My friend (who I think became a fan of Tom Misor thanks to his role in PARADE'S END) was watching with Tumblr opened and said that she saw a new fandom being born.  After the first ten minutes, the photos, screen captures, and fangirl ravings began to cluster thick and fast.

The trailer practically played like an homage to Depp Shadows.  I have to say I would have enjoyed the latter a lot more had Barnabas been played along the lines of how Misor is portraying Ichabod Crane.  But I'll spare you the rant.

G.

Haven't read this particular installment yet but David del Valle's Camp David blog is always one of the most amusing, and info-fillled, places on the Net.

Thanks to Kosmo for pointing us towards it, and to Midnite for posting.

G.

It's really good to see you posting again Philippe.  Wishing you all the very best.

Sincerely,

Gothick

The Liz Montgomery episode definitely has some DS resonances and is quite cute.

My personal favorite episode may be "A Wig for Miss Devore" because I could imagine a similar story playing out with one of Lara Parker's Cassandra wigs some feckless aging actress comes across in a junkshop.  A tie would be this story co-starring Jo van Fleet and John Carradine... can't recall the title, but the ancient Witch Goddess Circe is involved.

Some of the episodes are really pretty mediocre.  The quality varies a lot in terms of the scripting.

G.

THRILLER was a show I always craved to see but whenever it would show up, it would be in some weird time slot or a channel we couldn't get (this would have been when it was in syndication in the late 60s and 70s).  I finally caught up with quite a few episodes some years ago but there's still many I have yet to see.

There are a couple where instead of doing one 50 minute story, they break it up and do two shorter stories.  In one of these Karloff plays a philosophical morgue attendant who can talk to the dead.  It's one of the creepiest, most poignant things I've ever seen on television.  If Karloff had done a cameo on DS, I'd have hoped he could have a role like that of the morgue attendant. 

A number of the stories have a definite DS flavor... I think you would enjoy the shows, MB, though I have no idea when you'd have time to watch them, especially with all the exciting new shows coming on this autumn.

G.

Since I consider Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, Peter Lorre et al to be spiritual grandfathers to DS, I thought it would be worth reporting that the cable channel Cozi TV is scheduled to show Karloff's final known appearance on film.  An episode of the Gene Barry series NAME OF THE GAME called, I think, "The White Birch," is supposed to air at 3:30 a.m. on Friday Sept. 20.  Please doublecheck your listings before programming your device.

It is said that this was the last time dear Boris went before the cameras; the episode was aired after his death.

G.

Some wag on Youtube has stitched together various scenes of Grayson's characters having meltdowns... mostly Julia, but I spotted at least one Magda scene and another of Aunt Julia Collins from PT 1841:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmfVofgcYT0

It's mostly Grayson screaming, wailing, and ululating, so if you live with people who are sensitive to unexpected or jarring noise, best to listen with headphones.  You have been warned.

G.