Bob, she was referring to Roger Davis, who met his wife, Donna, at a DS Festival.  She accompanied him to a later Fest in 2002 and he introduced her around outside the ballroom.

Thank for the information, Midnite.

I understand that Mr. Davis is a graduate of Columbia University.  (No doubt, he had outstanding high school grades and he also must have absolutely aced the SAT's!!!)

In fact, I believe that several of the DS actors attended and/or graduated from Ivy League schools, including: Thayer David and Joel Crothers (Harvard University), Jonathan Frid (An MFA from Yale University), Grayson Hall (Cornell University, I think?) and Terry Crawford also attended one of the Ivy League schools.

In addition, I believe that the late, great Louis Edmonds graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, another outstanding university.

Bob

Hey, gang,

Over the four plus years of  Dark Shadows, there were a few items that seemed to eventually just fade from our view:

1. Maggie Evans' blond hair just "transformed" to KLS' natural brunette color one day in the Collinsport Inn Coffee Shop.

2. Barnabas' stylish hat, which he had on when Mrs. Johnson answered the door in April of 1967, was gone within a day or two (at the most). 

3. Nicholas Blair's seemingly trademark gray, three-piece-suit was gone by the time he returned to oversee the Leviathon plot for world domination, and replaced by a navy blue, double-breasted suit.  (Maybe this was a good thing, when you consider that the suave warlock's original gray suit must have become "slightly" worn and somewhat "aromatic" by the time that Nicky B. returned in 1970.)

4. And, finally, John Yeager's "somewhat" prominent proboscis just seemed to transform into a normal schnozolla after a couple of days.  I've often wondered if the truly brilliant Dr. Cyrus Longworth was able to perform a rhinoplasty procedure on himself while he was in his alter ego state?     

Can you think of any other facets of DS that seemed to just disappear as the show progressed?

Bob

There was an outside factor that contributed to the downfall of DS. CBS scheduled reruns of Gomer Pyle opposite the show. Gomer is somewhat forgotten today but back then it was highly successful.

The Leviathan story gets a bad rap but it is not without merit. It would be interesting to see where the story would have gone if they hadn't needed to clear most of the core actors for HODS.

Gomer Pyle and Dameon Edwards: Separated at birth?

Hey, gang,

I don't know about you, but "Oceans' Eleven" has always been one of my favorite films.  And, how could you not enjoy a film, which featured the legendary members of THE Rat Pack: Mr. Frank Sinatra "THE Chairman of the Board"), Mr. Dean Martin (a/k/a "The King of Cool"), Mr. Sammy Davis, Mr. Joey Bishop, and the junior member of the Rat Pack, Mr. Peter Lawford, all, sadly, now gone.

These men were all so hip and with it, that the new "Oceans' Eleven" crew, featuring that vacuous, albeit now noticeably aging, pretty boy, George Clooney, among other eminent forgetables, literally pales by comparison.

Anyway, as lifelong fans of Dark Shadows, wouldn't it be absolutely tremendous if we could each have a personal rat pack, or close coterie, if you will, of our own Dark Shadows favorites to both hang out with and chill out with?  

I'd like to have a hopefully eclectic band of DS characters to hob nob with, comprising a cross section of some of the greatest minds and wits to ever reside in Collinsport, including Bathia Mapes, Ezra Braithwaite, the Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker, and the somewhat younger members of my personal DS Rat Pack, the voluptuous and sensual Donna Friedlander and the always uber-cool Buzz Hackett!

Oh, it would be like Collinsport's answer to the famed Algonquin Club, having the extreme privilege of being able to sit down with this truly urbane and sophisticated group at a table in the Blue Whale, and discussing such heady topics as will Sheriff George Patterson really stay on Dr. Irwin Stillman's famed Water Diet this time or are Prof. Stokes and Janet Findlay actually more than just "colleagues" and "friends"? 

Are there any specific DS characters with whom you would like to chill out with and discuss the true meaning of life over a couple of tall, cool ones at the Blue Whale?  

Bob


   

Very sad news, indeed.

My condolences to the Hall family.  Mr. Hall was a true wordsmith and, along with his wife, Grayson Hall, contributed tremendously to Dark Shadows' phenomenal success.

Requiem aeternam, Mr. Hall

Happy Birthday, Josette!

As my dear and close friend, the Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker, is wont to say:

"Age is just a state of mind, I think?"


Bob

The way that Dan Curtis and the DS writers interspersed the time travel periods on the show with the contemporary story lines afforded the actors the opportunity to portray other characters, and remain fresh in their performances.  I believe that KLS once said that she particularly enjoyed portraying other characters in the various time periods, and not just having to portray Maggie Evans all of the time. Besides, it would have become extremely tiresome to see one current day catastrophe immediately after the other on the show for nearly four and a half years.

One criticism I've had about the 1897 story line, however, the longest time travel story line on DS, is how DC and the writers ended the story, seemingly, so abruptly.  I don't believe we ever got to learn what happened to the irrepressible Magda Racosi or to the stuff-shirted Edward or to the shrewish and miserly Judith Collins-Trask for that matter.   After nearly nine months, we never got to see what happened to these remaining 1897 era characters, who were always compelling, charming and, at times, even exasperating. 

As to Maggie's future with the Collins family, DS writer Dale Clark, in his series of superb DS novels, suggested that Maggie became Mrs. Stoddard's personal assistant/aide after David obviously became too old to have a governess anymore.  (I think that Dale also suggested that the unfailingly jittery Hallie Stokes left during 1970 to attend a high school somewhere out of Maine.)


Alas, we'll never know what might have happened at current day Collinwood after April of 1971.

Well, let's face it Barnabas.  Jeremiah is younger, taller and better-looking than you.