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    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    22 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

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    COLLINWOOD, 1897...Jesus Christ, it's STILL 1897...

    Summer is giving way to fall and my mind wanders as it does at this time of year. Time becomes meaningless, it dissolves, as though a tissue under a faucet.

    I'm on something of a sensory overload at the moment, and I'm having a hard time finding words.

    My fevered mind has been formulating all the meta-levels of stories and tales- not just within the series, but many of your wonderful stories about WATCHING THIS in the waning years of the 1960's and early ones of the 70's as the real life horrors of the world around you rendered those on the show quaint and compelling.

    the real DARK SHADOWS MOVIE should have been about the BEHIND THE SCENES MAKING OF THE SERIES, framed within the cultural impact it had on viewers- i can see scenes with a young man who leaves a Vietnam protest because it's almost 4:00 and  he missed yesterday's episode and DIRK BIT THREE PEOPLE... ALSO PERIODIC SCENES of a little girl recapping Summer episodes for her Vacation Bible School classmates, and- of course- an opening scene of CHILDREN HAULING @SS HOME between 3:30 and 4:00 contrasted with COLLEGE KIDS, HOOKERS, HOP-HEADS and WHINOS who were JUST WAKING UP as the familiar THERAMIN STRAINS came across the tube.

    AND just as the different universes of the past and the present come into conflict on the fictional show, so too does THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION of  THE ACTORS AND THE STORIES come into conflict with the ACTUAL  DAY TO DAY BUSINESS of those making it- two entirely different worlds which exist, oddly enough, on the same planet.

    I think you need a Dark Shadows break. I'm getting concerned!

    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    1 hour ago, Bethluvsfilms said:

    I understand that it was during the Leviathan storyline that the ratings began to fell and never quite recovered. I think Curtis himself admitted he was getting tired of the show by the time it was cancelled.

    Still, I did like the Parallel Time storylines and 1840 as well. The Leviathans started out promising but got more and more confusing as the story continued to play out.

    I forgot about Barnabas and Julia's brief visit to 1995. Poor Carolyn was a psychological mess and Quentin was just plain out violent.

    Quentin existed in 1995? I don't remember the Leviathan story that much except I didn't like it.

    I Just Watched...

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    2 hours ago, Bronxgirl48 said:

    Woke up at some ungodly hour yesterday with the t.v. on and appearing before me was a film I had never seen nor heard of before -- THE PRIVATE FILES OF J. EDGAR HOOVER.   I had fallen asleep in my faux chaise lounge when what sounded like the familiar strains of a Miklos Rozsa score wafted through my ears.   When the old Boomer eyes finally adjusted to the screen, they were greeted -- if that is the right word -- with Broderick Crawford, apparently essaying the title role.   Then in what seemed  like some '70's made-for-tv movie, up popped hearty Jose Ferrer, not-long-for-the-nursing home Lloyd Nolan, a dessicated Dan Dailey, two actors desperately trying to sound like JFK and Bobby Kennedy, June Havoc as Hoover's domineering mama, Jack Cassidy (portraying Damon Runyan) doing his John Barrymore-on-the-decline schtick, Lyndon Johnson by way of Andrew Duggan, Celeste Holm (garbed in some Ginger Rogers getting ready to dance with Fred Astaire flouncy outfit) as a Washingtonian society hostess, and in the most deliciously awful miscasting -- get ready -- Howard Da Silva as President Franklin Roosevelt!   

    We see John Edgar as a controlling, eccentric ****-retentive, sexually repressed, mean-spirited piece of work who, when hearing a fly buzzing about, shouts to his secretary "SOMEONE GET A FLYSWATTER, QUICK!"    The offending insect lands on Hoover's shoulder, whereupon a terrified staff member quickly dispatches it with one good whack.

    Unfortunately I conked out before this masterful biography came screeching to its inevitable conclusion.

    You didn't miss much! LOL. I saw it once, maybe last year.

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    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    Can someone who's an expert list the story arcs in chronological order?

    First it was the Gothic Soap Opera

    Then Liz' Blackmail/Barnabas in the present

    Barnabas in the past.

    Then they came back and it looked like the Adam storyline was starting (then Decades started showing the show from the beginning again, Barnabas, that is)

    Can someone list the rest in order? Just curious, how many of them they were.

    Did Quentin start after Adam??

    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    5 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:

    Look for the storyline to accommodate a vacationing or otherwise absent cast member. 

    Joan Bennett had wanted to do a limited run play in Chicago (per one of Kathryn's books.)

    Problem for the writers is how to explain the absence of a woman who hasn't left the house in 30 years.  A sudden business trip to NYC?  Clothes shopping in Boston?

    So they had Cassandra (Angelique) put a curse on Elizabeth to appear to have died, locked her in a coffin and put her in the mausoleum for about 3 weeks. I think they would occasionally show a shot of Joan with her eyes closed.

    But didn't she leave the house after it turned out she didn't kill her husband? She still stayed there? LOL.

    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    5 hours ago, Roy Cronin said:

    Look for the storyline to accommodate a vacationing or otherwise absent cast member. 

    Joan Bennett had wanted to do a limited run play in Chicago (per one of Kathryn's books.)

    Problem for the writers is how to explain the absence of a woman who hasn't left the house in 30 years.  A sudden business trip to NYC?  Clothes shopping in Boston?

    So they had Cassandra (Angelique) put a curse on Elizabeth to appear to have died, locked her in a coffin and put her in the mausoleum for about 3 weeks. I think they would occasionally show a shot of Joan with her eyes closed.

    ROFL!

    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    13 hours ago, King Rat said:

    The 1840 storyline concerned Gerard (James Storm) and the hand of Judah Zachery. When Barnabas and Julia were returning from--was it parallel time?--they were swept into the future and learned that the vengeful ghost Gerard had killed or driven crazy all the remaining Collins family. Barnabas and Julia went back to 1840 to prevent this from happening. Kate Jackson appeared in this story as Daphne, the nicer ghost, and Virginia Vestoff played the wife of the 1840s Quentin. It was a solid story with lots of twists.

    I vaguely remember it now. Thanks.

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    10 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:

    I read DON BRISCOE was also gay And apparently “the lifestyle” got out of hand. Also,  He was bipolar and had substance abuse issues and ended up being fired rather suddenly from the show- Leaving plotlines unresolved. 
     

    He strikes me as being a strangely erratic actor, but the character he is playing (Tim Shaw) is something of a puzzle. 

    He moved back down south and lived with his parents until his death.

    When “Dark shadows” became popular on VHS, the writers actually tacked on a five minute long epilogue to the last episode and explained that his character Chris Jennings actually did not have a happy ending.

    I thought Don Briscoe was Tim Shaw?

    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    14 minutes ago, jamesjazzguitar said:

    Yes,  the Quentin storyline was my favorite.   I wish Decades or other classic-tv network would show those years of DS.

    Instead Decades shows the same storyline (years),  over and over and over again.    E.g.  they have a DS marathon and they show the same storyline they did when they had the last marathon.     Does Victoria Winters have a side deal with Decades?

      

    Yes, they just repeat the same episodes. I think they just bought so many episodes to air, why they never go beyond that. My cable dropped Decades, but I'm not missing anything (DS-wise!)

    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    29 minutes ago, King Rat said:

    IIRC--and I think this was on a Dark Shadows website--as a young man, Anthony George had a nervous breakdown in Hollywood from the strain of pretending to be straight as he went after a leading man career in Hollywood. Working in television was apparently less stressful for him. He had a longtime partner. They apparently had an open relationship, and AG was known to make passes at newcomers on the show(s), according to other online sources. Anthony George's real first name was Ottavio, and either Wiki or imdb says that originally he tried using the name Ott George. Thank goodness someone suggested that Anthony was better.

    Ottavio definitely not a good name! :D

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    4 minutes ago, Bethluvsfilms said:

    They suffered the old Rob/Stephenson/Birdie/Chuck Cunningham fate too, huh?;)

    I think I saw STANLEY & IRIS a while back, but it's been so long I can't really remember the whole story. I do recall thinking that Jane and DeNiro had next to no chemistry.

    HUH? I don't recognize those characters.

    I'm sorry but I just NEED to talk about DARK SHADOWS

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    18 minutes ago, Roy Cronin said:

    Great thread bringing back lots of memories. 

    I admit to keeping notes in a composition book with significant plot points summarized.

    It definitely bogged down after the terrific 1897 storyline, which was when I think it's ratings peaked.

    The Leviathan plot was definitely laborious.  But I bet the cast had a great time by the end playing so many different types of characters:  the parallel time, flashback and parallel time within the flashback!

    I agree. The Quentin storyline was the show's peak. In popularity and quality.

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