When HarperCollins launched the new DS book series, I wrote a first draft of a novel that I pondered submitting to them.  It was set in 2000, a where-are-they-now story, and in my pondering, I stated that the Old House had been designed by a student of Christopher Wren, trying to make its design look like something he would conjure up.  If one would extend his/her imagination, by the appearance of the Old House (and considering the era of the 17th century), it could work with some credible historocity.

Gerard

Even to this day, I'm amazed at the detail they used for the sets on the original.  The rooms appeared real and lived-in.  Even Buffy's apartment in PT1970 looked like a place in which she resided, with stuff scattered around and - for what I think was the only time we saw one - a television set!  When one considers that these sets quite often had to be assembled and then disassembled day-by-day, it was quite an accomplishment for the set director and crew.  Even if the writers could not remember important factors in preceding storylines to allow for continuity, those crewmen recalled exactly where that copy of Redbook or whatever was on the coffee table five days before, even if between shootings the set had been completely taken down and stored away.

Gerard

In a way, I think Miss Milicevic looks like Lara Parker.  Her eyes are just as piercing.  I consider her a very good choice to play our favorite witch.

Gerard

Dear Rev. David,

Could you possibly marry me and TLATKLS?  But only if I can have her as my bride "in a bizarre act of unnatural love."  (Basically, that means having a DJ spin disco at the reception.)  If she can't make it, then I'll settle for Miss Louann from Romper Room, or Annette Funicello.  There are some things you just never grow out of.

Gerard

You're just a kid, Patti!  I've got you beat by......well, never mind how many years.

Gerard

It happened during the haunting of Collinwood by Quentin's ghost, Vlad, kinda towards the beginning of that storyline.  From what I remember, Barnabas finds Vicki's tombstone, showing she was executed in 1796, so he had to go back to save her once again.  It only lasted for a few days.  Another actress, not Betsy Dirkin, played Vicki.

Gerard

In PT1970, Carolyn Loomis mourning the death of her husband, Will.  They were my favorite characters in that storyline with the tension between them, and I wish we had seen more of them (but some gull-darn movie-makin' got in the way).  They viewed themselves - and each other - as once great successes who turned into failures, blaming and chiding each other.  And yet one could see that they needed each other and - despite the aggression between them - that they truly loved each other because they saw no one else in their lives who cared for them.  They were both lost souls, but at least they were lost together and thus not alone.  So when Will died, Carolyn had nothing left.  During the scene in which Barnabas tries to console her - and the only consolation she can find is out of a bottle - it's hearbreaking.  Just the way she said with defeated abandoned:  "Will is dead," demonstrated how she felt her life was now futile and of no more worth or value.

Gerard