The last time I watched the film (which was many years ago now, on my VHS tape from the old Laserdisc--a friend made the tape for me since I have never owned a laserdisc player), I noted one moment when Joan is turning to look at Daphne where she gave one of those looks that made me think of the old Liz from '66-'67.

Wonderful captures MB!

In one of JF's interviews from the 1980s--I think it was the one that was published in a Baltimore weekly which I used to read when I was a student at Hopkins--he referred to hoDS as "practically pornographic."  I think he found it all really distasteful.  My perception, rightly or wrongly, is that JF's career went into hibernation for several years because he really did not want to do horror projects or be associated in any way with the genre and that was the kind of work that would have been available to him.

I'm sure most have heard of this, but Malia Howard's career biography of JF has been reprinted now.  For those interested in finding out more about what he did after DS, I am sure it is the best source available.

G.

Roger Davis must have found his role in RUBY (1977) reminiscent of his days on DS.  I found this trailer for the film.  It was directed by Curtis Harrington who did some excellent TV films in the same era, including THE CAT CREATURE with Gale Sondergaard in the kind of role Grayson might have played, and THE DEAD DON'T DIE.

The trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De7es8HMevw

G.

It's nice that something like this actually showed them a clip including Magda!

The guy might also have been remembering the spectral hand of Barnabas which appeared in a certain incident in 1795. Hard to say.  Most likely this was somebody who watched the show on Sci Fi in the 1990s.

G.

There were some wonderful photos of Thayer David browsing in an antiques store in my Scrapbook Memories, and a truly priceless photo of Katie, Grayson and Joan wearing black miniskirt ensembles for the funeral scene.  The photos are the main reason I have kept the book.

G.

I know I'm unduly fussy about this stuff, but IMO, had Clarice played Mrs. Johnson, the line would have sounded properly in character if she had said Davy, not David. 

When she spoke to him, I remember her calling him Davy.  But that could be a misremembering...

G.

I can see why all of this was either never shot, or cut.  I presume DC excised most of this before he even delivered his completed print to MGM.

I of course would have loved to have seen it all, especially Roger complaining that nobody would leave him in peace and quiet to get on with his Proust... and brandy.

G.

Hi Gerard, I might be misremembering, but what I recall about the Hermes Press edition is that they wanted to print all the Sunday strips in full color.  However they were having trouble getting a complete set of the original prints of the strips for reference purposes.

In the early 1970s I cut out all the Sunday strips and pasted them into a scrapbook I kept.  However, the local paper stopped carrying it before the strip had ceased.  I almost never got to see the dailies, either.

I did have the Pom Press book but gave it away to a friend several years ago.

G.

This is pretty close to off-topic, especially for this thread.  But at the moment I'm reading GENERATION LOSS by Elizabeth Hand.  It's the first in a series of three novels (to date) featuring anti-hero Cassandra Neary, a middle-aged punk survivor from the 70s.  In this first book, Cass travels to an isolated island off the coast of Maine where she encounters some very unusual people, and visits the ruins of an abandoned hippie commune from 1973.

One of the towns in the area on the mainland is called Collinstown.  I can't help wondering if that is a nod in our direction from Ms. Hand.  Her books suggest that she might have enjoyed DS both as a child and later on (she's around my age).

G.