i haven't met sebastian shaw yet but i have been watching the 1970 episodes and i've been thinking alot about this topic myself.

i can't get over how groovy these cats look.style really changed for men in just the four years since the show premiered and these episodes.contrast buttoned-up types like burke devlin,frank garner and dr.guthrie to characters like quentin,jeb and bruno.with their purple eyeshadow,muttonchops and "amadaes" hairdos they look like creatures from another planet.barnabas and roger continue to dress like proper gentlmen however.

i also noticed that there is a tremedous amount of fur being worn across there episodes.was there a fur sale at BREWSTER'S?angelique gets what looks like ocelot and golden mink.elizabeth persian lamb with a chinchilla collar.olivia correy fox(to be worn over paisley silk lounging pajamas).even carolyn gets this hideous patchwork fur minicoat.

the boys get in on the act too.jeb gets that shearling lined leather biker number and bruno gets this ugly beige fur coat too.

this is sort of off-topic but because they are "cult" shows with a fantasy angle d.s. is often lumped in with shows like 'doctor who' and 'star trek'.

both of these shows have been remade.especially 'star trek' which spawned several t.v. spin-offs and helped create a "world of star trek".

now this is just me but i'm glad that d.s. exists as a perfect time-capsule.i'm glad it was never spun-off into a "world" of cheaply produced,syndicated fantasy shows that clutter up the saturday afternoon t.v. schedule.
i think that would have been a shame.

i would welcome a new version of d.s.(in the form of a t.v. show or movie)but it would have to be really well produced and well done(i'm still waiting for that tim burton vision).to do anything less would cheapen the original i think.

these sound great...i'm getting jealous.

does anyone know if they will be available at the fest this year?is there a link i can go to for information?

i'd love to see figures of julia,vicki,liz etc...but i wonder if figures of the female characters will read more like "dolls" than "action figures" and be likely to turn off male toy collectors?

i agree that quentin might have wanted to move back into collinwood once he remembered who he was but it wasn't really up to him.if elizabeth didn't invite him to stay there it was out of his hands.so it was the sloppiness and inconsistency of the writing here that annoyed me.it was like they felt that they didn't have to bother with normal storytelling techniques.

things in general get almost incestuous towards the end of this plotline with virtually all of the characters living on the collinwood estate.jeb(and bruno?)living at the carriage house.chris(remember him?)still apparently at the caretaker's cottage.megan moves in to the main house(how weird was that?).

and it seemed like most of the people who actually lived at collinwood(liz,roger,david,maggie,mrs.johnson)were convieniently absent much of the time so that characters like quentin,bruno and jeb could come and go at will.
i don't lke it when the house just becomes this generic backdrop from all of this and not a specific person/family's house.

p.s. why are there so many spoilers on this topic?the subject is really just where did a specific character live.

a couple of years ago(before i was a member of this board)i attended a party at the upstate n.y. home of artist rob pruitt(the house itself something straight out of d.s.)where they were supposed to air a documentary about the show.there were several fans there(besides alot of hipsters drinking beer)but unfortunately the person who supposedly had a tape of this documentary never showed up.

i don't know if this was a copy of the documentary under discussion here.

but please,we are all going on the same gossip.yes,a certain actress had an affair with a certain married,rich and soon-to-be-accused-of-his-wife's-attempted-murder man.yes,a ceratin actor left the show during a period of alcoholism.yes,another actors' death frequently gets called into question.

but what's with all the scandal and secrecy?where is all the drama here really coming from?

where shall we start?

for the first several episodes maggie wears that short blond wig.then for some time she wears her own shoulder length dark red hair.when barnabas is holding her captive she wears an elaborate period wig to better resemble josette.when she's at wyndcliff she wears a fall that hangs loose to her waist and she continues to wear some version of this throughout the 1967 episodes.for awhile in 1968 maggie wears a full on wig.the red flip with bangs she wears during the plot when she becomes trapped in the mausaleum.when she becomes governess at collinwood she again wears her own hair for awhile.when the storyline returns to the present after 1897 again we have maggie in a number of falls.in one episode i just watched from 1970 she wears a very vicki-like style with the front pulled back and a fall hanging down her back.

and all this without even mentioning the period wigs kls wore during the time travel storylines.

i caught a good one last night.

when liz and carolyn are taking sactuary at the rumson house on little winiward island jeb phones liz with some instructions.he's supposed to tell liz to pretend that she's on the phone with mrs.johnson but instead tells her something like "under no circumstances are you to tell anyone mrs.johson called".liz however follows up with the intended dialouge and proceeds to pretend that it's mrs.johnson on the other end of the line.