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Nice to see.

Memory cheats but I honestly don't recall ever being confused about what was happening on the show. I have read that the writers and everyone else got confused. I finally understood that when it was explained in the PomPress books that they regularly taped the shows way out of order.

Also, this article repeats the standard story that the plug was pulled by the network because of low ratings, when in fact the ratings were going up again in the final couple of months. As I have noted many times in the past, my personal view was the Dan Curtis himself told the network he was done. Of course, just how he got them to agree to that since presumably he was under contract to produce the show for them, is a mystery I doubt we will ever solve--minus help from the I Ching wands, of course.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / Today in Soap Opera History
« on: October 26, 2018, 05:31:31 PM »
Hard to believe this was 51 years ago!

https://www.welovesoaps.net/2018/10/today-in-soap-opera-history-october-26.html

Quote:

1967: On Dark Shadows, Dr. Julia Hoffman's (Grayson Hall) experiments with Barnabas Collins' (Jonathan Frid) blood went terribly awry and his youthful appearance reverted to that of a 175-year-old vampire. The horribly disfigured Barnabas accused Julia of having taken revenge on him after he rebuffed her romantic overtures. Julia denied the charge, but reveled in the fact that Barnabas had to cancel his pending rendezvous with Vicki.

I'm just remembering Julia's egging Barnabas on to attack Vicki in one of the two Old Barnabas scripts. Julia's character is written really inconsistently in those two shows. I still have no idea what was going on there.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / 2009 column about DS
« on: October 24, 2018, 08:40:26 PM »
A friend sent this to me, as Tommy Keene was a favorite singer-songwriter of his. I gather Mr. Keene is no longer among the living. Perhaps he's watching Dark Shadows in that eternal video lounge Beyond.

http://magnetmagazine.com/2009/02/17/from-the-desk-of-tommy-keene-dark-shadows/

cheers, G.

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I'm not a fan of the "modern" horror film, at all. But I think George Romero, Tobe Hooper, and William Friedkin actually invented the beast, for better or worse. The directors mentioned in the blurb for the Paley Center event elaborated on this new horror arena characterized by such elements as body horror, extreme gore, splatter, etc. Romero's decomposing zombies of 1967, Hooper's violent chainsaw massacres and Friedkin's onscreen torture of Linda Blair's body were what set the tone for what was to come.

Just my two drachmae.

G.

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That's hilarious about that screening. Dysfunctional much?

I have to admit I love the new music video. I loved seeing KLS as Liz and the fact that Miss Scott wore a gown given to her by THE Mistress of Collinwood makes it all the more special. I do wonder how some fans will react to the scenario portrayed in the film. Great casting for Barnabas.

Also, the star has GREAT hair... but then, I'm a huge ginger fan.

G.

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Interesting. I wonder if Christine is a fan of last year's indie underground hit, THE LOVE WITCH (which I didn't think was a very good movie, but it had great sets and costumes). Her look seems quite reminiscent of the title character in that film.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / Greystone--nice photos
« on: October 12, 2018, 04:43:21 PM »
Interesting article about Greystone, with really nice photos of various rooms of the interior as well as the grounds. I didn't know the estate had been used as a shooting location for the Bette Davis film DEAD RINGER (1964)--a delightful film.

https://www.abandonedspaces.com/uncategorized/shooting-location-in-hollywood.html

G.

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GHOST STORY/CIRCLE OF FEAR is a mixed bag--like many anthology shows (and most non-anthology shows). For me, the introductions by Sebastian Cabot are a highlight, but those were phased out after the first few weeks or months--can't remember how many were made with Sebastian.

Only 23 episodes were produced in total so when they say 42 shows, presumably some will be repeated.

I don't know if they make cuts and speed up some of the scenes, as has happened with other programs that ran around 52 minutes in the old hour slot from this period, when they get shown on such channels as DECADES. I guess if you have no other way of seeing it, it's better than nothing. At one time, I believe there were several episodes from GHOST STORY available on Youtube.

G.

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Oh good! I hope you are able to see "Warlock."

Best, G.

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MB, I hope you enjoy whatever you are able to watch of the Honor Blackman AVENGERS shows. I've become quite fond of them over the years. I think you may have missed one of my favorite episodes, "Warlock." It is the only story they ever did that involved a case of what was suggested to have been genuine occult activity. Guest star Peter Arne would have fit right in on DS.

I have stopped paying any attention at all to broadcast TV so for all I know, that "channel" (or whatever it should be called???) may have been available here for years. I only know about these things when a friend or co-worker mentions it in conversation.

Another friend said that the American horror show serial "Apocalypse" is doing a Witches vs Warlocks fighting it out to the death and the fate of the ENTIRE UNIVERSE hangs in the balance (yawn)... it did make me think of our favorite Witch throwing shade at our favorite Warlock...

G.

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That's a really fun role for Thayer. One of his better TV appearances with a good script.

On a rather obliquely related topic, thanks to a friend I learned that the "This TV" network has come to the Boston area. I think it is another of these channels with a mixture of retro programming and movies. I just looked at the website for the channel. They are currently running the Honor Blackman episodes of THE AVENGERS in their 5 to 7 a.m. morning slot (they run 2 episodes each weekday morning) as well as episodes of Roger Moore's THE SAINT, The Patty Duke Show, and other programming.

I don't know if "This" has replaced "Me" or "Decades" here. It may have done.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '18 / OT: CRUISE INTO TERROR (1978)
« on: October 05, 2018, 02:47:18 AM »
I'm watching this 1978 TV movie, CRUISE INTO TERROR, about the discovery of an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus by a troubled ship in the Gulf of Mexico. The dialogue is hilariously bad but the movie does boast a wonderful score by Gerald Fried (who I think composed for STAR TREK--some of the leit-motifs sound familiar) and a fun cast including such familiar faces as Hugh O'Brian, Lee Meriwether, John Forsythe, and Stella Stevens. Ray Milland as a professor looks and sounds so much like Sam Hall that I figured I had to post about the film on here. I wonder whether Grayson ever commented on the resemblance.

Ray Milland appears in several other Seventies tv-movies that are available on Youtube, including BLACK NOON with Yvette Mimieux and the deliciously awful LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY (with Tina Louise as a retired madam who is also some kind of High Priestess of Satan).

Link for CRUISE INTO TERROR--warning, this seems to be have digitized from a home recorded VHS tape; the picture is grainy and blurred. Reminiscent of watching one of these on a UHF station with foil-wrapped rabbit ears as we used to do for many years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SdqY8nbcAc&index=7&list=PL8VpLcXt2Cdl1ASk7phwGBJOXO-XTulQX&t=0s

G.


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It would seem that only five episodes are being broadcast, one each evening. I think the numbers are 210 through 214. I guess if they're going to run a total of 260 episodes, this will go one for quite a while.

G.

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Current Talk '18 / Re: My, How Times Change For Vicki...
« on: September 24, 2018, 06:55:13 PM »
I don't know what others think, but my conclusion years ago was that DS was so good IN SPITE OF Dan's presence and influence.

The one good thing I think about Dan is that the week he directed, which was that "Return to 1796" time travel flashback that happened sometime around February 1969, he did make use of a more dynamic visual style in how he shot the material. But I can just imagine what an ordeal all of that was for everyone involved since I'm not sure Dan was in sync with the dynamic they had developed for getting these shows out on tape, on schedule.

G.

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Current Talk '18 / Re: My, How Times Change For Vicki...
« on: September 24, 2018, 04:52:53 PM »
It was interesting to learn from one of the early recorded interviews shared earlier this year on archive.org that Mr. Isles had to send lawyers to the DS set before Dan Curtis (or whoever was in charge at that point) would release Alexandra from her contract in the Fall of 1968. Apparently she was a couple of months pregnant at that point.

G.

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