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Current Talk '04 I / Re:1966 Season
« on: May 25, 2004, 11:07:28 PM »
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I especially appreciate his performances in comparison to what I felt, were very bad and lazy performances as Josette's father. His eyes were mostly glued to the teleprompt. I read somewhere he had problems remembering his lines and no-where is that more apparent.

Thats probably why they wrote Andre out of 1795 after only one month.

It appeared that David Ford had left DS at that point.  I was surprised to see his return in 1968 a few months later as Sam Evans.  Perhaps it would have been better to recast him again.

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:1966 Season
« on: May 24, 2004, 07:29:08 PM »
I can understand why they had to recast Matthew Morgan as they needed an actor to look menacing.  But does anyone know why they replaced Mark Allen with David Ford?

They actually shot live footage with both actors as Sam Evans.

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:1966 Season
« on: May 21, 2004, 06:46:43 PM »
I like the way they incorporate live footage into the episodes.

It really has a "Maine" feel to it in these episodes.

DS should have held on to some "reality" to it in the post 1795 episodes.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: May 21, 2004, 04:57:51 PM »
Some of the comic book stores in the New York area end up with copies of unaired pilots/bootleg DVD/videos.

Hopefully, I will be able to find the DS pilot sometime.


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Current Talk '04 I / DS & Musical Score
« on: May 11, 2004, 11:13:24 PM »
Was Dark Shadows the first soap opera to not have organ music?

I went to a site called www.wost.com and was surprised that shows like Somerset and Another World still had organ music going to the mid 70's.

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:Other then DC, who created Barnabas?
« on: May 11, 2004, 03:22:02 AM »
They probably wanted to make the Barnabas character as interesting as possible, so they decided to do a backstory on him.  The series was in danger of being cancelled so they had nothing to lose.  They wanted to out on a high note.

Barnabas remaining on the show for the long term apparently didn't happen until a short time prior to 1795 started.  I read some of Jonathan Frid's letters to his mother back in the summer and fall of 1967 (from a fan collection) and one letter stated he was to be off DS by September 1967, a later letter stated he was to leave DS in November 1967 and another later one said that they have decided to do an origin of Barnabas.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: May 04, 2004, 11:33:03 PM »
The Barnabas Undead site says that two other series (Jack and Bobby and The Mountain) may be the two hour long shows WB needs to fill its programming.

It also said that the WB may consider a year long schedule with shows alternating week to week.  I don't think thats a good idea to get a new show getting an audience.

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:Other then DC, who created Barnabas?
« on: April 23, 2004, 02:59:21 PM »
It appears that Costello was crediting Wallace with the backstory of Barnabas.

It seems that Barnabas' original backstory took place over several years rather then several months.   There was also no mention of how and why Barnabas had become a vampire in the pre-1795 episodes and the creation of the Angelique character may have led them to throw out Wallace's origin for a compressed one.

Oddly, the writers still used the original backstory less then a month prior to 1795 when Barnabas tells Julia the story of Josette's suicide shortly after the death of Burke Devlin.

When I saw these episodes for the first time, 1795 sure was a surprise to me as almost everything stated before turned out so different!

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:Other then DC, who created Barnabas?
« on: April 21, 2004, 04:32:36 PM »
Art Wallace's memory is hazy, he wrote the first 40 episodes and then Francis Swann wrote for about two weeks.  Wallace then did some scripts after that.

Perhaps he left after the Jason Blackmailing/Maggie Kidnapping story ended.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '04 I / Re:Collins Family Tree
« on: April 19, 2004, 02:20:17 PM »
Caleb Sayers Collins, whose will stated that no one could live in the Seaview House for 100 years after his death (1872) may have been one of Gabriel and Edith's children.  He does fit into the timeline.

Abner Collins, mentioned in the summer 1970 episodes which has his portrait hanging outside the playroom, may have been Flora's husband.

There was also a Jonah Collins mentioned in an episode where Liz and Roger are in the cemetary in a 1968 episode.  Perhaps he is also a child of Edith and Gabriel.

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Current Talk '04 I / Other then DC, who created Barnabas?
« on: April 19, 2004, 02:02:05 PM »
I read in an interview with Art Wallce in a publication from the 1980's (I think the Dark Shadows Files) in which he claimed to have created Barnabas Collins himself.  I always thought that he was long gone by this time.

Anyone have any information on this?

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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: April 17, 2004, 05:38:27 PM »
It would be interesting this time if they have Maggie's mother alive.

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:The Mysterious Victoria Winters: Betsy Durkin
« on: April 16, 2004, 02:53:50 PM »
Alexandra Moltke left kind of quickly as Dan Curtis released her from her contract.  They didn't have enough time to have AM do a farewell episode and the character was too established to have someone just state that "Vicky left me a not stating she has left Collinsport for good".

Jacklyn Smith was a possibility to be the new Vicky but she refused the role.


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Current Talk '24 I / Re:WB ORDERS FILMING OF NEW DS PILOT
« on: April 16, 2004, 02:49:47 PM »
Sheriff Patterson was never killed off in the 1991 series.

He was highly suspicious of Barnabas though.

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Current Talk '04 I / Re:A Date That Will Live in Infamy
« on: April 05, 2004, 11:32:28 PM »
I heard that in the first Password on April 5, 1971, Allen Ludden was wearing fangs in the opening of the show announcing they have replaced DS>

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