Hi Josette, it was originally an episode of the Gary Collins series (I'm probably the only person here who still remembers Gary Collins, lol), The Sixth Sense.  When Night Gallery went into syndication in the early 1970s, it was syndicated in a half hour format even though it was an hour show.  For some reason the decision was taken to combine 25 minute edits of Sixth Sense episodes even though those were full hour long stories, so the edits wound up being hack jobs.  If you saw the "Night Gallery" syndie version of "Through a Flame Darkly," there's no guarantee that all of John's scenes would even have survived the editing process--which is a risk in general with a lot of current repeats of old Sixties and Seventies shows, given that the current standard is about 43 minutes of programming per hour of air time.

The Sixth Sense was not nearly as successful as Night Gallery, and a lot of Night Gallery fans resent like hell the intrusion of Sixth Sense material into the packets of NG episodes.  I always enjoy the chance to see Sixth Sense--a lot, possibly all, of the episodes were up on Youtube last time I checked.

G.

Very cool.  Bil Baird's marionettes were all over the place in the Sixties and the Seventies but I don't ever recall seeing a photo of Bil or his wife before.

G.

Constance Ford made it brilliant.  I think she and Clarice were friends with one another btw.  Like Clarice, Constance Ford was a highly talented actress who became a regular on one of the Sixties soaps--I can't recall which one now. 

G.

A friend alerted me that this series is also available for free through hulu.  Or at least episode one was available.  I do not know if that means they will continue to carry it.

G.

I know I'm on the edge of getting way off topic here, but if you look closely when Ichabod wakes up from his "sleep" in that very witchy cave, there's one shot that shows his adorably pert nipple with exquisite chiaroscuro...

Just in case anybody out there cares.

I'll try to stop repeating this, but honestly--had the Depp/Burton version of Barnabas in 1972 been done like this... I would have been much happier with the results.  I played an interview today where Tom Mison mentioned that he had researched American speech patterns of the 1770s and tried playing the character with an authentic accent... the result was described as "inaudible" and "like pots and pans banging together."  I've read that Colonial Americans spoke with very flat vowels and an intonation much like what is today thought of as the Yorkshire accent... Tom mentioned another part of England.

cheers, G.

Nicholas' home is always called the House by the Sea. I remember the phrase from the lost Viewmaster booklet of long ago.  During the long years without DS, I read that booklet over and over again to give myself some time to commune with what I had once had.

If they were aiming for any kind of continuity then, yes, it would be the same house that Vicki, Burke, and Barnabas visited in 1967, which Vicki described as "a house by the sea."  Vicki found a hankie I've always thought might have belonged to Flora Collins (it had a monogram that could have fit Flora).

The set for Nicholas' house is nearly identical to the Lang palazzo.  I guess you get to choose for yourself where and what it was.  Love the scene where Roger takes Nicholas there.

G.

That's a wonderful photo of him. He is one s-e-x-y gent.

G.

I have a VHS tape of Gidget Gets Married and it's pretty bland fare.  Joan plays the sympathetic (and, of course, matronly) wife of some CEO-type jerk Jeff/Moondoggie, Gidget's hubby, needs to please to get ahead in the Stepford-like community they've moved into.

Joan only had a couple of scenes but looked elegant as always... and I could listen to her voice recite from the phonebook..

The movie might be on Youtube.  I noticed recently that Gidget grows up, which is a lot more fun, is there.

G.