I don't mean to be critical, Magnus, but your ignorance is blazing through. First, it's spelled Jekyll. Second, Rebecca starred Laurence Olivier, not Cary Grant, and it so happens to be my favorite Hitchcock film, and the DS writers certainly did a good job in borrowing from the film for the 1970PT Angelique storyline. In case you forgot (and you probably did!), in the film Rebecca stayed dead, whereas on DS Angelique came back to wreak all sorts of havoc, and she had a twin sister, something Rebecca DeWinter didn't have!  There were plenty of original twists to both of the "ripped-off" storylines you deplore. Now that the episodes are on DVD, may I suggest you actually WATCH them, as well as Rebecca and any major film/TV version of Jekyll and Hyde you desire, including the fab Dan Curtis version starring Jack Palance! The next time you post something so venal regarding the DS storyline, be sure to check your facts first!!!!!
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Sorry about that ignorance of mine blazing through, and everything. So, what, I left an "l" off "Jekyll"?
I thought I'd stopped getting Notorious and Rebecca mixed up years ago. I don't know why I do that. "I don't mean to be critical."?? "Venal"?? I'm fully aware that the whole supernatural aspect with the twins, witchcraft, the wife coming back, was new. (To me. that may have come from someplace else too.) I guess that part didn't interest me so much, except the end of Alexis was unusually jarring. The storyline with Maggie's intimidation by Hoffman and her misunderstanding of the relationship of Angelique to Q, leading up to the window scene, was the same, and the payoff being the same was very frustrating to me. The Jekyll (I'm trusting your spelling on that since you're the expert)-Hyde part was tiresome to me. I don't care about any little details that might be different, nothing was fresh about it to me.
PT 1970 isn't an orphan child I've tied to the railroad tracks. Nothing to get angry about. You have some good points. I've had the videotapes since 2002 and have watched them repeatedly. I hope I get more out of PT someday.