This is me thinking that if they a DS Next Gen series was done, a storyline I would love to see is someone finding Quentin's portrait (an enemy/villain, perhaps) and destroying or damaging it, necessitating a rapidly aging Quentin to return to Collinsport.  Of course the damage would be halted, the villain stopped, but not soon enough to reverse the partial ravages of age.  David Selby (should he be interested) could remain on the show or a as a recurring guest star....

Grayson Hall post 1795, when she stopped wearing that frumpy wig. 

Grayson Hall when she was under the thrall of Tom Jennings.

Joan Bennett anytime, but especially the first couple of episodes in that black gown dripping with diamonds  (I am reminded of an image someone here placed in my mind sometime ago of Liz, in that outfit grilling hot dogs.  "Spearing a recalcitrant frank" I think was the phrase! LOL)

Maggie was quite hot when she quarreled with Joe (when he was under Angelique's power),  and when he asked her where she wanted to go for dinner, she shot back "Somewhere they serve baby food!"

Vampire Ang was hot.

Kate Jackson I will always have a soft spot for.  She was always my favorite Angel.

Ben Cross was, no offense meant, too short to play Barnabas. 

Possibly, but it might have been more historically accurate.  People on the whole were shorter in the 18th century than now. 

One of my favorite book series are the Saint Germain chronicles by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and one of the things I love about her series is that her 4000 year old vampire Le Comte de Saint Germain, is described as a tall man in the book set in Nero's Rome, but in moderns times is actually quite short.

Are there any pictures or still of said Jacket?

I like your ideas, Zahir, but I have to come down on the side of Cousins Magnus and Goober (wow, there's a sentence you don't read every day ).  I'd much prefer a "Next Generation" take on a new series, either daytime or prime time.

I've jotted notes for such a beast myself, beginning right after the funeral of Elizabeth, who find found some personal happiness and lived to a ripe old and peaceful age.  I think I may have used Sam Hall's TV Guide "epilogue" to the series as a starting point and then flashed forward to the modern time.  It's been a while since I dug up those notes...

ISTR Barnabas recognizing Phyllis when time was unfrozen in the present, after the swap back and Vickie returns, does Barnabas still remember Phyllis? or Vickie?  Is it ever made clear?  Cassandralique remembers Vickie, does she not?

Likewise, I thought it had been established/remembered by Barnabas thas Phyllis was tried for witchcraft.  Am I mistaken?

Please, what is this "lost 1968 script"?

I was having a slow day at work and started doodling a layout of the Old House to see if I could get it to conform (roughly) to the exteriors.  and I suddenly realized that the place would have had to have had to be enourmous.  In 1795 for example we have:

The Residents
Joshua/Naomi
Jeremiah
Abigail
Barnabas
Sarah

The New Yorkers
Millicent
Daniel

The Guests
Andre
Nathalie
Josette

The Staff
Angelique
Vicki

That's twelve bedrooms.  And of course that doesn't even begin to include the number of servants they must have employed or had endentured (wasn't Ben endentured?) to keep up a household of that many.  Obviously, apart from Angelique (as Josette's maid) and Vicki as governess, all the other staff must have been housed in quarters separate from the main building.

Is anyone familiar with the standard layout of homes at that time?  Would the kitchens have been part of the main house or a separate outbuilding adjacent?  Would servants quarters be a part of that building?  I suppose there would have been room to take the monthly bath , but there wouldn't be any toilet facilities at the time, which would have consisted of chamberpot and the necessary house in the garden?

Working on plans for my country home that will look quite similar to the Old House,
Nelson