Gerard, I'm dying here!  Just the thought of Hallie slapping Quentin around... oh boy!

*tipping hat in salute*

G.

Dear Amanda's hairpiece would have gone FLYING had Buzz ever taken her for a ride on his hog.

I can see Roger in one of his drunken bouts of hot-rodding down the hill thinking it (the errant hairpiece) was a wandering armadillo, swerving dramatically, and winding up with another band-aid on his forehead.

G.

Today's slide show features one of my all-time favorite moments on Dark Shadows: Julia bitch-slaps Cassandra!  I'll never forget watching that for the first time way back in the Summer of '68.  My jaw was literally on the floor. And I gave an extra little cheer when Vicki told the smirking Witch "You deserve a great deal more than that!"  Great stuff!

As I've commented before, Julia got to slap more people than anybody else on Dark Shadows.  Once I made a video for a friend and part of it was all of Julia's slaps (that I could get my hands on) edited together.

I'm mostly drawing a blank on other characters who administered or received slaps.  I remember Naomi's great slap to Rev. Trask in 1796.  Anyone got any others?

G.

Darren, this sounds really exciting!  I look forward to hearing more about the set.

Best wishes,

Steve

What fun!  At first I thought he was going to say "Marie Wallace" when he was talking about the actress who helped him!

Thanks for sharing,

G.

Golly, what's the scoop on the DS music CD set?

I already have 7 or 8 CDs of DS music, but why not get more??

G.

What a great thread!  thanks to Pansity for getting it going.

I love all the historical costumes on the show, but I disagree that they were anywhere near accurate in the period.  The dresses worn by Naomi and the Countess are MID 18th century--1760s at best, I believe.  I read somewhere that the costumes for 1795 came to the production from a play or film for which they had originally been made. I've often wondered whether the availability of those costumes had anything to do with the date switch in the "origins of Barnabas" storyline from the original ca. 1837 date to the 1790s.  I'm by no means an authority, but the costumes for Joshua, Barnabas, Forbes and Jeremiah all look more Revolutionary War than Federalist to my untrained eye.  Anybody have a URL handy for men's clothing of the mid 1790s?  The arrival of Napoleon on the scene seems to have brought a lot of innovations in its wake--in fashion and elsewhere, although when I was reading Dangerous Liaisons I remember the notes saying that some years before '89 the women's clothes had already been streamlined and the character of the Marquise was Laclos's comment upon proto-feminist thought in the 1780s.

I do think Angelique's clothes in 1795 are more correct--for a lady of middling class but not for a servant girl.  The mob cap is a nice touch, of course.

The women's clothes for the 1897 serial seem a little nearer the mark to me, but a friend told me that the men's clothing (Quentin, Edward, et al.) was more 1870s than 1890s.  Carl's suits do look like old photographs I have seen of 1890s men's holiday wear--appropriate for a gentleman of (aspiring) leisure.

I'm not sure that people in early modern society had all that many changes of clothing.  I've heard Americans who travel comment that people of good background in, say, Italy, tend to have three outfits--the work outfit, the relaxing-at-home outfit, and the party outfit.  They'll accessorise those outfits with changes of tie, scarf, gloves, whatever.  The idea of a closet packed with 40 different outfits is an innovation of US consumerism of the 1950s and 60s.

Just a few thoughts from me on this topic...

G.