Ooooh, I gotta jump in on this topic. I've had several DS dreams -- in fact, in true DS fashion, a dream is what brought me back to fandom in 2005. But my favorite DS dream is one I had about a year ago. It had Barnabas and Julia in a spinoff of DS, and had them....get this...running a day-care center together. Julia was the head, and Barnabas who, after being cured of vampirism, had found out he really and truly loved children, so he wanted to help. However, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't get it right, and so the show was more of a sitcom than anything. Barn and Julia retained their same "friendship" status (sorry, but I'm not a fan of Barn and Julia together), and they worked, well, semi-well together. It pictured sort of like the relationship in "Here's Lucy" between Lucy Carmichael and Mr. Mooney.
JF played Barn in this show more like the good parts of Edmund Blackstone, his character in the movie Seizure, combined with comic roles he's done over the years. It worked amazingly well, and showed off both actors in a completely different light from DS.
Julie