Happy Birthday Darling!

xo G.

All surviving 194 episodes of Strange Paradise are availabe on Youtube, I believe.  You may have to check a couple of different channels to see them all.

It is outrageous that dealers on the grey market are charging such prices for the fan produced set from the Canadian Drive-In channel screenings  (The series has never been shown on Chiller.)  I know the fan who produced the original set and he's been upgrading the original recordings (which were recorded on DVD, not VHS).  He is very devoted to the conservation of the original series.  The current rights owner is based in India and has no interest in an official release.

Some of the best episodes start, ironically, after episode 40 with the arrival of an important new character on the island.  I also really like the story arc that ran from around week 14 through week 24.  After week 24 it really kind of went downhill, unfortunately.  Still fun to watch but the continuity, which had been carefully followed in the first couple of storyline, goes right out the window for the 3rd and final arc.

G.

I really do not mean to offend anyone but I find today's capture a total scream!  I laugh every time I look at that picture.

What I'm hearing in my mind is Fyfe telling Cross:  "Ben, no matter how hard you work at shredding this tired scenery, there's no way you're going to get an Emmy for Dark Shadows."  (Actually I hear "there's no way you're going to win the Sarah Siddons Award for Dramatic Excellence" because he looks so impossibly dramatic in that scene!)

Thanks for keeping these slideshows going, MB.  They are often a little highlight of my day.

G.

Another fan just sent me a link for a page on eBay that has on display a number of marketing trinkets tied in for the 2012 movie.  The title and the "Strange is relative" logo are featured on these tchotchkes.  There's a wine stopper, a Barnabas cane letter opener, a sleeping mask (!), a cherry-red flight bag that seems very "Pan Am," and a t-shirt with BarnaDepp on the front.

I would hope that WB has a shop, either on the movie page or elsewhere, where fans could purchase these items.  It's hard to imagine they were dumb enough to only produce a few as giveaways at premieres but maybe that's what they did?

Just getting the word out because I know some of you out there will want to collect ALL of these goodies.

happy hunting!

G.

Wow.   that cover is so ... understated.

Another masterpiece in intricate storytelling and deft characterization from Dynamite!

cheers, G.

Stuart posted an interview on collinwood.net today with Lara Parker in which she gives some fairly detailed information about her new book.  Most of it is set in the 20s, and Liz appears as an amorous, gun-toting flapper.  I've heard others discuss the desire to read fiction about Liz has a flapper, although in the original series Liz was born in 1917 and would have been about ten at the height of the flapper era.

Parker tactfully (?) discusses how some fans get upset when she "re-imagines" characters.  I guess this is her way of expressing reckless disregard for well established continuity over which she rides roughshod in her confections.  Even a series as "fluid" as DS did have its rules... I'm sure it will sell like hotcakes, though.

G.

They say that if you looked down at your popcorn at the one moment, you would've missed it.

Patti, if you haven't done so, you have to read Lara Parker's short thing about doing the movie in London with Jonathan.  I get tears in my eyes now thinking about it.

I'd post the link here but I'm not sure now just where it is.

Glad to hear you had a good time at the movies.

G.

I listened to the House by the Sea trailer.  It seems like a cool idea for a story--very Lovecraftian.  I always enjoyed Colin Baker even though his portrayal of Dr. Who was generally unpopular with the fans (not really through his fault--the producer was an out of control maniac in those years).

Cool stuff!

G.