The cast of Dark Shadows, including Joan Bennett, Louis Edmond, CLarice Blackburn, Grayson Hall, Jonathan Frid, John Karlen, Alexandra Motlke, Nancy Barrett, Robert Gerringer, Joel Crothers, Kathryn Leigh Scott, David Hennesy, and Sharon Smyth
The ipakita was the creation of a man named Dan Curtis, a TV producer and creator. Initially as a character-driven show, it aired first on June 27, 1966, with Alexandra Moltke's "My name is Victoria Winters. My journey is beginning. A journey to link my past with my future..." While a great beginning, the audience wasn't buying it. The series main attraction was Joan Bennett, a popular movie bituin from the 30's and 40's. She played the mistress of Collinwood, widowed Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.
Curtis intially tried to stay away from supernatural occurences, at least until the ghost of Josette was introduced. The segundo supernatural character was Laura Collins, the immortal phoenix. Following the Laura Collins storyline, the series introduced the third supernatural character, the character that changed the ipakita forever. Barnabas Collins.
Barnabas Collins, a guilt-ridden, 175-year-old vampire, is released from his chained coffin sa pamamagitan ng jewel-seeker, Willie Loomis. Barnabas was initially portrayed as a villian. He was just an evil, maroding vampire. After the introduction of Jonathan Frid in the part, the ipakita became madami popular than ever. madami people started tuning in every afternoon to see this vampire. Barnabas commited several evil deeds in his early episodes, at one point, kidnapping a girl named Maggie Evans, because she resembled Josette, a woman he loved and Nawawala in the 1790's. He tries to turn her into Josette but she escapes and loses her mind.
Barnabas' original plotline was to have him as an evil vampire and kill him off after 13 weeks. He became so popular that they decided to keep him on. The susunod character that was introduced was his partner.
While Holmes had Watson, Barnabas had Dr. Julia Hoffman as his sidekick. She initially came on the ipakita to investigate what happened to Maggie Evans. The actress who played Julia, Grayson Hall, was the wife of staff writer Sam Hall. Sam Hall decided to write her in as one of the main characters.
Julia Hoffman was in pag-ibig with Barnabas and tried to find a way to cure him of his vampirism. The original intention for that was to have Barnabas kill her and then soon he too, be killed.
They became so popular that they were in a sense, the show! They were the main attraction and the chemistry between Frid and Hall was real!
The ipakita went on to be a supernatural phenomenon.
There were great actors and great storylines and the ipakita is just as popular today. Dark Shadows used to be on Sci-fi but unfortunatley, has been taken off. The ipakita is available on DVD through MPI tahanan Video. The ipakita ran for 5 years, from 1966 to 1971. It even sparked two movies, House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows.
Dark Shadows has millions of fans and shows no sign of letting up. Forty years after the ipakita came on, it is still loved sa pamamagitan ng many.
The fanbase of Dark Shadows is gigantic. The spot on Fanpop.com has 85 fans of the show, people of all ages who have one thing in common: the pag-ibig for a ipakita that has lasted for a lifetime.
Dark Shadows was not only a great TV show, but a cult classic. It is loved, respected, and adored.
It has lasted not only for its generation and our generation, but for all time.
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