"Best of Barnabas" with Jonathan Frid Dark Shadows Festival 2009 

I agree 100%! RIP Dear Jonathan Frid; I still love you 50 years after you became my first childhood crush. :-)

I agree 100%

He was hot😆

@@user-gy6lh8rd5g completely agree!

@@TakersMissy same here.

Pancake 52 • JOHNATHAN FRID, WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A BUNCH OF THEM HE WAS ONE OF THE BEST SOAP OPERA HORROR ACTORS THEY EVER WERE AND EVER WILL BE. I FIRST WATCHED DARK SHADOWS IN JULY OF 1969 MIGHT HAVE BEEN EARLIER I WAS 7 YEARS OLD AND HAD BEEN OUT SIDE PLAYING AND CAME IN THE HOUSE AND AND DARK SHADOWS WAS JUST COMING ON MY MOM AND HER SISTERS AND MY GRANDMA WERE WATCHING IT AND I STARTED WATCHING IT WITH THEM I WAS 7 YEARS OLD I'VE LOVED DARK SHADOWS EVER SINCE. I STILL WATCH IT ON THE DECADES CHANNEL HERE IN EAST TENNESSEE,THE DECADES CHANNEL IS 68.10 AND COMES ON AT 5:AM I'M RETIRED NOW AND SOMETIMES I WILL WAKE UP AT 5 OR STAY UP AND WATCH IT.

He sure is. So lucky for the people who were there that day.

I attended two "Dark Shadows" conventions in Newark, N.J. many years ago and at one of them on either the Friday or Saturday night of the 3-day "Dark Shadows" Festival, I was sitting in the TV room at the hotel (it may have been the Ramada Inn) on Raymond Boulevard in Newark where the festival was being held and in the room where the Festival staff were showing episodes of "Dark Shadows" on a VCR connected to a TV set at the front of the room, at one point I turned around to my left and saw Jonathan Frid standing in the doorway to the room talking quietly to someone. I realized that as much as I wanted to get up from my seat at the front of the room and go over to talk to him to tell him how much I loved "Dark Shadows" and his performances as Barnabas Collins in the show, if I did that then everyone in the room would turn around and see him standing there and would also get up to go over to meet him and talk to him, and I realized that he undoubtedly experiences that so often when fans crowd around him for autographs that he might find it a bit annoying, so I decided to remain seated so as not to disturb him.

Island Girl Me Too

I did the same.

I had a 8 block walk and tried to never be late for Dark Shadows :)

63 hereand me as well. Didnt miss a show.

Lara carried such demanding intensity in everything she did in anger towards Barnabas. No other woman has ever been able to convey the precise anger she could play in her acts.

@@philipancell516 She always got under his skin. drove him crazy.

@@marilynwillett804 she was the champion 🏆 of that!! LOL

She scared me and I knew it was just TV script!!

Barnabas was a cool vampirejuila hoffman really was the woman who.loves him

there were a few or more, same with the ring.

First thing I noticed! So glad DS is on p!uto and tubi... I missed so much as a kid.

The cane he used was a copy of the original from the same cane manufacturer. After Dark Shadows ended it went into syndication. Frid was asked to promote the reruns of the show being shown in Spanish in the early 1970s around 1973 The studio gave him the new cane for his tour of some Latin American cities in South America. The show's reruns in some Latin American countries or cities were being shown in Spanish but Frid did not speak Spanish and no he did not do the dubbing. He kept that cane until his death. A die hard , hardcore DS fan talked Frid's relatives into selling him Frid's cane. Frid had given his Barnabas ring and cloak to his friend and former secretary Nancy Brown but in the end material things were not sentimental to her and she tossed out both the ring and his cloak many years later. Sadly, had she only known their value , his ring and cloak could have sold for thousands of dollars to be donated to the AIDS charity that he supported. Unbelievable that she tossed out his ring and cloak but she was not a fan of the show and didnt realize how iconic those things were :(

I did the same to the point of telling the bus driver to please hurry lol. It was a part of my world!!!

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!

Marcia Mornay You're welcome, Marcia. Thanks for your kind comments!

+Marilyn Willett even in his older age he commented that he still didn't quite understand what fans loved or saw in Barnabas character to have massed such a fan following.

Yes I know, I also cannot explain the hold he has over me. Surely there are men more handsome, even scarier, who I was never attracted to.

I always thought Barnabus Collins was very handsome. He was so articulate and poised, he was my very first crush!

He was also much gayer than people realize.

@@HottieBugatti a gentleman. Love barnabas and josette!❤

Actor Johnny Depp was a big time fan of Dark Shadows and of Frid as well. How cool is that. Johnny Depp, Michele Pfieffer and Alice Cooper , Tim Burton, artist Andy Warhol, actress Whoopi Goldberg, Film Director Quentin Tarrentino were all fans of the show esp when aired in reruns on the Sci Fi channel

@@thejupiter2574 yeah so cool Alice Cooper was and then he was in the movie and so is Johnny Depp and Michelle Pfeiffer

and they were all original fans of the show too as well as Tim Burton.

Let's just say Bela is the movie version. Frid is the TV version. Still, Barney has one cool personality.

Frank Langella (spelling??) Dracula 1984 is excellent also. Very sexy. My two favorite gentlemen.

Agree

He needed a throne. Honestly. He was royalty. He was humble tho, so he just went with it. He was just grateful people cared. That’s a man. He will always be the mark of what a true dream man is.

A stool and a lectern? Puhleez! Yeah, give the poor man an easy chair, he could hold the notes in his lap.

😆

ALSO Tubi TV website has all 'five' years of the Dark Shadows reruns. No membership required. The listing for Dark Shadows on Tubi TV starts with "Dark Shadows The Beginning" which includes the first year of the show before the vampire arrives.

yes that is so low class, NEW jERSEY

Yes - that was totally inconsiderate of them; this dear, precious man Jonathan Frid deserved MUCH better!

@@TakersMissy He sure did.

A vampire does not need special seating dumbass because he's pretending he's old. Once he gets the fresh blood yes you are younger again. He will never rest in peace never rest in peace. For all the lives he killed

He got over there and sat down good. He's a spry old dude, love him! See the way he was twirling his cane? 😆 Funny guy, bless him!

Lol I’m 38 n I had that same experience with my mum years ago. It’s always a part of my life.

+Matilda Woodhouse love him so very much.

Marilyn Willett I am fond of him myself- he was a great man.

I met him several times and I was always amazed at how very very 'patient' warm and gracious he was with hundreds of fans who all wanted one on one time and attention from this poor guy. He was always overwhelmed and surrounded by fans at the conventions. They even followed him into the lobby and down the halls, tried to join him in the hotel bars and restaurant. They all wanted time with him. I only only ever saw him get annoyed with those fans who called him Barnabas and who addressed him as Barnabas, those fans who thought that he was just like his character which he was not.

@@thejupiter2574 Well, that proves it then, in a way people wanted time with BARNABAS, not Frid. He shouldn't have been annoyed, in our minds and hearts we adopted Barnabas.

Soooo true

THEY CERTAINLY DID SEEM TO BE ATTENDED BY FOOLS. I hate when they laugh constantly, it was never meant to be laughed at. Frid and the others poured their all into it.

You did the right thing. Thank you. In his last days, he was not the friendliest. Read my article in Scary Monsters magazine #98.

yes. I am sure he was aware of your presence and the respect you showed to him did not go unnoticed. You are all very lucky to be able to attend. Living in a No Cable area, once it left us in 1971 it as gone but Never forgotten. I discovered DS in '66, I was 6 years old and home from school with one of my horrific bloody-noses. I thought initially it was on closer to lunchtime then wisely moved to an after school time slot. Either way when news came out about its being cancelled lots of kids, some I didn't know, kept prompting me to "do something" you have to stop them"...... I was confused about all of this; until I found out in the '80's I was referred to as the "Vampire Child". It hurt at first. Now I'd call it a badge of honor

I love your loyalty to the show and I'm sorry you were in a no cable area. I was only able to attend bcz I live in the NYC area. If not, I would not have been able to fly somewhere to see them. I was blessed to be able to go. I hope that you are somehow able to watch the show now and relive your beautiful memories. Cheers❣️

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The blood of Jesus Christ is the blood that saves, Eternal life.

@Kevin Layland You are not alone. There are literally hundreds of Gay / LGBTQ+ DS fans who identified with the tragic characters of Barnabas Collins and of Chris Jennings, tormented by their hidden secrets and identities and having to live in fear of rejection, hatred and of being exposed.

True

How bad i wanted the set. I'm sure it isn't available now.

I agree people are dumb

Yeah

You had the perfect role model. She would be impressed if she had known.

Oh man I did too. I drove my parents nuts lol

Me too!

No, but it is exactly like the one used on the show. It was his own personal cane!

They truly loved each other, even as actors.

Grayson Hall was a hoot.

Different one. Same type tho

so true

It was a job he did. Lots of people are not liking their jobs.

+BellatrixRox16 People were taking photographs!

He sure did