I think it's a piece from a Count Orlock figure from Nosferatu. He's also known in some of the English prints and in the remake as Dracula.

My first book Was The Mystery of Collinwood followed by Barnabas, Quentin, and the Body Snatchers. This was 1976 and my best friend found a bunch of the books on his mom's shelf. Channel 56 out of Boston was running the show late night. I started watching when my mother would let me stay up on Friday nights.

Living in Newport, we heard the show had been filmed there. We had no idea where the house was. A guy told Jim where it was. Based on a picture from a Gold Key comic, he directed us to THE WRONG HOUSE on Ocean Drive. I'd only seen the show a couple of times and the picture was so snowy. We took photos of some random house and thought that was Collinwood for a few weeks. To be fair, it did look a bit like the house as drawn in the issue of the comic that featured an owl on the cover, #28.

I live 6 miles from the Mexican border and lucked into a few of those lobby cards at a "Ropa Usada" (used clothing store). They often sell various other items along with the clothes, including used books, magazines, and on that occasion, some posters. I could not believe my eyes. They were 50 cents each. The rest of the items were for Mexican movies.

I'm watching the E N D of DS.

Episode 1230...what the hell is the matter the camera/lights?

Shoot to Julia, purple/green, to Quentin, normal, fleshtone, then to Catherine, back to Quentin, normal.

They I believe were using 2 different cameras...was one of the cameramen on LSD?

NEXT....just started watching Ep 1231......GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Why would Brutus Collins be at Collinwood when it did not exist for more than 100 years!?!?

Thanks for letting me vent,

Patti

When I was in college, I bought quite a few DS audio tapes. 1841PT always intrigued me. I wanted to hear Frid and Parker in new roles for a change. I loved the story, but the PT concept really bugged me. It seemed to make some sense in 1970. The choices we make in this "time band" might be different from those in another, and so different versions of ourselves existed. I assumed that '70 Quentin was the grandson of PT 1897 Quentin. You had different versions of the family, but they were also familiar and it made sense if you viewed them as people who led different lives.

Then you get to 1841. Why is there a Julia? She's not the counterpart of Dr. Hoffman. There was no Julia in the family. Why was Justin the head of the family? Shouldn't it have been Daniel? Shouldn't Justin's descendants look entirely different? Is it fated that there will be a Quentin and Gabriel, even if they have a different father?

The history of Collinwood and perhaps even Collinsport seems to be totally different. The house is much older. How far back does the Old House go? Why does the family resemble the one we saw in the 1840 story if their pasts are so different.

It made no senses, so I went with the flow. I enjoyed the story very much. Morgan seems much more powerful and charismatic as a disembodied radio voice. The fact that my tapes from that period high quality compared to much of the rest of the episodes also helped. The 1897 shows were recorded mostly by putting a mike to the speaker. Annoying hiss and other background sounds marred the quality. The later tapes were almost certainly recorded by splicing the input wires to the speaker to get a direct, high quality sound. Other background noises were totally absent. They were almost as good as the ones I had on VHS or DVD.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the story.

Oh with regard to the cameras, I think there were times when one of them was on the fritz. I seem to recall a time in 1897 where we were getting similar glitches. I guess it was a consequence of the minuscule budget.

David Hurst, who played Justin Collins and numerous theatre, film and other TV roles, passed away on September 15 in Berlin, where he has lived since 2000.  He was 93.

Obits in German:
https://star-trek-tafelrunde.blogspot.com/2019/09/DavidHurst.html
https://www.warp-core.de/news/david-hurst-verstorben/

with thanks to Kosmo

He's one of the only people to appear on both the original Star Trek and Dark Shadows. I'm trying to remember if there was anyone else.Philip R. Allen was a cop in a DS episode and Captain Esteban Star Trek III, so he appeared in a  movie with most of the original series cast. He was also in Washington Behind Closed Doors with David Selby, Lara Parker, and Thayer David.

OK, I finally got to see it. Thank you for providing the link! It's nice to have a digital copy of it.

Quote from: Gerard on September 18, 2019, 01:52:01 AM

I guess all that rain kept everything green.  Plausible explanation.

Sorry. It rains frequently during the winter in New England. And in all my 60+ years of living here, there has never been one winter season in which the grass has stayed green and the trees have had green leaves.

Try again... 

Agreed. I grew up in Newport RI. The only green I saw in the winter was this oasis of spring near the heat vents from a laundromat. There was so much warm air, it never froze and you'd see grass and moss. It was bizarre but kind of fascinating. I'd often warm up there after walking from my house to the shopping center that lay about a quarter of a mile away from the laundry.

We'd have warm spells in the winter and frequent thaws. That's why the roads are so bad. I can recall a few times where it was warm enough to go without a jacket. When I was in college I was able to watch Dark Shadows on one of those freaky warm days. It got into the lower 60s and we were picking up a NY channel on VHF. I wondered if I could get New Jersey Network. Good news YES! Bad news, that day's episode was one of a few I already had on VHS! Damn!  But aside from days like that, winters were never warm enough to keep grass green throughout the winter.

The idea of a book signed by Alexandra Moltke is very tempting but I'll bet it will be pricey. The comic strip collection signed by Lara Parker is listed on the Hermes site at $95.00 which is way outside my budget for this kind of thing. I wouldn't be overly surprised if the Moltke book is selling for a similar price.

It would be pricey but I MIGHT buy it. Lara's autograph is very easily obtainable. Unless she's discontinued her website since I last checked, a person could buy any numbers of signed items from her at fairly low prices. I have numerous things autographed by her. Alexandra Moltke's signature is much more rare. I'd definitely at least consider buying a DS book signed by her if it was in the neighborhood of $100. I doubt I'd pay much more though.