I got mine in the mail yesterday from deepdiscountdvd and when it got to the fourth episode, the picture was dark and then then it froze as well as the voice.  It did this every time I restarted it.

Did anyone else have this kind of problem?

Benjamin and Theodore could have been two of Gabriel and Edith's sons.

I don't think it was the budget that got Ms. Welles fired, as DC hired Joe Caldwell afterward.  Too bad he didn't stay for 1840 though.  DS sure needed more and/or new writers.

Kathleen Resch probably has copies of it, you can email her at kathleener@aol.com

I remember that last episode on NJN as well, it was in 1986. They also didn't show the credits for that episode!
I didn't have cable and my reception was so-so for channel 50, though I watched it every day.  We just had one more year to go to...there was a point a year earlier where hope was being revived for the Pre-Barnabas episodes to be broadcast.

Fortunately, Kathy Resch published the 1970 Parallel Time Concordance and the 1840 Concordance around the time NJN cancelled DS, so it felt like the story continued on, though by print (they are an EXCELLENT read).  The Pre-Barnabas episodes were also summarized in a book by the DS Convention at the same time also.

I was ticked off when in 1987, channel 31 started the series from where WNBC-4 left off way back in 1982 with the murder of Dr. Woodard!  That made no sense to me.

What about the Victoria Winters reference in the Leviathan storyline?  I know that no one would want to see "altered episodes" where a new actor supplies a voice for Paul Stoddard's ghost (as opposed to Peter Bradford) while they used some computer generated image of a faceless ghost.

But what if, when they get to this storyline, they do something like that and still keep the original episodes on the same DVD.  they let the consumer be able to decide which version he/she wants to see- Peter Bradford's ghost or Paul Stoddard's ghost.  You can see the altered or the original version....do you think that could be a good idea?

Joey

The timing never seemed to be right to stop the story and do some Christmas episodes or work the holidays in the background with Trees and lights as other shows do.

1966 would actually have been the best time as the Bill Malloy murder story had just ended and the Laura story was just slowly getting started, so they could have had some holiday shows or scenic design.

1967 was too busy with 1795 and the leading up to Barnabas marrying Angelique.  It was not a good storyline to incorporate Christmas into.

1968 is the same as 1966 in that the Adam/Nicholas/Angelique story was over and Quentin's haunting had begun.  But it was also a transitional time as some cast members were leaving and they had to use episodes to write them out.

1969 is the Leviathan story and at least we got in one Christmas reference in the first Leviathan episode.  Though this is not a plot to incorporate Christmas so easy into.

1970 saw the 1840 story approaching it's end as well as 1841 Parallel Time on the horizion.  Things were going so fast, there was no way to place the holidays in the plot.

The death of Paul Stoddard episode is where things really go downhill.

Nicholas Blair as the leader is a retcon of the Leviathan origins.   The writers were in a hole they could not get out of.