Just a line to note that as far as I am concerned, the audiodramas are NOT original series canon.  They are their own canon.  One can consider them the same way one might consider fanfic--as suggestions with regards to explication of canon, but even well-written suggestions are only that--NOT canon.

It may be that as fandom evolves, this attitude will fall away and people will just see some kind of amorphous blob of everything that has ever been put out with the name DS on it--from OS episodes to the Gold Key comics to the Burton/Depp production and beyond.  To me, each iteration is emphatically its own universe, its own canon.

I actually thought that the way the Stairway through Time worked was explained fairly lucidly in the excerpts from Quentin's diaries Julia read out in the drawing room in 1970.  One of the most fantastical conceits of DS because they casually have Quentin anticipating Einstein's concept of space-time by around 90 years.  It is the kind of thing that will appeal to the steampunk crowd if any of them decide to start watching the show.

G.

From the descriptions of the film, Michael, it sounds as if most of them were descendants of that ill-fated 18th century gallant, Vodka Collins.  lol

cheers, G.

In the 1967 storyline, Barnabas, Vicki, and Burke visit a mysterious house one evening and Vicki finds a handkerchief embroidered with a monogram that begins with the letter F.  (I think it was F. McC. C. but it's been too long since I last viewed the episode to be sure.)  I like to think that that was one of Flora's homes and that this was a foreshadowing of Flora's introduction to the story, even though I realize that at this point, the writers had no thought of 1840 or characters who might become part of the narrative down the line.  Just one of those moments of DS serendipity.

G.

Maybe they just really don't have a clue what to do with vintage genre material, and the Burton/Depp project simply muddied the waters?

Not a fan of the box "art," btw.

G.

It says on the Classic Horror Film Fans board that Darren has confirmed on Mobius that the NoDS release is the unrestored cut.  In fact the same one that was prepared for TV broadcast a few years ago--2006 I think? So, if you DVD-Red the movies at any point since then, you pretty much have what they're selling.

G.

The audience seems to have written in complaining bitterly en masse about Frid's portrayal of coldly evil LeviaBarn, so I suspect the reaction to an evil Vicki, or even Moltke playing a well-written evil character, might have been equally unsophisticated.

It's interesting to note that the weeks of the introduction of the Daphne character in the 1840 flashback (not, be it noted, the character's original role as a ghost, and then somehow returned-to-life human, in 1970) present Daphne as a woman with a ruthless edge about her and a mission that certainly suggested her moral code was not in line with what the Standards and Practices office would have expected for a heroine.  And Daphne was the closest they ever got to having a Vicki-like character return on the series.

G.

I agree michael.  In her final episodes Alex looks really quite stunning. 

For obvious reasons, Lara Parker, particularly in her "Vampilique" phase, did get fairly lurid makeup.  So did Humbert Allen Astredo as Nicholas "Snidely Whiplash" Blair. 

G.