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Number 204. October 18 2009.

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Hello, Dark Shadows Fan,

ShadowGram (SG), The Official Newsletter & News Source for Dark Shadows (DS), announces the following breaking news in this Online News Update "bulletin."

--- PALEY CENTER SURVEY – FAVORITE TV VAMPIRE

*** PALEY CENTER FOR MEDIA - SURVEY – VOTING NOW OPEN

The Paley Center for Media is holding a "TV Vampire (S)Takedown" – a vote for "Who is the Greatest TV Vampire of Them All?" The 16 candidates, including "Barnabas Collins", are listed with their TV show, airdates, brief and character description.

The poll is in response to the popular "explosion in the popularity of vampires.... Suddenly, it seems, audiences want blood."

Barnabas is described as follows:
"Barnabas Collins
(1966 to 1971)
Dark Shadows' resident vamp was in the classic style, and actor Jonathan Frid's lovelorn performance made the gothic soap a cultural phenomenon. Barnabas was simultaneously romantic and cruel, a potent combination that had female viewers swooning over their bon bons during his late sixties run."

Fans are encouraged to go to the Paley website and vote. http://paleycenter.org/tv-vampire-stakedown

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Admin note:  Also see topic--

TV Vampire Stakedown

Gothick, could the mansion have been an Irish castle?  And the vampire uncle only fed on the British, so he was rewarded by the locals (good Patriot that he was) by having access to their cattle?

If so, does this look or sound familiar?-- http://www.librarything.com/work/2229488  (Though the girl's name wasn't Jane; one of the reviewers seems to be confusing her with that better-known governess.)  The earliest publication date I'm finding for it is 1970.

See also:

Groovin' tunes at Collinwood

It was still active as of 2008.

The voiceover refers to Charity as "a possessed victim."  I wish I'd remembered that during a debate (another DS site and a lifetime ago) about whether she was experiencing an actual possession or not.

Magda seemed quite shocked by the news that a full moon was imminent.  You'd think she would keep better tabs on something so important.

We see both gramophone horns-- the black one shows up in Charity's room, and the flowery red horn is currently in Quentin's room.

Magda and Quentin assure each other that Petofi skipped Quentin while punishing everyone else in the family because he sympathizes with his cursed nature, and that Quentin is the only family member that Petofi doesn't hate for the same reason.  But this contradicts what came out of the big man's mouth.  In #801/2, Petofi said that Quentin would be spared from any truth spells because he is the only person in the house who admits the truth about himself.  There was also something about Petofi only helping him for a price.  But shouldn't M & Q have been talking about "empathy" rather than sympathy anyway?

There was an odd transition during Tessie's haunting of Quentin.  She tells him that she will be with him that night, and we immediately cut to Quentin in closeup with his back to her as he begs for mercy with his face in his hands.  I wonder if there wasn't supposed to be more of Tessie, especially since we got only a very brief glimpse of her grotesque makeup.

I agree with other posters that Pansy's spirit behaves differently from what we saw of her in life, but I think her violent streak in situations involving the Q man was explained during a recent voiceover:  "...for Charity Trask, mad and jealous, has tricked Beth into drinking a glass of brandy that contained poison."  Pansy's loss of Carl and her obsession with Quentin have irrevocably changed her.

That must have been a much more innocent time.  Frankly, if someone today suggested a scene in which a highstrung minister broke in on a couple in a room in which one party was chained to a post, the raison d'etre might be an entirely different one from what we get here.

ROFL

What a marvelous Friday cliffhanger!

I imagine that in the beginning the idea of the writers was to emphasize that he was only a gypsy king, but right now the name is sticking out like a sore thumb.

His name doesn't bother me since the gypsy musical I mentioned a while back had King Johnny Dembo as its lead character... and Chita Rivera as "Anyanka," who was the daughter of another gypsy king and was to marry Johnny's son.  Surely that can't be a coincidence, right?  (Donna McKechnie's future hubby Michael Bennett danced in the chorus when it was on Broadway, btw.)  As for the title, aren't they only kings of their own tribe?

Then Dan found out she had secretly married!  She was promptly released from the show.

Other than her 1967 marriage that was all over the society pages?