As long as we are looking back t o the 60's, anyone watch Dark Shadows ?

[texanwitch]

I have watched the episodes on the SciFi Channel and I can't believe that I once liked it.

[Heidi]

1. Oh, yeah!

My little sister and I used to sneak around to watch it. It was on in re-runs after school in the early 70s, but it was one of those "forbidden" shows, so we had to sneak. :hi:

[texanwitch]

2. I could only watch on days off from school because it came on at 3 PM.

I think the show was live, because watching the show on cable I spotted so many mistakes they made.

I stayed with my grandparents in the summer, so I would watch it with my cousins, we never missed it.

:hi:

[Heidi]

6. That's too funny!

My sister and I got out of school at 3 p.m., and we'd race home (about a four-minute run) to watch the last 25 minutes of Dark Shadows before Mom got home. Mom was a teacher in the same school, but didn't get to leave until all of the students were out of the building. She thought Dark Shadows had themes "too mature" for grade school-age girls. :rofl:

[MADem]

3. Ah, yes, Collinwood!

It was pretty dreadful, I don't remember the plot, just Barnabus and that blonde who was excessively hairsprayed! And that song they would play over and over again!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Who didn't?!

I used to rush home from school to catch it! My friend lent me the tapes and I admit to staying up way too late, just watching one more episode, LOL! I know it's probably lame, by today's standards, but I loved that show. I wanted to be Angelique, LOL!:D

[texanwitch]

7. When I was watching it on the Sci Fi channel I would tape and watch it

later, I missed most of the episodes when I was a kid.

It was like watching a train wreck, I had to. I did like Angelique, she was so evil, but I always hated Maggie. The Dr. on the show had the hots for Barnabus, but Barnabus never seemed to notice.

The plot was hard to follow, but what I liked best was when the castmembers would screw up their lines, which happen alot.

Sometimes the walls would shake, or you could see the overhead mike, but the brave castmembers just kept going.

I just wished they would changed that awful wolf howl, that so lame.

[Rhiannon12866]

34. Well, I watched this as a kid, so it was not with a critical eye.

I wish I had seen it when it was on the SciFi channel. Is it still on? I guess I can just consult my TV listings, LOL!:D

Angelique was my favorite, as I said, but I also liked Maggie/Josette. You really had to follow this, since they went back and forth between centuries and plots, with different characters, except Barnabas, using the same actors. I also loved Quentin, named my cat after him.:shrug:

The doctor who had "the hots" for Barnabas, and was trying to "cure" him was Dr. Julia Hoffman, played by Grayson Hall. She was also pretty long in the tooth. I cannot remember the person I was introduced to, yesterday, but I remember this, LOL!:-)

The actress who played Maggie is on a current commercial and I should look up her name. She has aged well. I believe her first name is Katherine and, last I knew, she had a publishing firm, Pomegranate Press, which published the definitive book on "Dark Shadows," and she sent me a biography of James Garner, when I was working for "the press," just writing about what's on TV.:shrug:

And the wolf howl is a bit much for me to take, as well. But it was exciting, for a kid. I guess I should just get the tapes, and be done with it.:-)

[Hissyspit]

37. It scared me when I was a kid. Now, it just looks cheesy and laughable...

...but still fun and addictive to watch. Episodes are slowly trickling out on DVD, but EXPENSIVE to collect all of them.

[Hissyspit]

38. Saw an episode when a gun was supposed to go off and it didn't.

Occassionally a fly would get on someone's face and wouldn't go away. Live TV. FUN!

[hippywife]

5. Used to love it as a kid

and tried to watch it again on Sci-Fi about 9 years ago and didn't make it through more than 5 episodes. I used to love it when they went back in time.

[MarianJack]

8. YES! And the Nuns...

...would rail about how it was "the work of the DEVIL!"

Of course, saying that to jr. high kids is like persuading them to watch. At least it has the same effect.

[MrScorpio]

9. 4 O'Clock on Channel 7, everyday in the Detroit

I was a big fan. So was my mom.

By the way, when they drove a stake in Barnabas Collin's chest and blood came out of his mouth all of us jumped up and ran out of the room.

That was pretty scary

[hickman1937]

31. I thought it was on at 3.

12-1 All my Children
1-2 one Life to Live
2-3 General Hospital
3-4 Dark Shadows.
Or is that another skip in my memory? Was Orchard Lake in another time zone?:P

[MrScorpio]

32. Jezzus, it was just thrity years ago

You would think that my memory would be better

You might be right.

What the hell came on at Four that I was so interested in?

[bobbieinok]

10. loved it...thought it was very weird

[liberalitch]

11. I used to love that...

and the Edge of Night

[strangemedicine]

12. Family activity at my house.

Mom and my brother and I watched it religiously. I wanted to name my first boy and girl Barnabas and Angelique. Now I watch and have to giggle. A friend of ours is related to Jonathan Frid. He apparently had a liking for a few toddies before the cameras rolled, which explains a great deal. Still, as a young girl, I had a crush on him. Even if he blew his lines sometimes.

[texanwitch]

13. My cousins and I played Dark Shadows, and being we were on my

Grandparents farm we had plenty of space to play.

I was always Angelique, my one male cousin was Barnabus, and my two female cousins played everyone else.

We liked to go to an old deserted house near the farm, it was creepy but it was just right for us.

I always found the little boy David to be creepy, and wondered with all the weird activites going on in that house why he wasn't sent to school.

Dr. Hoffman was strange, she had always had the strangest looks on her face. Grayson Hall the actor who played her even has a website, I just love it.

[strangemedicine]

16. Another Angelique here!

Always had a predilection for Witches in the media. She may not have been the greatest role model, but she was strong, and had great clothes ... heh. Could've been the first indicator that I was destined to be Wiccan.

Couldn't help but feel sorry for Dr. Hoffman. Vicky was just icky, the screech and run away type. yawn.

[texanwitch]

20. I didn't like Vicky or Maggie, but Angelique was fearless.

Rodger was totally clueless, how he ran the family empire I never could understand.

Elizabeth Collins didn't leave the house for over 18 years, what screwed up family.

Watching the show now I can see Joan Bennett (Elizabeth) always seemed so professional, I guess she really needed the money.

[deutsey]

14. It scared the hell out of me when I was a kid

When I grew up and watched reruns of it, though, I found the show amateurish, campy, and hilarious.

The theme music still gives me the willies, though. :scared:

[texanwitch]

17. I have the Dark Shadows LP, some of the music on it is scary,

but some of it funny.

The actors were so brave, bad writing, silly idea, and all the mistakes that happened while filming but they carried like nothing happen.

Watching Dark Shadows is like watch a Ed Wood movie, it so bad that its good.

I have seen a bloopers tape and it so funny, it is worth seeing.

[samplegirl]

15. how bout the creepy music

dunt dunt dah

[ikojo]

18. I remember running home from school to

watch Dark Shadows. I was in kindergarten and first grade and LOVED Barnabas Collins!

[bertha katzenengel]

19. No, but I think my mother did.

I vaguely remember it.

[BattyDem]

21. I LOVE Dark Shadows!

I'm too young to remember the original run - I was just a toddler at the time - but I got into it when it ran on PBS in my area in the late 1980s. I also watched it on the SciFi channel and I loved the remake in the early 90s with Ben Cross.

Some of my fondest memories of the World Trade Center are the weekends I spent there at the annual "Dark Shadows Convention" - there were only a few conventions at the WTC before it moved to midtown in NYC, but we had a great time! I met all the DS stars and I even had dinner with Barnabas himself, Jonathan Frid. :-) The first time I went, it was simply out of curiosity, but I returned year after year because the people were so nice and we had a lot of fun. Half the time, we weren't even doing anything "DS" related, we would just hang out and party, LOL! :evilgrin:

[texanwitch]

22. I went to a Dark Shadows convention to, it is fun.

I was a little short on funds so I had to share a room with two other people, which didn't bother me.

What bothered me was one of the women wore some very real looking, expensive fangs the whole weekend, even in the room.

She was very nice but the fangs, I had a hard time sleeping.

[all.of.me]

23. is it that bad?! i watched it. we were so cool.....

[nuxvomica]

24. I watched it every day after school

But eventually I couldn't make sense out of it cuz they were going back and forth in time and had the same actors playing different roles. Remember when Barnabas got really old? I forget why he did.
I agree that it looks horribly cheap and dated now.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. planned a whole semester of classes around it one year. My

friend and I took turns watching it so we could keep caught up. That was one soap that did not move at glacial speed. Hell they were jumping in and out of time, flying through the night, and moving the plot along like gang busters.

and it was SO CAMPY!!!!!

[Atlas Mugged]

26. Every one I knew was addicted to it

However, I never watched it. It came on at a time when I had the house totally to myself and I was too busy ruining my dad's speakers with the Stones, Hendrix, Janis, etc..

[Mist]

27. I'm another who ran home from school to catch DS

and I had a steep hill about a third of a mile to run up! Those dipping boom mikes could add an extra element of suspense to the show; I remember one that almost got Jonathan Frid square in the face! Weird factoid: the woman who played Vicky, the ingenue, later became Claus von Bulow's mistress.

[shesemsmom]

28. I watched them whemn they were new

everyday after school I ran home to watch them. Barnabus was my favorite

[5thGenDemocrat]

29. I was never a fan. My sister Mary was, though.

She used to sprint the four blocks from school to the house to get her fix every afternoon. First come got first dibs on the family TV, and Mary could run like a rabbit. Faster than me, anyhow.
John
It is now 40 days, 22 hours and three minutes to FUNDAY. Mary will be here -- so DS questions can be posed to her.

[Dervill Crow]

30. Gosh, I didn't know it was on again!

Gotta check the schedule.

Yep, I watched it faithfully and have the entire collection of paperback books based on the series.

[Bride of Cthulhu]

33. Yet another who ran home

after school to watch. Had a crush on Barnabus.

[texanwitch]

36. love your name

I discovered HPLovecraft the same time I was watching Dark Shadows.

[ogradda]

35. Yes indeed. Loved it.

Wish we had the reruns here.

[IChing]

39. It was from my time

So far ahead of it's time, as compared to
Buffy

watch it in the afternoon in the DC area in my youth , when the graves were being filled at Arlington Cemetery.

[Piperay]

40. I watched it!!!

I just LOVED it! :loveya: They were supposed to have a new big budget DS this past year they filmed the pilot and all but in the end the deal fell apart. :-(

[Bzzzz]

41. Watched it every afternoon with my mom... n/t