingtown/The West Wing
Maggie (in her waitressing days): Alice
Vicki/Maggie: Rescue Me
Willie: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Sam: Win, Lose or Draw
Joe: Sponge Bob SquarePants
Laura: You Are There
Sheriff Patterson: Unsolved Mysteries
Sabrina: The Dog Whisperer
The Todds: Antiques Roadshow
Dr. Lang: Dr. 90210
Adam: Extreme Makeover
Eve: Nip/Tuck
Nicholas (his "guilty pleasure"): Seventh Heaven
Julia: My Life on the D-List
Mrs. Johnson: Hazel/Top Chef

If DARK SHADOWS had remained on the air, no doubt the DS cast would have been given more opportunities to play different characters - I'm sure the writers would have devised additional storylines set in the past, on parallel worlds & maybe even in the future.

What kind of characters would you all like to have seen the members of the DS repertory company play? I, for one, would have loved to have seen Joan Bennett play a more mature version of the femme fatales she used to appear as in some of Fritz Lang's films from the 1940's. I think Ms. Bennett would have made a marvelous witch on the series - I can just picture her casting spells.

Louis Edmonds & Grayson Hall as a married couple. They would be like something out of a Noel Coward play! Maybe they could be Nick & Nora Charles types investigating supernatural matters.

If Dr. Julia Hoffman had made a trip through time on her own, I would loved to have seen her encounter Jonathan Frid in the role of a private detective (a la Sherlock Holmes) investigating a crime. Thayer David, of course would have to play a character similar to Watson. I can just picture Julia falling in love with this brilliant gentleman who resembles her beloved Barnabas & then being cruelly snatched away from him to return  her to the present.

It would have been a pleasure to see David Selby play any kind of role after all those variations of Quentin Collins he did on the series. Maybe a cynical reporter who has gotten wind of all sorts of strange & bizarre incidents happening in the village of Collinsport, Maine?

I always thought Chris Pennock would have made a helluva vampire or werewolf - and made 'em very savage & bloodthirsty!

  Have any of you wondered what happen to the characters in the 1970 parallel time universe after Barnabas & Julia teleported back to "our" world? Over the years I've written numerous  stories (only in my mind!) on the fates of those characters.

Obviously Collinwood would have been uninhabitable after the fire & the family would have probably moved into the Loomis House (PT's Old House) while Collinwood was being renovated. Perhaps Quentin would have decided to completely modernize the interior of Collinwood - it would be his way of a fresh new start for the family. Can you imagine Collinwood with some of that modular furniture that was so popular in the 1970's? And modern art displayed around the mansion?

I would imagine Quentin & Maggie would have taken in poor, heartbroken Roxanne who would be pining for her beloved Barnabas. She would continuously visit the parallel time room in hopes of catching a glimpse of Barnabas. Perhaps, to her horror, she would have witnessed some of the destruction of Collinwood in the late summer of 1970 when Gerard's zombies were destroying the house. I would loved to have learned more about Roxanne especially her connection to the mysterious  Claude North.

Feeling sorry for her, Quentin invites Hannah Stokes to come & live with the family. And, in true soap opera tradition, Timothy Stokes survived the fire he set at Collinwood. Stokes would go into hiding, biding his time & plotting his revenge. Perhaps his face could have been disfigured by the fire & he would be forced to wear some sort of mask. Why this would give the DS writers a chance to do their version of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!

Chris Collins could fall in love with Roxanne Drew...Buffy Harrington could return to work at Collinwood...while living at the Loomis House, Daniel & Amy could stumble upon some supernatural mystery...wasn't Trask the butler still alive at the end of PT-1970? Maybe he would try to worm his way back into Collinwood...Sam Evans, a wealthy artist in this timeband, could visit his daughter & her new family...and, of course, we would have to meet to meet the PT versions of such characters as Joe Haskell, Burke Devlin, Dr. Eric Lang, Mrs. Johnson, Phillip & Megan Todd, Hallie Stokes, Nicholas Blair, and Victoria Winters (maybe she could be the illegitimate daughter of Quentin's father - the result of an affair he had with Julia Hoffman!)

And then one night a gentleman arrives at Collinwood claiming to be the real Barnabas Collins, quite unhappy at someone who recently visited the estate claiming to also be Barnabas Collins! Then the angry spirit of Angelique Stokes Collins - furious at this lookalike of her old enemy - curses him to become a vampire!

    I wish Dan Curtis could have directed the film version of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (one of my favorite "guilty pleasure" movies). He could have cast the film with DS actors. Grayson Hall would have been cast as the bitchy Helen Lawson - "Broadway doesn't go for booze & dope!". And she would get to sing that hysterical "I'll Plant My Own Tree"! It seems like Susan Hayward (who played Helen Lawson) was puffing away all throughout the movie, so Grayson could smoke in the movie just like she did on DS.  Alexandra Moltke ,cast as the "good girl", Ann Welles - naturally. Barbara Parkins, who played Ann in the film , would have made a wonderful Victoria Winters by the way. I think Lara Parker would have had the sex appeal then to be Jennifer North, the role played by sweet, ill-fated Sharon Tate. And Nancy Barrett as Patty Duke's character - the great Neely O'Hara. Nancy would have just been dynamite in all the crying, screaming scenes plus it would have been a hoot to hear her say: "Boobies, boobies, boobies!".

Also, David Selby as Lyon Burke, Joel Crothers as Mel Anderson, Donald Briscoe as Tony Polar...any suggestions on who should play Neeley's bisexual husband, Ted Casablanca?