Ravishing!

G.

Glorioski, Taeylor!  Is this thread Diva Central, or what?

I'm SWOONING, Dahling, from Diva Overload!  Utterly, consummately magnificent!

G.

I thought the little girl who played Sarah was really, exceptionally good.  She projected the quality I felt was needed in the character just beautifully.

I only ever saw this episode on VHS once in the mid Nineties, and remember very little of it.  I remember thinking the whole business with Professor Woodard was truly beyond Velveeta on the cheese scale.  And, sadly, a harbinger of things to come in this series.

G.

I know at one point in ca. 1968 it showed up with its skullbones scotch-taped together.  I thought that was some sort of ultimate benchmark of Dark Shadows--like Barnabas delaying the start of a take to complain that his coffin was too short.  Priceless.

G.

I read what Nelson Collins wrote and thought he gave a very fair review of the episode.  I absolutely agree about the sloppy writing.  The whole thing with Woodard was handled so shoddily, and in the next episode, it all slithers into gratuitous, embarrassing schlock.  I really wonder whether the influence of the network suits to have more typical Eighties style horror elements inserted into the production was already making itself felt at this point. 

I loved Barbara Steele's scenes, as mentioned previously, but Nelson has a really good point about our beloved Dr Hoffman's  dodgy lab methods.

I can't get over Julia's manicure.  Every time I see those nails, I wish there had been a sequel to the Natassja Kinski Cat People with Steele as an older Cat Matron, perhaps similar to Elizabeth Russell's character in the original Cat People from the 1940s.  Meeee-OWWW!

Watching it again last year, I confess I was intrigued by Ely Pouget's performance as Maggie.  I thought that character needed to be more fleshed out and Pouget's energy made me want to see more.  Why on Earth was she banging Roger?  Was this ever explained?  Forgive me if I'm not sticking close enough to the actual action of this specific segment here.

Now where's that shot of Joe Haskell's bared butt cheeks? 

Mournfully, Gothique

I thought Carolyn really needed a Daddy.  The way she hero-worshipped Roger when Vicki first arrived showed quite clearly that she was desperate for an older male to fill the void left in her life by the long-ago departure of Paul Stoddard from the scene.

G.

How interesting.  It's nice to hear from someone who was an adult fan back in the Sixties.  They used to be mentioned in articles about the series, back in the day.  Remember the doctors who refused to see patients between four and four-thirty because of the show?

G.

That point is definitely worth stressing, MB.

I read years ago about a homemade porn movie in which Barbra Strreisand had supposedly appeared in the early 1960s before she became successful.  The report described Streisand herself being shown a sequence from the movie and pointing out to others in the room that while there was a blurred facial resemblance, the lady in the movie had very different hands--shorter, more stubby fingers, compared to Streisand's own hands. 

I can imagine a fan of the times getting carried away with a casual resemblance and thinking he was seeing Briscoe in an old magazine, when he wasn't. 

Altruistically, for the sake of science, I would be willing to put in the hours if not days required to go through every issue of Colt magazine from the mid 1960s.  Even if it required sacrifice of time and energy.  For the sake of my fellow fans, I would do it!  and, uh, yeah, I would just be thinking of Dark Shadows the whole time *wink*

cheers, G.