Those are great suggestions, Prof Stokes.  There are a number of 1970s TV movies I would like to see get a proper DVD release.  One that's really crying out for restoration is The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, but there are many others out there...

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Somebody should let the guy know that you can watch the Rosemary's Baby sequel for free on Youtube now--at least, I watched there a couple of months ago.  Even though it had been described in a number of online reviews as unwatchably bad, I found it to be good campy Seventies fun.  And you get Tina Louise as the Madam of an upscale Bordello, earnestly chewing the scenery for all it's worth.  The funniest part involves this actress named Donna Mills (I hope I am remembering that correctly) who I think became an icon on Seventies and Eighties trash television.  Ray Milland and Ruth Gordon wound up doing parodies of the roles played by Gordon and Stanley Blackmer in the original film.

There are some truly classic horror films that desperately DO need to be released in restored versions on DVD--front and center in my book, apart from the two DS features, is Blood and Roses, the Roger Vadim film from 1960.

Schlock like the Bates Motel thing--does anyone really care??

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Right on with this thread, Cousin!  In some ways the 1966-67 Laura Collins storyline was THE BEST story DS ever produced, bar none; none of the later difficulties with sloppy writing, non sequiturs, poorly rehearsed actors, continuity blunders, etc.  As you watch it you can also see ways in which the Laura story was a try-out for the recipe they followed when introducing "the Vampire" a few months later.

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Fascinating.  I have actually been to Cotehele... wonderful memories.

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That's a beautiful, vibrant photo of David.  Much nicer than the one run in Scarlet Street a couple of years ago.

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And now I watched episode 3.  Mrs. Johnson in this version appears to be British.   Perhaps she'll get the movie Stokes line about the Bromwells in Cadogan Square?

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All I can ever say on this topic is that when watching it back in the Sixties, it somehow made perfect sense.  I now see how outrageously it flouts the continuity that had been established for Angelique.  I think that at that point, Lela Swift was the de facto head writer orchestrating the storylines, the position that DC himself had formerly occupied, and some fan reported from an old newsletter from 1970 that it was Lela's idea to introduce a storyline involving a romance between Barnabas and Angelique.

On some level, I simply accepted that this Angelique was the same person we had seen before, but this time, instead of her knowing of all that had happened since 1796, she was the immortal Witch who had roamed the earth since that time.  I don't think I actually remembered the lines that established that Angelique had been confined to Hell, first between 1796 and 1968, and then subsequently after her disappearance in 1968 and invocation by Quentin in 1897.

It actually makes even less sense that the Angelique brought back in 1897 would know and recall events from 1968.  I suppose one could argue that Barnabas's use of the dangerous magic of the I Ching had not only propelled himself backwards in time; it had also created some kind of space-time warp that allowed for Angelique's reappearance from her time in '68, AND Julia's subsequent visit as an astral body (one of the most idiotic of all their ideas, given the rules said to govern astral travel, but don't get me started).

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Great captures from those '97 ads MB!  It is strange how ... old they look now!  But yes, beloved, it was 14 years ago...

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