Fans,

I was surprised to learn that Christopher Lee's home was in Cadogan Square, the same address claimed (fictitiously, perhaps, but one wonders if it may have been the residence of Niall Bradford in the 1790s/1830s) by a certain cousin from England back in 1967.  This letter dates to sometime in the mid 1980s, I believe.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vincent-Price-Estate-Handwritten-Letter-From-Christopher-Lee-To-Vincent/312062051209?hash=item48a8590389%3Ag%3ABw8AAOSwlv9aemfE

G.

I think the comic book may have already jumped the shark. The dialogue exchange in the past two days has been absolutely painful. Though there's a kind of ironic appropriateness to Julia telling Barn he's "sanguine" on V Day...

G.

That's fascinating, Uncle Roger. And what an odd name for a Joan fanzine.

I saw Edith Tilles at one of JF's reader theater performances a couple of decades ago. She seemed very sharp and sassy.

Like so many people involved on the show, she obviously had no interest in the occult, or she would have known better than to have offered to send off locks of people's hair--a notorious element in voodoo doll spells...

G.

As someone who's lived in New England most of my life since 1986, it's always so blatantly obvious when a film or TV show is supposed to be set here and it's so obviously either Southern California, or Vancouver.

I love it in the old 1940s movies when we're supposed to be in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and I'm wondering if it's Topanga Canyon, Laurel Canyon or somewhere similar...

G.

Sebastian Cabot and a very young Doug McClure were also regulars on CHECKMATE. It's worth checking out.

DECADES does seem to repeat programming a lot...

G.

I obviously can't tell since I'm so unschooled in the 1991 series. I'm astonished I noticed the detail of Barnabas's hands in that one shot.

I remember reading a few years later how DC claimed that this was going to be a "blooper free" version of the story. Then people were writing into the zine letter columns and the BBS groups or whatever was around then about all the bloopers they spotted. The only one I remember was seeing a wristwatch on somebody in a 1790 scene.

G.

1991 DS fans must have been so excited when that initial announcement broke. Too bad they were disappointed.

Again, I am enjoying it thus far...

G.

One of today's drawings definitely feels like a continuity error. I don't recall Barnabas's hands sporting those Nosferatu-nails when we saw him take out the hidden coffer of jewels in the original 1991 episode.

G.