Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 4, The Book That Never Was

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If DC had done another Shadows feature film around that time, I'd have been very surprised if it did not turn out to be yet another re-make of HOUSE OF DS.

I have no doubt that if DC had had his way, the film would have been a near total remake of hoDS - and the evidence for that is that's what he wanted the '04 WB pilot to be like. Thankfully John Wells and Mark Verheiden, the two other exec producers on the pilot, wouldn't have any of it. And the good thing about the proposed film is that Barbara Steele supposedly made sure the script had new twists and turns so it wouldn't be a near total hoDS remake. After all, DC had already recreated way too many hoDS scenes shot for shot (as well as from his version of Dracula with Jack Palance) for the third hour of the '91 Series. No doubt Steele knew it would be a mistake to do it again.

In some ways DC seems to have been a very elaborately crenellated version of a one-trick pony. At least when it came to DS.

Sad, but very true! But then even DC openly admitted that he didn't have a fresh idea in his head when it came to DS...

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And this is what the Innovation report has been reduced to in SG #70:

Like the proposed film, it will also be interesting to see what, if anything, is reported about Innovation in SG #71...

But thankfully SG #70 has some very nice things to share when it comes to other things that we've been following in SG, including '94 LA Fest photos. (And I still have material from what would have been Innovation's Book 4 to share - but I'm holding off on that...)

[Uncle Roger]

I may have mentioned this before but one of the mid 1970's fanzines (Dark Shadows Fan Clan, I think) said that Warren Publications was interested in doing a DS comic book but there was a problem about getting the rights. Warren specialized in black and white horror comics, so it could have been interesting. And Barnabas might have met Vampirella a lot sooner.

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   Interesting. I don't believe I've ever heard that. Thanks for sharing. 

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Updates from SG #70 about some DS merchandise:

Interesting that Abbelare was offering the watches for only $35 when their original prices were $75 - that was less than half price (and as recently as SG #69, $75 was still their prices, so I don't really see how the savings for both was $74 - but maybe Abbelare was using some form of new Math I was unaware of at the time - you know how they're always changing how to figure out Math  ). They must have really wanted to unload their remaining stock...

Though it's no surprise that AKI planned to discontinue the second Ben Cross Barnabas model - they did the same with the first as almost all their model kits seem to be available for a limited time...

And BTW, while interesting, this isn't one of the "very nice things" I alluded to sharing - they'll be coming down the road...

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Here are two item from SG #70 about the '94 LA Fest/'94 Atlantic City Trip:

And here's the first photo to share from the '94 LA Fest:

(Click here for a 912X340 version)

The next item I share from SG #70 will explain why Michael T. Weiss couldn't attend the Fest. But then, you might have figured that out on your own already...

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Here's the Michael T. Weiss section of SG #70:

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And here's an item from the LA Times that SG #70 shared regarding the '94 LA Fest:

And here's a photo of Jack Petty, who did make-up on the '91 Series:

Too bad SG #70 didn't share a photo of his wife DeeDee, who won a Hair Styling Emmy for her work on the show. She was also supposed to have attended and SG didn't say that she didn't...

[KMR]

And here's the first photo to share from the '94 LA Fest:

(Click here for a 912X340 version)

? Is that Barbara Steele in the middle with blonde hair?

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   Yup. Though I suspect it was a wig.

There will be a better photo of her from the Fest coming down the road...

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There will be a better photo of her from the Fest coming down the road...

Make that better photos because I was just glancing through upcoming SGs and more photos of her from the '94 LA Fest (and beyond) will be coming up...

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Here's SG #70's home video update:

Shocking that DS Vampires & Ghosts and DS Resurrected were postponed to 1995 - no one saw that coming, right? Yeah, right! And when it comes to one of them, fans shouldn't have held their breaths for a release at any time during 1995! 

And I don't know what extra footage is being referred to when it comes to the hoDS/NoDS laser disc. So far as I know, only theatrical and TV trailers for each film were included. Unless SG is considering the TV trailers as extra footage..

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Here's a solo photo of Stefan Gierasch that SG #70 shared from the '94 LA Fest:

And here's his CURRENT EVENTS - NEW DS PERSONNEL section:

Seems like he may have been friends with Danny DeVito, given that his recent credits here have him appearing in two of DeVito's projects. Or maybe DeVito just liked his work. Or perhaps it was a complete coincidence. But regardless of which it is, Gierasch was a very busy character actor, basically on a par with Thayer David, who seemed to appear in at least every other film and TV show after his stint on DS. And another thing they had in common was that they sort of played the same DS character, with David as Prof. Stokes and Gierasch as Prof. Woodard (as opposed to SG's erroneous identification of his character as "Dr. Woodard"), who was an amalgam of Stokes and Dr. Woodard...

[Uncle Roger]

I first remember seeing him on Another World, back in the late 1970's. He played Mr. Sykes, "a wire man", who was hired by Iris Carrington to record someone's private conversations for reasons that I've long forgotten. He wasn't on the show very long. Just long enough to flirt with Iris Carrington's housekeeper, Mrs. Goddard

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And here's a solo photo of Julianna McCarthy that SG #70 shared from the '94 LA Fest:

And here's her CURRENT EVENTS - NEW DS PERSONNEL section:

And the only reason I'm sharing that is because I was surprised so many of her roles have been associated with crazed killers. At least neither of her DS roles are among them. 

And incidentally, I checked her IMDb credits and there's no listing for 3 Rivers. Most likely that's because the title was changed, and the most likely candidates would seem to be When the Bough Breaks or A Bucket of Blood...