This (on today's front page slide show) is one of the shows I have never seen, and I had always wondered how the meeting with the big boys from the office had been staged.

I am about to die from suppressed giggles at that first image, though.  In my mind the same tune keeps playing, over and over again, and the words seem to gibber from the lips of a madman "You put your left hand in, you put your left hand out, you put your left hand in and you shake it all about, Burke Devlin does the hokey-pokey and he turns himself around, THAT's what it's all about!"

G.

Terry, I'm really sorry to hear about this.  How awful!  Particularly about the poor little fish.

As Denton Welch, one of my favorite authors, used to say--"Life is a raw deal." Indeed.

Best wishes,

Steve

I personally have no speculations, but there is a book that Pom Press published (maybe the title is Dark Shadows Resurrected?) that is supposed to include the notes prepared for season 2 of the show, had it continued.    You can get as good an idea as is available of where the show would have gone from reading those outlines and sketches.

Best wishes,

Gothick

I think it's a tie between which was more bizarre--Liz's Leviathan dream, or Jamison/David's dream.  I think the latter was more disturbing because it involved the death of a child, and the subject was handled in the dream in a matter-of-fact way that was far more chilling than the usual melodramatics (which of course we love).

I once heard no less an authority than the MB himself state he could not make head or tail of the LeviaLiz dream!  Shows you just how "out there" the thing was!

G.

Many thanks, Midnite, for the tip about Nimoy's Baggins serenade.  Another sign that truth is stranger (and sicker) than fiction.

And Mark, thanks for that breathtaking account of "the Shat's" brilliant thespianship in reciting the dramatic lyrics of Bernie Taupin.  Wow.

I missed SO MUCH by living abroad for most of the Eighties!

G.

It was always The Addams Family for me all the way.

Yet another sign of your greatness, my dear.

A Connie fan 4ever,

G.

Thanks, Bloggermeister, for posting that link.  I did spot a typo:  fans know that Lara started on DS in December of 1967, not 1966.

This is completely unrelated, but earlier in the thread I spotted a discussion of Plan 9 from Outer Space.  I have to say that I find Plan 9 far more entertaining than many more supposedly better movies.  It's well worth the price of admission if only for the scenes involving Lugosi, Vampira, and Tor Johnson.  The rest of the movie is off in a world of its own.  It's also one of those films like Rocky Horror Picture Show--you keep finding new realms of oddity upon subsequent viewings.

just my two drachmae...

G.