My Mom DETESTS Dark Shadows.  Now she more or less ignores it, but back in the day she actually forbade me to watch it.  It was banned--the only TV show I can recall my parents banning from the house.  I think she happened to catch part of the episode in 1897 when the werewolf is attacking Judith in the drawing room and just thought it was WAY too violent for a child to watch.  I know she did think it was a bad influence on me and when I left home for college she went through my bedroom and made a clean sweep of every bit of DS memorabilia in plain sight.  (She still denies doing this.)

I used to know someone who described to me how when they were on vacation, his father drove him several miles to another town because the local affiliate did not carry DS (this happened more and more in '70-'71) and he watched the day's show on a portable set--in the back of the car!  Needless to say, I often had to put up with missing episodes when we were on vacation or if I had to stay late at school to work on a project.

From '69 onwards I had very few friends who watched it as religiously as I did.  I remember being shocked at a pool party in the neighborhood when several other kids were commenting that they had long since stopped watching it because it was "too confusing."  This was in the Summer of '69 around the time when Count Petofi first came on, I think.

G.

My Mom got very annoyed when I was most intensely involved with DS and my conversation was mainly a super-heavy rotation of these three sentences:

"I don't understand!"

"I don't know what you're ... TALKING about."

"I MUST."

twinkles,

G.

Hmmm.  Hope Darren will let us know whether this is going to be a legit release or not.

I "saw" Seizure at a local DS fans party about 12 years ago and recall very little of it.  I remember Troy Donahue looking terminally washed-up, Martine Beswicke scary and intense in what seemed to be little more than a cameo role, and Jonathan Frid screaming dramatically at some point (maybe while having sex with his wife?).

There was a great article on Seizure in Video Watchdog years back--you can probably find it on eBay.

G.

It looks very slick, but then, so did the promos for Blood ties...

G.

Michael, I'm so pleased that you also appreciate the red and blue dress.

In a way, I think it sums up Vicki's character in 1967 more than any other piece of apparel.  Even if it is NOT sleeveless...

Now, the dress that piques my ire is that ghastly charcoal-plaid thing with the naff bow sewn to the front that poor Julia gets stuck stumbling around in during the otherwise wonderful Tom Jennings storyette.

I was truly appalled when they brought that thing back in one of the Summer '70 episodes.  That, and that HIDEOUS orange tweed thing!  Ack!

but, I'm not bitter...

Steve

I guess I am the only viewer who thinks Vicki looks charming in the red dress with the blue trim.

As regards Maggie and Sarah's escape from Wyndcliffe, there were scenes in the original script for this show that had Maggie hitching a ride with a truck driver.  The script for the deleted scenes was including in a 1980s fan publication, The Introduction of Barnabas, published I believe by Kathy Resch/TWDS.

G.

I thought the fangs on here!'s promo page for "The Lair" were reminiscent of the false-fingernail fangs some of the ladies on DS sported .  (I have a theory that not only KLS as vampire Josette, but also Marsha Mason as "Audrey the Leviathan Vampire Girl" had false fingernail fangs.)

G.

Thanks for switching it back.  We don't have Firefox here at work, so if you return to the Lightning theme, I'll likely only be visiting here on occasional weekends.

With the lightning theme I couldn't make the site do anything or go anywhere.

G.