WOW! Thank you for posting this! I saw an appearance on Guiding Light in Joan Bennett's filmography and I was really glad to find it, but had been wondering what character she'd be in Springfield's tapestry, and am totally floored that she appeared as herself! How delightful!
My favorite show ever. I just love these people and the characters they played. I still watch Dark Shadows to this day on Amazon Prime. I was 6 years old when it first aired all those years ago. So many of the actors are gone now, may they RIP. Thank you for sharing this video clip, it was a stroll down memory lane for sure. 🧛♂️ 🐺 👻
I didn’t exist back when dark shadows aired but I heard about the show from my dad and found it on Amazon prime a this year. Already watched all the episodes and now rewatching Barnabas episodes again. Jonathan has become my most favorite actor of all time.
I'm very happy that you have discovered DS and that you are still watching it after finishing all of the episodes. The Collins family kind of lures the viewer in and the viewer actually becomes a member of that lovable, spooky family!
I was 7 when I saw the first season of Dark Shadows. I was terrified of Barnabas and so I couldn’t watch anymore. But seeing him here and being such a nice man, I apologize that I was scared of him. He was that good.
I remember when ABC ran these commercials in the 80's and I loved it. I knew the network "wiped" a lof of vintage soaps and game shows that aired within that 25 years, but it was so cool to see shows I knew nothing about like Yours For A Song, The Better Sex, Keep Talking, The Money maze, The Object Is, The Big Showdown, Blankety Blanks, Camouflage and Dr. I.Q. How the aforementioned were fortunate enough to avoid ABC's wiping practice will forever remain a mystery.
This movie is still superior to anything that's made today. I suppose that old saying "Less is more" is correct, because it's a formula that worked well for this movie, and nearly 60 years later stands the test of time.
If I have George Romero figured right, he probably borrowed from the "Kecksburg UFO incident" which was news in the early to mid 60's, as the idea for the Venus probe that crashed back to earth, and spreading the unknown radiation that reactivated the recently deceased. I don't know, but just a theory I've held.
I've seen one remake of Dark Shadows, in the 1990s, and it was not as good as the original! Remakes never are as good as the originals! Jonathan Frid was the quintessential Barnabas Collins! ~Janet in Canada
I love how Louis responded to the remake/revival question, “leave it alone, let us have our own little niche”…..oh if only Tim Burton and Johnny Depp had heeded that advice!
Jonathan Fried is the one and only Barnabas no one can take his place not Ben Cross from the 1990 revival or Johnny Depp from the movie......... the two 1970's movies House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows are way better then the Johnny Depp movie.
I wonder if my mother would have remembered this, she was a fan of both Guiding Light and Dark Shadows! I was only four at this time so... A little too young to be watching soap operas 😅😅😅. This is so cool though!!!!
I read somewhere, that in the script, Romero was planning on having Ben commit suicide by state troopers, supposedly Ben got bit in the arm by the little girl zombie but lost the film in that farmhouse due to a flood. And they just left the ending as is. You can see the girl grab his arm in the film towards the end when the house becomes totally zombie infiltrated. I hope some cast member or writer reads this to put a closure on my curiosity from the clip that I read about a year ago.
Was a great fan of GL. Had forgotten about Joan's appearance! Thanks for this great post! Marj Dusay as ALEXANDRA was always my favorite . Would have loved to see Joan, Marj ,and Jeanne Coopers Katherine Chancellor share scenes! 🏆👑.
