What about the Museum of Television and Radio?  Do they have any polcy about loaning out archival material?

I gonna post this here since, it's somewhat related.  I was just musing this morening on the mysterious Burke Devlin.  I know he was killed off in a plane crash near oh, what what the name of that city in Brazil?   But why?  To weed out some of the cast?  The viewers weren't taking to the Vicki Burke romance and/or Anthony George? To facilitate the progression of the Barnabas/Vicki/Josette plot?

Speaking of Burke (and veering a little off topic),It's almost a pity that Barnabas was just as surpised by Burke's plane going down as the rest of the family.  It would be very like him at that time to "arrange" a fatal accident to get Burke out of the way, even if it did kill a few others at the same time.

Hey, btw, Patti, shouldn't this thread be called "A Dark Shadows kind of Mourning?  

Apologies, couldn't resist.

hmm, thanks for that, Gothick. Fascinating!

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit, I didn't think the writers did a whole lot of research, and just cribbed plots and situations from well known stories.  I am chasened, but glad, that the writers seem much more well-read than I thought.

Well, Alexandra (and her successors) were pretty much the only actresses to not play any other role in any other time period, so maybe we could have been treated to a 120 year old Victoria Winters Clark?

I would love to find out more about this story, MB.  Where did you find your info?  I looked up several of the actors in IMDB and could not find any references to The House or Goodyear Playhouse in any of the credits.

Thanks!
Nelson

I just finished watching ep 345, where Barnabas tells Julia the story of Josette at the top of Widow's Hill.  It's markedly different than what plays out in the 1795 Flashback.  Barnabas tells Julia that his first meeting with Josette was when she came to live at Collinwood as the young new wife of his middle aged Uncle Jeremiah, and how with the passage of years grew discontented with being married to a much older man.  Obviously, this played out very differently in the Flashback.  How many differing versions of Josette's story are there?

I am curious to know just how far ahead were the writers thinking.  From what I have read on this forum, the writers originally envisaged Barnabas as a temporary ratings boost, but kept on due to his popularity.  Still, I find it strange that the times that Barnabas expounded on his time when he was alive, he never mentioned Angelique.   Were there any mentions of the circumstances of his curse?  When did the writer's start thinking about a lengthly flashback and why.

Sorry, I see I am rambling now.  I'll stop. For now.

Nelson, you might find the following discussion topic about Robert Gerringer interesting

Thanks very much!  Very interesing.