My roommate's view was that Carolyn had already had an illustrious career working the street out in WeHo before she "welcomed" Miss Winters to Collinwood.  He almost literally fell out of his chair and rolled around the floor laughing at some of the fashions Miss Stoddard sports in later episodes.

G.

I agree with Cassandra Blair that Julia's braid always, to me, gives her that certain dominatrix air right from the get-go.  Too bad Barbara wasn't allowed to stalk through Collinwood in leather catsuits and stiletto boots for a special West Hollywood look *cheeky grin*.

I'm laughing out of my ... uh, face, at the notion of Julia being "right onto Barnabas like frosting on a cupcake."  Thanks, MSC.

It's too bad they didn't pursue defining Carolyn as a predatory bisexual minx.  After all, Amanda Donohoe had done her fabulous thing on LA Law just a year or two before this.

G.

I don't think the original plan was for Vicki and Jeff to marry.  I have no idea what DC was cooking up for Vicki.  If the statement in KLS's first book, in which it is said that DC wanted to try playing out a Rosemary's Baby ripoff with Vicki in the Mia Farrow role, is true, perhaps the original idea was for Jeff to be in Nicholas's thrall and make some kind of deal with Diabolos for that to play out.  Unless Jim Pierson finds and releases minutes from writers meetings from the mid 1968 period, we will never know what direction was being envisioned for the plot.  As it was, some people who were on the show then always spoke of 1968 as "that year of insanity" and for good reason.

I agree that Alex would have made a fabulous villainess.  However, I think that she had zero interest in returning to the show once she managed to leave.

G.

Gads, I did see a screening of the 2004 pilot at one of the Festivals, but have no memory of anyone named Sophia.  Was she Willie's girlfriend?

G.

Good news!  The title of the movie, btw, is Who are you, Polly Maggoo? (Qui etes-vous, Polly Maggoo?)

There is a topic in the archives with some fabou screen-captures from this movie...

G.

Heavens to Murgatroyd! 

At least this explains that persistent odor of Frankincense and Myrrh I've been noticing today.

Thank you all!  May you all continue to love and adulate and enjoy Dark Shadows, the best TV show of all time!

cheers!

Gothique

What fun!  I was staying with a friend in Connecticut last weekend and she has a cable tier that includes something called "The Chiller Network," and we watched a recording she had made from it of House of DS, followed by some Kolchak episodes the following morning.  Excellent stuff!

I've had the Kolchak DVD set on my shopping list for years now.  I loved Ruth McDevitt's character on that show.

G.

It's on the hall table in the foyer.  So, it's indoors.

G.