that sounds way cool darren,

could you arrange to have it screened at next years fest?it would definitely be a highlight.

i own NODS on video but have actually never seen HODS.they screened it at midnight at the 2003 fest but i was too sleepy to stay up for it.

if they show it next year i'll make the effort.

when i saw today's slideshow for episode #85 i had good reason for getting a bit nostalgic.

it was the very first episode of dark shadows that i ever saw!i'll never forget it.i saw it at a time when the sci-fi channel aired the show at 11:00pm.i remember being completely mesmerized by it and it was the starting point of this whole thing.

i commented on it extensively at 'luciaphil's idle thoughts'...which disappointingly seem to have stopped.

i think i'll dig it up at watch it at 11:00 tonight.

does anyone else remember the very first episode they saw?

patti,

while laura was indeed offered the cottage as a place to stay(in both 1966 and 1897)it's intersting to note that jeff clark was not offered the cottage or for that matter any of the numerous bedrooms at collinwood.i think that probably had to do with the social mores of the era.since vicki and jeff were romantically involved(but not yet married)it would have been "improper" for them to be residing on the same property.

instead he is invited to stay at the evans' cottage(basically a two room shack).but again,when sam dies,jeff offers to move out post-haste saying something along the lines of it "not being right" for him to stay there any longer.

again,i think that's why julia never moved into the old house even though she spent most of her time there.it would not have been "proper" for an unmarried lady to share a house with two men.things like that still mattered then.especially on a daytime drama(no matter how outrageous)that relied on it's advertising dollars from housewife-friendly products like dish soap and laundry detergent.

strangely carolyn offered the cottage to chris jennings(with whom she was romantically involved)but perhaps because amy jennings was staying at the main house and carolyn's mother owned the property it wasn't so much of an issue.plus they didn't really put carolyn on the same moral pedestle they did vicki.

now i bet all that is more commentary than you bargained for.

good ones buzz,

so true about the door never being locked at collinwood...but what with people showing up twenty-four hours a day why bother?
considering the contents of the old house basement the door is rather carelessly left unlocked much of the time.

there was however one time that i can recall at least the mention of a holiday.when laura collins first returns in november or december of 1966 and makes idle small talk with maggie evans at the diner maggie asks her if she's in town for "the holidays".

it's ironic that they went to the trouble of setting the show in a place like maine(that has very distinct seasons)and then doing absolutely nothing to try and replicate that.it's coats and blazing fires in summer and lush greenery all winter long!

this is slightly off-topic but whenever either the 2004 or the 1991 series come up people always start to project the series well into the future.

characters like adam,quentin and jenny as well as storylines like 1897 and 1840 didn't even appear on the original show until well into it's run and it was a daily show that produced over 1000 episodes.a weekly prime-time show only produces about 23 episodes a season.so in order to tell a story that made any sense they would first have had to establish a solid storyline in the present.then,as in the 1991 version,would perhaps have gotten into some of the 1795 stuff as well as it's sort of critical in understanding characters like barnabas,josette and angelique.

but the show would have to be on for many,many years before they could really get to these later storylines.perhaps decades.most prime-time show's simply don't last that long.

i'm sure i'm going to get majorly spoilered across this topic but there has been a development that has put me in quite a quandry.

i'm currently watching the 1897 storyline(specifically dvd set 14)which deals with laura collins.upon meeting her in 1897 barnabas recalls another laura collins(in an orange riding habit!)that he knew as a child in the 1700's(who is also of course the same laura collins who showed up in 1966 to claim david).

then he goes on to tell a tale that goes completely outside what had been any established fact upto this point.
specifically that his uncle jeremiah(who remember was supposed to be close in age to barnabas according to what was told in the 1795 storyline)had a wife before josette.laura stockbridge had been his first wife!

this threw me into a tailspin!there had never been any mention of this "first wife" ever from what i can recall.i watched the first laura collins story some time ago but from what i can remember she had been l.murdoch stockbridge then l.murdoch radcliffe and was not a collins until she married roger(presumably sometime in the mid-1950's).this throws the whole "cannon" out of whack majorly!

are there any thoughts/explainations that might help me out here?

david:"i don't know to explain it aunt elizabeth...but ever since miss winters came here i've been having sort of funny dreams."

liz:"!?*!?*!?*."