Like others, I have a hard time singling out any one storyline, since every one of them has something very good and special about it.

1795 is wonderful as a tragedy, perhaps the most emotionally true and moving storyline in the series (especially Joshua, Barnabas, and Ben).

The introduction of Barnabas is the best vampire story since "Dracula."

Quentin's ghost and the Amy and David storyline with the old telephone is absolutely chilling.

Early 1897 is intriguing, especially the part about the child's coffin, the pentagram, etc.

I love the ancient book, the antique store, and Angelique on Little Windward Island in Leviathan.

My favorite storyline in terms of mystery and complexity as they unravel is the 1840 storyline, which actually begins with the summer of 1970 and forwards to 1995, which set up 1840's mysteries.  Absolutely love the whole bit about Rose Cottage, Flora and Desmond's house, and Gerard/Judah Zachary.

I haven't had a chance to access the forum for a couple of days, so was very disappointed tonight when I tried shortly after 9 p.m. (Central Time) and got the "This page cannot be located" (or whatever) message from IE.  But seems to be fine now.

Using Netscape 7.2, I experienced all of the above plus the screen froze when trying to send or delete PMs.  Imagine trying to administer with all THAT happening, grrr.  It became apparent that there was no other solution but to uninstall SP2 so I did it this past weekend.  I'm running WinXP with fixes (SP2) plus other updates and having no problems now. 

All my problems pale in comparison ... 

I caught an episode of Gunsmoke by accident yesterday (Sunday, January 30), when I noticed Kathy Cody, but this was not the episode described here.

Kathy Cody gave a polished performance, and I especially watched her reactions when she wasn't speaking, and she was very natural and believable.  It was a sizable role and one I would describe as "promising."  I don't know anything about her career after this.

Thanks for transcribing the interview; are you a professional transcriber?

I would like to hear Mr. Karlen talk about some of the other characters he played on the show, too, such as Karl Collins (1897) and Desmond Collins (1840).

I had heard the rumor about supposed "homophobia" (wrongly attributed to Dan Curtis, IMO) regarding Willie having to be bitten on the wrist instead of the arm.  This is the first confirmation of that from a cast member that I've seen, and I'm glad Karlen sets the record straight when he attributes this to industry standards.

I just turned on my computer and got a message saying I need to download ServicePack2.

 

I hate to say "nevermind" regarding my earlier posts, but maybe those "hotfixes" I downloaded last night weren't SP2 itself.

 

Well, I was tricked into downloading SP2 tonight.

Every single time I've turned on my computer since SP2 came out, I've gotten a popup message saying I need to download it.  However, the documentation to understand it and preparations necessary prior to downloading it were too daunting and time-consuming to go through, so I have continued to ignore the messages.  I have dozens of pages printed out from MS's webpages detailing instructions of what to do before you even dare download the thing, just for example, backing up every file on your computer, disabling your antivirus protection, and disabling your firewall.

I simply haven't had time to deal with it, but now tonight I decided to click on the "urgent update message," and it listed 8 "hotfixes" that they said needed to be downloaded and that it was urgent.  None of them said anything about being SP2, and it said I could download them and continue to do other things on my computer.  It sounded like they were OK, so I just clicked "install," then continued to use the Internet, etc.

I was surprised that the downloading was going so slowly.  Usually these things take one or two minutes at the most, but this must have taken about an hour.  After that, I got continually messages pestering me about restarting my computer, which wasn't convenient as I was working on a couple of different files I had open.

Out of curiosity, just to "see" the 8 downloaded "hotfixes," I went to my control panel and clicked on the "Add/Remove" icon, then selected to order them by date used.  There were the 8 new hotfixes, and after each one, in parentheses, each one said ("SP2").

I think this was really a scary way to have downloaded this to my computer, and I'm really surprised at the underhanded tactics MS used.  I'm especially surprised that they had me download this without any preparations as their own information says must be done prior to downloading.