Carolyn Groves (Victoria #3) had played Betsy Brown on The Edge of Night in 1963.

(She was also in the movie Six Degrees of Seperation as a party guest.)

I have always felt that the show originally intended Roxanne to be Willie's girlfriend and she and Barnabas would fall in love.

However, after the departure of Kathyn Leigh Scott as Maggie, they just decided to have a love interest for Barnabas as soon as they could, so they dropped the part about her having been Willie's girlfriend.

Concerning Search for Tomorrow, around the time that Denise Nickerson was playing Liza, Michael Maitland was hired to play Bruce Carson.    He played Bruce in between Robby Benson and Gary Tomlin.

Also, I think that Kitty Styles and Ken Stevens (Diana Millay and Joel Crothers) were on The Secret Storm at the same time.

When Christopher Pennock was on Somerset, Frank Schofield played his father.       The actor who played Carter Mattson (Jay Gregory) had also been on Dark Shadows as an extra.   Lois Kibbee played the wife/stepmother, and she, as was mentioned, co-wrote The Bennett Playbill with Joan Bennett.

The information on Jonathan Frid is incorrect.    He did appear as Dr. Bellows on As the World Turns - not Dr. Neil Wade.     That role was played by Michael Lipton, who was also on Somerset when Mr. Schofield and Mr. Pennock were on the show.    (And Marie Wallace had been on the show, also.)

As the World Turns also had a mean character named Dr. Michael Shea.     John Lasalle (Dr. Gutherie) was one of the actors who played that role, but the actor best remembered in the role is the late Roy Shumann.

When Sam Hall was writing One Life to Live, there were three former Dark Shadows performers on the show at the same time:     Nancy Barrett, Anthony George, and Grayson Hall.    There was a scene in which the three were together - possibly in an elevator - and they commented that they thought that they had known each other before they had been in Llanview.

Matthew Hall was also a writer for One Life to Live.    He later wrote for the NBC primetime version of the Dark Shadows.

I LOVED Jane Draper as Suki!

She was blonde, and the other thing that I remember about her the most was her June Allyson-like voice!

I would have loved to have seen her in some other role on Dark Shadows or on any soap opera.      I have never seen her in anything else.

(I wouldn't have wanted her to play Buffy Harrington, though - because I liked Elizabeth Eis too!)

Does anyone know anything about what happened to Ms. Draper?      Was she ever invited to any of the cast reunions?

I had never heard that Ms. Moltke had made a pilot or anything else on film after Dark Shadows!

I wish I knew more about this.

The show did not know at the conclusion of the 1840 storyline that the ending was to be in April.

So, ratings had fallen after the Levithan storyline, but, when the 1940 Parallel Time story was airing, the ratings were actually rising.

It is reported that Diana Millay had been asked to and had agreed to return to the show, but the cancellation came that there was no time for her to return.

Also, I understand that Alexandra Moltke had been asked to return to the show also.    And Keith Prentiss had a contract, but I am not sure for what length of time.

(I have suspected that the role of Joanna Mills was written with the possibility of the return of Ms. Moltke and that she would be playing the role.)

The puzzlement to me in 1971 and still today was why there were so many performers hired during the 1840 storyline but they were slowly being dropped - not used in the 1840 storyline but still Keith Prentiss was hired and was offered a contract with the show.

During the final months of the show, added to the cast were Donna Wandrey, Kathy Cody, Kate Jackson, James Storm, Virginia Vestoff, Gene Lindsey, Tom Happer, Keith Prentiss, and Lee Beery.

In addition, Clarice Blackburn, Jerry Lacy, Terry Crawford, Elizabeth Eis, and Humbert Allen Astredo (who had not been on the show for a while) were brought back.

I know that Denise Nickerson left, so the hiring of Kathy Cody made since.    The departure of Katheryn Leigh Scott necessitated the hiring of Virginia Vestoff.   (I understand that the character of Samantha was written for Katheryn Leigh Scott.)    Ms. Scott's departure also necessatated the hiring of Donna Wandrey and the changing of Lara Parker into a sympathetic figure.    (She was the most popular Dark Shadows actress during the show's last year, according to the Daytime Television magazine's poll.)

When the show moved over to 1850 Parallel Time, Virginia Vestoff and Jerry Lacy were quickly killed off.    Not used at all were Tom Happer, James Storm, Gene Lindsey, David Henesy (who had left the show, but we did not know that at the time), Michael Stroka, Donna Wandrey (who may have been dismissed from the show - I am not sure), and Lee Beery.

I never understood why there were so many characters in 1840 but not in the Parallel Time.

Could someone tell me if Ralph Ellis had even written anything prior to his sole script of a Dark Shadows episode?

I know that he later was a headwriter for The Guiding Light and As the World Turns and also wrote for Loving.

And, I beleive that he was an actor on NBC's Our Five Daughters (a show on which both Frank Schofield and John Karlen appeared, I beleive).

Was Dark Shadows his first writing?