Rumson House and PT Set

[Raholt]

I happnened to turn on DS this morning and watch as Julia discovered Angelique in 1969.  What I saw that I had never noticed in all the times I have seen the series is that the set used for Angelique's house is a slightly altered version of what will be the Parallel Time room in Collinwood not long from now.

I guess because I dislike this part of the series so much, I had never paid attention to this before.  When I saw it this morning, at first I thought they had skipped to Parallel Time and then I realized where they were.

Just goes to show that you can watch an old show over and over again and still find something new it it.

Ricahard Holt

[Philippe Cordier]

I am anxious to see this week's episodes. Friday's second episode showed what I assume to have been the exterior of the house.  I'll have to replay this, but it looked like a stately white house with white pillars.  I hadn't seen this exterior shot before ... and it isn't too far off my conception of Angelique's home on Little Windward Island in my unfinished Angelique story.  Later, however, the exterior shots were of some cheap-looking natural-wood exterior paneling, something that looked like a cabin that might have a cookstove for a kitchen ...  I have refused to accept that those upcoming exterior shots of the house were actually of Angelique and Sky's home.  Someone somewhere got it wrong!

I'm puzzled about this discrepancy (unless I'm somehow wrong about this) and will have to stay tuned ...

[Gerard]

Is there really a Little Windward Island in Maine?  I'm too lazy to go look it up.  I always thought it woulda been neet if they had Mr. and Mrs. Rumson living in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Gerard

[Debra]

I believe you are right Raholt.  It does look very much similar to the parallel time room at Collinwood.  Im sure they re-use these sets over and over again anyway.

I noticed also that the room in which Maggie was trapped yesterday looked very much like one of the rooms in the old house basement.

Deb

[jennifer]

Is there really a Little Windward Island in Maine?  I'm too lazy to go look it up.  I always thought it woulda been neet if they had Mr. and Mrs. Rumson living in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Gerard

i don't thinkso Gerard but there is a Windward Islands in the Caribbean
st vincent and the grenadines are part of it! always thought Sky bought this island and named it himself but could be wrong!

jennifer

[Philippe Cordier]

I forgot to tape Monday's shows!   

Did anyone notice if they showed the exterior of Sky's and Angelique's house?  If it was shown, was it the stately white mansion with the pillars, as we saw briefly on Friday (one of those DS slide deals), or was it the tacky little cabin in the Maine woods that we'll be seeing more of?

[Raholt]

I believe you are right Raholt.  It does look very much similar to the parallel time room at Collinwood.  Im sure they re-use these sets over and over again anyway.

Deb

Yes, several of the sets were redressed and reused or did double duty.  The set for David's bedroom was also the tower room set.  The study set was Roger's bedroom set, but it both case the rooms were redressed to look some different.  Also portion of one set might show up as part of another, but this is really the first time I have seen a set used over again, as a different place, being so close to its original look. With the exception of the style of window used in the set for Angelique's house, the doors, the fireplace, the placement of the corriodors were all the same as the PT room.  My theory is that since this set was used so little in this storyline that they decided to get as much mileage out of it as they could so they added a new window and used it as the PT room in the East Wing of Collinwood.

Raholt

[Debra]

I forgot to tape Monday's shows!   

Did anyone notice if they showed the exterior of Sky's and Angelique's house?  If it was shown, was it the stately white mansion with the pillars, as we saw briefly on Friday (one of those DS slide deals), or was it the tacky little cabin in the Maine woods that we'll be seeing more of?

I didn't see it so Im assuming it was no shown on that day.   I had missed Fridays episode so I was looking forward to seeing the exterior of the house.

Deb

[Philippe Cordier]

Yes, several of the sets were redressed and reused or did double duty.  The set for David's bedroom was also the tower room set.  The study set was Roger's bedroom set, but it both case the rooms were redressed to look some different. 

Do you agree with the theory that David's room is the room directly below "the tower room," as some claim?

I always thought that if that were the case, someone would have mentioned at some point that David's room was located in the tower.

If it's simply a matter of re-using a set, then maybe we aren't to infer that David's room is in the tower.

Did anyone notice if they showed the exterior of Sky's and Angelique's house?  If it was shown, was it the stately white mansion with the pillars, as we saw briefly on Friday (one of those DS slide deals), or was it the tacky little cabin in the Maine woods that we'll be seeing more of?
-Vlad

I didn't see it so Im assuming it was no shown on that day.  I had missed Fridays episode so I was looking forward to seeing the exterior of the house.

Deb

Thanks for responding, Deb. The house looked something like Rose Cottage from 1840, if you're familiar with that.

[Raholt]

I assumed that David's room was below the tower room.  The windows in his room are similar in design and placement to his room being in the tower portion of the house.  The shape of the room also would lead you to believe that was in the tower portion of the house.  However, when they referred to the Tower, they usually referred to the Tower Room, meaning the top room in the tower and what was below it was never mentioned.

From the 1795 segment, we learn that what is David's room was to be Jeremiah's room and that it was the first door on the right at the top of the stairs.  If you say the stairs are in the center of the house, then yes that would put David's room below the Tower Room.

Frankly, because of major inconsistencies in the way the house is setup in the series and the real house, just looking at the exterior, I gave up ages ago trying to make the two make sense.  It is just not possible.  Given the location of the front door in relation to what they show as the drawing room windows (the one's with the lights one) it would be a fair walk down that wing and that is not the case.   So years ago, I took the same frame of mind I have about Gilligan's Island having all they have for a 3 hour cruise and decided to just take it on face value and not worry about it making sense in reality.

Raholt

[Philippe Cordier]

I noticed that the "Dark Shadows Program Guide" summary for the episode where Julia meets with Sky Rumson and sees Angelique's portrait is said to take place in Sky Rumson's "office."

[Philippe Cordier]

I noticed that the "Dark Shadows Program Guide" summary for the episode where Julia meets with Sky Rumson and sees Angelique's portrait is said to take place in Sky Rumson's "office."

I noticed that said program guide also states that (Leviathan) Michael trapped Maggie Evans in a "crypt." Hmmm ... looked like an ordinary storage room at Collinwood to me ...