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Plus, new fans will emerge, which inevitably leads to talk of another DS Festival....... :)

Late this Saturday night, TCM will be showing the two MGM films based on the original series ( I have both on Blu-ray).

Awful news: Denise Nickerson (Amy) has suffered a stroke and is the hospital in serious condition.

Yes, I found that out earlier today!

Having been active in DS fandom for 35 years I can help you. Some years ago at a DS Festival some of the actual instrumental pop LPs used for background music at The Blue Whale were auctioned off, apparently from the collection of either series composer Bob Cobert or music coordinator Sybil...

TCM will be showing House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows back to back on the afternoon of Saturday October 28th!

Bill Malloy was a great character- a pity he wasn't kept on longer. Frank Schofield was excellent and should've been brought back in another role as were so many other DS actors. Speaking of early DS stars, I recently had some pictures signed (including one with Diana Millay) by John Lasell...

Well, in his memory we will keep this topic alive!

Sad news: Emory Bass, who played "Mr. Best" in the Leviathan story, has died at 89. http://highlighthollywood.com/2015/03/actor-emory-p-bass-dead-at-89-co-starred-with-bacall-debbie-reynolds-bankhead-many-others-highlight-hollywood-news/

Mark, I did personally make a request to the guy who coordinates the DS stuff at Big Finish, and that was a few years ago while Jonathan was still around. If such a project were tobe done now, I think either David Selby or Jerry Lacy should play Scrooge.

I think we all know what DS fans think of the Burton film, but the words are unprintable…….

How many of you are going to be at Tarrytown a few weeks from now? Hope I see you guys there!

Dan Curtis was smart enough to realize that the Leviathan story wasn't working, so he had the writers write that 'special episode' where he confesses all to Julia about how he was coerced by the cult. Alas, the ratings damage had been done. The Parallel Time storyline that followed was far...

Regarding the 1967 cast photo- it was taken to publicize the show's first anniversary in June 1967. However, for unknown reasons the photo was never used for any publication while DS was still on the air. It was only decades later when Jim Pierson discovered it in ithe Dan Curtis Productions...

You gotta admit, there were a LOT of TV actresses in the late 60s wearing black wigs to play bitchy relatives or alternate identities. Look at Jeannie and her evil sister, and of course Samantha Stephens and her kooky cousin Serena! So, Lara Parker playing "Cassandra" is very much in that...

Oops- I meant Episode #191! Please forgive me.

Regarding the Laura outakes from #101- they actually had an extra camera on the set that day to cover all the FX. Joel Crothers once said that the smoke lasted for hours. Diana Millay was pregnant, so she had to go. She gave birth to her son Kiley Christopher Jones on June 7, 1967 (also...

By the way, Miss Fontaine turned 96 just the other day! More info: Loretta Young was originally signed by Aaron Spelling to play Margaret, but then she objected to the script. She and Jane Wyman were close friends, and I suspect Loretta wanted to duplicate the success Jane had with her...

Thanks, Mark- it has been a while! BTW, the 2014 Dark Shadows Festival is being held in Tarrytown during the weekend of June 28-29 at the Tarrytown Doubletree Hilton. Yes, i plan to be there (as always!)

About the missing #1219- here's a little-known fact .Remember a couple of years back when a whole slew of vintage Hollywood Squares shows from the late '60s-early 70s were found and then shown on GSN? You can thank Jim Pierson for that!! He was looking for possible lost master tapes of DS...

OK- may I put in my two cents here? It is a known fact that there was one scene accidentially edited from Volume 6- that was during Bathia Mapes' attempted exorcism when a blooper was accidentially edited out. The blooper can be seen on the MPI DS blooper DVD. When the DVDs were re-released last...

I remember Dorcas: Gail Strickland played her! She was the snide, stuck-up schoolteacher at Worthington Hall who snitched on Rachel Drummond to Gregory Trask. It looked like she would've done anything to get in good with Trask- wonder if Minerva had suspiciouns? I was quite pleased to see her...

A year or so ago I spoke to Stuart Manning at a DS Festival- as you know, he produces the current DS audio productions at big finish featuring original series stars. I suggested that he make Dan's Christmas wish come true with an audio version of the Dickens classic. With Jonathan's passing, I...

Mark, you can always buy online from Amazon, Best Buy, and of course eBay!

It's on YouTube!

Hello from Lyndurst! Right now the auction is going on: an original 1795 script sold for $570, and Dan Curtis' personal 16mm print of House of Dark Shadows sold for $400! Nancy Barrett will join the rest of the stars here (Scott, Parker, Wallace, Lacy, Smyth) tomorrow for the luncheon at the...

Hi, Mark! Well, I will buy the NODS with reluctance only in the hope that good sales will lead Warner Bros. to finally realize the importance of the franchise to their fans. No news on PP, though- ideally I'd love to see Time/Life take over the DVD release on that show.

Unfortunately the best chance we have right now is that everyone buy both films- big sales may just make Warner Bros. reconsider their decision. On the other hand, I think we should definitely send e-mails to Warners, asking them to put the restoration through. What's their e-mail address?

Yes, but NODS is NOT being released in a restored 129-minute version, but the badly cut release version!!!! We have just been screwed by Warner Brothers: Would PARAMOUNT betray STAR TREK fans this way?

I'll believe it when I see it! Just because WHV says it's on its way doesn't necessarily mean it's so. I have not heard anything in DS fandom circles in the past few months regarding that status of the restoration of Night of Dark Shadows, and I've been active in DS fandom for 30 years now...