i hate to be negative but i think it's extremely unwise on ms.durkin's part to attend the fest and get up on stage with the original actors from the show.what is she going to have to say?wasn't she released from the show because of poor viewer reaction?

she has to know what a fiercly devoted fanbase d.s. has and that the fans are going to want to meet the actress who originated the part of victoria winters and played her for nearly three years as apposed to an actress who assumed the role for only ten episodes.

i realize that she has books to sell and this probably seems like a good business opportunity but i think it's an error in judgement.

He must have been feeding offscreen.  My theory is that he was visiting neighboring towns too.

Hey, just because they didn't show Liz, Roger, Carolyn and David eating post-1966 doesn't mean they didn't eat from 1967 to 1971 right?

that's true penny.
in the 1966 episodes they feature the kitchen at collinwood and of course the diner and the characters do in fact eat.it's strange that once the show goes supernatural they stopped that.

did proffessor stokes actually consume cheese in the evening to help him unwind or did he just talk about it?

i was surprised during the parallel-time episodes to see the kitchen and when maggie and quentin first return to collinwood from thier honeymoon hoffman has set a table for them in front of the fireplace.being evil of course she served angelique's favorite.some sort of crab thing i recall served in a fancy silver chaffing dish type thing.

it's interesting when mere happenstance changed the set-up and sent the storyline in different directions.

mitch ryan as burke devlin is a good example.he left the show abruptly and was replaced by an actor who only signed on for six months.but as one of the show's original leads he must have had something of a long-term contract.let's say two years.

how would the storyline have differed had ryan fullfilled his contactural obligations and not been replaced by an actor who played the character so differently?ryan's burke was angry and belligerent.anthony george's was quiter,calmer.one can easily imagine ryan hammering a stake through someone's heart but could he have played the good jeremiah?would the 1795 storyline have been told differently and how would burke have fit into the plot post-1795?the departure of both actors made it possible for the vicki/peter romance to blossom and that became the obstacle for barnbas to deal with.

b.t.w. i always heard that once the show went into time travel anthony george wanted out post-haste.

alexandra moltke is another good example.while it is frequently debated whether or not victoria drifted towards "absolencence" as the time passed she too had a contract.i've understood from reputable sources it was for five years.so had "fate" not intervened and she hadn't become pregnant and simply fullfilled the obligations of the contract she would have remained on the show for it's entire run.what are the implications of that?would there have been less time travel?would dan curtis have relented and cast her as another character?at some point it wouldn't have made sense to keep plunking this girl down in differnt time periods.

had alexandra not left there never would have been need for maggie to take over as collinwood governess.so what would have kathryn leigh scott have done?bringing her into collinwood gave maggie some footing at a time when the character was rather adrift.

had "factor x" been "factor y" things could have played out very differently.

i was just noticing that myself.

obviously the writers didn't deliberately plan thing like this but it's amusing when they come up.

they do say that "the legs are the last to go" because i remember in cassandra's aged state her mini revealed the lovely gams of a young woman.

it's also interesting that sam earned the wrath of both of roger's wives by revealing something about them through his paintings.

I think it's interesting in the first few episodes of 1795 they have Angelique and Josette converse a bit in French but then dropped it later. Would Angelique as a servant be as well versed in English as she was?

arashi,

i don't know if you've seen the pre-barnabas episodes but during the laura collins storyline they conduct a seance(the show's first)and vicki goes into a trance and becomes possessed by the spirit of josette collins.here the spirit only speaks in french.

an absolutely awsome scene.

of course all of this could simply have been a case of the producers being caught between a rock and a hard place.

they hired sharon smyth to play a ghost long before anyone knew that sarah would eventually become a flesh and blood character playing opposite frid.so when the storyline traveled back to 1795 they had no choice but to use her and hope audiences wouldn't question the age difference.

what's also funny is that kids at that age grow very quickly.so by the end of the 1795 storyline sarah looks much older than she did when her ghost first appeared in 1967.

it really is interesting how josette(or at least her ghost)was firmly established as a character almost from the very begining.certainly way before barnabas collins ever was.

as far as last names go they use angelique's(bouchard)so infrequently that it's easy to forget that she ever had one.i don't remember anyone ever directly calling her by that name and certainly not "miss bouchard".was it common for household servants to be refered to only by thier first name in the eighteenth century?

even in the credits she's billed as "lara parker as angelique..."(unless of course she's appearing under one of her many guises).

the credits only seemed to give some special billing to three actors:joan bennett,jonathan frid and alexandra moltke.

was anyone else ever given a "special guest star" type credit?