Gerard, I love your story ideas! However, I did chuckle when you said Barnabas, looking into the PT room, sees only the empty land Collinwood once stood on. I then picture Barnabas stepping into the East Wing room in our universe & when he is teleported to PT, he lands smackdab into a field of poppies a la THE WIZARD OF OZ!

  Have any of you wondered what happen to the characters in the 1970 parallel time universe after Barnabas & Julia teleported back to "our" world? Over the years I've written numerous  stories (only in my mind!) on the fates of those characters.

Obviously Collinwood would have been uninhabitable after the fire & the family would have probably moved into the Loomis House (PT's Old House) while Collinwood was being renovated. Perhaps Quentin would have decided to completely modernize the interior of Collinwood - it would be his way of a fresh new start for the family. Can you imagine Collinwood with some of that modular furniture that was so popular in the 1970's? And modern art displayed around the mansion?

I would imagine Quentin & Maggie would have taken in poor, heartbroken Roxanne who would be pining for her beloved Barnabas. She would continuously visit the parallel time room in hopes of catching a glimpse of Barnabas. Perhaps, to her horror, she would have witnessed some of the destruction of Collinwood in the late summer of 1970 when Gerard's zombies were destroying the house. I would loved to have learned more about Roxanne especially her connection to the mysterious  Claude North.

Feeling sorry for her, Quentin invites Hannah Stokes to come & live with the family. And, in true soap opera tradition, Timothy Stokes survived the fire he set at Collinwood. Stokes would go into hiding, biding his time & plotting his revenge. Perhaps his face could have been disfigured by the fire & he would be forced to wear some sort of mask. Why this would give the DS writers a chance to do their version of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!

Chris Collins could fall in love with Roxanne Drew...Buffy Harrington could return to work at Collinwood...while living at the Loomis House, Daniel & Amy could stumble upon some supernatural mystery...wasn't Trask the butler still alive at the end of PT-1970? Maybe he would try to worm his way back into Collinwood...Sam Evans, a wealthy artist in this timeband, could visit his daughter & her new family...and, of course, we would have to meet to meet the PT versions of such characters as Joe Haskell, Burke Devlin, Dr. Eric Lang, Mrs. Johnson, Phillip & Megan Todd, Hallie Stokes, Nicholas Blair, and Victoria Winters (maybe she could be the illegitimate daughter of Quentin's father - the result of an affair he had with Julia Hoffman!)

And then one night a gentleman arrives at Collinwood claiming to be the real Barnabas Collins, quite unhappy at someone who recently visited the estate claiming to also be Barnabas Collins! Then the angry spirit of Angelique Stokes Collins - furious at this lookalike of her old enemy - curses him to become a vampire!

 SPOILER!!!   My favorite episode took place during the 1897 storyline. I'm afraid I don't know the episode number, but it was an early 1897 episode. It took place shortly after old Edith Collins' death. Her grandchildren - Judith, Edward, Quentin and Carl -had just learned the contents of their grandmother's will. Naturally each of the boys expected to be the one & only heir & were quite outraged to find out Judith was left in charge. The episode really got cracking when the four siblings began fighting amongst themselves - it was beautifully performed, directed & written. That episode has always reminded me of Lillian Hellman's juicy play, THE LITTLE FOXES, which is also about a sister & her brothers quarreling over a family fortune.

Another personal fave - the first episode in the 1995 storyline. I'll never forget the exxpressions on Barnabas & Julia's faces when they discovered Collinwood in ruins!

I had three serious DS crushes: Donald Briscoe...Joel Crothers...Tom Happer...

    

A very, very long time ago, a DS fan (and I apologize to this person for not remembering who he is!) told me that he was writing fan fiction that portrayed Julia Hoffman & Dave Woodard as INMATES at Wyndcliffe! Along with the other patients, they killed the staff & took control of the asylum, eventually becoming the doctors & nurses, etc. themselves. I'm not sure how he was going to explain Woodard's later behavior, but I always thought that was an intriguing theory!