The February 19th Episodes

A few things that struck me:


Ep #431 - Barnabas asks: "Why do we never learn to leave the past alone?" Apparently that's one question he did indeed never learn. 


Ep #693 - Whoever thought up Stokes' pencil anology to explain David's possession should be commended because it was excellent.

It never fails to astound me that whenever a fire was required in a scene on DS, a real fire was actually started in the studio (often on a duplicate set). I suppose there really was no other way to do it, but still, they were always taking an awful chance.


Ep #954 - Great scenes between Angelique and Nicholas. Her anger and his glee are the perfect counterbalance to each other. And, as always, Lara Parker and Humbert Allen Astredo played it all to perfection.

It never fails to astound me that whenever a fire was required in a scene on DS, a real fire was actually started in the studio (often on a duplicate set). I suppose there really was no other way to do it, but still, they were always taking an awful chance.

Now you have me wondering what regulations dictated how those fires were set.  Can you just see a group of New York's Bravest standing around this VERY odd production set, keeping one eye on the fire and the other on the (no doubt) weird scene being acted out?...

Now you have me wondering what regulations dictated how those fires were set.  Can you just see a group of New York's Bravest standing around this VERY odd production set, keeping one eye on the fire and the other on the (no doubt) weird scene being acted out?...

Hey didn't you know everyone wants to be an actor. Maybe some of the firemen were actors, wanting bit parts. 

I'm sure they learned how to control the fires pretty well over time. I mean they constantly had those fires in the fire places burning, and even though they could just shut off the gas switch and kill it, they could always have caught the surrounding wood set, carpet, even the actors (especially LP with her leaning into the fire so much) on fire.

It never fails to astound me that whenever a fire was required in a scene on DS, a real fire was actually started in the studio (often on a duplicate set).

Do you mean a live fire on a blue screen set to be added to the action as required?

Nope. I mean that in Ep #693 they actually set the drapes on fire in a duplicate set of Stokes' room and shot it as if the fire was in the same set as Thayer David was. (They also set a real fire for the sequence of Laura and David in the fishing shack in Ep #191.)

That always astounded me too, the setting of a set on fire.

[spoiler]I read somewhere that Kate Jackson's dress actually caught fire during the filming of the episode where David and Hallie bring Daphne's ghost back to life. David was stomping on the hem of her dress, it had caught flame on a candle on the floor, and she had no idea what he was doing until taping stopped.[/spoiler]

Nope. I mean that in Ep #693 they actually set the drapes on fire in a duplicate set of Stokes' room and shot it as if the fire was in the same set as Thayer David was.

Ah, yes, I remember now.  I just watched that ep not too long ago.  I need to check that again.