Wow.  Thanks for the tip, Uncle Roger and Barnabas Jr!  I'll take any opportunity to admire Barbara's acting talent... and/or Joel's legs...

G.

dom honey, your new avatar is FABULOUS.  We love Liz with the giant tower of hair!  I bet she kept Naomi's missing jewels in there... lol.

hugs,  T.

For anyone who cares, NBC is airing the latest failed attempt at a Munsters remake sometime around Halloween.  Eddie Izzard plays Grandpa and has some wonderful clothes, as does the actress who plays Marilyn.  The rest of it... blech, judging from the stills and the trailers.  but of course, some may ADORE every moment...

G.

Wow. that was long ago and far away.  but I still remember what a hoot Al Lewis was in that one.

G.

Happy Birthday Retzev!  Wishing you much joy of your solar return!

G.

I think of Violet Welles as THE unsung heroine of DS.  There's only that one interview with her (so far as I know) which Dale Clark published in his zine, and really ought to be republished in one of the PomPress books (except we know that KLS never, ever pays a red cent to anyone for anything--oops, did I say that with my outloud voice?)  Apparently Welles came back to write practically the entire final month of the series, so anything that's decent in '41 PT probably comes from her violet quill.

I agree that I, too, never tire of watching Laura and Ange duke it out.  I even love watching Ange order Magda to bring her a mirror!  She's so imperious in that scene.  What fun.

xo G.

For some reason today, I was recalling Laura and Angelique's big confrontation scene in 1897.  When Laura says to Our Favorite Witch:  "What does it feel like to succeed as a ... whatever you are... but to be a failure AS A WOMAN?"  I think it is one of the bitchiest moments in all DS history.

One of the tragedies that's bugging the hell out of me right now is that NoDS is being released in its unrestored form.  I was really looking forward to seeing the restored piano scene with its exchange between Laura and Angelique, where the spiteful witch informs her rival:  "Oh, he knows what's happening, Laura my darling, and for *the first time in his life* he's really enjoying it!"

In some weird alternate version of the DS multiverse, this second scene (which takes place in the AU world of the movies) could be see as Angelique's payback for what Laura taunted her with in 1897.

G.

Funny, Dark Lady, I watched this episode a few weeks ago and I had the same thought--where's the light coming from in the Secret Room?

Even if there was a grille masked as some sort of ornamental feature of the rear exterior of the mausoleum (which is a likely explanation of the presence of light and air in the Secret Room), the kind of lighting seen on camera suggests an overhead source.  Fluorescent light from beyond the grave?

G.