How unutterably groovy, darling!  A hot chick like Kathy Cody and a cast of Disney's best scrubbed!  I can't wait!

I wonder whether they also have copies of the "Golden Age of Leather" set with Cody's potboiler Girls on the Road (1972), which also features Ralph Waite and Michael Ontkean.  I heard a trailer for "Girls" on luxuriamusic.com the other day and nearly died laughing.  Cody's signature line, "WHUUUUUU ARE YUUUUU?" was inexplicably NOT featured in the clip.

G.

Just a line to say how much I'm enjoying these--and how pleased I am that you decided to continue!

*doffs cap*

g.

Glorioski, was it really 35 years ago?  Damn, I'm OLD!

As I've shared many times before, I'd read the show was going off the air.  That didn't make the indignity of the final episode any easier to bear.  I so desperately wanted one final glimpse of Barnabas, Julia and "today's" Collinwood before they rang down the curtain.   Sadly, it was not to be.

It was really bizarre when I tuned in at 4 p.m. the following Monday and in place of my beloved series was PASSWORD. Ugh!

Typing this now, I'm realizing just how much I've changed even though my love for the series has remained a constant.  I've lost all interest in current television.  I missed the final season of a show I had been following, Queer as folk, and I'm wondering whether I'll even bother watching the season when it is released on DVD eventually.  I heard the last season of that show really stank.

Although the final year of Dark Shadows had its dodgy moments, there were also some wonderful things.  I particularly loved the storyline involving John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, and Grayson Hall in the PT 1841 story.

G.

Ooh, Constance Ford!  I always regretted that she did not appear on Dark Shadows.

She's so deliciously baroque in the 1950s potboiler, The Summer Place--sort of a Donna Reed gone over to the Dark Side type of character.  Brilliant work.  I always wondered whether she knew Clarice, Grayson, Louis et al socially.

G.

Interesting paragraph about "Supertrain."  I completely missed it--apparently as did much of the rest of the nation.

I remember first hearing about it when I read a transcript of the 1982 fan interview with Grayson in which they asked her what she thought of the show.  She said something like "Well,I like the TRAIN."

Best, G.

My condolences to his kin.  He was one of the originals--a real maverick.

G.

That is fascinating, Petofi! Thanks for sharing.

More on the "networking front":  I'm intrigued by the fact that Jerry Stiller appeared in Grayson Hall's very first film, the now apparently irrecovably lost "Run across the river," filmed in the Summer of 1957.

Best wishes,

G.

Just found my old scan of it... I'm emailing it to you.  but I don't think it is 300 dpi *frowny face*


G.