I was going to say that Mrs Johnson never kept any secrets--apart from the fact that her son Harry, who was for a time working odd jobs around the estate, was an ex-con--but then I recalled the whole premise of her original employment at Collinwood.  I always wanted a scene where Mrs J could be reminiscing to one of her old cronies, "I was Burke Devlin's spy!"

I love, love, LOVE the scene where a drunk, lurching, giggling Carolyn is informing all and sundry in the PT 1970 drawing room, "I know ALL the secrets!"  Priceless stuff.

G.

I know of a Benefactor who is not only Mysterioso, but *exceptionally* naughty.  Ahem.

Poor dear Julia looks as if she just slipped an exceptionally BITTER pill into her own mouth.  But then, Barn so often WAS a pill to our dear Doctor. 

Maybe she's trying to bite back the loud laughter that bubbles to the surface at the thought of giving Barn a good brisk bitch slap.

I can just hear Julia bellowing a la Ralph Kramden, "To The Moon!"

G.

Hey Joey, it would have been a wonderful idea to interview John Lassell.  I don't own the relevant DVD sets, so don't know whether any interview footage with him was included in the recent releases of Dr Guthrie's episodes.

I am afraid that if he was not interviewed for those, it's unlikely ever to happen.  I also have no idea whether he was ever invited to attend a DS Festival.

G.

One of my all time favorite Carolyn moments--which I was going to mention in a thread some months ago about bitchy moments among All Who Live at the Great House--is when Nicky Blair is turning on the schmooze and the charm and Carolyn informs him frostily, "Mr. Blair, WE are a very old New England family."  You could have seen the icicles forming on Blair's moustache, and his smile took a delightfully fixed turn.

It's one of the many moments that makes the much-abused Adam and Eve storyline a truly GREAT time in the history of Dark Shadows!

An unrepentant 1968 fan,

G.

I thought the same thing, MSC.  I could imagine Rod Serling solemnly intoning:  "Witness a room ... not so much a chamber of horrors, as a void of the soul ... a wide, empty place in life's road where too many wayfarers have washed up for life's last hurrah ... the address, Collinsport, Maine ... a burg that's just one more destination in that unknown region of the crepiscule we call ... The Twilight Zone."

Room 24 doesn't need air conditioning because the room temperature has the perpetual chill ... of the morgue.

G.

Hi Philippe,

The first box in the Collector's series (i. e. the very first episodes aired in June-August 1966) is also on sale for $24.99, I believe.  I finally ordered the set and it arrived on Saturday.  I had a lovely hour test-driving the discs; love the new menu and Alexandra's interview footage (which is new to me, but I think had been previously released, perhaps on the videotapes?).

A funny thing to me is that the music they use for the menu is music I always associated with Angelique.  One of the cues is one I always think of as "Angelique's spellcasting music" and another one (the one that pops up when you click on the episode guide menu) I call "Angelique's evil delight!"

To me, this music tells the viewer:  "we know that THESE discs are all about the beginning of Victoria's journey ... but keep watching ... there's a WITCH in her future!"

We Ancient Blood fans do have our ways...

G.

Hey Taeylor, of course I don't mind at all.  You write brilliant, witty, amusing posts, and I'm proud to have you for my "Cousin" in the Shadows!

Just to set the record ... straight (?!?!?!?!?!) (and Dear God, please do not let that string of punctuation turn into one of those sickening smilies), I was told by a veteran DS fan of the Ancient Blood (as am I)--for the new folks who may be reading, this means a fan who was around in the 1960s for the original broadcast of the series--that he had heard from a friend that Don Briscoe had done a shoot for Colt Magazine, a publication popular amongst a certain select circle back in the day.  Given the nature of that remarkable magazine, we may presume that Don appeared in the best apparel nature could have provided for him--i.e., his birthday suit.  Unfortunately, 1960s issues of that magazine are rare as the proverbial hen's teeth, although there are archival collections--one at Cornell that I know of--where we may finally be able to track down more information regarding this rumor.

So, it wasn't really Gothick just erm, um, *fantasizing* *wink* about such images--although I have to admit that since hearing the tale, I HAVE amused myself mightily by imagining with all the vivid powers at my command just how special those photographs could be!

cheers!  G.