WHO IS AT THE SWITCHBOARD???? The place is empty!

LOL  Dan Curtis only had to pay 4 actors, while the presence of 5 additional characters was merely implied by placing them at the other end of a phone line (Burke, the switchboard operator, Malloy's secretary "Alice" and his niece) or by doorbell pranks and damage left behind (David).  Those one-way conversations got boring after a while.

I have 2 words to describe Carolyn:  Daddy issues.

Jerimiah (I saw this spelling once)

It's on his tombstone. 

How about the fact that he won't look anything like his portrait?

You're welcome.

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First time Roger calls his niece "kitten" 

Love the outside shots filmed in Essex!

In small towns, apparently you could dial the Operator to get the time.  I don't remember doing that, but in my hometown you received a daily newspaper instead of weekly.

It seems Burke has imagined living at Collinwood.  Hmm.

Maggie:  "You couldn't pay me 100 bucks a day to work in that spooky joint."
Burke:  "Nobody asked you, Maggie. But they did ask Miss Winters."
That was really cold.

You can't fault Vicki for telling Burke to go to Roger for the answer to his question about him even though she knew the answer.

The book Vicki was reading:  America Sails the Seas

Rather than The Rover Boys series, David might have enjoyed The Hardy Boys, which is what little Midnite preferred back then at his age and younger.

When Elizabeth came down to the basement and found Matthew Morgan and Vicky, Vicky told her, "I was trying to explain!"  She wasn't.  She was just saying, "You're hurting me!" and stuff like that.

She tried as hard as anyone could to explain while confronted with a mean stranger holding a poker menacingly, but the sentence you recall is the only one he allowed her to finish--

Vicki:  "What do you want?"
Matthew:  (checks locked door) "What are you doing down here?"
Vicki:  "I was looking for..."
Matthew:  "Who are you?!"
Vicki:  "Now just a minute. I wasn't..."
Matthew:  "I asked you a question, Miss, and you better answer me. Who are you and what are you doing in the basement of this house?"
Vicki:  "I wasn't, I wasn't snooping around..."
Matthew: (grabs her and raises the poker) "I want the truth, Miss."
Vicki:  "Please, you're hurting me!"
Matthew:  "You want to hurt Mrs. Stoddard, don't you?"
Vicki:  "No..."
Matthew:  "Ah, you people, fooling around..."

I'm thinking that the worst that could happen to Vicki for asking probing and unwelcome questions was that she'd be fired from a job that she didn't want in the first place but felt compelled to take.  Apparently it was a worthwhile gamble (as Magnus mentioned) because an answer to just one of them might offer a clue to her identity, whereas remaining silent could mean that she'll never get any answers at all.  That makes her smart, not to mention brave, in my book.

If we can believe David's account of his father's words and behavior, we can add emotional and physical abuse to the list of the Great House's secrets.