Question about the 1991 series: I decided to watch episode 6 this evening, which combines 2 to 3 months of the original 1967 storyline into 42 minutes.
Yes, unlike how a lot of the '91 Series' eps tend to condense about one month of the original shows' story, that ep picks and chooses elements from a few different months. But really that ep is somewhat of a major departure because it's really an amalgam given it includes things which are either more similar to hoDS or they never happened on the original show at all in the way they happen in the ep. For instance, yes, there was a costume party on the original show, but it was at the Old House and was ostensibly to celebrate the restoration, but on the '91 Series the party is tradition. And while on the original show a seance was held during the party and the seance turned out to have everything to do with Josette, using a Ouija board to possibly figure out who was behind all the recent attacks had never been done in any previous version of DS. In fact, though we saw crystal balls, we never saw a Ouija board on the original show. And Carolyn wasn't under Barnabas' power during the costume party on the original show, that was a circumstance in hoDS. And Barnabas wasn't against Julia during the party on the original show or the one in hoDS because with the former Julia wasn't even at Collinwood yet, and with the latter they barely knew each other.
In a scene set in Carolyn's bedroom, she has this extraordinary, rather large high modern Satanic sculpture sitting near her bed. Does anyone recall reading anything about that? It stood out because so much of the set dressing in this series just seemed so unimaginative. But this was a brilliant touch, highlighting the evil influence Barnabas had his cousin under at this point in the story.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything that talks about that particular piece of set dressing. But here are two screen caps of it:
Frankly, I think I'd be afraid to have that anywhere in my house because I'd be afraid the antlers might poke someone's eye out!!
And apologies for taking the caps from the DVD rather than the VHS, but as I've said before, taking caps from the VHS is a huge process. In this case, anyway, taking caps from the DVD not only still gets the same point across, the incorrect color timing helps to see the sculpture better...