As much of a Dark Shadows fan as I am - and I watch at least one episode every day - I've never actually seen the entire run of the show all the way thru once.  I saw the show occasionally during the original run when I was a kid, but only remember seeing Leviathan, PT1970 and 1840's episodes.

Rediscovered the show during one of SciFi's airings about mid 1999 - they were on the Chris Jennings/Haunting of Quentin eps, and I watched it to the end.  Was SO thrilled when they started over from episode one - I'd never seen the pre-Barnabas stuff before.  Can't tell you how disappointed I was when the bastards ended the run just before the actual end of the series.

Am pretty much sure I'll eventually own the whole thing on DVD.  It may take me the rest of my life...

Does Miss Winthrop know when it was that Robert Gerringer was being considered for the Jeremiah role?  Maybe it was before it was established that Burke bore a resemblance to Barnabas's uncle.  :-

In a word: Fan-f**king-tastic!!!

I replied to the survey, but count me among those who are deeply skeptical that any new version of Dark Shadows will ever see light of day.

Guess I really feel like we DS fans got burnt by the whole fiasco with the WB.  And look what happened.  Both the dramas that the net picked up instead of DS - "The Mountain" and "Jack and Bobby" were unceremoniously dumped.  Things that make you go hmmm.

I can't see something like it getting on pay cable, for some reason. Something about it doesn't add up.  But given Dan Curtis's continued visibility, and the supposed interest of John Wells, it is tempting to think that maybe at least there is a sitdown with network suits in the offing.

Until then, I'll have to content myself with my precious dvds.  No matter what new version of the show happens (or doesn't happen), the original series will always reign supreme at my house.

Cool MB - that was an interesting read!

You'd just figure that a house that looks like the Carey Mansion would have to be haunted, and from what the article was saying, apparently it is.  Wakehurst is very haunted looking too, and would make a wonderful 'new' Collinwood, if they ever decided to do DS again.

Really want to visit Newport one of these days.  BTW, for those cousins who have made the pilgrimage, is there an odd disconnect visiting the Carey Mansion, given that the interiors don't mesh with what we fans have come to think of as Collinwood?

Can't say that I ever totally hated an episode of DS, but I come the closest with some of the  PT1841 storyline, towards the end of the series.  I just never found myself emotionally invested in any of those characters.  Except Morgan Collins, whom I really did hate.

I liked 1897 Quentin with Beth.  But the 1840 version of Quentin had good chemistry with Daphne.

Agree with those who thought Magda and Sandor made a good couple.  Those two really seemed to have a shared history with each other; Grayson Hall and Thayer David played wonderfully off each other.

Whenever Nancy Barrett and John Karlen were paired, I though it really worked.  So I like PT William H. Loomis and Carolyn Stoddard Loomis.  You really felt that despite the bitterness and the booze, there was still a lot of love there.  Melanie Collins and Kendrick Young also made a good couple, as did Leticia Faye and Desmond Collins.

Joshua and Naomi were great, really believable as a couple.  So tragic that he doesn't really realize how much he loves her until it's too late.

As for would-be couples, I'm partial to Julia and Barnabas, but am unsure it ever would really have happened, had the show continued.  And if it had, would it have worked?

Barnabas was kind of strange with everyone they paired him with romantically.  Josette sort of worked, with Angelique there was a lot of heat, but utter madness too.  He did seem to care for Victoria, but I can't see them really together.  Forget about the Josette clones.  And  Barnabas with Roxanne?  Was just creepy.  Maybe he could have had something with Audrey the Leviathan vampire girl?

Always get a bit of a charge out of Julia with vampire Tom, but of course, that wasn't a relationship with a lot of real potential, was it?

Call me weird, but I thought that Cassandra and Tony Peterson were pretty sexy together, in a twisted sort of way.  Would have been interesting if they'd gone further with that.  Of course, Tony was good with Carolyn too.

FireRose, that's dead on!  I'd forgotten about how darned annoying Abigail was - she reminds me of my dear mother-in-law!