I agree with anyone, but I also think that all the time traveling got kind of boring.
Vickis Ghost,
Yes, the time travel schtick did get a bit boring. (I believe that one DS fan even wrote a serial about the Collins family during 1870 in Dale Clark's excellent DS magazine, "Inside the Old House," a number of years ago.)
However, when the then Sci-Fi Channel was airing DS back in the days before the world literally changed on 9/11/01, we all had a lot of fun with Barnabas and Dr. Hoffman's brief sojourn into the future, to the year 1995.
Gerard, one of our most senior and most insightful posters/cousins here, posted a thread in which he suggested that there might have been certain future "disasters," which Barnabas and Julia
might have prevented while they were in 1995, such as HMOs, Roger Clinton and several more.
I also suggested that Mr. B. and Dr. H. might also have prevented the onset of disco music in the 1970s. For example, I posited that if DS had remained on the air until the mid 1970s, then some truly "timeless" group, like say, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, would have recorded a song, entitled, "Disco Dark Shadows."
(Maybe the great Sir Monte Rock might have even played "Disco Dark Shadows" during a scene in that Brooklyn disco, where we got to see the eternally youthful John Travolta do his best Denny Terrio impression in that cinematic classic, "Saturday Night Fever"?)
The ultimate disco insult, however, would have been having to see Barnabas, entering Collinwood, and attired in a leisure suit. Ugh!!!
So, many of us still have a warm spot in our hearts for Barnabas and Julia's visit to 1995, albeit a very brief visit.
Bob