Julia99, I heard you were given a birthday greeting card from Hallmark and Hoffman.

Hope it's been a good one for you.

Forever,
Sandor

I'm a gypsy fool for you, Julia99. Hope your day was the talk of the caravan.

Love always,
Sandor

I appreciate those scenes between Vicki and Elizabeth at the end of Alexandra Moltke's run all the more, because as Gothick points out, the change was quite abrupt - given that the character of Victoria was in the thick of the storyline at that stage.

My hunch has always been that Moltke read some of the upcoming scripts and realized that - in her first months of a real-life pregnancy - being slapped and thrown to the floor, then scooped up and carried out to be strapped to a torture chamber (Barnabas' basement) by Robert Rodan - and collapsing on the floor in despair after "Peter/Jeff" disappeared into the past - a lot of physical effort was going on. To her credit, Betsy Durkin (the 2nd Victoria) took her lumps in her first episodes with the finesse of a lady wrestler.

As to the thread topic - 2 doses of DS in one - when the show was on SciFi, if a particular episode struck my fancy, I'd whip out the VHS version after the SciFi channel broadcast, just to savor the flavor.

My dearest Midnite, Prof Stokes, Annie and Josette,

Thank you for the remembrance.  I just had a blood injection of Dr. Hoffman's that backfired - I looked in the mirror - screamed "Oh, no! Nooo!" - as Barnabas did - and am now waiting for Dr. Lang to hit town with high hopes and wild promises.

But my heart to you for the posts. Gothick will be getting a lump of coal and a hang-nail from Mrs. Johnson in his stocking this Xmas for the oversight! I'm old enough now to be Tom AND Chris Jennings' father! Did the curse skip my generation?

I invited a friend over for a Davy Jones marathon when I saw this posted. Thank you, CyrusL. Watched the shows and found Kathy Cody a little easier to take on "Love American Style" than as Hallie or Carrie on DS. Hadn't David Henesy replaced Davy Jones as a current teen idol around this point?  Imagine: Davy Jones... as David Collins (due to the illness of David Henesy, the role of David will be played by..."). David comes back from a trip to Boston with a five-o'clock shadow and a British accent, humming "Daydream Believer"! The family suspects Gerard is involved...
Kathy Cody seemed so much older here - to be married to Davy Jones in the episode, and this was just a few years after her appearance on Dark Shadows, where she couldn't have been more than fifteen!

Happy Birthday, Jennifer. I am sorry for your loss. May 2012 be a better year for everyone. Take care, friend and fellow-Briscoe fan.

-Sandor

My little girlfriend's mother always watched it when I came home from school with her - it must have been a 3:30 show out on the West Coast (it tipped me off that DS was coming up next on ABC, and I'd better grab a cookie and go home to catch Barnabas). The mom wasn't big on DS: "Too violent" she said, yet on The Edge of Night, someone was getting shot, stabbed, kidnapped, blackmailed, poisoned, hypnotized or pushed from a high altitude on a daily basis - though not necessarily the same character. This was around late 1969. DS was going into the Leviathan phase, and "The Edge Of Night" was definitely scary and suspenseful around then. With DS, we the viewers normally knew who the bad guys were up front and throughout, but on "Edge", there was always a plot twist that catapulted an unassuming back-burner character into the spotlight: as the "real" psychotic, murderous villain or villainess you hadn't suspected. The casting was great, just like on DS. The actors playing the killers or would-be killers on "Edge" made those characters indelible in our minds.  I remember a scene with a psychotic blonde woman named Stephanie slapping a man in the face and hissing "You filth!" I missed how he triggered that response. Days later she had a knife in her back. It could get you hooked if the storyline was good.