welcome to the board.

i have collected several of the marylin ross novels(and even read them).i have found them for as little as one dollar but have mostly paid between five and seven dollars depending on the place of purchase and the books condition.

if your book has the original illustrated cover(as opposed to the photo on the re-printings)it might be worth much more.since it says "first printing" it sounds like you do.good luck.

julia:"i'm tired of my dreary quarters at wyndcliff dave...i like it here.it's big,it's luxurious,it has that maid mrs.so-and-so to clean up after me.i'm not sure just how dave,but mark my words,i'll figure out some way to stay here...PERMANENTLY!"

with a few exceptions like joan bennett(who was a major hollywood star in the 1940's) and david selby(a major prime-time soap star in the 1980's)most of the cast of d.s. had relatively low-key careers in terms of mass audience recognition(at least before and after the show left the air).

some were well known stage actors but most of that work wasn't filmed.so unless you were there you never saw it.

but i was thinking...does this in a way endear them further to "us"?does it make them more "ours" than if they had had careers that cast them in numerous starring roles on other films and t.v. shows where they played other characters that became better known?

would we be as breathlessly excited at the thought a grayson hall or diana millay or lara parker sighting somewhere on the dial if they appeared on different shows all the time?or does the relative rarity of it add to the allure for us?

because this is the most prolific body of work for many of the cast members they can be defined by the characters they played here and that's "ours"(as they began to drift from the mass-conciousness when the show left the air 30-odd years ago).

i've never seen alexandra moltke or nancy barrett or kathyn leigh scott in anything else so to me they are vicki and carolyn and maggie.

anywho...just a thought.

yay!!!the brooklyn marriott was the location of my first fest two years ago...and it's within walking distance from my apartment .

personally i wouldn't vote for a re-edit.

as darren gross pointed out volumes 1-8 edit out the material not specific to the barnabas storyline.i found that very irritating.the other actor's work deserves to be seen too.remember one man's trash is another man's treasure.

and it's only a half hour show to begin with.minus commercials about 23 minutes.i would hope that our younger generation doesn't have such a shortened attention span that they can't get through a 23 minute show.
plus "unnecessary" things like the re-cap,the voiceover,the credits and even the occasional flub add to the shows distinct feeling.

i don't know gothick...try a massive black beehive and stiff suiting from ohrbach's and you might feel a bit "aged".

julia(to herself):"aaaaah.....i should have used PREPARATION H."