The babbles make it like they're having a real conversation as we routinely do when talking. They keep going never missing a beat. This cast was extraordinary performers.
Louis Edmonds and Jonathan Frid tried so hard to correct and overcome their bloopers. Very endearing. Joan Bennett had a long career in film way before starring in Dark Shadows. She wasn't immune from making the occasional blooper. Nobody's perfect, I suppose.
Very impressed with the skill of some of these actors to carry on after a flub or to remind another actor about their line. Theater training was a necessity for a show like this.
I actually don't mind the mistakes and flaws that much. It makes it seem more like a real conversation. After all, no one speaks perfectly 100% of the time.
I knew this would be here... and a lot of those mistakes arent so natural actually they're definitely obviously more so glitches caused by stage nerves than common/occasional stutters and blunders
@@faxanadu13 same with me . I recently watched an interview and the person said the way it was back then if they had to stop it took hours to start taping again . The production facility was located far away from were the scenes were filmed . I thought they did heck of a job for the times .
It's hard to see the mistakes because the actors don't break character. As a trained stage actor myself these moments are actually pretty funny afterwards. You never forget the mistakes.
I watched a few seasons on Netflix DVD. They had interviews with the cast on many of the disks. This was filmed in NYC. One day some school kids saw "Angelique" walking in the city and they all ran screaming in terror. She was scary for sure. The years when this show aired most American's did not yet have cable, just about 4 channels you picked up via antenna. This show was the sh*t back then.
Lol...cable? I didn't see cable until 1982. The majority of homes in the US didn't have cable until the early 80's. We had black & white TV until the mid 70's.
This is such fun to watch. Somehow, the fact that the show taped rather quickly, and that the directors/network seldom allowed a retake, added to the charm and appeal. I never watched it during its first run (too young) but once I started learning about the series and seeing videos and "blooper" reels, I became mildly fascinated. Yes, a lot of the acting is melodramatic and old fashioned, but that was to be expected for this time and this genre. I sometimes wonder what sort of show Dark Shadows would have turned out to be had they had a big budget and more time: if the show been filmed on high quality 35mm color stock, if they had ample rehearsal time and they shot scenes carefully, etc. But it's silly to daydream about that. This was a shoestring budget, a soap done rapidly because of time restraints, essentially TV that was a tiny escape from the doldrums of everyday life for viewers. It's fun to hear memories of fans who rushed home from high school activities to see the latest developments at Collinwood. And I can imagine housewives taking their phones off the hook temporarily, LOL ... time for Barnanbas.
@@haydennault5342 Cool. I think Hulu recently dropped the show. Prime might have "The Beginning" (pre-Barnabas), and also some select episode themed marathons (The Vampire Curse, and The Haunting of Collinwood).
the black and white Dark Shadows series of the versions of it's images was more creepier, graphical. scarier, more gruesome and more spookier looking than the color versions.
Yes, I preferred the black and white as well. Also, going g back and forth between black and white and technicolor was confusing to the eyes. Everything looked so different and the colors weren't often what you'd imagine.
Fun stuff. I am binge watching on Tubi. I like the graveyard scenes when somebody bumps into a tombstone and it moves. Saw an episode recently. At the cemetery they turned on a wind machine for effect, the actress' hair began to move as did the foliage in the background as well ass the cheap paper Mache headstones. What a hoot! Another fave was the time they were talking about "the power of the seven candles". I guess the prop boy wasn't in on it because Angelique was holding a candelabra with only 5 candles. Another great Angelique moment was when she started to age into an old hag. The make up people did a great job, but there was a bit of a continuity issue when a long shot showed her going up the stairs with remarkably preserved shapely legs. Du-du-duuuuuuh!
I'm tubiing it as well, there was one scene where the camera gets hit ir something and it shows the top of the room but it was lights and unfinished walls lol, I love it. I'm now on season 5 and I just now saw fishing li e opening up a book lol.
Some of these are not mistakes, just dialogue changes. I always feel like I am watching a play with Dark Shadows. Whatever happens is the show, no backing out of it. We forget TV resolution was much lower back in the 1960s, so many of these special effects worked. Now we see them in much higher resolution. Most people only saw the show on their black and white TV sets as well.
The first Burke Devlin, Mitchell Ryan, made more than his share of mistakes on 'Dark Shadows' though he was still quite popular. Rumor has it that Mitchell's bout with alcohol led to his departure from 'Dark Shadows'.
Dennis Patrick made his share of bloopers as Burke Devlin as well. Nobody is perfect, but all the actors were as professional as possible. This mostly involved not getting flustered when inevitable errors were made. Getting back to the script as soon as possible was what usually happened. Jonathan Frid had to ignore loud noises from construction off-stage in one memorable clip. He did this very well. A cringe-worthy moment.
How many of you remember running home after school at 3:00 to catch the last half and begging your mom or dad to watch when you were home sick?😅 Summer vacation was taking a half hour from playing outside to watch it and of course owning a dark shadows board game 🥰 and my Barbie dolls were always one of the characters, lol
Dan Curtis told the actors any mistakes, and there were a number of them, would only be seen once - the day of the original airing. To say that his insight was incorrect is the understatement of the last half century.
@@scdevon Yes he was that busy. He did not have time to do laundry, which you left out. The washer fairy does not come and clean your clothes for you. He wore his swimsuits when he ran out of clean underwear.
and, Susan Simpson, Roger Collins also looks like Laurence Olivier, Winton Churchill and even like Peter O'Toole, and like those other famous old British actors.
@@lindalcoomes Didn't know that! Thanks for sharing that info. Heck he had the talent and gravitas to cover well. DId't matter to me either, LOVED him.
I didn't see any mistakes. As for hammering in the background I would expect workers around a mansion and wasn't cousin Barnabas from England always wanting to renovate the Old House? I just let my imagination go with it.
