That's good to hear the films are being broadcast again.

I find it difficult to stomach the incredible resentment I feel towards WB's home video dept for thwarting the NoDS restoration project.

 

G.

And there's even more of a DS connection, too:  if I recall aright, WOMAN IN THE WINDOW was one of the films The Divine Joan did with Fritz Lang.  It is said in one of the KLS books that Lang made a visit to the DS studio one day, to visit Joan.  According to KLS, Lang made some lighting suggestions on the set, which were immediately adopted.

It's a lovely thought... and maybe it really happened...

G.

Hi Patti,

You'd most likely have to copy the "link" (i.e., the email address), open up your email handler, and compose a new email to that address.  I know some browsers for home computer will just automatically open the new email template for you, but if that's not the case, you need to do it "the old fashioned way."

Best,

Steve

LOL!  Given that Lara Parker's complexion commingles the fairest porcelain and the most delicate rose, I always found the description of the "olive-skinned" Angelique very confusing.  But then, so many of those books did not make sense... unless I tried to forget that the stories bore ANY RELATIONSHIP WHATSOEVER to what I had seen on television...

G.

I read the Ross books but I barely remember any of them.  Wasn't there one where Quentin was disguised as a groovy, "dirty" hippie? 

I saw a copy of THE FOE OF BARNABAS COLLINS in a sandwich shop in Potsdam, NY several years ago and made a note to purchase a copy online at some point, but have never gotten around to it.  The cover photo was a beautifully accomplished shot of Barnabas.  That might have been the one where someone named Christopher Jennings was a coldly eeee-vil schemer out to work mischief on some wretched pouting, fainting ingenue.

G.

Dom I think you're right.  There was maybe one werewolf shot in one of the card series but I think it was meant to be Chris Jennings.  I never saw those cards at all back in the day.  The one with Nicholas is from that.  So I guess there were three gum card series all told; as far as I remember, I only ever saw the series with images from the 1967 Barnabas and Maggie shows, which I had never seen when I collected them.

G.

Grayson got some coverage in 16.  There was a priceless page that showed Grayson Hall at home.  The other soap mags did similar features on her.  Grayson was one of the very few cool middle-aged ladies around in that era.  Mama Cowsill, may she rest in peace, was another.

This is off topic, but for those in my age range--we all remember Mrs. Miller, "the singing Grandmother."  I found a clip on Youtube recently where Mrs. Miller shows up on a teen rock program and the kids go wild for her.  It was hilarious.  Roddy MacDowell played some Phil Spector type producer who had the singing Grandmother summoned to his office to talk about a contract.

It all feels like things that happened in a previous incarnation, at this point...

G.

The fact that more or less every time DS shows up in the mass media (outside of fandom specific sites and fora) we see a photo of Barn baring his fangs does underline the fact that in the minds of the public... it's a vampire show.

A long time ago (maybe as early as the 1970s) I finally figured out that how DS is represented in the mass media and promotional goodies, such as the Gold Key comics and the board games, is very different from the reality of the show's actual content as seen in canon (the aired episodes from 1966 to 1971). 

Even the "Marilyn" Ross novelettes present a picture of the subject matter of the show that is very much at odds with how the actual episodes are written and played.  I well remember when the novel "Barnabas Collins" was published and I bought and was reading it and some version of "who the hell is this guy?" was going through my 11 year old's mind.

G.