Hey, Jean-Claude, you just quoted a line from a big song in that hit of stage and screen...

FUNNY MATRIARCH!

Yes, the inspiring story of an aging recluse who turns her life around with the aid of a young governess' love, a renewed zest for living, and some really spectacular gowns and hairpieces.

G.

Roger: Jeff, please leave the room NOW.  Vicki's already made it perfectly clear she DOES not want to see you in your boxers!

Jason: Miss Carrrrolyn, your boyfriend said he needs a change of pace, so I'm taking him up to my room to show him my ... etchings.  Yeah.  Etchings.  That's the ticket.

Carolyn:  @#$%!

Ooh, it's that hot road stallion, Buzzzz!  (sound of engines revving)  Jean-Claude, you really know the ART of pleasing a man!  (I'm referring to your skill with the capture button, sweetheart).

And Michael, it's great to see someone who really KNOWS the Sixties!  The ultimate laugh trio would be Paul Lynde, von Zipper and Buzz! Oh boy.

Penny, you ARE the coolest, spookiest chick!

Back a few years ago when the Sci Fi channel was working on an aborted documentary about DS, it's too bad they couldn't have filmed your basement, perhaps with a worn-out party-goer snoozing away inside!  I heard they were looking for a fan who actually slept inside a coffin, altho I don't think this is what they had in mind!

cheers, Gothique

Hooray for Francis Swann!  As I recall it, we still get some of Art Wallace.  I hadn't ever tracked that the whole real-time thing went right through the period when Wallace was writing the show single-handedly (so far as we know).

Do tell more about Francis Swann's novels.  If they're worth having, I'll keep an eye out on eBay (or alibris, or wherever).

Just have to comment that your remarks about Maggie and Carolyn crack me up!  As regards the Mistress of Casa Evans, I had no idea that they ran articles in the Sixties Readers Digest about how to handle your pet alkie, but how she behaves certainly sounds like chapter and verse from RD.

You never comment about the music, so I just have to note that I *love* the background music for that restaurant in Bangor.

More babble from me later on about these shows.  Thank you so much for writing.  I hope you are feeling better today.

Steve

Well, many thanks for posting that link.  I wrote that article years ago for what was supposed to have been a special Leviathans issue of Shadows of the Night print fanzine, and had not a clue that it had found its way to that website, since the editor stopped replying to my emails shortly after I submitted the article to him.

It's always nice to find out what has happened to one of "the kids" long after it left home...

G.

Oh, Jean-Claude, my dear, lovely man, you ARE Wicked!!!

G.