How intriguing.  Have any other photographs of this Barnabas portrait been published?

It looks as if this incarnation would have been the most Byronic Barnabas yet... glad to see they finally got the hair and clothes right for the 1790s... (although I'm a huge fan of the actual series' OTT let's-go-rococo version of 1795).

Best, G.

Heather, these are gorgeous images!  Spectacular!

Thanks so much for sharing all the goodies.

xo Steve

I love the Thayer David one.  Pity that doesn't circulate more widely.  I believe Bobubas does sell it.

G.

Ron Barry's interview with the Shadows stars is available on one of the commercial soundtrack releases.  I can't recall whether it's on Rhino or Varese Sarabande.  It is the one that has the 1969 Original Soundtrack album and the interview (a slightly edited version) follows as an extra.  That might be the one that included a Ron Barry phone interview with David Selby, as well.

G.

Hi Michael, how interesting.  Do the Masons always celebrate the Summer Solstice?

Please disregard if you can't discuss this due to your oaths, but, since you mentioned it...

cheers, Steve

Peter Bradford and/or Jeff Clark, hands down.

It's way way WAY down the list for anyone else anywhere near as annoying.  Maybe Hallie and Carrie Stokes?

G.

Just off the top of my head--PT Angelique seems more like an amateur Witch (which, actually, was a lot more how the original Angelique seemed until the period when she created her bat-familiar)--someone who had read some books and decided to see whether the stuff worked or not; when it did, she continued, but her interest in Magick was strictly practical and related to whatever goal she had before her.  I think that Tim Stokes, her stepfather, had a much more serious grasp of the occult. incidentally, occultists, especially those who haven't had the benefit of a fully-structured training, often wind up becoming alcoholics or drug addicts because they need something to numb them out from all the energies flooding their systems.

In 1795, Angelique seemed a lot more like a village hedge witch initially.  I think there was dialogue that indicated that her initial spell on Barnabas was her first attempt at operative Magick.  Subsequently, they made her more supernatural, and had her receiving magic powers as a result of signing her soul to Satan, as was the belief most extensively documented in the Malleus Maleficarum, the infamous "Hammer of Witches."  I prefered it when the character got her powers from her own knowledge of herbs and energies, not to mention her own formidable personal moxie!

G.

Just to interject my pet bete-noire about the stories set in "the PAWSSST" (I do adore how Joan pronounced that word)--namely, that a family with the standing of the Collins' in the 1790s, 1840s and 1890s would have had a full staff of servants (in the 1790s and 1840s, this would have been very necessary due to all the hard physical labor necessary to perform simple tasks of household maintenance).  Instead, we get Riggs and Stokes holding down the fort in 1795, and poor Beth (whom Judith keeps trying to fire) the only servant seen onscreen in 1897.  I can't remember any servants in 1840 apart from Hortense the Hapless.

The only time the house seemed to be properly staffed was in the 1940s, judging from the list of people Liz fired in '49.

G.