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Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.
Jul 3, 2024 · TV’s first gothic daytime drama Dark Shadows, the brainchild of writer/producer Dan Curtis (The Night Stalker, The Winds of War) became a cult classic and launched a frighteningly popular franchise of feature films, TV reboots and related merchandise.
In 1760, a young Barnabas Collins and his wealthy Collins family moved from Liverpool to Maine, where they established the town of Collinsport and constructed the Collinwood Mansion. Fifteen years later, Barnabas is engaged to Josette while having an affair with Angelique, who is secretly a witch, but he refuses any further advances.
Jun 19, 2024 · Dark Shadows facts reveal that the show brought vampires, werewolves, zombies, demons, warlocks and much more to daytime television and America's living rooms, making superstars of Jonathan...
- Ed Gross
- BARNABAS COLLINS WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. Creator Dan Curtis—who would later conceive of The X-Files predecessor Kolchak: The Night Stalker and the classic TV movie Trilogy of Terror—originally had in mind a dramatic series about the strange residents of Collinsport, Maine, as viewed from the perspective of newly-arrived governess Victoria Winters.
- THE SPECIAL EFFECTS CONSISTED OF SARAN WRAP AND VASELINE. With a roughly $70,000 budget to shoot its five weekly episodes, Dark Shadows had to approach its special effects conservatively.
- THERE WAS NO TIME TO GO BACK AND FIX MISTAKES. Despite its lofty ambitions, sprawling stories and camera tricks, Dark Shadows had to maintain a standard soap schedule that allowed episodes to air daily.
- VIEWERS COULD WIN A DATE WITH JONATHAN FRID. Despite his questionable manners, Frid quickly became the Robert Pattinson of his day. (In his early 40s and uncomfortable in front of cameras, Frid never expected to find himself the subject of viewer crushes.
May 10, 2012 · In the influential Dark Shadows, a 1960s ABC soap opera with a gothic and supernatural bent, Jonathan Frid played Barnabas Collins, a vampire who returned to claim his coastal Maine manor.
Jun 19, 2024 · Dan Curtis, the creator of Dark Shadows, very specifically recalled to the media that the concept for the series came to him from a dream. More specifically, in it he saw a woman riding on a train, who was reading a letter and gazing out the window.
