I know I saw it during the summer of '71 because I was grateful for an air-conditioned theater.  It ran as a double-bill with HoDS.  

And MB recaptured the "nostalgia" of what it was like back then seeing movies.  There were no mega-plexes back then, at least not in small (or probably even most medium-sized) communities, so it could take weeks for a movie to finally arrive, especially in a small town like mine.  When it did, it played for a week (here, starting on Wednesday with nightly shows, along with matinees on Saturday and Sunday, and ending on Tuesday).  That was it.  We had only two movie theaters, each with one screen, while I was growing up (a third opened in the mid-seventies; actually re-opened after being closed and empty for more than a decade).  You only got a chance to see four movies (remember, back then, a double-bill, starting with a "B" flic first, followed by the "A" one, along with a documentary, a cartoon and previews).  Oh, wait, I forgot to say:  we also had a drive-in that also showed double-bills, but it was open only seasonally.  By the mid-seventies, double-bills had vanished, as did the documentaries and cartoons.  If a movie was really popular, it would stay an extra week - "held over by popular demand," as it would say.  The first movie in my small town that was "held over by popular demand" was The Poseidon Adventure.  It stayed for three weeks.  The theater that showed it tried to use its own "special effect."  When the credits started, it closed the curtains over the screen and projected the images of the Poseidon rolling in the storm while fans blew the curtains around, trying to give a "wavy" effect.  As the credits ended, the curtains opened.

Gerard

I'll keep them in my thoughts and best wishes.  Chris is a wonderful guy.  I got to meet him at the 2003 convention (there's a pic of it posted way back on here).  His entire family must be just as wonderful.

Gerard

That's a good idea, David-Elijah!

I've sent the file to everyone here who requested it.  If you have not received it, let me know and I'll try again.  (Make sure to check your spam folder.)

Gerard

On one of the Star Trek series' (I think it was Voyager), they said that television as an entertainment/information resource had vanished as a medium around 2050.  They just might've predicted that right. 

Conversation line expressed by someone around 2045 (my prediction):  "You still have television?  Get with the times!  I'll bet you still even have a cellphone."

Gerard

I mentioned here before that, for fun several years ago, I came up with stories and plot lines about DS if it had not been cancelled.  Unfortunately, because of my computer glitches, I had lost it.  However, over the past several weeks, I rebuilt it, again, just for fun.

I started with the fact that when Barnabas, Julia and Eliot return to the present time (1971), they would find a totally different Collinwood with different people occupying it (rather than picking up with Elizabeth coming in to look for Roger's papers - that comes later) because they had so radically changed history by their presence in 1840/41.  From there I carried on. 

My synopsis has taken liberties (doesn't DS do that?), and it is a basic, precis format, with details missing and no concern for grammar and such stuff.  It was just to get the stories down; so no one should expect Shakespeare.  I extended DS for another six years.  It runs for almost 50 pages.  If you'd like a copy, let me know and I'll e-mail it to you.

Gerard

They only need the first story of the house as the rest is CGI.

Even on Gone With the Wind, many sets were finished ala 1939-style "CGI."  A documentary showed how they filmed the BBQ at the neighboring Seven Oaks plantation.  The scene where the guests arrive in droves and head up onto to the porch and through the front door consisted of only that - a partial porch and a front door.  Above and around it was nothing but supporting boards and empty air.  However, on the screen viewers saw a magnificent mansion of several stories, added through the special effects wizardry of hand-painted mattes and it all worked flawlessly.

Gerard

I'm sure at least a few people attended poor Matthew's repast, and it was very typical.  In the funeral parlor room, most of the women sat on the sofas and chairs in the back, quietly talking amongst themselves, their purses on the floor between their feet, while most of the men folk milled about outside smoking.  Following the services, they all adjourned to the KofC hall for the post-funerial luncheon, the table festooned with baking pans filled with cakes and bars, a strip of masking tape on the end of each pan with the donating family's name on it so it can return to its rightful owner.  Mrs. Johnson made her popular chocolate-chip-and-peanut-butter bars.  Afterwords, Liz (who was discretely there, in black, a veil over her face), invited all the men folk to go Matthew's cottage and rifle through his clothing so they can take what they want before the rest would be hauled off to GoodWill or St. Vincent de Paul's.  

Vicki, for obvious reasons, didn't attend the sad occasion.  However, she did ask either Liz or Carolyn to pick up a prayer card for her (and hoped that some of Mrs. Johnson's bars, along with a few other selections from the other pastries, would come back in the pan appropriately labeled "Smith" [you know how people talk]).

Gerard

Barnabas:  "And though there is no power or plumbing, I'm willing to throw in the drapes and rugs if you're willing to do a one year lease..."

Gerard