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Also, as far as evil döppelganger names go, “John Yeager” sucks. I am deeply disappointed in the dark shadows writers on that one.

Oops, It must’ve been later in the same interview. I’ll search for it when I get to work. It’s kind of worth watching, because he really goes through a whole laundry list of actors on the show and tells you what he thinks about them, all pretty positive stuff, but he’s honest. An ironY being, and I apologize to you Chris Pennock fans out there, but I Have not been terribly impressed by any of his acting in his various roles on the show thus far- Although I do admit to being, at times, very amused by his Rondo Hatton as Gabe Kaplan as Mr. Hyde routine.

apologies if i posted this already, but i think CHRIS PENNOCK mentions BRISCOES PROBLEMS somewhere in this clip....

I've read a lot of speculation it was tied to DON BRISCOE'S sudden departure for "personal reasons."

alledgedly BARNABAS and JULIA have a throwaway line coming up about how SABRINA and DON BRISCOE and AMY left town against their advice. and apparently it was later tacked on this did not end well. for SABRINA at least.

no, she's playing someone new- get this, PROFESSOR STOKES's recently orphaned NIECE who is LIVING AT COLINWOOD for some reason I do not know and who likes to "innocently" visit the bedrooms of the menfolk a lot. she's also going to be possessed and...it's complicated. she's only been on 3 episodes but she's irritating as ****

every time i promise myself i am going to watch something else i just go back to it. TUBI makes it easy to binge on them, it's one commercial at the start; a block of five short ones in the middle and that's all. they also cutoff the end credits, which to be honest, I don't like, but it means a whole episode can be viewed in around 22 minutes before it LAUNCHES you into the next one. I have also been bad and skipped a few here and there....edit- but not too many

also I'm miffed they let DENISE NICKERSON go (although she had that trip down the CHOCOLATE RIVER right ahead of her) and replaced her with this gutbucket JAN BRADY. All apologies to you fans of HALLIE, but whatever. She'll never make you happy the way AMY would have, DAVID....

1995 was so heavy, I'm glad we're back in 1970, but at the same time, I would like to amend my previous statement about the abject stupidity of trying to inject some humor into DARK SHADOWS (as was done so halfassedly in 2012), I would've enjoyed the Hell out of a Special April Fool's Day episode wherein BARNABAS and JULIA take the PARALLEL TIME ROOM to a few disparate destinations before landing in EL MUNDO DE LAS SOMBRAS SINIESTROS, LA TELANOVELA version de DARK SHADOWS, con TODAS LAS ACTORES HABLAN EN ESPANOL...except for a BEWILDERED GRAYSON HALL who keeps asking " does anybody have una cigareto?" (I can just hear the theme music done with MARIACHI SINGING....) PS- APOLOGIES FOR MY BAD SPANISH

I think maybe INDISCREET is in the Public domain, because there are several full length versions on YouTube. I would recommend to anyone looking to watch anything to NEVER watch it on Pluto TV, even if that is the only source. Pluto follows AMC’s business model of first and foremost being a broadcaster of commercials. if bits and pieces of movies and TV shows sort of *Happen* to occur (as if by accident) in between the UNENDING BARAGE OF ADS, then so be it- But that’s not really why they’re in the game.

No matter what, ***big thanks*** to whomever spared the MESSAGEBOARDS during this reinventioneering and to everyone who manages and moderates them. (Believe it or not, I would miss most of you very much were they to go away a la IMDb)

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I skipped over all those episodes.

when I was five or six, I would watch PERRY MASON reruns in the early 1980s on TBS, and I was within that delightful valley of childhood wherein one is smart enough to follow, but dumb enough to believe- and I LEGIT THOUGHT that that was what my father, an attorney, who was also tall and dark, did every single day in court**. **yes, i mean got someone off for FIRST DEGREE MURDER because someone in the gallery lept up and CONFESSED! I also ADORED BARBARA HALE because she reminded me of any number of ladies of that age, smokers, coffee drinkers, Contract Bridge players, who were always husky-voiced and highly competent. a bygone type, really- but still around in 1983 (or so.)

ah, DOROTHY KILGALLEN, now there is a marvelous film noir.

wait, So...it just a line through the "C"? Is that it? Anything else? Or has all this been over a ****ing line through a C?

TALKING ABOUT A DIFFERENT TIME THOUGH, The real story of RAYMOND BURR'S military service and WAR INJURIES(!!??) alone could have been unearthed in a hot second by any reporter anywhere at any time and shut the entire series down fast, to say nothing of his homosexuality. I feel like there's some sort of delicious ELLROYIAN 50'S SHOWBIZ TABLOIDY-TYPE TALE that could be created about this scenario. Was TALMAN a sacrificial lamb tossed to the tabloids to divert attention? And what of HEDDA HOPPER? Did she bury more than a few torrid scoops in order to guarantee a paycheck for HER BABY BOY? [Who hated her GUTS, but then again, WHO DIDN'T?)

i like my books long and my television short. of course, as I say this, I am on my 300th episode of DARK SHADOWS....

! thats an insane workload. i recall one time somebody referred to a British sitcom as “long running” because it had maybe 14 episodes. meanwhile GREYS ANATOMY chugs on....

I personally am rather curious as just what exactly he was in the hospital for during that four episode stretch in SEASON SIX. Their official story was "dental surgery," but I dunno... (although, to be fair, they did something like 30 EPISODES OF PERRY MASON A SEASON, and BURR is in at least 70% of those episodes, all of them an hour long. so maybe it was legit exhaustion.)

Me too. They probably broke down and set up the PATIO FOUNTAIN SET each time they used it (it appeared pretty rarely) Maybe in the area of THE TOWER ROOM set? [it wasn't used as much as the drawing room or the parlor of the old house.

THIS "VIDEO" IS LITERALLY JUST A STATIC SHOT OF A BLUEPRINT OF THE DARK SHADOWS SET LAYOUT WHILE THE THEME PLAYS, BUT IT'S STILL NEAT:

ALSO ALSO ALSO ALSO (last one, I swear) RAYMOND BURR is an odd case. He was apparently a big humanitarian and environmentalist, but at the same time it appears that he lied about being widowed, having a child who died and serving in action in WWII. Again, methinks p'raps hiring HEDDA HOPPER'S SON and providing him with a working gig helped saved RAY'S bacon. Nowadays, this behaviour would get one cancelled, as the kids say, but fast. COPIED AND PASTED VFROM WIKIPEDIA: Biographical contradictions At various times in his career, Burr and his managers and publicists offered spurious or unverifiable biographical details to the press and public. Burr's obituary in The New York Times states that he entered the US Navy in 1944, after The Duke in Darkness, and left in 1946, weighing almost 350 pounds (160 kg).[4] Although Burr may have served in the Coast Guard, reports of his service in the US Navy are false, as apparently are his statements[75] that he sustained battle injuries at Okinawa.[6]:57–58[76][a] Other false biographical details include years of college education at a variety of institutions, being widowed twice, a son who died young, world travel and success in high school athletics.[6]:17, 20, 23–24, 40–41 Most of these claims were apparently accepted as fact by the press during Burr's lifetime, up until his death[4][12] and by his first biographer, Ona Hill.[3]:27[b] Burr reportedly got married at the beginning of World War II to an actress named Annette Sutherland[77]—killed, Burr said, in the same 1943 plane crash that claimed the life of actor Leslie Howard. However, multiple sources have reported that no one by that name appears on any of the published passenger manifests from the flight.[3]:19–20 A son supposedly born during this marriage, Michael Evan, was said to have died of leukemia in 1953 at the age of ten.[3][4][12] Another marriage purportedly took place in the early 1950s to a Laura Andrina Morgan—who died of cancer, Burr said, in 1955.[76] Yet no evidence exists of either marriage, nor of a son's birth, other than Burr's own claims.[6]:44–45 As late as 1991, Burr stood by the account of this son's life and death. He told Parade that when he realized Michael was dying, he took him on a one-year tour of the United States. "Before my boy left, before his time was gone", he said, "I wanted him to see the beauty of his country and its people."[12] After Burr's death, his publicist confirmed that Burr worked steadily in Hollywood throughout 1952, the year that he was supposedly touring the country with his son.[6]:216 In the late 1950s, Burr was rumored to be romantically involved with Natalie Wood.[1] Wood's agent sent her on public dates so she could be noticed by directors and producers, and so the men she dated could present themselves in public as heterosexuals. The dates helped to disguise Wood's relationship with Robert Wagner, whom she later married.[6]:64–70[78]:205–06 Burr reportedly resented Warner Bros.' decision to promote her attachment to another gay actor, Tab Hunter, rather than him. Robert Benevides later said, "He was a little bitter about it. He was really in love with her, I guess."[79]:214[c] Later accounts of Burr's life say that he hid his homosexuality to protect his career.[70] "That was a time in Hollywood history when homosexuality was not countenanced", Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas recalled in a 2000 episode of Biography. "Ray was not a romantic star by any means, but he was a very popular figure ... If it was revealed at that time in Hollywood history it would have been very difficult for him to continue."[6]:119[d] Arthur Marks, a producer of Perry Mason, recalled Burr's talk of wives and children: "I know he was just putting on a show. ... That was my gut feeling. I think the wives and the loving women, the Natalie Wood thing, were a bit of a cover."[6]:100Dean Hargrove, executive producer of the Perry Mason TV films, said in 2006, "I had always assumed that Raymond was gay, because he had a relationship with Robert Benevides for a very long time. Whether or not he had relationships with women, I had no idea. I did know that I had trouble keeping track of whether he was married or not in these stories. Raymond had the ability to mythologize himself, to some extent, and some of his stories about his past ... tended to grow as time went by."[6]:214

also also (sorry, I keep remembering things) WILLIAM HOPPER did NOT AGE WELL AT ALL as the series went on. I know he died young and I am not surprised in the least.