Excellent work!  I also was bothered by the over-the-top gown Liz wears in the first shows, but since Joan looks so stunning in it, I do my best to suspend disbelief.

I think KLS said in the original Scrapbook Memories that they worked on the first episode for a month. It may have been two weeks,and that may have included the first trips to film in Essex and Newport.

G.

Yeah, but the good ones (including the ones by Lad Karlen) are quite performative, and they've obviously read over it a couple of times and perhaps made notes... I would guess that Lela or Kaplan or whoever it was decided during the morning read-through of the script.

G.

I love both Grayson's and Thayer's. They both did voice work on commercials and such professionally, which may have been why they were asked to do so many.  I've often wondered how the decision was made--I would presume the director decided.

Jonathan Frid only did them towards the end of the show, iirc.

G.

Jean-Claude, will you marry me???

Oooh!  look at Barney SEETHE!

G.

Oh, I love both those scenes you mentioned.  JUlia's scenes with Woodard and her coy, deliciously sly way of throwing him off track are too savory and demand repeated play whenever they hit the screen in this household.  As for that scene in the OH living room,  I just about die when Julia lights her ciggie from one of Barn's precious candlelabras.  The looks on both their faces are to LIVE for.

And there's still more to come!  Enjoy!

best, Steve

Excellent work, you talented gentleman you!  I have no idea who sings that song, but she definitely seemed to be in an Angelique kind of groove.

And you are spot on about Dark Shadows--it is MY addiction.

G.

Jonathan Frid himself has said he is a slow study.  He tended to have a lot more lines than the others because Barnabas was the lead of the show.  When Selby came on, it helped alleviate the pressure because there was another male lead to take over and give JF a bit of a break, but the episodes in which he appeared still tended to be very dialogue heavy.

Despite these innate difficulties, there were several scenes on DS where I thought he was just brilliant.  I think his secret was as Jean-Claude has said, his belief in who and what he was playing.  He projected a tremendous integrity as Barnabas, which probably had a lot to do with the unusual attractiveness of a middle-aged courtly gentleman to America's teen-agers during the "youthquake" of the Sixties.  Frid's integrity goes a long way towards making Barn palatable to me now, since so much of what the character actually does is, to be tactful, rather unsavory.

G.

Today as I logged on with trembling fingers I knew that some unique horror, something so hideous, so ghastly, so evil the mind of man could never conceive of it would be unveiled to my unwilling eyes.  Yet I felt compelled by a command wafted over the winds by a tongue cold as marble. "Please..." I moaned as I moved the cursor to click on the URL in my history file, "Please... no... SOMEBODY... SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!! NO!!!! NO!!!!"

As that HORROR was revealed... God, THAT HAIR! those CLUTCHING hands!  those narrowed eyes!  The window!  The window!