And, Josette, how about William Shatner’s last scene in that “Thriller” episode, where we see Bill Shatner backing up in that locked room with that look of absolute terror on his face and we hear the sound of that scythe being whipped back and forth through the air?
You know, I’m surprised that the late, great Dan Curtis did not “borrow” that Grim Reaper idea for DS. I mean, I thought it was great when DC and the DS writers had Vicky buying that 18th century portrait of a beautiful blond woman and the trouble that painting caused at Collinwood, especially for Barnabas and Roger.
Well, it might have been cool to have seen Phillip and Megan Todd, acquiring that infamous Grim Reaper portrait at an estate sale or at a local flea market and then displaying it prominently in their Collinsport antique shop for sale. Heck, in addition to Jeb Hawkes, “sliming” people to death (Paul Stoddard, Sheriff Davenport and Inspector Guthrie), we could have also seen the Grim Reaper “slicing and dicing” numerous Collinsport residents , much to the Collinsport Police Department’s great consternation and embarrassment.
By the way, we never found out why longtime Collinsport sheriff George Patterson was no longer the top lawman in town. Was he voted out of office or did he just take early retirement and head south to either Myrtle Beach or Key West? And, after Sheriff Davenport was “slimed” (just like Bill Murray in “Ghostbusters”), who replaced him? Did the Collinsport council members conduct a nationwide search for a new police chief, like possibly, Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, NC or Steve McGarrett, head of the elite Hawaii 5-0 squad of The Aloha State?
The only Collinsport police chief we ever saw after Sheriff Davenport, was that unnamed sheriff in 1995, and he sounded like the Collinsport town fathers had recruited him from possibly either Birmingham, Alabama or Macon, Georgia. Oh well, like whatever happened to Adam and Tony Peterson, we’ll never know what
happened with the head of Collinsport’s men and women in green (jackets) and tan (pants).