Joe - Ok, tell me again, just what is a snipe and why are we hunting it?

Doctors write refills for prescriptions, but they can't write a refill for a Pez dispenser. 

No, but you can refill your Pez dispenser with the prescribed sedatives! 

Don't forget DS' 4th incarnation, the 1980s off-Broadway stage show!

I completely forgot!  An actor friend of mine (and DS enthusiast) from a small town in east Tennessee, staged a ballet at his school based on the 1795 story!  Alas, I only know of it.  I did not see it.   

"After learning from Carolyn that Vickie had 'been' with other boys before him, Frank couldn't get out of Collinwood fast enough."

"I ate his liver with some fava beans, and a nice chianti....*sllllluuuurrrp*"

... Ethel Merman.

I got that message too.

 

Dark Shadows had a daytime series, a primetime series -- plus a second primetime pilot, two feature films, several sound-track releases, two comic book series, a newspaper comic series, three different series of novels, and numerous collector's items.

I would speculate that Dark Shadows comes-in second, only to Star Trek, in terms of the various incarnations.

Well, as a card carrying Doctor Who geek, I would be remiss if I did remind folks that Doctor Who has had two ongoing series (63-89 and 2005-present with the 3rd season of the new series about to start, two feature films, a TV Movie, literally hundreds of novelizations and original novels, script books, Comic strip features starring the Doctor and also starring and the Daleks, an ongoing series of audio adventures. no less than 3 spinoffs (K9 and Company, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures, with a spinoff featuring K9 in the works), so I must humbly suggest that Dark Shadows comes in third - after Star Trek and Doctor Who.