i haven't pulled out RTC in a long time but as i recall there was A LOT of recycled material...

in terms of a tie in the with Depp/Burton film i think Scott was taken aback by the hostility directed at it and the book did not do nearly as well as she had expected. i recall her "defending" the film left and right at the time of the book's printing.

she's still got truckloads she's trying to get rid of. her website always has "deals" on it and she had stacks at the fest this year. 

Ford did not do any voiceovers on DS...

he left the series in 68 before the actors began reciting them.

alexandra speaks her signature line for the last time in episode 274. i believe nancy barrett is the first actress to speak the narration after that.

for a long time after the voiceover is rotated between the actresses and, at some time around 1969, the men  finally speak it all well.

alexandra tops out at 387 readings. jonathan only did 12. for some reason the producers didn't want "barnabas" doing the opening. 

at this point i think it's safe to assume any "sequels" to the Depp/Burton iteration are off the table...


can anyone else remake the "property" or is it still tied up in the D/B deal? what if someone wanted to make another TV series?

would that be ME? 

the minor character "Barb" is the unexpected breakout star. she's getting tons of online love.

yes. in a small role...

however Clarice Blackburn was unavailable at the time of filming. i believe she had gone on to another soap (The Secret Storm, maybe?) and her association with DS had largely ended by this point (Mrs. Johnson only appeared in a few episodes in 1970 and Blackburn did not have roles in the 1840 storylines) although she did have a small part in NoDS.

in HoDS the character was played by Barbara Cason (in a similarly unflattering wig) whom i think was Dennis Patrick's wife at the time and was thus familiar to DC and the producers.

A couple of months ago, I saw one of Diana's interviews for the DVDs several years ago where she spoke of doing a lot of television in the early to mid 1960s.

indeed she said she had done hundreds of episodes of television. unfortunately much of it would have been live shows, televised plays, soaps and other programming from the period that would/could not have been saved and thus is lost to the sands of time.

at one fest they located and aired a show called "Stella Crozier" she had done in the early 60s.