Everwood??? Good golly,what's up with THAT?

I utterly fail to understand the bizarre permutations of 21st century pop culture.

Too bad the people who wanted to request the release of the DS pilot weren't able to make their voices heard.

G.

Those are both beautiful shots.  I adore Thayer's work as both our Professor Stokes and "mad scientist/occultist" Tim Stokes.

Thanks for sharing them!

G.

What fun!  Being the Board Grump when it comes to new product, nobody will be surprised to hear me complain that I wish they had gotten the rights to Bob Cobert's original score... now, THAT would have given it that DS feel!  Still, this sounds as if it will be a lot of fun.

Am I the only one mildly hysterical to see that episode four is written by a gentleman named Scott WOODARD!

Julia... remember somebody...

Vengeance draws near, indeed!

G.

Hi Buzz, it was shown late Sunday afternoon, I think, in T'town.  I missed it because I needed to get home.  Actually, they might have only shown a clip from it in T'town.  Since I missed it (and my curiosity about the whole affair is at a rather low level), I'm not sure.  Perhaps someone who was there will chime in about it.

G.

In Tarrytown, the pilot was shown on Sunday afternoon, which is the slot they seem to reserve for the "big draw" events.  However, if they're going to have a live on stage thing, the pilot may have to be bumped to a Sat. slot.  Who knows.

Just remember, no matter what it says on the printed schedule, it is ALL subject to change at the last minute.

G.

This sounds like a total hoot!

I wonder whether more of Dynasty is going to be released on DVD.  The "season one" set came out over a year ago, didn't it?

I'd love to see the Michael Praed episodes.  I believe that "Sky Rumson" (Geoffrey Scott) was on some of them, too, as one of Alexis' boyfriends.

cheers, G.

Offhand, my favorite is the one where [spoiler]Charity Trask comes to the Old House (in the 1897 storyline) and muses about how wonderful Barnabas made her feel when he gave her wine that tasted of apples and warmed her with his love (I'm paraphrasing).  He looks at her slowly and thoughtfully, then moves in for the bite.  It's a great scene.

Of course, probably the most horrifying of them all is Old Barnabas chowing down on Carolyn.  It's amazing to me that the network censors passed that--presumably because they weren't really previewing every episode and their minds were elsewhere.... 1967 having been a rather eventful year![/spoiler]

G.

For quite some time, whenever watching the Summer 1970 episodes, I found it quite strange that Barnabas not only never fed, he never even really alluded to his bloodlust.  I've sort of put it together that Jonathan Frid really hated what he called "the fanging" and I think that DC agreed to let the writers ignore this aspect of Barnabas' character for entire periods. They did bring it back in high style with his arrival in 1840... apparently, this was followed by his walking off set one day and having to be talked into coming back on the show.

In a March 1973 interview, some fans asked Grayson Hall if it was true that Frid no longer wanted to play Barnabas.  She corrected them and said that what was true was that he no longer wanted to play a vampire and was adamant about that.  The role of Bramwell was created for the actor in Parallel Time 1841 to satisfy his desire to play "something other than Barnabas."  The original script for the second DS movie was a Return-of-the-Vampire scenario featuring Barnabas again, and Frid flatly refused to do it, which resulted in the story involving Quentin, Tracy, and the Jenkins battling Angelique's spirit.

I thought DS was just as interesting when Barnabas wasn't an active vampire, but as usual, I am in a minority.

cheers, G.