I absolutely love it.got the entire series on dvd..about $500 on eBay or Amazon love it love it love it.. It was a hoot. The actress who played Maggie Evans, the reincarnation of Barnabas' love interest, compares "Dark Shadows" with "Star Trek," which debuted the same year. I thought Lara Parker had the greatest presence on the showwhen she was onscreen , your eyes always just stayed on her, even if she wasn't the focus of the scene. Vee is in the biz, you know. I still enjoyed it a lot. And then the other side, which is the pure side, the virginal side. "Let Me In! So, yes, Trask positively believed that he was doing the right thing.". The close-ups on David were funny! Said Parker: "Josette represented goodness. I'm glad that I watched the first 200 or so episodes, it was worth it for the atmosphere and actually getting to know the characters some. The black and white episodes were especially like watching badly rehearsed theater. Here endeth my TED Talk., Looking back at it all towards the end, Frid commented, Dark Shadows was something unexpected, but really quite amazing. So I'm not sure why people have identified with him, but I'm grateful that they have. If this hasn't already been stated there is a Dark Shadows channel (DS 24/7) on Pluto TV. "I doubt whether I ever would have been Barnabas if he had been there," said Jonathan Frid in 1990. I thought Reverend Trask was the one bricked behind a wall - he was sexy! Explains OLeary, Jonathan said, Wait a minute, this was an incredible time, but I really want to focus on my one-man show., The evolution of the personal shows continued, from Jonathan Frids Fools and Fiends to Shakespearean Odyssey and the heavily comedic Fridiculousness. The fact that I had a friend who was going to be an actor gave me the same incentive to be a professional actor. If not, it was a pop culture phenomenon youd have to have been there for to fully appreciate just how big it was. "I found that was helpful," Selby said. She just wanted to do everything there was to do in life.". Many customers are New York expatriates. David Henesy was born on 20 October 1956 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA. She was that quality that was really the opposite of Angelique, who was evil, who was jealousy the witch who was able to control the situation as she chose to. I'm watching the entire series for the first time, and I'm up to Tom Jennings' vampiric turn (God he was hot). Couldn't wait to get home from school to watch it every day. I was kind of talked into doing it and really wasnt sure what I was doing at first, he related. "But I was not a kid, I'll tell you the truth," Karlen said. It holds up well, if you enjoy camp, actors taking it seriously, early special effects, and watching the performers desperately trying to remember their lines or find the teleprompter. 689, 690, 691, 693, 694, 695, 700, 767, 815, 839, 893, 894, 896, 897, 898, 902, 903, 904, 908, 911, 913/914, 918, 924, 925, 926, 937, 942, 958, 959, 979, 1002, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1078, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1087, 1089, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098, 1099, 1100, 1102, 1103, 1109, 702, 708, 710, 718, 722, 725, 726, 730, 734, 738, 753, 754, 758, 760, 761, 767, 770, 801, 803, 804, 805, 806, 807, 808, 809, 813, 814, 815, 816, 817, 828, 829, 836, 838, 983, 984, 991, 992, 1002, 1003, 1008, 1013, 1028. He was always nice, right from the beginning; he was never really bad. As OLeary told him, Its your voice and all your facial expressions that bring all these characters from the page to life for the audience.. He is an actor, known for Dark Shadows (1966), House of Dark Shadows (1970) and Another World (1964). Anyway, if Amazon ever restores DS to the lineup, I'll go back to watching it again. "How will I ever find her?". site without all this bureaucratic nonsense, "It was my first soap opera," the actor said. To me the weak spot was always Jonathan Frid's Barnabas. Just who in the hell was she. I was amazed at how good Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie/Josette) and Lara Parker (Angelique/Casandra) looked. The real mystery is how Dark Shadows managed to survive on the air for more than a couple of months given its anemic ratings. Like one whole episode of a character sitting in a chair whimpering about how Barnabas would do this or that. We watched for Josette sightings. It Was Pretty Disgusting! I asked my pal if he had a medical condition or was senile and had just forgotten his pants or pissed them. Millay said she was very much aware that this was something new for soap operas. An inner conflict or emotional confrontation is more of a drama to me, Frid detailed. He was riding his bike down Crown Street, when all of a sudden, a tall blonde man jumped out from . I agreed and we biked over to the Village. Eventually Willie's southern voice disappeared. Dark Shadows. I recommend it strongly to anyone who finds Dark Shadows fun. I was nervous and under a great strain. And the audience loved it. The fang business with Barnabas I never thought that I created fear, I always felt foolish doing that part of it, but the horror part I liked was the lie. Theres nothing more horrible than looking someone in the eye who is tell you a lie and you know its a lie. I couldnt bear the thought of that. it wasn't my thing. Watched the whole thing. I had a crush on Donna Wandrey, who played Roxanne. I had a dream not long ago that a very elderly woman was giving a paper at a conference on time travel. Like Twin Peaks many years later, the mystery was the entire point, so it doesnt bother me at all that we never got an answer to that question.. It seemed like one brick per episode. Later incarnations of the show fixed it by just making Victoria the reincarnation of Josette, but I would like to see where the original show was planning to go with that story. He seems kind of full himself and acts bored out of his mind when anyone else is speaking. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. You nevertheless wanted to get up there, because you wanted a present, but you were terrified. If you watch, you might want to follow along with Danny Horn's episode-by-episode analysis. I was almost teary-eyed when Quentin confronted Edward about Quentin's children. Since the DVDs were released that way with Barnabas's first episode being called Collection 1 and the early episodes being released much later, they put them up the same way online. Especially that his son had died. "That's the only time that Dan (Curtis) would do it over. (I mean the original movie from 1970.). As 19th-century ghost Quentin Collins, David Selby didn't have much to say at first. 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He was actually hesitant to feature what he called spooky stories he would read, but saw that, given his image, it would be wise to include them. Its 1225 hour long episodes. Dan (Curtis) did the same thing by going back in time and really borrowing from classic literature. Never watched it as a kid but when SciFi cable channel first started up Dark Shadows was one of the shows they started with. Thanks, R72 and R73. "We had a blast," Nickerson said of working with Henesy. Episode 1179/1180: Communication with the Dead. Yes indeed, we too use "cookies." My favorite character will always be Alexandra Moltke's Vicky, though. In 1970, he was the youngest and last of the Collins name. That was in 1945. "Oh, no!" It was a soap opera and so there were long stretches of the day-to-day run where nothing much happened, and even as kids we could tell they were just dragging things outHere's a nice clip where the busybody housekeeper, Cousin Abigail, in a sequence set back in the 19th Century, catches Barnabas emerging from his coffin at sundown. I mmediately told my friend that my brother was a huge DS fan and would plotz at where we were, As well as the fact that he dressed up as the character for several Halloweens. I loved the theme music, but the content of the episodes bored me right out of the room. "I was only on once or twice a week. "I had been through the mill already by the time I hit 'Dark Shadows.' Not only the impact that the character had on the show, but the impact that the character had on the pop culture and all of horror storytelling going forward., When Jonathan joined the show, he continues, nobody could actually tell him how to play a vampire. During the taping of episode 19, he assaulted child actor David Henesy in the dressing room area after catching the nine-year-old trying to write a nasty accusation on his dressing room door. I'm sure that David has run into Burke Devlin; his plane crash landed on the way to his dinner meeting in Panama at David's restaurant! Hard to believe she had a Oscar nom. David's aunt is Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. She chewed everything but the fiberglass tombstones. Google Dark Shadows Every Day. After joining the "Dark Shadows" cast, Lacy began being recognized on the street. The role was originated by Alexandra Moltke on the ABC series from 1966 to 1968. Ignore the sappy Cat Stevens track on the clip: I always heard he was gay-bashed, and was never the same again, R19. Even the entire first series now needs to be paid for. And, you know, the high collars and the long dresses. Sorry to hear that, R74. You couldn't smell the smoke through the Jungle Gardenia. Beyond various university productions, he began appearing on stage in shows such as A True and Special Friend and, as an understudy on Broadway, the 1964 production of Roar Like a Dove. Well, I was wrong. I love this show. She would have been a good opponent for Barnabas and Dr. Hoffman in the 20th century (we had to wait for the 19th century for that, which is an interesting sentence to write). The side that is capable of anger and resentment and bitchiness and manipulating other peoples' lives, which is really fascinating and challenging. Work got sloppy, the writing got sloppy, the discipline got bad and the show burned itself out.. Is Willie Loomis supposed to be young? No matter how you blow your lines you just keep going! But Barnabas starts to ask the questions and starts to say, Do I have to live this life? The stories had a timelessness. Denise Nicholson was good too. He appeared in Oliver!, Jenny (with Mary Martin), and daytime television series Dark Shadows (276 episodes) in the roles of David Collins, Daniel Collins, Jamison Collins, and Tad Collins. Frid was actually on the show twice in consecutive weeks in March, once in character and then as a panelist, and David Henesy was a panelist in another episode with his mom on the opposing team. "There was something about (Jenny's) vulnerability that really was endearing to me." Who's sexier in the short trunks at the beach - Jonathan or Louis? The ghost of Gerard Stiles had caused the . Roger Davis, who played a string of heroes on the show, has the distinction of being involved in one of the scant few bloopers that was so bad, it had to be reshot. I think it could have been much better. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. "So that even before Quentin spoke, he had some sort of identity, some sort of mystery.". This past summer I watch the first 400 episodes over again on Amazon Prime. Don't forget Denise Nickerson, the child actress who was later immortalized as the gum chewing Violet Beauregarde In "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.". I remember seeing the re-runs on scifi - where Barnabus just walks through a mirror and everyone is completely different - same actors playing different roles. It still never fails to disappoint me. It never occured to me to ask for an autograph for my brother. But at least those nerves worked for Barnabas, because the character was a nervous wreck. R38 Yes, and my understanding is that if you want to watch the early episodes before Barnabas came along, you have to specifically type in "Dark Shadows: The Beginning." I was getting a little bored with it, I suppose, but everyone got bored with it. "We spent a lot of time in ('Dark Shadows' co-star) Joan Bennett's dressing room, smoking cigarettes," Nickerson said with a laugh. our privacy/terms or if you just want to see the damn Not the best pic, but you get the idea. This is exciting news! David Theodore Collins (born 1958) was the son of Roger and Laura Collins, which was also the name of Roger's grandmother, of whom David's mother is a reincarnation. Karlen considered "Dark Shadows" to be a career break. It's a good thing "Dark Shadows" creator Dan Curtis wasn't in New York when the role of gentleman vampire Barnabas Collins was cast. I started watching DS when they already went into the past the first time, so I never saw the Laura the Phoenix storyline. The early episodes loved the idea of mystery, muses Wallace McBride, creator of the premier site on the show, The Collinsport Historical Society. I haven't watched her old movies, but she must have been an It Girl back then. And we knew that there was something special about what we were doing.". "They got there," says O . But because Jonathan did the work of trying to find relatable ways to play that part, the viewers picked up on it before the writers did. As Willie Loomis the handyman who sets Barnabas free after 171 years trapped in a coffin John Karlen exuded a youthful, James Dean vibe. So if you want to watch from the beginning you have to type in "the beginning.". "It was about three months before the character ever spoke," said Selby. . I used to rush home to watch it as a kid. If youve ever uttered the phrase, I used to run home from school every day to watch it, youre well aware of what Dark Shadows was. Why did Victoria Winters leave Dark Shadows? "I won't say that we thought we were going to be some legend in our own time, but we felt it, yes," the actress said. Isnt life too short to watch that much Dark Shadows. Following are reflections on the original 1966-71 Gothic soap, compiled by People often complain about it being "too slow" and I've never understood that. She stood out from all the other women in the cast. Everything I've seen said they had to cut the storyline short because Diana Millay was pregnant. He also played Andre DuPres in the 1795 storyline. Please click here to update your account with a username and password. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. As an actor, the first thing you want to know is, How am I supposed to play this? Well, how do you tell somebody how to play someone whos been locked in a coffin since the 1790s? The Dark Shadows Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. It seemed random to me. Kate Jackson and some others had their start there. Not sure who the dad was supposed to be however. I dont know if as a child you were taken to the department store to see Santa, who was supposed to be a friend, but he was a big man and he was frightening. I watched it from first episode to last back in the day (yes, I'm old). It just fit right into the whole picture of what it was.". It's me! He had just returned from a vacation, Florida I think, to his apartment in NYC and as he was about to leave, his phone rang and it was his agent, offering him the Dark Shadows role, so he decided to delay his plan to take a job teaching on the West Coast, and save up some money working on a soap for a few weeks, which turned into years. And it all moves much faster once you have Julia Hoffman and Angelique in the story. Look at Bela Lugosi, the poor man. It was a mistake, because they werent intending to make him the reluctant vampire or to give him a conscience., Interestingly, Barnabas came out of his coffin in 1967, exactly 70 years after Bram Stoker wrote his seminal novel, Dracula, and in all of that time the vampire had barely evolved from predator. Laura the Phoenix's near romance with the original Burke Devlin had the potential of great heat (excuse the pun). It seemed so great then and apparently thats going to have to be enough. Dark Shadows News Page: David Henesy Checks In. Karlen was cute back then, but I thought the first Willie (although slimier) was sex on a stick. She was purity. The mother, whod been waiting on line for an hour or two, said, Sonny, Ive had you in line for two hours so you can tell Barnabas exactly what you want to tell him. Finally, he figured that the only way he was getting out of there was if he told me, so between tears he said, I like you. Talk about love-hate. Pretty sure he was gay, don't know what caused his burnout, really. Carolyn was not as interesting to me as, say, Millicent, who had ringlets, which I never in my life had and always wanted. I do the exact opposite of what that asshole recomnends. I loved it as a kid, bought the set of DVDs as an adult, and now I cant find in it whatever it was that I mustve been supplying all those years ago. DARK SHADOWS alumni Lara Parker, David Selby, Nancy Barrett, Marie Wallace, James Storm, Roger Davis, Sharon Smyth, Christopher Pennock, and Kathryn Leigh Scott will all be taking part in a live presentation on Halloween night, moderated by Ansel Faraj and Jack Fields. First a phoenix, and then a witch -- and both had eyes for someone else. Watch it to see if you can tell when Joan Bennett is reading her lines in the tea cup. Look up the shows with Reverend Trask, e.g. After Moltke left to raise a family in 1968, actresses Betsy Durkin and Carolyn Groves briefly replaced her for only a handful of episodes, before Victoria was written out completely. I love every second of it. I was in the Air Force for four years. It's really hard to find pics of actor James Hall from that era, but he didn't age bad either. I think Dan Curtis, the shows producer, had other interests. He's hilarious. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 4/4/2023), Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/26/2023). Anyway, Jonathan Frid and David Henesy were on it, is the point I'm trying to make. ), but would come to include victims of the humankind. It sure was different for its time. The first 250 episodes go extremely slowly, so you are advised to start when Barnabas arrives and the show transforms from a gothic soap into a monster mash. Time was not so kind to some of the others. Trask was Collinwood's meanest citizen. David Henesy. How was that? Said Scott: "Gene Roddenberry went ahead in time and told universal tales. How wrong they were. Some of these happen so quickly it's hard to notice. I had only just got to Barnabus's debut when bastard Amazon U.K. pulled the show from Prime and made it a cost-option. Something my friend made a point of telling Jonathan and embarassing me slightly when Frid came back into the room,. They had a fake arm on the bottom of the box; it looked like it held the box. Not sure why - just something about David Selby turned me off (I think that's his name). For a show with so much amateurism, it did have star quality! David Henesy (born October 20, 1955) played David Collins, the young Daniel Collins, Jamison Collins, Daniel Collins (PT), and Tad Collinsin the original Dark Shadows. . And there are a lot of people who still are. Given how popular both Dark Shadows and Jonathan Frid were at the time, its a little surprising that the actor didnt parlay that success into something more. Another option is to invest in a VPN that allows you to change nationality and access sites from other countries as they appear to their locals. As such, she was supposed to be reborn approximately every 100 years and consumed by fire as an adult every 100 years, but she actually had many lives on the Dark Shadows timeline. Back then, on the weekends, I would make personal appearances, Frid recalled in an exclusive interview prior to his death. The creation of producer Dan Curtis, who claimed the concept of the show came to him in a dream, Dark Shadows debuted in 1966, set in the fictional town of Collinsport, Maine and focusing on mysteries involving the Collins family at their mansion (Collinwood). I do know that later on Laura returns to do battle with Angelique, which should be interesting. Please click here to register for free. "Again, not carrying the load, I always had time to relax, have a good time. Just who in the hell was she. Really good stuff! Back in the 90's I went with pal to a Dark Shadows convention. So her dressing room was a perfect place to smoke. "They kind of represented two sides of woman, you might say. Actor: Dark Shadows. Ive always played the heavy and Ive had great delight in playing them. R105 - I always had the feeling that Laura was replaced by Angelique as the evil queen of Collinsport. It's amazing how many times Frid flubbed his lines, yet when he had limited dialogue and just had to be menacing, he was very effective. And it lasted a hell of a lot longer than I thought it would. That hair was her whole character. You just accept that as part of the job. But may give it a look. I thought it was genius to name the vampire Barnabas. Lara Parker's DS-themed books are also fun. And once he was comfortable with Arsenic, we started booking his show., When he wrapped Arsenic and Old Lace, Frids agent told him that he wanted to start submitting him to different projects, which he was completely against. Eve, a manmade woman, was the first of three "Dark Shadows" roles played by Marie Wallace. The following is a list of characters from the Dark Shadows franchise. It was always campy - it is a daytime soap about vampires and witches.but god love em for takning chances. I agree that David Hennessy was a good actor. Born John Herbert Frid on December 2, 1924 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, he served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, which is where the idea of acting first came to him. How did the cast and crew learn that the phoenix storyline resonated with viewers? ), I flashed back to Dark Shadows! ", R93 - when I first saw him on Cagney & Lacey I blurted out "Oh my God, it's Willie Loomis!". I was a lot older than I looked.". "We got the clue when the reception, immediately, was totally overwhelming," Millay said. Im a negative person in that way. When reference was made to Dr. Fell recently (on Jeopardy? (Edmonds died in 2001.). On April 14, 2012, Jonathan Frid died at age 87 from a combination of pneumonia and complications from a fall. . "You and he have always been in league with one another!". Deciding he had nothing left to lose, he figured hed go for broke and threw a vampire into the mix. The truth is, I knew people were going to view me as Barnabas after the show ended, although there was nothing to typecast except the fangs. It's on Prime with commercials. My journey is beginning. Grayson Hall as Dr. Julia Hoffman chews the scenery with a relish that needs to be seen to be believed. Is David from Dark Shadows still alive? in 6th grade we got to watch it the last hour of class in 1969! Fango fans of several generations know what a formative experience the TV series Dark Shadows was for them as children, but perhaps no childhood was as shaped by the series as David Henesy's. Mr. Henesy was with the show from its first week on the air in 1966 to the end of 1970, some 1160 episodes later (filming the feature film House of Dark Shadows earlier that year). Otherwise it will start at episode 210 (Barnabas's first appearance). Cleverly, they brought the show to variousDark Shadowsconventions, which turned out to be a great way to work out the kinks, though there the presentations would include Barnabas-related material, which would ultimately be removed from the show when performed elsewhere. I loved the laying on of hands Quentin tried on Jamison. If I did make a career out of it, I would have to become an honorary member of every occult society in the country and get into vampirism. Also helpful for Selby was the way Quentin was styled. Dawidziak points out that the actor actually did know one thing: He knew how it was going to end, which was with a big piece of lumber sticking out of his chest, because they were going to kill him off. I dont think Jonathan Frid managed to get through a single episode without flubbing a line. Also, I don't know if I imagined it or what, but I thought one of the color episodes started with a closeup of Dr. Hoffman's gloved hand using a pencil to dial a telephone. Fact No. He had been on tour with actor Ray Milland in Hostile Witness and when it was over, he returned to Manhattan to find the phone ringing in the days before answering machines and ran in to answer. I also love the late 60s/early 70s clothes the women wore, especially when they went to color. "She was a very '60s person," Barrett said. I'm in the U.K., though, so it might be different here. "My eyes were my gift," said Lara Parker, who played Angelique. You see, the arm inside the box (a prop for a scene) was my arm. It seemed like there was always something going on to me. I don't think I care much for Roger Davis, though. R91, I feel the same way about Elizabeth. And that cheap, fake wig they put on the housekeeper character. Hall was originally from Mississippi so Loomis spoke with a gentle Southern accent. Such a great name. Hello and thank you for registering. When you think about vampires (though were not exactly sure why you would be), odds are theyd be members of the undead desperate to reclaim some part of their lost humanity, whether its their soul (David Boreanaz Angel), eternal love (Edward Cullen in The Twilight Saga) or meaning in their own existence (Anne Rices Lestat).
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