I think that's brilliant. This one, Don Briscoe. I am, however, watching a Canadian show called Strange Paradise that aired around the same time. I watched about 6 or 7 episodes and became bored with it. I couldnt bear the thought of that. I was kind of talked into doing it and really wasnt sure what I was doing at first, he related. But Barnabas starts to ask the questions and starts to say, Do I have to live this life? I started watching it again several months ago. I haven't watched her old movies, but she must have been an It Girl back then. Frankly, if I worked harder I could have twisted it, though I may never have made it as big again. What the character did have was "Quentin's Theme," an instrumental that became a hit song in 1969. What's missing, R88, is the sense of cliffhanger tension; tradeoff is that watching it now the camp shows through! The lie came easily to her tongue. I had a crush on Donna Wandrey, who played Roxanne. It's amazing how many times Frid flubbed his lines, yet when he had limited dialogue and just had to be menacing, he was very effective. Time was not so kind to some of the others. The Dream Curse was like going to an elementary school haunted house that got one extra feature each new time. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 4/4/2023), Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/26/2023). No matter how you blow your lines you just keep going! "He definitely believed it," Lacy said of the character. It's a good thing "Dark Shadows" creator Dan Curtis wasn't in New York when the role of gentleman vampire Barnabas Collins was cast. 50 frightfully fun facts for the 50th anniversary of 'Dark Shadows' In retrospect it seems the theme of Dark Shadows was not the struggles of a tortured Barnabas to escape his vampire curse but rather the futile quest of a stunning blond named Angelique to get laid by any of the( obvious to everyone but her )gay men of the Collins family. Like all fan events it was culty and as I was not in the cult quite hilarious. Please click here to update your account with a username and password. Dan (Curtis) did the same thing by going back in time and really borrowing from classic literature. Diana Millay had such a unique way of speaking (not sure if it was an affectation for the character or just her) that I found her mesmerizing. Frid and Dark Shadows co-stars David Selby, Lara Parker and Kathryn Leigh Scott were flown to England to appear in the 2012 Tim Burton/Johnny Depp movie version, but that was a disaster. Then I was getting promoted at work and he was getting close to 70, and he said, I think Im going to retire back to Canada. So for the first time ever he bought a house up there and embraced the fact hed always loved gardening., OLeary, whose friendship with Frid lasted until the end of his life, adopted a child and moved to Los Angeles, while he enjoyed a retirement that still allowed him to perform his show in Canada, which is where his last stage role took place in the form of 2000s Mass Appeal.