since collinsport is such a small town and everyone seems to know one another i assume carolyn,maggie and joe must have known(or known about)each other most of thier lives.

since carloyn didn't go away to private school they must have even gone to high school together(although joe and maggie seem to have a year or two on carolyn).was a rivalry between the spoiled and popular rich girl and the daughter of the town drunk already in progress?especially when it came to that cute joe haskell!did maggie have her sights set on him even then?i wonder if maggie even had to drop out of high school and get a job to help care for pops,fueling further her resentment?

when talk comes up about a "new" version of d.s. i think it could be cool to do a "prequel" that focused on the teenage years of these characters.sort of a gothic "90210".they must have had fascinating backstories.they could include the jennings brothers and even a young harry johnson(who would so be the token gay character).
perhaps there could be a parallel storyline that covered vicki's formative years at the foundling home.

i would so watch this show!

people often complain about the d.s. styles but i love them.

the fashion was one of the first things that attracted me to the show.i was like "why do these women who live in this nowhere town in maine have up-to-the-minute sixties fashions and hairdo's?"(thanks ohrbach's ).i love how stiff the fabrics are.some of the dresses look like they could stand up on there own.and the color combinations are insane!(please don't forget maggie's "warhol" inspired floral-print quilted maxiskirt).

as a child of the 1970's there was a moment that me,my sister and my mom all had the same "dorothy hammill" style bowl cut.the sixties styles are way better!

i just recently watched alexandra moltke's final episodes and i didn't so much want to kick the t.v. in as throw myself across it and weep!

i never thought about dan curtis holding a grudge against her.i got the impression he must have cast betsy durkin out of sheer desperation.it was obvious from these episodes that her departure was extremely abrupt.there was no sense of finality to them.vicki stormed into the house,ran up the stairs,exchanged words with julia and that was it.ms.durkin premiered only three episodes later with scripts that were probably already written for alexandra.there must have been virtually no time to audition new actresses.

b.t.w. i haven't watched ms.durkins episodes yet...but i'm sensing a kick-the-t.v. moment coming.i'm so smitten with ms.moltke i can't imagine anyone else playing victoria.

thanks luciaphil.

these were the exact episodes that first got me interested in the show.i first saw them at a time when sci-fi ran the show at 11:00pm so that has to be at least five years ago...does anyone remember when the show aired at that time?
at the time i was sharing a brownstone(as gothic as any d.s. set)and sometimes i used to watch t.v. with my landlady so she caught these episodes with me.when i started to watch on video she always asked me about two things...joan bennett and that girl locked in the attic.after awhile it got too complicated to summarize in a few words as we all know.

even then it amused me how carolyn kept going on about how she was having "the best night of her life" when it was so lame-o!she was a girl of very limited experience at the time.

thinking about these episodes always makes me very nostalgic.

kind of OT...after having the same cable service for more than 3 years i just discovered i get the food network.it's way up in the 90's and i just never ventured that far on the remote.i love cooking shows so i'm glued to it.today i caught this chick sandra lee's show.i knew i'd heard her name before and thought it might be here and sure enough...

today she made a "chili omelette" that had like two eggs and a pound of chili dumped on top of it.served with a spicy bloody mary.

you're right luciaphil.she's scary. appologies for the off-topicness

this came up over in "luciaphil's idle thoughts" but i thought it was starting to get a little off-topic so i'll post this question here.

when nicholas relieves cassandra/angelique of her powers why is liz still under her spell?i think she's even visited by angelique in a dream which re-establishes the curse after ang is "something else".

i haven't seen the show all the way through so how does liz come to be out from under this spell?i'm assuming she doesn't spend the rest of the series run with this preoccupation with death/being buried alive.

barnabas doesn't mention angelique to anyone in the present time until after 1795.strange.it's not until after vicki buys the painting of angelique that he thinks to mention it to julia.

months later julia says something to willie about ang and he'd never heard of her either(and,like julia,never questioned barnabas about how he became "what he was").

of coarse none of this had anything to do with the writers not knowing how he became what he was until probably a few days before the storyline started.