Aunt Abigail (a fabulous character, so brilliantly played by Clarice Blackburn) was the kind of person who must have suspected witchcraft every time the cook burned the scones or her bed was not properly made by the household help. It would have been child's play to manipulate the mind of somebody like Abigail into thinking Phyllis Wick was a witch; Wick would, in any event, have been the first to be suspected by Abigail and anyone who thought like her, since Wick was a stranger.

Once Abigail called in Trask, the professional witch-hunter, I'm sure the situation escalated quickly.

They gave Barnabas a moment early in the return to 1968 period where he reflected to Julia his perception that "the past is constantly reworking itself." I can't recall the exact words, but they were cool lines. Even if they were basically a case of the writers telling the audience that we shouldn't hold them to any expectations when it came to story continuity.

G.

Interesting that its final episode aired fifty-three years ago today. June 27, 1969. Which of course is a significant date in history for DS fans.

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I was looking through the IMDB episode guide for 'WAY OUT and a number of DS actors appeared in this series, including Mitchell Ryan, Dana Elcar, and believe it or not, a young Carolyn Groves.

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Fans,

The most obvious DS connection to this 1961 series, 'WAY OUT, hosted by Roald Dahl, is the music by Robert Cobert. This episode, written as a tour de force for legendary actress Constance Ford (who wound up as a regular on another soap), probably has other DS connections if one probed far enough. Teleplay was by Sumner Locke Elliott, and executive producer was David Susskind. The play seems to have been suggested by Jean Cocteau's famous one-act monodrama "The Human Voice," in which Grayson starred in the summer of this year, in a production at Pennsylvania's Hedgerow Theater.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_XX7AABsPU&list=PLQDQPZ3HQdzKaIecvPVGVQVCswLT0Bphy&index=5&t=0s

There was a nod to "The Human Voice" in what used to be known as the "Grayson Solo" episode during the 1967 storyline, when Dave Woodard's ghost was haunting Julia with harassing phonecalls.

All the surviving episodes of 'WAY OUT now seem to be available on you tube.

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I give KLS due credit... she infused life, luster and wit into very tired prose. The excerpt has her reading
 aloud a scene that, in a revised form, will be familiar to viewers of our show. It is one in which KLS herself was one of the players.

G.

More news. It says here that KLS is the reader. And there's a link to listen to a free sample (I haven't checked that out yet).

http://www.collinsporthistoricalsociety.com/2019/06/here-today-gone-today.html

The "temporarily out of stock" thing he say might mean that the production/distribution has been at least somewhat delayed, though at the end, it switched to "shipping."

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I still find it hard to believe that the publicity about a remake of the old Sixties TV show THE BANANA SPLITS as a hardcore splatter movie isn't somebody's twisted idea of a joke... but now, there's a trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R1-ZZTcTBY

This thing is going straight to video release, but guess what? There's going to be a television screening. Now, where would that happen? Whee else but on the home of the last standing outpost for extreme schlock left on the airwaves... the "SyFy" network!

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