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Calendar Events / Announcements '11 I / Re: (***DEFINITELY CHECK THIS OUT NOW**) Austin Live Theatre: Fan-Produced DS webseries beginning in
« on: January 20, 2011, 01:58:03 AM »
I too am intrigued, but I wish the writing had been a bit more original. It relies too heavily on memorable quotes from the orignal.  Still, there's a great deal to like about it so far.

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Current Talk '24 I / Re: hoDS/NoDS DVD Release?
« on: January 18, 2011, 11:44:35 PM »
I don't want to be guilty of taking us too far afield OT, but Adrian Paul said that Curtis had mentioned he wanted him to be Quentin. Joanna Going confirmed this in the interview I conducted with her for the '91 Concordance.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 17, 2011, 04:22:46 AM »
I was never able to pick up DS on the Martha's Vineyard station. Oddly enough, I would, on occasion get it from New Jersey Network!  NJN stations were 200 or so miles away, but on very cool summer days or very warm winter days, I'd be able to pull the signal in, often with a very good picture quality. One time I was watching Doctor Who and was preparing to call WGBH Channel 2 out of Boston. I was upset because they were showing the wrong episode of Doctor Who. The call letters for the station came up. Channel 2 out of FLORIDA had overpowered the Boston station!  I should note that WGBH was a fringe station for us. It was snowy and  fraught with ghosts. Still, that was a very bizarre day, one of those excetionally cool days we sometimes got in August.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 17, 2011, 02:08:51 AM »
This either proves I have NO LIFE, that I dread working so much that I'll jump on any excuse to avoid the stack of work I brought home, or both! In any event. I just made a spread sheet that tells me when rerun ep 234 SHOULD have aired on WMUR Manchester. Don't ask why I care, I have no other answer than to say that I am obsessed. If anyone but me cares, it's Aug 10 1978. It actually aired on Aug 28 of that year. It was scheduled to go off on Sep 15th, but projecting forward from the 28th, they'd have left off with Vickie literally hanging.  I think it's likely though, that they probably yanked the show on the first of September, the Friday before Labor Day. As a kid, I think I recall that being the day they premiered some of the new syndicated shows. That was not the case in the previous year with DS though, as Arsenault recorded in his zine it started on the 19th.  Ok..I have no life, I admit that freely........

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 17, 2011, 12:20:21 AM »
Quote from: Mysterious Benefactor on January 16, 2011, 11:38:12 PM
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According Issue Two WLVI 56 ran DS from April 5 '77-April 1 '78.  WMUR 9 NH ran it from Sept 19 '78.
Apparently his mind played tricks on him because he's a year off on both. But then mind tricks happen to all of us..
Actually, no, he got the dates right, which would be expected, since his zine was publishing this information as current news. I wrote them wrong here.  I started my post and probably had the correct years, then a glitch occured and I lost the whole thing. In a rush, I tried to recompose it and got the years wrong.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 16, 2011, 11:18:13 PM »
Quote from: Mysterious Benefactor on January 16, 2011, 11:07:36 PM
I don't know about the part about being compelled to pick up where WNBC had left off, but you're probably thinking of PBS station WNYC.

It was a PBS station, I believe it was channel 30. The part about being compelled is supported by a tape I have of a DS Special and an introductory piece that recaps the events leading from Barnabas being released from the coffin to the point where WNBC left off. I think Frid narrated it, but it could have been the annoying woman from the special that  kept calling the house CollinSwood.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 16, 2011, 11:13:42 PM »
Quote from: Mysterious Benefactor on January 16, 2011, 05:07:44 AM
And I went to high school with a Jeff Arsenault who lived in RI and who was active in fandom. Could that be who you're referring to?
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I am almost certain he's the same person. His fanzine, "The Collinsport Call" lists his address as Cumberland Hills RI. Although I lived in Newport for 23 years, grew up there, I'd never heard of that town. Is Cumberland short for Cumberland Hills or are they two different places?

According Issue Two WLVI 56 ran DS from April 5 '77-April 1 '78.  WMUR 9 NH ran it from Sept 19 '78.  Issues 7-9 do not note an end date in the editorials. Rerun episode 234 was audiotaped by me on Monday Aug 28th. It should have been shown on a Thursday (all ep. #s ending with a 4 or a 9 would run on Thursday if there were no preemptions).  Projecting forward from that date, it should have aired on August 11th, if my calculations are correct. I'm not rechecking. I'm procrastinating enough as it is! I have a ton of work I am SUPPOSED to be doing!  If one assumes they would probably have ended their run on Sept 15th (the date they would have run out of episodes if they showed them Mon-Fri every week with no gaps), they would have ended on the gallows with rerun 248. It's possible they ran them all, but it seems unlikely. Most stations make programming changes in early to mid Sept.  With no more episodes coming, I think they would have started something new in that timeslot at some point on or after Labor Day. I doubt they'd have cared at all about leaving viewers hanging, as Vicky was at the end of 1795.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 16, 2011, 09:55:54 PM »
Quote from: mscbryk on January 16, 2011, 05:28:56 PM
we totally got channel 56 where i grew up. spent many a saturday afternoon with "creature double feature". wasn't "dale dorman" the continuity announcer.

somehow DS escaped me.

YES!!! TV 56 had that guy acting very kid friendly, enticing them to watch The Flintstones, Batman, and whatever else was on during the after school hours.  I remember the on air announcement he made about Star Trek. It had been off for a few days and he alluded to them being on "summer vacation". I presume the station had been deluged with calls!!  I spent that summer reading a Blish adaption every day to fill the gap!

It's not surprising that DS escapetd your notice; it was on at 11:00 PM. I had a friend who had parents who let  him go to bed  whenever he wanted to; he's the one who told me it was on. Otherwise I doubt that I'd ever have noticed it. He also lent me a Ross novel, which got me interested in DS in the first place.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 16, 2011, 09:46:30 PM »
Quote from: petofi on January 16, 2011, 03:36:41 AM
Somewhere around 1982-83, WMTW out of Poland Spring, Maine ran at least the first year of syndication. 
Petofi

DS was reportedly removed from syndication some time soon after WLVI TV 56 ended its run in '77. There was a piece in either the Providence Journal, or the Boston Globe, or Herald or whatever that stated that. In spite of that claim. WMUR ran it in '77-78. I assume they ordered it before the deadline. In '82 or it might have been '83 WNBC relaunched a DS into syndication, although World Vision was claiming it was part of the same run that had ended some 5 years earlier, so they wouldn't have to pay more residuals. They offered it only to stations in markets where it  had not already run or was it only excluding stations that had not run it???  I know that after WNBC ended, another NY station picked it up years later and they were compelled to tart where WNBC had left off, even though years had passed!!

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 16, 2011, 01:00:57 AM »
I need to point out some things I may have remembered inaccaurately about the syndicataion of DS in New England. I just looked up stations in Vermont and cannot find a Channel 9. It is possible that I identified the wrong state. I'm quite confident I got the numerical designation, 9 correct, but wouldn't bet much on it. Those are details that I could have wrong. The dates are correct. I still have the tape, why I don't know!!!!  Also, I tell those newer fans who Jeff Aresnault is. He edited and wrote much of The Collinsport Call, a fanzine that was my introduction to DS fandom. Jeff moved from RI to NY. I lost track of him  soon after I finally met him at the Manhattan Shadows convention.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: Reminiscing About Watching DS
« on: January 15, 2011, 11:55:07 PM »
Channel 9 out of Vermont ran it from approx. the fall of '77-78.  Although well out of even our fringe reception area, their listings were in our TV Guide (Newport RI).  One weekend when my parents were away, I tried to rig my father's TV with various makeshift antennae made from various pieces of wire and foil. The best I could do was rein in a very snowy picture of the episode in which Joshua confronts Barnabas in the Old House. I recorded the almost totally garbled soundtrack on cassette. That episode aired on August 28th 1978.  Jeffrey Aresenault, who I blieve hailed from Cumberland RI (he was based somewhere in RI), wrote about seeing the first year of syndication again, on this channel after having watched it out of Boston. WLVI TV 56 had indeed carried it from the spring of '77-78.  From my best recollection, it probably premiered in early April and of course went off in April of the next year. WLVI cancelled it partway through the run, but relented and finished the syndication package. It ran without a gap; the calls started when TV Guide announced that it would be replaced by the "Best of Groucho".  Soon after it went off, the Providence Journal's TV insert carried a piece that stated that DS had a small but "vocal minority" and that it never got above a 1 in the ratings for 11:00 PM.  They also reported that World Vision had pulled the program from its syndicatoin offerings.  I think that Channel 9 was the last US station to offer the show in the '70s .  Can anyone confirm this?

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Calendar Events / Announcements '11 I / Re: Boris Karloff Presents Thriller Comes to DVD--Diana Millay a guest star/I got it
« on: January 09, 2011, 05:13:17 AM »
There are two disks with William Shatner, according to Netflix. He has an episode on 4 and 8. I didn't see the one with Natalie Schaefer until it was mentioned on this thread.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '11 I / Re: Boris Karloff Presents Thriller Comes to DVD--Diana Millay a guest star/I got it
« on: January 08, 2011, 04:51:39 PM »
I see William Shatner is on that disk too! I just added it to my Netflix queue.

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Current Talk '11 I / Re: What Was Your Introduction to DS Fandom?
« on: January 06, 2011, 02:14:12 AM »
I grew up in Newport RI and had vague memories of the show's original run. When my best friend, Jim brought a copy of Barnabas, Quentin, and the Body Snatchers to school, I had to read it. This was late winter/early spring 1976, so the show had just been picked up by WLVI TV, Boston. It was on 11:00 PM, so that meant that I'd only be able to watch on Friday nights and not every week by any means!  I scoured book stores, thrift shops, and sales of every kind in the hopes of finding anything related to DS. After the syndication run ended in Boston, I was sure I was the only person besides Jim who remembered it.

One day a lady in one of my classes at URI saw me reading a DS book. She brought me an ad for Jeff Arsenault's zine The Collinsport Call.  I sent away for information and waited and waited. I discovered later that he had recently relocated from RI to NY and his mail had had to be forwarded. In the meantime, I picked up a copy of Famous Monsters of Filmland and got the address for another zine. I believe it was The World of Dark Shadows. I'm not sure which zine arrived first, but they both had ads to other zines. Shadowcon was this distant dream. I knew I'd never make it to those early DS conventions! Fortunately Kathy Resch got in touch with me and told me about the Festivals. I'm not sure if their trip to Newport was before or after the first Fest. I showed them and Joe Collins around my hometown.

I was fortunate enough to work at the hotel where Jonathan Frid stayed during his first trip to Newport. He set aside some time to talk to me, and I carried his luggage when he checked out. Alexandra Moltke Isles stayed at the Treadway as well, but my boss kept it a secret. This was during the Von Bulow trial, and she didn't want me doing something stupid like asking the distraught lady for her autograph.

Through my invlolvement with DS Fandom, I've made many friendships that have lasted several decades.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '10 II / Re: New Message from David Selby
« on: December 19, 2010, 05:13:16 PM »
I agreed with nearly everything he said. He's a true humanitarian. I believe he's misinformed about Bill Gate's education plans though. I've been laboring under his High School Redesign for 5 years now. Before his revolutionary "Redesign" we taught 5 classes and  had a student load of 150. His plan upped that to 6 classes and 180 students. Under block scheduling, some teachers have 3 classes in a row, 100 min each. With two six minute passing periods in between, that's almost 6 hours without any real break. I had that schedule for two years. Now I "only" have to wait a bit over 3 and a half hours for a bathroom break. Keep in mind this increased productivity didn't include any kind of a raise. 30 extra students means more work to take home. The program also mandates more meetings, so I'm taking home even more work I used to do at school.

I am not going to turn this into and educational debate. I will read and consider any replies but will not answer them. I will agree to disagree.  I do not mean to detract from Mr. Selby's message, with which I am in near total agreement.

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