Interesting.  In the first book cover, Collinwood looks kind of like the Addams Family house, while on the second, it's clearly Lyndhurst.

I am very curious to see this! Congrats to Stuart Manning for getting the contract for this.

G.

Great!  Thanks, Sara!

G.

Karlen isn't attending the DS Festival this year?  That seems quite strange.  I hope it's not due to illness.

I just saw Karlen in a 1973 episode of the short-lived Bill Bixby project, The Magician.  Karlen was excellent as a hired killer with psychopathic tendencies.  Very fine work from him.

G.

Interesting.  Someone asked if by "dashing traditional Vampire with a quirk" (or however the wording was), the person meant that Depp was costumed in a copy of one of the original Barnabas costumes, and they responded that the look for this Barnabas is "completely different."  Which is what one would expect.  It will be interesting though to see if they keep the ring and the cane...

G.

To me, streaming isn't as good as watching a DVD on the player that is attached to my television set.  I have a friend now who just watches everything on his computer and he doesn't care.  When I stream, I often notice hesitation, or it stops and starts due to traffic or bandwidth or whatever the hell it is. 

I notice in our culture a tendency to think that our tech and our resources are at a place that we imagine they could be, but they really aren't.  Like the idea that we're getting rid of all our books and newspapers and mags and going whole hog digital.  Well, some of us don't want to be staring at glowing screens 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 

I feel more fortunate than ever that I am privileged to own all the DS episodes on DVD.  Netflix track record around DS is not one of their finest hours as a company.  I think the consumer demand, and the volume of episodes, is simply beyond their capacity.

It's amazing and wonderful to me to see how popular DS continues to be after all these years.  I watch a lot of "vintage" television (am just catching up with a wonderful Bill Bixby series from 1973, The Magician, thanks to a generous and kind friend) and it's very rare for a series this old to be this widely followed.

G.

That was really fascinating to hear, Ed.  I'd read the print version of this long ago in one of your early publications.  Loved hearing the actual tape.

If you ever find the tape of your interview with Grayson Hall in one of those boxes, there are a lot of us here who would LOVE to hear that!

Best,

Gothick

Great Liz moments today in episode eleven and episode two hundred-something.  I particularly love the shot of a fearful Liz feeling Collinwood shaken to its foundations by what is transpiring in the cellar.  Just grand stuff.

G.

The Box for Count Petofi's Hand sits on a bureau in the hallway on the upper storey of the main fabric of Collinwood in 1966, the hallway along which the bedrooms of Vicki, David, and Carolyn are situated.  I like to think that the box was perhaps brought by Beth Chavez from Petofi's lair and left in her bedroom.  Perhaps one of the maids found it there and showed it to Miss Judith, thinking it might have been a valuable family heirloom.  Judith took a liking to the box and kept some of her jewellry in it.  After her death, Elizabeth decided to put it on the bureau in the hallway as a memento of a remarkable woman.


G.