So, while listening to This American Life’s 1996 Halloween episode, I learned about the long-running TV show Dark Shadows [1965-1971], starring a vampire with a soul who lives in a creepy mansion and suffers time-traveling, werewolves, ghosts, et hoc genus omne, all while accompanied by production values so cheap that you can see the prop guy in some scenes. Yes, folks, years before supernatural soap operas had their mid-’90s boom, there was Dark Shadows, hammy, campy and funny. This may be interesting to check into and laugh at.
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Yet oddly enough, I remember an early-90’s Dark Shadows revival, on at night, weekly, that I never find any mention of. (shrugs) I liked it, but I didn’t have anything to compare it to.
I’ve heard some good things about this series, it would be worth checking out, I think.
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My Mom used to rush home from high school to watch Dark Shadows. My Mom sometimes thinks she would have been Goth, if there had been Goths in small Indiana towns in the late 1960s. –Andrea