Thanks for this, Darren.  btw, I absolutely adored the new photos you unveiled on Stuart's site.  The one of Grayson and Nancy hanging out in their chic sunglasses and Collins couture s my new favorite photo... very Addams Family!

Steve

Hahaha, glad it's not *my* desk that the hate mail is going to come flying across over THAT little goof!

G.

I read somewhere that Adrian Paul was supposed to play Quentin in the 1990s series, but they didn't get that far.

Will be interesting to see whether the WB series introduces Quentin in the first relay of shows, but leaves him in the wings for something BIG to attract attention later on.

cuz you all know that if there's one thing Mr Quentin Collins is, it's BIG.

*smirking shamelessly*  G.

The fascination with Angelique is classic, and very simple.  Everybody loves a really good, no-holds-barred villain.  I thought Parker's work in the role went way beyond portrayal... she MOLDED Angelique to the unscrupulous, obsessed Witch we all loved to hate.  I think as Connie said, this was really true of all the DS actors and their characters.  At least it is certainly true of the people she mentioned, because they were simply very extraordinary actors.  The eccentric elan with which they lived their lives offstage bled through into the sizzle and spark they gave their characterizations before the cameras.

I can never really chose a favorite, but if I had to select a favorite Barnabas/Angelique scene, it would be the showdown between Cassandra and her erstwhile hubby in the Old House after Nicholas has removed her powers.  In less than a page of dialogue, they covered all the insanity of the emotional ups and downs these two went through with one another.  And both Parker and Frid played it brilliantly.  I still remember watching that as a child--glued to the tube doesn't begin to describe it!

G.

Thanks for posting that, O Mysterious One.  I don't remember having seen it before (now, I may have seen it, but with the kind of amnesia I'm coping with, it's entirely likely that I did see it and have plum forgotten.  As my beloved Great Grandmother said:  "Don't git old!")

I had to laugh when reading that, given that the Dark Shadows ratings were going up again in February-March of 1971, and the ABC executive board members at the March board meeting expressed concern that the network was shutting down such a popular, high profile series.

Substitute "who had followed" with "who had worked upon" in your card, and it does get a bit closer to the truth...

G.

Hey Jennifer, no, you're not alone in being less than thrilled with all this.  I personally have adopted a wait and see attitude about all of it.  Given the talent they're raking in for it, I'm becoming morbidly curious about just how awful it might be.  It could turn out to be an unintentionally hilarious send-up, particularly with "Molly Dodd" as Liz and "Muad-dib"as Barnabas, especially if they are using the script posted on Barnabas-Undead.  Ever imagine DS with Keno and IHOP jokes?  Well, fasten your seat belts.

And who knows, maybe the Frog Fromage crew will surprise us all and create something more exciting than we could ever have imagined!  I must confess that I don't hold out much hope for the latter.  I saw more than I would have cared to of the WB's hatchet job on Tarzan (my housemate became addicted to that thing), and I shudder to think of 9 weeks of something along these lines with a DS label stuck on it.

G.

Thanks, O Mysterious One, for the bounty of these updates.  I really look forward to them, especially since there has been so little discussion of the "current" 1968 episodes here.

I'll have to dig out my tape of 576.  I know I've seen it but the Liz dream sequence sounds like a hoot!  I've still been watching 1967... getting ready to revise my endless article about Grayson's work in that storyline...

G.