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.
Vicki Kerns thank you for your comments! I think DS brightened many of our childhoods! And, yes, all of the folks involved in the production of the show (actors, writers, crew, etc) are wonderful!
I loved that show. The cast came to Michigan and I begged my parents to go see them. They took me and it was fantastic to see Barnabas. I had a crush on him. Nothing compares to that show nowadays.
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. 🧛♂️ 🐺 👻
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!
Exactly, the laughing hostess never received a fan letter unlike Frid, 6 k letters a week for playing Barnabas. It hurt my feelings that she laughed so hard about Barnabas. For some reason I am sensitive about him.
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
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.
+Gabriela Lopetegul have you seen the first year of the show, Pre Barnabas listed on both Tubi TV and on Amazon under the listing of Dark Shadows The Beginning. The first year of the show is listed separately from the vampire episodes with the word "Beginning" in the title.
@@CoachDarren MPI Home video released the DS episodes in DVD Volumes which were rented to the streaming services. The streaming services like Decades Channel and Amazon Prime etc. then called the DVD volumes Seasons . It get confusing for new fans since the show itself ran all year long no seasons. It's just how the reruns / DVDs sets, volumes are referred to now by the streaming services. Also since MPI released the Barnabas episodes first, those Barnabas episodes from 1967 to 1971 are listed separately from the Pre Barnabas first year of the show 1966 listed as "Dark Shadows The Beginning" because the first year of the show was not released until many years after the Barnabas episodes.
@@thejupiter2574 Wow! You know your DS history and thank you after reading your comment here I totally understand now. Thank you this was very helpful.
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. 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Me three! I was 3 when it started…used to watch it daily by my mom’s side. I like to think that it gave me a taste for horror -to the point that I completed a doctoral dissertation on the late 18th-century Gothic novel (Barnabas’ original period!)
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!!
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.
+Rick Baker Hey Rick you are right- as a teenager in the 1980s I noticed that very much. I liked the 1960s TV shows and music, even the fashions, and I often had to hide that as my peers would mock me for it, yet now we realise how naff a lot of the 1980s was and the 1960s is the era that is more admired. As for the woman laughing- yeahhh..the scene they showed was a very special emotional scene between Barnabas and Josette, and not funny at all.
I have a feeling that the anchor here was totally oblivious to Dark Shadows...Definitely not a fan....You can tell. She had no business conducting this interview. Notice how poised and together the actors were and she ended up looking like a fool.
To be fair, most of today's young adults and kids cannot stand a substantial amount of pop culture from the 80s and 90s...it's all tacky and loud and over-the-top to them.
@paul sousa Did u know that Johnny Depp and Tim Burton and Michelle Pfieffer were huge fans of the show too when they were teenagers. Johnny Depp was a huge fan of Frid's and he was very sexy too.
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.
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! 🇵🇷🇺🇸😊
Jose Morales wow! You started very young watching DS. Was there a parent or grandparent that got you hooked? Yes, DS was the first show that the Sci Fi Channel optioned. The husband/wife owners of the channel announced it at one of the Festival banquets (saying it would actually start with episode 1 and run through the entire series) to thunderous applause!
@@guyhaines546 Thanks for the reply! To answer your question, I recall my mother AND father being excited about the news of DS reruns on WNYC. Back in the 80's, my parents had a 13" Motorola black and white TV set. My fondest memories were of seeing my first TV images on that quaint set. I felt like being brought up like my parents since their technology was my early technology. The first phone I ever used was a brown ITT rotary telephone. Those things were heavy to a 5 year old kid! Nowadays, I would be considered part of the Xennial generation. Analog childhood, digital adulthood. Heck, I used to love those summer SYFY marathons of the original TWILIGHT ZONE and the old ABC RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT with creepy Jack Palance as host. Man, I miss those days. 😎
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.
His character had an old old name that many people have never heard of before A creator on the DS show found the name in a cemetery and used it. It is pronounced 'Barnabas' I'm just trying to be helpful :)
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.
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!
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.
That show was so unique, there hasn't been anything on TV like it since, it was scary and we kids back then rushed home from school to watch it, kids today and future will never know how that felt, sad..
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 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 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. :(
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.
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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 liked her when I watched as a teenager, but now I sometimes cringe when she's on. It seems difficult for her to realistically emote. The girl is wood. So many scenes suffered due to her performance. Nancy Barret always feels like a real person, same with Joan Bennet, but Alexandra was just so lukewarm. I wish another, more passionate, young woman had been cast. Of course the real standouts have to be Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker. They gave Dark Shadows fire.
His characters had an old name that many people had never heard before. A writer/creator of the DS show was in a cemetery and saw the name Barnabas on a tombstone and decided to use it for the vampire. The name is spelled Barnabas I'm just trying to be helpful here :)
The Turn of the Screw. Quentin and Beth possess the children and the governess fights to save them. Quentin’s name is derived from Quint in James’ story.
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.
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.
Frid and Grayson Hall and many of the cast members were heavy smokers but in his 50's Frid went cold turkey and quit. Sadly, Grayson Hall passed on early I think the smoking caused her cancer
To each their own. There are many many DS fans that loved the 1991 DS Revival series as well as the Zanuck/Burton 2012 Movie Parody of the show with Johnny Depp. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Lisa Keller I could see it a mile off in his expressions and body language Lisa, but he was trying to be polite at the same time (for the fans watching I reckon).
@@timefortea1931 She mispronounced his name - it is not Freed. Watch JF's eyebrows go up. So funny. He can never get in a word edgewise in any interview when what's her name is there.
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
who was that news reporter he got fired I think her first name was Mary I'm not for sure but they fired her over something stupid and it wasn't right she told the truth and they fired her for telling the truth they didn't like it cuz she was blunt and she told exactly the truth all the men that wore those kind of hoodies they was❓❓❓❓❓❓
I remember running two miles home from school everyday so I could get there in time to watch Dark Shadows. LOVED that series.
Me too.
Me too, the best thing to look forward to after school.
I only had to run 1 mile, but I had 5 minutes to do it.
We got off the bus at our house just as the opening credits began. We hauled ass every day! 🤣
ME TOO!!
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.
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.
Vicki Kerns thank you for your comments! I think DS brightened many of our childhoods! And, yes, all of the folks involved in the production of the show (actors, writers, crew, etc) are wonderful!
I loved that show. The cast came to Michigan and I begged my parents to go see them. They took me and it was fantastic to see Barnabas. I had a crush on him. Nothing compares to that show nowadays.
You cannot replace the actors they are so beloved you cannot replace them it is impossible
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. 🧛♂️ 🐺 👻
Thank you, Diana!
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 grew up watching Dark Shadows. As an adult I bought the series and still enjoy them to this day!
Don't like vampires. There scary kennethparker369@gmail.com
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!
Exactly, the laughing hostess never received a fan letter unlike Frid, 6 k letters a week for playing Barnabas. It hurt my feelings that she laughed so hard about Barnabas. For some reason I am sensitive about him.
JOHATHAN FRID, was so a great actor that is why I watch it over over 😍☺️😊🤗
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 fantastic!!!! After 50 years they still organize Dark Shadows meetings. Incredible!!! There must be a reason!!!
+Eduardo Barriga The reason is as you said - Dark Shadows is fantastic!!!! That's the reason!
And it's originality! There's was nothing like it before or since. That's what makes it so special!
YOU ARE CORRECT SIR
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.
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 😃
+Gabriela Lopetegul have you seen the first year of the show, Pre Barnabas listed on both Tubi TV and on Amazon under the listing of Dark Shadows The Beginning. The first year of the show is listed separately from the vampire episodes with the word "Beginning" in the title.
@@haydennault5342 Tubi TV video website is awesome
Lol I'm watching it also on prime but I don't understand how they listed the seasons because it was only on for 5 years.
@@CoachDarren MPI Home video released the DS episodes in DVD Volumes which were rented to the streaming services. The streaming services like Decades Channel and Amazon Prime etc. then called the DVD volumes Seasons . It get confusing for new fans since the show itself ran all year long no seasons. It's just how the reruns / DVDs sets, volumes are referred to now by the streaming services.
Also since MPI released the Barnabas episodes first, those Barnabas episodes from 1967 to 1971 are listed separately from the Pre Barnabas first year of the show 1966 listed as "Dark Shadows The Beginning" because the first year of the show was not released until many years after the Barnabas episodes.
@@thejupiter2574 Wow! You know your DS history and thank you after reading your comment here I totally understand now. Thank you this was very helpful.
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!
Patti, your not very bright to be have watched
I loved Dark Shadows!
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. 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Me too ;same. My mom and little brother watched it daily.
Me three! I was 3 when it started…used to watch it daily by my mom’s side. I like to think that it gave me a taste for horror -to the point that I completed a doctoral dissertation on the late 18th-century Gothic novel (Barnabas’ original period!)
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!!!
I love Dark today and forever. Thank you all the cast.🥰🥰🥰
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!!
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
It was the best gothic soap opera ever and i still watch it. I dont watch any of the stupid soap operas today
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.
+Rick Baker Hey Rick you are right- as a teenager in the 1980s I noticed that very much. I liked the 1960s TV shows and music, even the fashions, and I often had to hide that as my peers would mock me for it, yet now we realise how naff a lot of the 1980s was and the 1960s is the era that is more admired. As for the woman laughing- yeahhh..the scene they showed was a very special emotional scene between Barnabas and Josette, and not funny at all.
I agree.And where is Good Morning America now? The media is overrated!
I have a feeling that the anchor here was totally oblivious to Dark Shadows...Definitely not a fan....You can tell. She had no business conducting this interview. Notice how poised and together the actors were and she ended up looking like a fool.
Rick Baker i didnt find it funny either i thought wtf must be because i was born in the 1970s
To be fair, most of today's young adults and kids cannot stand a substantial amount of pop culture from the 80s and 90s...it's all tacky and loud and over-the-top to them.
Love this video of the actors from my favorite show, Dark Shadows!
@paul sousa Did u know that Johnny Depp and Tim Burton and Michelle Pfieffer were huge fans of the show too when they were teenagers. Johnny Depp was a huge fan of Frid's and he was very sexy too.
The 80's version of Kathryn was still kickin' it. Been in love with her for over 50 years.
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.
yes, he's always very humble about it. i've seen in some place him calling is own acting on the show terrible.
Inspector Spinda His acting was very good- never terrible!
Matilda Woodhouse agree, but like i say, he was humble about it.
Inspector Spinda He was, such a sweet man.
Great video! Thanks for posting, Guy!
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
Forgot about this interview. Fun to watch it! Both Louis and Jonathan are gone now. Sad.
Who is Johnathan Frid? Whats so good about Dark Shadows? It's a make believe waste of time kennethparker369@gmail.com
Finally-someone brought up Jane Eyre!
I Loved this Show‼️
Everyday after school
In 1966 I was 11
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 💝
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!
The best ever, Barnabus is the greatest♥️
Jonathon Frid is so good looking in this video, and his hair looks great.
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! 🇵🇷🇺🇸😊
Jose Morales wow! You started very young watching DS. Was there a parent or grandparent that got you hooked? Yes, DS was the first show that the Sci Fi Channel optioned. The husband/wife owners of the channel announced it at one of the Festival banquets (saying it would actually start with episode 1 and run through the entire series) to thunderous applause!
@@guyhaines546 Thanks for the reply! To answer your question, I recall my mother AND father being excited about the news of DS reruns on WNYC. Back in the 80's, my parents had a 13" Motorola black and white TV set. My fondest memories were of seeing my first TV images on that quaint set. I felt like being brought up like my parents since their technology was my early technology. The first phone I ever used was a brown ITT rotary telephone. Those things were heavy to a 5 year old kid! Nowadays, I would be considered part of the Xennial generation. Analog childhood, digital adulthood. Heck, I used to love those summer SYFY marathons of the original TWILIGHT ZONE and the old ABC RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT with creepy Jack Palance as host. Man, I miss those days. 😎
great show of its time miss it on Sci Fi
Awesome!
A Classic Daytime Show!
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.
His character had an old old name that many people have never heard of before A creator on the DS show found the name in a cemetery and used it. It is pronounced 'Barnabas' I'm just trying to be helpful :)
They tried Vampires on the General Hospital spinoff "Port Charles" which I enjoyed but unfortunately the fans were not having it!
Great interview!!!
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
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.
he's like+I don't think you can top this+true
The blooper presenting the clip was to fit with the many bloopers in the show 😁
I liked that show!
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!
My mom told me about Dark Shadows. She got very scared watching it as a kid.
I Loved Dark Shadows this Was A Great Show !
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.
Un clásico inolvidable de la televisión. Me encantaba verla en TV, me moría de miedo, lamentablemente no pudimos ver el final.
That show was so unique, there hasn't been anything on TV like it since, it was scary and we kids back then rushed home from school to watch it, kids today and future will never know how that felt, sad..
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.
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.
Dark Shadows is amazing! My favorites are Nicholas Blair, OG Burke Devlin, and Lumberjack Sam Evans.
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!
Where is Josett's gold music box? It played a lovely tune.
Katherine leigh scott looks so beautiful. Even in 1987. I just loved me some Dark shadows.
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.
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 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 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
Me too!
So much class
Lol who knew ide be here in 2019
Kathryn Leigh Scott was Beautiful.😍
We kids ran home after schrool evrey day too watch Dark Shadows
So rude of ABC to cut our favorites off so quick
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.
I would rush to get home to watch it at 4:00, I was 10
hilarious Johnathan fred
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.
sigh. nowadays "lovable" vampire are TOO common
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. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Nothing but dark shadows!!!!
Jonathan Frid thought the role of Barnabas was one he could really sink his teeth into. XD
Aw, man, who was the name of the host???
Kathleen Sullivan
Forgot about her. Wonder what happened to her?
Here come the brides
What about leading lady Lara parker,angelique?
Who is the hostess? She's beautiful!
A few soaps over the years tried supernatural storylines
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.
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.
+atlantic1119 Yes, but I still hold out hope that she will join us someday! After all, it's the 50th Anniversary!
I liked her when I watched as a teenager, but now I sometimes cringe when she's on. It seems difficult for her to realistically emote. The girl is wood. So many scenes suffered due to her performance. Nancy Barret always feels like a real person, same with Joan Bennet, but Alexandra was just so lukewarm. I wish another, more passionate, young woman had been cast. Of course the real standouts have to be Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker. They gave Dark Shadows fire.
barnabues was the second best vampire and then DRAcula to my opinion
The best!
His characters had an old name that many people had never heard before. A writer/creator of the DS show was in a cemetery and saw the name Barnabas on a tombstone and decided to use it for the vampire. The name is spelled Barnabas I'm just trying to be helpful here :)
Notice JF's body language. He does not want to be there.
when did dark shadows borrow from henry james? :)
The Turn of the Screw. Quentin and Beth possess the children and the governess fights to save them. Quentin’s name is derived from Quint in James’ story.
@@guyhaines546 thank you so much!
@@davidgalearchive thank YOU!
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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.
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.
Frid was a smoker. There are pics. Google them.
Frid and Grayson Hall and many of the cast members were heavy smokers but in his 50's Frid went cold turkey and quit. Sadly, Grayson Hall passed on early I think the smoking caused her cancer
Even in their interviews nothing works right!!!
That woman doing the interview is damn goofy
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It's longtime television journalist Kathleen Sullivan: th-cam.com/video/KWYKsThKbbo/w-d-xo.html
Jonathan Frid had very seductive eyes
@4:55 , ... Louis Edmonds was wrong, the remake in the early 90's was superb!!!
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To each their own. There are many many DS fans that loved the 1991 DS Revival series as well as the Zanuck/Burton 2012 Movie Parody of the show with Johnny Depp. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
No Quentin big mistake here.
An 80s show reflecting on an 60s show… interesting
Lara Parker was my favorite
1:10...3:47...3:54
jhf looked irritated or pised,,,le fine but sthu kls
+Lisa Keller Probably cos the interviewer was to flippant and didn't understand the depth of Dark Shadows and Barnabas.
im so glad I wasn't the only one who saw that thank you :)
Lisa Keller I could see it a mile off in his expressions and body language Lisa, but he was trying to be polite at the same time (for the fans watching I reckon).
The interviewer mispronounced his name. She said FREED instead of FRID
@@timefortea1931 She mispronounced his name - it is not Freed. Watch JF's eyebrows go up. So funny. He can never get in a word edgewise in any interview when what's her name is there.
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
who was that news reporter he got fired I think her first name was Mary I'm not for sure but they fired her over something stupid and it wasn't right she told the truth and they fired her for telling the truth they didn't like it cuz she was blunt and she told exactly the truth all the men that wore those kind of hoodies they was❓❓❓❓❓❓