oooh that PEN!sometimes i thought that we'd never see the end of it.i actually forget where it ultimately ends up.i'll have to read on to find out...

i beg to differ...the eagle hill caretaker doesn't work for the collins family.he appears to just work at eagle hill cemetery and it's not really made clear who he works for.
remember when eagle hill first appears it's a remote,nearly unused cemetery where ancestors of laura murdcoch(radcliff,stockbridge,collins) were burried.it wasn't the "official" collins cemetery(that ultimately never appears).later it turns up in the barnabas story but again as a remote location not directly run by the collins family.eventually the collins family cemetery stops being mentioned and eagle hill becomes the un-official catch-all for anyone who ever died in collinsport.

why on earth would mpi edit the dvd's?i thought that one of the major selling points of dvd was that they could include more than vhs due to it's compact size.the show was only about 23 minutes long minus commercials...why shorten that?
the vhs tapes (annoyingly)edit out alot of the other storylines during the first barnabas episodes to focus on him.i was told that the dvd's don't edit the show like that(you have to purchase the "collector's series" tapes to see these episodes in thier entirety).
i'm about to start purchasing the dvd's...i hope that they're not edited.

am i totally wrong in this?i always thought that grayson was brought in because her husband sam hall was one of the show's writers.and it was he who wrote her from a supporting character into the lead.

i noticed that on the show the character of maggie evans was the very first to wear the miniskirts that became the rage in the late 1960's.she was wearing them as early as 1966...a time when most of the other characters on the show adopted a more modest length of skirt.not including the older characters,carolyn's skirts rarely raised above mid-thigh,and vicki's hemlines generally hovered just above the knee.

so i was wondering if it was simply a costuming choice or was there a visual metaphor happening?did costuming decide that this said something about the character maggie.not that maggie was by any means "loose" but she was a working girl from "the wrong side of the tracks"(she was even rather brassy at first).did it set her apart from high-born-carolyn and virginal-vicki?
or did they decide that since maggie was a secondary charcter(before alexandra leaves)that they could be somewhat more experimental with her than the "heroines".after all she was the one barnabas kidnaps(they certainly didn't choose vicki for a reason).

while later on everyone including julia and elizabeth(unfortunately)sport the mini-lengths maggie was our pioneer!
any thoughts?

the episodes where vicki spends the night at the old house are among my all time favorites.she has great scenes with both barnabas and willie.and for some reason i found her to be especially pretty in these eps.

another great read luciaphil.i love your take on the various characters and thier motives.

on the subject of vicki's parentage...i'm with you.it's the most romantic possible scenario for the whole story but i don't really buy it either.for starters,the numbers just don't add up.for the situation to make sense elizabeth would have to have been an extremely young girl at the time of vicki's birth.but if we're to assume that the characters were close in age to the actors who played them,then vicki was twenty at the start of the show and liz in her late fifties.so she would have been in her late thirties when vicki was born.why would a very wealthy woman in her thirties give up her first born child and send her to some god-forsaken orphanage?and since vicki is just a year or so older than carolyn,that means that liz would have been married to paul stoddard when she was born.so if vicki was paul's child what's the big deal?if she was someone else's(jason mcquire?!)wouldn't her husband,roger,the servants or someone notice that liz was pregnant?and if anyone knew what would have been the point of sending the child away?and if she had to to avoid scandal,i think it's more in liz's character that she would have kept vicki  better and closer to home.perhaps adopt her and claim her as the daughter of some poor unwed housemaid.

anyway...joan bennett did in later years assert that victoria was indeed liz's daughter.alexandra moltke has also stated such in recent years.what i'm assuming is that they felt that they were "giving the people what they want".giving closure to loyal fans who were long disappointed that this major plotline ultimately went unresolved.it's very sentimetal on thier part.while liz was often very harsh with vicki in these early episodes she warmed to her greatly later and took on something of a "maternal" attitude toward her.

gothick, you can rest assured..."the anna nicole show" ranks in at #14.