Dark Shadows on ME TV's list of groundbreaking shows 50th anniversary

[patrickm]

Just saw on ME TV's website Dark Shadows was on a list of 8 groundbreaking shows celebrating their 50th anniversary. Also on the list was Star Trek, Batman, That Girl, The Monkees, Mission Impossible, The Newlywed Game and Family Affair. Pretty good company.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Excellent! If only they could run the show. Though they've said a few times that they can't seem to make a deal, which is really too bad...

Thanks for the heads up, patrick. 


(On a completely different note, if only I could forget Family Affair!!  )

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I see they also have Charlie's Angels' first cover of TV Guide as part of their 9 RETRO MAGAZINE COVERS FROM 40 YEARS AGO TO TRANSPORT YOU BACK IN TIME article.

[Gerard]

Milestone TV shows, all of them, whether fifty or forty years ago.  But, damn, do I ever feel old now.

Gerard

[Bob_the_Bartender]

I hear you, Gerard.  (Or should I say, "I feel your pain"?)

You know, as I looked at the photographs of all the surviving DS actors at the recent festival in Westchester County, I thought, well, we're all getting up there in age now.

Yet, I take comfort, knowing that the late, great Louis Edmonds used to refer to us as:

The Dark Shadows Kiddies!
 

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Well, to Louis, we were kiddies. 

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Well, to Louis, we were kiddies. 

Yes, from one generation to the next.  It really doesn't seem so long ago, that we were rushing home to watch the adventures of Barnabas, Julia, Willie, Maggie, etc., at 4:00 PM across the country (but, it really was that long ago).

[Gerard]

Bob, all I can say is:  Oh, dear.  The pain!  The pain.

Gerard

[Mysterious Benefactor]

You know what's funny is that during LIS Dr. Smith was probably younger than a lot of us are now...

[Gerard]

You just hadda say that, didn't you, MB?  You just hadda. 

One of my favorite episodes was "Visit to a Hostile Planet."  The Robinson return to Earth, happy as clams they made it home, not realizing they had passed through a time warp and landed in the upper peninsula Michigan in 1947.  The explore the lumber yard they landed in and Maureen and daughters Judy and Penny go into an office and see an old-fashioned telephone.  Maureen is totally perplexed on how to use it to communicate with someone.  That's not so far off.  Believe it or not, I've had students ask if they could use the desk phone (all land-lines) with a receiver and push buttons.  I tell them yes.  They look at me, perplexed, and ask:  "What do I do?"

Gerard

[Mysterious Benefactor]

You just hadda say that, didn't you, MB?  You just hadda.

Well, the even funnier thing is that just like when we watch DS, there's an odd phenomenon that characters who were older than us on any show still seem to be older because they were when we first watched them. I still perceive Barnabas and Julia and Liz and Roger and Stokes as being older than me. And on LIS I sometimes still perceive even Don and Judy as being older - but then reality hits and I realize I'm now twice their ages, or close to it!!      (I may even be older than their two ages combined!!)

[dom]

This happened to me the other day, my co worker and I were listening to a song on the radio and an old man I thought of as old enough to be my grandfather said the song reminded him of another song and after a minute of him wracking his brain he shouted out, "Family Affair" (by Sly & the Family Stone), and I nearly fell out of my chair. I must seem ancient to my five year old granddaughter.

[Uncle Roger]

The thing that really gets me is that I have outlived quite a few of them.