What a wonderful memorial to support the Alzheimer's Association in honor of Mrs. Curtis.  My mother died of Alzheimer's so this is a personally touching tribute.  When I attended the 2003 DS Festival in Brooklyn, during the auction, I bid for and won the CD soundtrack of War and Remembrance for fifty dollars.  I did so, not only because of Robert Coberts haunting score, but because the funds raised from my winning bid went to the Alzheimer's Association.

Gerard

I also get a kick out of Carl - I thought he was a marvelous character, totally opposite of his siblings (but then they all were such opposites of each other).  He seemingly enjoyed making his stuffier older brother and sister, Edward and Judith, wince, while entertaining and annoying Quentin simultaneously.  And he wasn't always a jokester; the fellah could easily become upset and morose, such as during the reading of Grandmamamama's will when it was revealed who got what, and when Pansy suddenly was nowhere to be found.

[spoiler]And wasn't one of the reasons why his character was killed off was because John Karlen had the opportunity to go and do something else, so he had to take another temporary leave of the series (as many of the actors and actresses did)?[/spoiler]

Gerard

I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Annie, and are in the best of wonderful health!

Gerard

Well, this is how I resolved what-happened-to-Angelique when I wrote my own Charles-Delaware-Trollish version of a synopsis of the show had it continued.  In a storyline, Barnabas returns to present day parallel time and discovers her there, alone, frightened, confused and hunted.  The survivors from PT1970 have also seen her and think she's their evil, wicked Angelique.  She tells Barnabas that after her 1841 demise, when she is in the netherworld, a more angelic force informs her that because of her sacrifice, she is to be given another chance if she promises never to use her witchcraft again.  Since she is a totally converted, altruistic person, she readily agrees and then finds herself thrust into present day PT.  Meanwhile, things ain't rosey with the PT survivors.  Quentin and Maggie are living in the Loomis House and their marriage is on the rocks.  Each accuses the other of trying to gaslight them, and the appearance of Angelique doesn't help things (until Barnabas convinces them that she is not their Angelique).  And then Nicholas Blair, that wiley, devilish guy, has managed to travel to PT to work his wiles, discovering the experiments of the deceased Timothy Stokes and wants to start them up again.  To complicate things, Roxanne is also still alive, having pined for those years for Barnabas, thinking he's come for her, and when she discovers that Barnabas only has his heart for Angelique, she ain't none too pleased and will do all she can to win him back.  (And Days of Our Lives thinks it can come up with complicated, intertwined plot lines.)  Well, to make a long story short (and when has DS ever made a long story short?), it's discovered that it's Quentin's son, Daniel, who's been up to mischief, gaslighting his father and step-mother because of his rage over what happened to his birth mother, sending him over the edge.  As a matter of fact, it's Amy Jennings (Denise Nickerson, in my synopsis, has returned to DS) who discovers it and the psychotic Daniel almost does her in.  All ends up pretty much resolved.  Quentin and Maggie reconcile and send Daniel to the hoo-hoo house (PT Wyndcliffe), Nicholas is defeated, and Barnabas and Angelique return to their own time for continuing adventures.  The only one left holding the bag is Roxanne, still pining, still trying to discover a way to win over Barnabas and maybe even somehow cross over to his time.  Will she?

I hope that settles what happened to Angelique.  If only the series had continued and they had hired me as a writer.

Gerard

Seeing:

-a stereo console record player and thinking it was so modern;
-Roger's Mustang and thinking it was so modern;
-everyone smoking, and smoking anywhere and everywhere and thinking it was so modern;
-sixties fashion and thinking it was so modern;
-a woman doctor and thinking it was so modern;
-chicks and cats in tight clothing twisting and turning to hot strings on the dance floor and thinking it was so modern.

Gerard

Divorce was never an option among the Collinses.  They simply offed their spouses (or locked them away).  Heck of a lot cheaper than dealing with lawyers.

Gerard

I have another one sorta like this one, think it was pre-1795, Barnabas opens the front double doors and I guess he opened them too much because you can *clearly* the backside of the set and there's even a trash can there! 

Maybe Mrs. Johnson was doing general spring cleaning.  I'm picturing her in one of the many secret passageways, always cluttered with junk, kneeling down, just her caboose visible as her head is buried in boxes, crates and trunks, whipping things out, saying:  "Trash; trash, Goodwill; trash; rummage sale; Goodwill; trash; trash; trash; eh...I'll keep this; trash; trash; Goodwill..."

Gerard

How many times did it play (or replay) on Sci-Fi?  Was it four?  Five?  Well, however many times that was, take that number, add it to the original run, and then tack on another half when I watched it in bits and pieces throughout the eighties when it ran syndicated on local stations, and there you have it for me.  So we're talking maybe 5.5 to 6.5 times.

Gerard