22 Apr 2010, 8:22 am
22 Apr 2010, 12:52 pm
22 Apr 2010, 3:44 pm
I was just talking to my therapist about this show a couple of hours ago! 
I used to melt the tires off my bike racing home from school to see the only show on teevee with werewolves! (and their hair was perfect). Had the entire run of the series on DvD and had to sell the whole set last year. 
Do you remember the DS Revival Series that debuted in 1991? Original DS creator Dan Curtis made Dark Shadows into a primetime drama and it was awesome - then the Gulf War started and the show got preempted by news coverage and rescheduled so often you couldn't tell from one week to the next when it would be on, so it never developed an audience or ratings and got canceled after the first season. You can buy all 13 episodes in one set now for under 20 bucks - it's worth it, it was an excellent redo of the show.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are supposed to be putting together a Theatrical movie version of Dark Shadows even as we speak, with Depp as Barnabas. That could be wonderful, or it could be some Bizarro world parody, I never know what to expect from Burton.
Did you have all the little Dark Shadows mini-posters that came with bubble gum for a nickle - or was it 15 cents? My room was plastered with those, along with my King Kong poster and all the Aurora monster models of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Aah, the Days of sugary fake Vampire Blood and glow-in-the-dark fangs...and the Dark Shadows Soundtrack album LP with the Barnabas and Quentin posters included...life is so much more interesting when you're ten years old... 
22 Apr 2010, 4:08 pm
I don't have an obsession. Will a faint childhood memory do? I was forbidden to watch it due to my youth at the time it was on. So I have faint memories of scenes here and there from when I sneaked a look when my mom was out in the yard.
22 Apr 2010, 5:14 pm
22 Apr 2010, 6:43 pm
22 Apr 2010, 6:53 pm
I used to melt the tires off my bike racing home from school to see the only show on teevee with werewolves! (and their hair was perfect). Had the entire run of the series on DvD and had to sell the whole set last year.
Do you remember the DS Revival Series that debuted in 1991? Original DS creator Dan Curtis made Dark Shadows into a primetime drama and it was awesome - then the Gulf War started and the show got preempted by news coverage and rescheduled so often you couldn't tell from one week to the next when it would be on, so it never developed an audience or ratings and got canceled after the first season. You can buy all 13 episodes in one set now for under 20 bucks - it's worth it, it was an excellent redo of the show.
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are supposed to be putting together a Theatrical movie version of Dark Shadows even as we speak, with Depp as Barnabas. That could be wonderful, or it could be some Bizarro world parody, I never know what to expect from Burton.
Did you have all the little Dark Shadows mini-posters that came with bubble gum for a nickle - or was it 15 cents? My room was plastered with those, along with my King Kong poster and all the Aurora monster models of Dracula, Frankenstein and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Aah, the Days of sugary fake Vampire Blood and glow-in-the-dark fangs...and the Dark Shadows Soundtrack album LP with the Barnabas and Quentin posters included...life is so much more interesting when you're ten years old...
hi will, i knew an old timer would eventually stumble into this thread. lmao
you and i were the same growing up...i was always fascinated with the macabe....death....blood....guts
ahhhhhhh...i remember the cards, the album....remember the back of the cards were like a jigsaw puzzle......put 10 or 12 togather and you had another large photo, lol
i was so into barnabas and that show, lol
but the original story on that show that started back in 1796 and told the story of josette, angelique, trask, and barnabas.....i loved that story, it was such a tragic romance and very well told...i loved the costumes and that way of those times
it was great growing up back then...i feel sorry for the youngins and the crap they have to go through
google barnabas collins, there is a 9 minute clip of frid on the mike douglas show back in 69, i just watched it today.....i also saw a clip of him 2 yrs ago addressing a reunion convention, he's 86 now and still kickin.......remember on the show when he turned into the 200 year old man he was, lol
22 Apr 2010, 9:00 pm
Yeah, poor fella actually looks like that without the makeup now.
We're next.
The revival series starts out like the original did, with Victoria Winters coming to Collinwood to be the new governess, Willie Loomis accidentally freeing him from his coffin, then Barnabas showing up at the Collins mansion claiming to be a relative from the Old Country. But within that first season they did some flashbacks to the origin story of Barnabas and Angelique and Josette - Victoria experiences all this while she's unconscious in the hospital, I think - seems like that first season ended with her waking up in her hospital room with several members of the Collins family standing around her bed, including Barnabas and looking at him for the first time, now knowing what he really was...I was very disappointed that version of the show didn't last, it was very cool...
23 Apr 2010, 12:39 am
When the Sci-Fi channel used to run it in the early nineties (when sci-fi was actually good!), I was obsessed with the show.
Unfortunately, when I was eleven (when sci-fi started to air the one from '91), my mother, my siblings, & I were living in a 'domestic abuse shelter', and I never got to watch anything I wanted to on tv.
I remember wanting to see the '91 version, but all of the stupid women there wanted to watch beverly hills 90125, or some equivalent tripe that was on at the time.
And the remake is on hulu.com, I think I may get to see it finally.
23 Apr 2010, 1:07 am
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