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LOOKS LIKE A MEASURING CONTEST IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN....AND NANCY BARRETT IS THERE TO TESTIFY IT'S IMPRESSIVE FROM PRIOR KNOWLEDGE.

There's a lot going on in the above photo, and it's hard for me to get past how good GERARD looks in those jeans and how hideous the shirt on (apparent pioneer in the art of VOGUEING) DAVID SELBY is...

I've looked online for photos of the late-60's, 70's dresses worn on the show, but have not had much luck. I have noticed someone in the costume department had a thing for CHARTREUSE, and LIME GREEN, and honestly, I'm not mad about it. sometimes the candles at the old house are in the tackiest shades.

TODAY ON "DONAHUE," GIRLS WITH DADDY ISSUES AND THE LUCKY BASTARDS WHO BENEFIT-

I triple checked IMDb to make sure I wasn’t seeing things after reading it. mind=blown

that NANCY BARRETT didn't wear make-up? Well, the earliest I've noticed it was when ELIZABETH "died" and was buried alive, so i guess she was in mourning still (she just went on a date with CHRIS JENNINGS with BARE FACE in a late 600 episode).. by the time she was JEB FAWKES'S widow and PANSY FAYE/LETICIA/REVERAND TRASK'S DAUGHTER she was going FULL ON NO-MAKE-UP DAILY (except they maybe gave her STERN EYEBROWS as TRASK'S DAUGHTER.) IT SEEMS LIKE MOST OF HER EPISODES POST ELIZABETH'S "DEATH" WERE DONE MAKE-UP FREE, episodes 700-1245

Something tells me she was born in a hippie stage.... you know who she was married to for a year or two while she was doing the show, yeah? if not, it'll blow you mind. (it did mine)

There’s a strange point in the show where, for some reason, Nancy Barrett just decides to play the role with no make up. None. No eyebrows, no lip, no foundation, no nothing. I’m not saying she looks bad, I’m not saying it was the wrong choice, I am saying I had to squint the first time I saw her and be like “who the hell is that?”

Just the other day, I caught some of replacement Vicki. I don’t think the actress had ever seen an episode of “dark shadows” before getting cast, she wears too much make up, she’s very chipper and there’s a lot of “Sally Field as Gidget” energy, Plus she plays a lot of her scenes opposite Nancy Barrett, who at this point was playing CAROLYN as being extra moody to compensate.

I LOVED IT WHEN THAT WOULD HAPPEN....And I kind of wish it would sometimes in real life. Like if you don’t feel like going into work, just send in a reasonable facsimile of you and they can say “the role of (your name) is being played today by...”

not yet, so hey, I got that goin for me! (thanks)

the more scenes I watch of CHRIS JENNINGS and the more things I read about DONALD BRISCOE, the more I associate myself with both. We have a lot of things in common.

here is the write up of FOUR GARDENS from the back of the book: In Four Gardens, the most emotional and nostalgic of Margery Sharp's brilliant novels, we meet the lovable Caroline Smith (i>née Chase) and glimpse the stages of her life through the gardens in which she digs. There's the lavish abandoned one in which she has no right to dig; the tiny one in which she has no time to dig; the extravagant one, complete with stubborn gardener, in which she's not allowed to dig; and one final garden, hers and hers alone, in which she finds quiet, wise contentment (end) THAT would make a great story, yeah? But honestly, THAT is NOT what this book is largely about.

i just finished reading \ which is from the author of CLUNY BROWN, which I enjoyed very much. It is the story of a life as told through four different gardens to which the heroine tends over her lifespan- from her childhood tending to a neglected knot-garden on an abandoned estate in Victorian times to her becoming a wife and mother to the Great Wars... At least that's what it says on the back of the book jacket (yes, i read a paper copy), but i'll let you know something: that's a gotdamm lie, it's only 20% about ACTUAL GARDENS and the rest of a sort of polite drawing room scenes of life during WWI, which, in spite of moments that work, have more moments that taxed my patience greatly. I still note though that had the book in fact been MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE ABOUT GARDENING and the TITULAR FOUR GARDENS, one of which is barely given mention, the other in which she grows peas during the war and that's all. i absolutely love the idea of telling someone's story via the gardens they tend to in their life, or even multiple gardens at the same time (as i have done.) might steal it someday

Yes, I’m trying to remember, it happens somewhere, (Aroun episode 1000 maybe?!) but well before the official end of the show.

I kind of get the feeling from the various things I’ve watched, they shot the ep not really knowing it was going to be the last show. They all showed up for rehearsal and fit in the next day and were told don’t bother, the show has been canceled. A really sloppy narrration is basically tacked on at the end of an episode that I get the feeling was meant to end in a different way. God it’s so hard to explain and I’m using my phone. And now for some reason my phone duplicates my post, and it takes too much time to delete it. IGNORE THIS: kind of get the feeling from the various things I’ve watched, did they shot it not really knowing it was going to be the last show. They all showed up for rehearsal and fit in the next day and were told don’t bother, the show has been canceled. A really sloppy near ration is basically tacked on at the end of an episode that I get the feeling was meant to end in a different way. God it’s so hard to explain and I’m using my phone.

Those actors are in it but they’re all playing different people. Joan Bennett is not playing Elizabeth she’s playing, Flora Collins. Jonathan Frid is not playing Barnabas he is playing Bramwell Collins. Lara Parker is not playing Angelique she is playing Catherine.Those actors are in it but they’re all playing different people. We say goodbye to the characters and 1198, but the show continues in a parallel time with the same actors playing totally different roles. And then it got canceled. It’s confusing.

MY GOD THOSE BANGS DO NOTHING FOR HER FACE!!!!!!!!

The progression of the hairstyles over the course of a soap opera is never to be underappreciated. It’s a journey. In fact sometimes The hair has more character progression than the character does.

Thanks to reading that blog, I’ve gone back and I’m checking out some of the episodes in the 600s now, which pre-day Quentin, which is when I started watching. Oh my God, whatever Angel stepped in and took Kathryn Leigh Scott by the hand and fixed her hair for her, they deserve to be commended. I am used to Maggie with long flowing locks, a bump and a middle part, these HARD BANGS and that stiff choppyassed blowout is hard to watch.

PS – I am posting using voice transcription on my phone and it’s really hard to fix the spelling errors, so I apologize.

No it was a half hour episode, I’ve seen it. And Vicky is not in it. In fact NONE of the principal characters, Barnabas, Elizabeth, Maggie, Quinton etc. are in it AT ALL. We say goodbye to all of them and episode 1198. The show went on for another 48 episodes. It was a wild show, man.

A link to the final episode cast list (and a synopsis) https://darkshadows.fandom.com/wiki/1245 every single major actor appeared with the exception of Davids Henesy and Selby ( the latter only because he had appendicitis.) jonathan Frid, Joan Bennett, Grayson hall, Louis Edmonds, John Karlen, and Nancy Barrett are all in it. I don’t think Kate Jackson was, or Theyer David,

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn though, i just went to amazon.com to look up some books in re: the making of the show (especially BARNABAS AND COMPANY) and DAMN they are ALL SO EXPENSIVE- most start at $30 (second hand!) and go up from there.