I stumbled upon this via Google while looking for some shots of Magda for a friend's project.  If you enjoy a certain kind of dry, offkey humor, maybe you'll find this board as funny as I did.  It's this guy named James in London watching the 1967 DVDs and writing his own little synopsis/reviews of what happens:

http://www.soapchat.net/showthread.php?t=142843&page=4

He uses catchphrases for a number of the players--Liz is Joan Bennett (well, of course), Julia is "Dr. Tootsie", Carolyn is Groovy Sixties Girl, Willie is referred to as Harvey something or other (from Karlen's work on Cagney & Lacey), etc.

Here's a typical snippet:


"I cannot permit you to continue your existence!" Barnabas tells Dr Tootsie, but then she tells him she's been working on
this great new diet plan that could cure him of his vampirism. He's interested for a while, but then decides to kill her
anyway. That's when she tells him she's treating Maggie the Dead Waitress and that sooner or later Maggie will recover
her memory and blow the whistle on him, unless she is alive to stop her! That Dr Tootsie--she's so nuts.

cheers, G.

Liz did wear a coiled-snake brooch--really the height, the summit of Park Avenue elegance--when she was under the thrall of the Leviathans (aka LeviaLiz, as I like to call her).  It was stated in a couple of scripts that people wore naga (snake) themed jewellry as a means of recognizing one another in the cult.

G.

Golly, today's screen capture and caption really hits the target.  "If I could only think!" indeed.  Given that Chris seems to be on the point of leaving the room, perhaps the good doctor's sentence should be finished:  "If I could only think, I might remember where I put the prophylactics, Chris!  Chris! Oh, Chris!"

Love the brooch Julia is wearing on this day.  I loved the bangs from the 69/70 period of Leviathan.

G.

Claude darling, I was so entranced with the idea of Julia, Cassandra and Stokes having lunch together that I wrote an entire story about the episode, once upon a time.

I love your ideas about the meeting.  I really wish we had gotten to see more of THIS and less of Adam running around in that silly green sweater pawing himself or any female within reach.

G.

I wish there was one of those postcards available from the day when Julia and Cassandra had just returned from having lunch together with Prof. Stokes and enjoying "a fascinating conversation on the occult."  Both ladies were wearing gloves; I think Cassandra was wearing a lemon colored coat dress, while Julia was wearing one of her more tasteful suits.

MSC, I've been loaning the "DS The Beginning" DVDs to a chum of mine who has been swooning over them.  He is adamant that DS was NEVER so good as it was in '66.  Of course, he still hasn't had the chance to see Laura's introduction--he has vivid memories of her original storyline during the original broadcast in 1966/67.

G.

MB!  You know I SWOON over that capture of Magda! 

I now really understand why Magda was Grayson's all time favorite role on DS.

G.

My thanks to MB for showcasing Thayer David's vivid Mordecai Grimes characterization in today's snapshot.  Even though Mordecai only appeared in something like four or five shows, he brought an element of piss-and-vinegar realism to the unfolding of the 1840 plot that was sorely needed. 

Mordecai always reminds me of one of Thayer's later characters--Rev. Strack in the film NoDS.  Fabulous work.

I particularly remember a scene where Mordecai and Gabriel are spewing vitriol at one another in the drawing room.  If I remember it correctly, Gabriel makes Mordecai wheel him in, treating him like a house servant.  Grand stuff.

G.