Dark Shadows Actors on Good Morning America August 28, 1987 

I remember running two miles home from school everyday so I could get there in time to watch Dark Shadows. LOVED that series.

There's nothing like Dark Shadows. It is a totally unique series, much loved and deeply appreciated by its many, many fans. A television classic.

There is nothing better than the original series of Dark Shadows. I used to attend the conventions and had the time of my life!

You cannot replace the actors they are so beloved you cannot replace them it is impossible

I'm a little late to the comments but I will say that Dark Shadows is still going strong and the laughing hostess is long gone. Probably dispatched by Barnabas. Dark Shadows is some of my fondest memories. The mansions, the music, the costumes, time travel to New England in the 1700's, the stories, no I look upon the series with happy memories of watching with my Grandparents and consider myself very lucky indeed!

Dark Shadows is fantastic!!!! After 50 years they still organize Dark Shadows meetings. Incredible!!! There must be a reason!!!

JOHATHAN FRID, was so a great actor that is why I watch it over over 😍☺️😊🤗

I grew up watching Dark Shadows. As an adult I bought the series and still enjoy them to this day!

Dark Shadows was one of the things that made my lonely childhood exciting, and this was back in the days before videotaping so my sweet mom would tape record it for me. Barnabas was my hero. I only wish I had had more money back in the 80s as I would have loved to have gone to a convention and met him and the cast. I am currently binge watching the whole series on my Firestick and loving every minute of it. Thank you, Dark Shadows, for making so many of us so happy! God bless you all.

I loved dark shadows.im 65yrs. When they reruns my grand kids watched it. They also loved it.I used to hurry home from school so I would not miss it.Loved Barnabus

Dark Shadows is timeless. Those of us who watched it know it is a part of our lives that we will always remember fondly.

I missed this show the first time around. I've been binge-watching episodes now on Tubi. I'm addicted. I even have the theme song as my phone ringtone. I've missed the boat on the running home from school memory, but I feel like an excited kid while I'm watching Dark Shadows.

We kids, around 1968 - would literally RUN home from school to watch this = it was very clever and never boring

Loved Dark Shadows the older version 1966 to 1971!

I’m getting thru Covid-19 quarantine thanks to Dark Shadows on Prime video❤️❤️ I’m in Season 10 now! 🤠🤠 I remember watching with my family in 1967 😃

You know there's a good reason why I cared little for the 80's. There seem to be this dislike for anything from the 60's or 70's. The media just seem to mock the stuff, no matter what it was. Our generation just had better taste than they could understand, I guess. That reporter was essentially laughing at them after the clip and I found that very unprofessional.

I loved Dark Shadows!

My sister and I used to run home from school every day to watch this with my mom. He can bite my neck any day of the week

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. 🧛‍♂️ 🐺 👻

Forgot about this interview. Fun to watch it! Both Louis and Jonathan are gone now. Sad.

It was the best gothic soap opera ever and i still watch it. I dont watch any of the stupid soap operas today

This series created and secured my love of vampires. I was 4yrs old when this series started. And I would watch with my mom every day till it ended in 71. The absolute best part of my childhood. 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

I ws born in 1964 so I was too young to appreciate Dark Shadows, but I do remember ads for it with Barnabas smiling and laughing in the dark and it scared the crap outta me!!

Thanks for this upload, was nice to see them. Louis Edmonds was such a sweetie! And Jonathan describing his cheeks as "fat"- awwww bless him. He looked handsome still! And Katherine still had a youthful complexion. The interviewer could have asked more intelligent questions, but I expect they didn't have the time- loved how Jonathan rolled his eyes at her when she was talking about Barnabas's popularity.

great show of its time miss it on Sci Fi

The 80's version of Kathryn was still kickin' it. Been in love with her for over 50 years.

I love Dark today and forever. Thank you all the cast.🥰🥰🥰

I was there at the DS Festival in Newark, NJ in August 1987...to see these dear classic characters in my favorite soap opera...Dark Shadows!!!

Love this video of the actors from my favorite show, Dark Shadows!

Jonathon Frid is so good looking in this video, and his hair looks great.

Barnabas and Josette timeless .🇺🇸that Maggie was good too I loved Rodger as Barnabas father as well .how we all wanted to be his forever Josette 💝

The best ever, Barnabus is the greatest♥️

Just a wonderful time. ...you would have to have been there to understand how much better than today!

For my 7th birthday in 1969 my parent's bought me the Milton Bradley board game 'The Barnabas Collins" game. Man was that a good year!

I used to watch Dark Shadows In grade school and JR high scool . I was in 9th grade when it went off the air in April of 1971

Oh now I see barbasbas in this program. Now I wish all the more the program would return with the first actors. Barbasbas is handsome and appealing to me in person as the charactor.

Great video! Thanks for posting, Guy!

1:23/ To think, having been born in The Bronx in 1981, I can recall WNYC TV re-airing DARK SHADOWS. This was my first exposure to this wonderful series. For those who don't remember, several religious groups protested the airing of DS on WNYC, getting it pulled off the air. Still, the popularity of this series couldn't stop this show from reruns. The fledgling SYFY Channel had acquired the rights to the series. I remember having the great opportunity of seeing the '66 -' 71 show run chronologically thanks to the SyFy Channel back in the late 90's. Ah, pre-internet entertainment....God, I miss those days! 🇵🇷🇺🇸😊

he's like+I don't think you can top this+true

This poor excuse for an interviewer laughed at the clip right in front of the actors. I wish someone had called her out on it immediately. That really got under my skin!

Awesome!

A Classic Daytime Show!

I do remember watching this with my mother and she tried to explain it to me but when it went off the air in 71 I was just starting First grade

I have an autographed 8x10 pic of Jonathan dressed as Barnabas. I bought it at a garage sale umpteen years ago. I think I paid 50 cents for it lol.

Maggie Evans was just one character she played. Her more starring role was Josette when they did the origin story of Barnabas. I really liked that part of Dark Shadows.

REMEMBER THE EFFECTS WHEN SOMEONE WAS TURNED INTO A CAT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN POP WENT OFF AND BSCK TO A HUMAN NO MORE CAT.

MY ALL TIME FAVORITE TV PROGRAM: ❤ "DARK SHADOWS!" ❤ THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING ON TV THAT WILL TOP THIS AWESOMELY UNIQUE FRIGHTENING AT TIMES GOTHIC SOAP WITH IT'S GHOSTS, PHOENIX, VAMPIRES, WEREWOLVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, TIME TRAVELS AND MORE WITH MIXED IN AMONG ALL THAT THE MOST INTENSELY ROMANTIC STORIES AND TALES TO ME IT IS A TRUE LEGENDARY ONE OF A KIND MASTERPIECE.

I found this statement in the Jonathan Frid Facebook Grp >>>>> "" Mr. Frid was a proud Canadian. When he retired he moved back to Ontario Canada where he had family and many friends. Jonathan Frid never married ( obviously ) and he never had any children. However, he was survived by his beloved cousins and his brother's children, and by his Grand niece and nephews who loved and adored him. They called him 'Uncle John'. He was dearly loved. Mr. Frid was not a religious man so there was no ceremony after he died. He never liked to be fussed over and he did not want a funeral nor a memorial. He preferred to be remembered alive and enjoying life. Mr. Frid did not want a final resting place in fear of the many obsessive fans he had who would seek out the grave of 'Barnabas Collins' and set up memorials and write graffiti about his character. He didn't want fans to put him up on a pedestal like a movie idol. He never wanted that kind of attention. Jonathan Frid said that many fans had trouble separating him, the actor from the character he had played. Fans would address him as Barnabas instead of his real name and they'd ask him a lot of 'vampire' related questions. He did not want those kinds of obsessive fans to bother his relatives . Mr. Frid would often say that he was nothing like his Barnabas character. He also stated several times that he would like to be remembered for more than just his work on Dark Shadows. He had twenty years of acting experience before he even appeared on the TV show and several years of doing dramatic readings in his reader's theater and in his one-man shows and his tour with the play, Arsenic and Old Lace with actors Marion Ross, Jean Stapleton and Larry Storch. Mr. Jonathan Frid was so much more than just his Barnabas character. R I P .""

I Loved this Show‼️ Everyday after school In 1966 I was 11

The blooper presenting the clip was to fit with the many bloopers in the show 😁

Finally-someone brought up Jane Eyre!

I liked that show!

Un clásico inolvidable de la televisión. Me encantaba verla en TV, me moría de miedo, lamentablemente no pudimos ver el final.

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!

I disagree that Barnabas was never able to love. I think he had more love in his heart than just about any character on the show. I love Louis Edmonds voice, and he is right about leaving the original series alone.

I read hundreds of very romantic and sentimental comments on youtube from Women who loved Frid and his sensitivity and his deep felt emotions that he channeled into his character. What saddens me, breaks my heart is that all, all these hundreds of ladies, DS fans, they all had the freedom to openly love and too marry who they wanted and too share that love openly without shame. Whereas actors like Jonathan Frid, Louis Edmonds, Joel Crothers, Craig Slocum, Keith Prentice and Christoper Bernau from Dark Shadows and the TV actor that someone down in the comments also mentioned, Richard Chamberlain as well, none of these gentlemen were allowed to legally have those loving relationships and marriages like all the Straight Women in the comments were allowed to have. All these Gentle men and gentle souls also had deeply felt romantic feelings in their lives but were not allowed to share them back then when it was still illegal to be Gay. That saddens me. :(

Im watching the whole series on Tubi

Actually there was another series called Passions that tried to be the next Dark Shadows but they could not live up to it despite a longer run.

Lol who knew ide be here in 2019

They tried Vampires on the General Hospital spinoff "Port Charles" which I enjoyed but unfortunately the fans were not having it!

Dark Shadows is amazing! My favorites are Nicholas Blair, OG Burke Devlin, and Lumberjack Sam Evans.

Great interview!!!

I Loved Dark Shadows this Was A Great Show !

Katherine leigh scott looks so beautiful. Even in 1987. I just loved me some Dark shadows.

Notice JF's body language. He does not want to be there.

Kathryn Leigh Scott was Beautiful.😍

So much class

sigh. nowadays "lovable" vampire are TOO common

Best classic shows were 60,s early 70,s. 80,s was the pits except for Star Trek TNG, Married With Children and Miami Vice.

Where is Josett's gold music box? It played a lovely tune.

She was a bad interviewer. Also, I hate how short these interviews are and they always get cut off at the end for commercials. Still, it was nice to see them talk briefly about DS.

So rude of ABC to cut our favorites off so quick

We kids ran home after schrool evrey day too watch Dark Shadows

I liked Dark Shadows. When I was a kid I would run home from school to see dark shadows. The movie though, was on par with the exorcist. The movie was terrifying. Like after watching the exorcist, and after watching the movie, House of dark shadows I had to sleep with a light on. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

hilarious Johnathan fred

Jonathan Frid thought the role of Barnabas was one he could really sink his teeth into. XD

Kind of sad that Alexandra Moltke (Victoria Winters), the intended and original star of the series, more or less detached herself from these reunion type events.

I would rush to get home to watch it at 4:00, I was 10

A few soaps over the years tried supernatural storylines

Nothing but dark shadows!!!!

That woman doing the interview is damn goofy

barnabues was the second best vampire and then DRAcula to my opinion

GMA...what can you say?????? The media is the media.....the original series was/is a trendsetter for afternoon TV.....the remake turned the gothic atmosphere into a joke....there was nothing 'funny' about Dark Shadows.

My friend Linda Durante and I would leave school and by packs and packs of Dark Shadows Trading Cards at Chris's Store next to our school Bingham in Runnemede.

No Quentin big mistake here.

Even in their interviews nothing works right!!!

I wonder if Jonathan Frid was a smoker. His voice sounds like he was. Kathy Scott seems so sweet and happy. I honestly wonder how these people kept straight faces when they or others messed up.

Jonathan Frid had very seductive eyes

An 80s show reflecting on an 60s show… interesting

Who is the hostess? She's beautiful!

Aw, man, who was the name of the host???

What about leading lady Lara parker,angelique?

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

Won't ever be duplicated. Movie versions all sucked. As a soap it ruled.

Lara Parker was my favorite

Yea, the little rug rats are different today.

when did dark shadows borrow from henry james? :)

jhf looked irritated or pised,,,le fine but sthu kls

I remember my name Howard Youngblood? I remember good looking girlfriend? I remember dark shadows on newspaper?I remember all star wrestling??I really remember Augusta ga

@4:55 , ... Louis Edmonds was wrong, the remake in the early 90's was superb!!!