What wonderful work, as always, Luciaphil!  I definitely think having Art Wallace write all those shows at one big stretch had its pluses and minuses.  You've astutely highlighted both the positive and negative aspects of his writing.

I've never seen Bad Seed; it's been on my list for decades, now.  But David Henesy's performance in these shows makes my blood run cold.  He was an amazingly skilled actor.

G.

I feel an attack of nausea coming on.

G.

Oh my sweet Goddess.

I woinder whether they have a complete run of tapes from 1973?  As Julia mentioned, Grayson was in a couple of episodes in April of that year.

I wonder whether any of the soap opera mags of that period said anything about her work on the show?

G.

Wonderful work as always, my dear.  The line about the coffee that always drives me nuts is referring to a cup-to-go as "a container of coffee."  That does have a nasty ring to it.

Hmm, maybe Maggie figured those two as the demitasse type?  *smirk*

I thought tepid doughnuts were their own food group.  really.

hat's off to you yet again!

Steve

Barnabas:  "Julia!  Julia! I had the last jelly doughnut in the Collinsport Diner on my plate and Maggie let Burke STEAL IT while my back was turned!"

Rainey, that's interesting that "hootchie-koo" dates to the Twenties.  I thought it might go back to the music halls of the 1880s-90s.

"I wanna dance for you," the tune, was, I believe, originally composed for Dan Curtis' adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" which aired on ABC in 1968 and starred Jack Palance (who later performed as Dracula in DC's film of that book).  The words "hootchie-koo" and "tara-ra-boom-de-ay" (the latter is the first words of a nonsense patter song) are, I think, meant to evoke the atmosphere of an 1890s London music hall with their talented tease dancers and mentalists such as Miss Faye.

Some of us here are into another 1960s cult TV show, The Avengers, which was English and aired in the evenings on ABC in 1967-69.  In 1969 the new character was Tara and when she told Steed (the other main protagonist) her name, he said "Tara?" and she said "Raboomdeay!"  or something like that... it always makes me smile.  Sort of like Pansy Faye popping in on another favorite show of the period.

As for music, I prefer the background cues to the theme songs, although I am very fond of "Back at the Blue Whale" with its raucous, hippie-chick tambourine.  I also like "A Darkness at Collinwood" (I think of the beginning part as "Theme for Barnabas,") Liz's special music, the glass-armonica and theremin piece that I think has Roxanne's name on the CD, etc. I have all 4 CDs issued by MPI plus the special ones for the movies, etc issued by Rhino and Varese Sarabande.  The music was always one of my favorite things about DS.

G.

Just a line to share just what a KICK I'm getting out of these.  I do hope you can continue.  Day Two lasted even longer than I remembered!  I seem to recall noting that Art Wallace was writing the shows in Real Time, apparently as some kind of weird experiment, because I remember noticing that Liz said that something that had happened 4 episodes previously was 3 hours ago, or something along those lines... that blew my mind! Especially given the cavalier way they treated time, on *every* level, subsequently in the series.

I do hope you have the stamina to continue slogging through Day Two!  Here's to the wittiest of all our Cousins.

your fan, Gothick

Jean-Claude, it's not even our wedding night, and you're already fulfilling one of my most deeply cherished secret fantasies!

Keep. It. Up!!!!

G.