Alexandra Moltke sounded as though she might have a cold in the opening voiceover.
A long day for Joan Bennett and Louis Edmonds - lots of talking in the drawing room/foyer set, always on the same subject. It must have been hard to learn the lines, and there were some flubs. Bennett called Collinwood "Collinswood". She did it in another episode a few days ago as well. "Collinwood" is so much easier to say than "Collinswood" (at least I think it is) that the mistake surprises me. So I imagine Joan Bennett a little bit thrown by the soap universe over which her character is supposed to be reigning, and then I imagine her saying to her self over and over again: "Collinwood. Collinwood. Collinwood."
No extras in the shop today, so Maggie could sit and have a confidential chat with her pop.
There was a nice touch from Dana Elcar when he entered the coffeeshop. "A cup of coffee and...ah...one of those doughnuts." The "ah" indicated a spur of the moment thought, although the stereotypical cop would be more likely to make a beeline for the doughnuts the second he walked into the shop.
Then the Coast Guard reported that they had found Bill Malloy's body. We don't hear much about the Coast Guard on Dark Shadows. Suddenly I'm dying to turn Dark Shadows into an action show and see the search for Bill Malloy's body as it happened. Lots of stalwart stoic seamen with radios, and boats with loud engines, and seawater sloshing over everything. And rain. Yup, it's a completely different show.