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Post by Rob Morris on Jan 26, 2016 12:57:07 GMT
Oh! There's an amazing scene with Julia in (I think) 842. It's so Julia it's hysterical {Spoiler} and Angelique doesn't know what hit her.
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Post by coldlazarou on Jan 26, 2016 13:10:42 GMT
I would love to do a Dark Shadows marathon - however time and the prohibitive cost of the box set are against me. I do have th "Barnabas Collins Episodes" DVD Set and the 1990's series. It's understandable: i got my DS slowly collection by collection as i made my way through the show for the first time. It took just over a year and a half, i think. On my third run-through now. About to start Collection 4. I've slowed down in the last week or two, as i'm at a juncture in the story that leaves me frankly in a state of non-gripness, yet my OCD approach to such things won't let me skip a bunch of episodes so i've just been watching one or two every now and then. Some great stuff to look forward to in this boxset, though (Barnabas' accelerated ageing turning him Little Big Man, Carolyn getting vamped and going all sexy-evil, Tony Peterson rocking up and of course our voyage back to 1795) so i think things'll perk up in the next week or so. The cliffhanger to the last set being 'Bat by Bil Baird' is still hysterical.
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Post by chapwithwings on Jan 26, 2016 13:14:16 GMT
I would love to do a Dark Shadows marathon - however time and the prohibitive cost of the box set are against me. I do have th "Barnabas Collins Episodes" DVD Set and the 1990's series. It's understandable: i got my DS slowly collection by collection as i made my way through the show for the first time. It took just over a year and a half, i think. On my third run-through now. About to start Collection 4. I've slowed down in the last week or two, as i'm at a juncture in the story that leaves me frankly in a state of non-gripness, yet my OCD approach to such things won't let me skip a bunch of episodes so i've just been watching one or two every now and then. Some great stuff to look forward to in this boxset, though (Barnabas' accelerated ageing turning him Little Big Man, Carolyn getting vamped and going all sexy-evil, Tony Peterson rocking up and of course our voyage back to 1795) so i think things'll perk up in the next week or so. The cliffhanger to the last set being 'Bat by Bil Baird' is still hysterical. best price I have seen is about £250 for the set - still out of my range at the moment - however I do have a bonus due from work in March....
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 13:18:38 GMT
I'm on 841 so will keep my eyes peeled for that Rob! This is a trip...Petofi stranded in the nether between two times that seems to be showing his nightmares - a tribunal of the gypsy council and then...this:
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Post by Rob Morris on Jan 26, 2016 13:26:02 GMT
I started collecting the individual boxes, but after a while just accepted that I was committed to it and bizarrely I was paying way over the odds for customs charges on a couple of them so I figured: get the box set. It did end up cheaper, but it was a big hit on the credit card at the time.
You get some very odd looks walking over Tower Bridge with what appears to be a child's coffin, I can tell you. I'm amazed the police didn't screech to a halt beside me.
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Post by coldlazarou on Jan 26, 2016 13:39:15 GMT
The complete box set came out when i was about three-quarters of the way trough as i recall (typical for my luck, really), so i figured i'd just keep on going. If it had been earlier and i'd less than half the show i probably would have sold them off and put the cash towards the full set.
I'm in the 330s at the minute, and preparing myself for the inevitable moment when Doc Woodard regenerates into Turgeon the sturgeon surgeon. AKA Peter Turgid.
To stave off that moment, and since it's KLS' birthday today, i think i shall listen to a Maggie-centric story later. Probably The Ghost Watcher again (i do love that story) or maybe Harvest of Souls.
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Post by sexbombsimon on Jan 26, 2016 15:01:23 GMT
So at the moment I am currently on 1089 and its nuts! Dolls housesand RE-used story lines (as in the kids being used by the evil forces - aman and a woman and so on). Julia coming into rooms and just having a go at every on. Quentin is a little subdued in these eps. What I really wanted to mention was how excited I was to get to the 1995 trip, but it was just a little sad, the house being wrecked was amazing set-dressing as you could feel a cold wind blowing in through open windows, but poor Carolyn scared and mad. Not at all what I was expecting. As a big fan of Dynasty i totally enjoyed the rich bitch Angelique of parralel time. Actually I really enjoyed Parallel time quite a bit.
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Post by sexbombsimon on Jan 26, 2016 15:03:25 GMT
Still cant believe the end credits rolling over a guy eating his lunch though. Nearly spat out my tea laughing. Does anyone know exactly what episode that was
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Post by sexbombsimon on Jan 26, 2016 15:05:12 GMT
Happy Birthday KLS. The Sarah-Jane Smith of Dark Shadows. Such and endearing, likeable and talented actress.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 0:41:12 GMT
Y'know: it had completely escaped me that not only is this year the 50th anniversary of DS, but the 25th of Revival DS! There's a rather wonderfully pleasing symmetry to that. Last Wednesday was the 25th anniversary of the first ep Now on Episode 685 Ezra, the jeweller...wow. If Groucho Marx and Abe Vigoda had a baby, and that baby lived to be 100 years old...it would be Ezra. Just read that WAS Abe Vigoda playing Ezra in an obituary - he died today aged 94. So he was only about 47 when playing Ezra and about 51 playing Tessio in The Godfather. Wow..
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 23:47:20 GMT
I went back tonight and watched a few fave eps. 345 where Burke's plane has crashed...one of the show's most unintentinally camp episodes ever, from Mrs Johnson hearing about the plane crash on the radio "and it was over the jungle!" to the amazing part where Liz has to call the authorities tosee if Burke was on board and completely forgets the name of where Burke was flying from while the person on the other end of the phone call is away checking details, she says to Mrs Johnson: "They won’t have an accurate copy of the passenger list until they hear from the terminal in…...ehm in......... oh,... that place in Brazil" She then stamps her foot, and goes back to pretending to listen to someone talking, and suddenly remembers the place name: "Belem". She looks relieved. Then she forgets it again in the next sentence. I think Belem was something she completely ad-libbed. It's hilarious. Poor Joan could hardly see the autocue when she stood in the foreground, she had no chance at the back of the set.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2016 23:51:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 1:26:48 GMT
Watched the two Bathia Mapes eps tonight (450 and 451) really enjoying checking out some past faves again She's so awesome - the quinessential old crow. Putting her in, effectively, a two-hander with Louis Edmonds is the best idea. They just ramp it up, and up and up. Also watched the ep where Julia Hoffman belts Mrs Johnson
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 12:22:13 GMT
876 Well, Beth's just fallen off Widow's Hill. She really shouldn't have been arguing and struggling with Quentin on a clifftop! I would have thought that Kitty would be the one going over it given her Josettiness
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Post by Rob Morris on Jan 28, 2016 12:40:47 GMT
If only there was some way of stopping people going over it. Maybe some kind of a fence?
Or is that health and safety gone mad?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 12:53:40 GMT
If only there was some way of stopping people going over it. Maybe some kind of a fence? Or is that health and safety gone mad? I think it's the third or fourth time people go there just to argue, grapple and give us the "Are they going over the edge?" cliffhanger. I've adored Thayer and David switching roles the past wee while. They're back now and 1897 is soon to end...I've ha a wonderful time with it. David Selby really is fantastic and, if possible, I love Louis Edmonds, Grayson Hall and Thayer David even more now.
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Post by barnabaslives on Jan 28, 2016 13:08:27 GMT
If only there was some way of stopping people going over it. Maybe some kind of a fence? Or is that health and safety gone mad? Sounds sensible enough but certainly would take a lot of the suspense out of the series since there seem to be a lot of these cliff incidents. On the bright side, in real life there was a trampoline which allowed Ms. Chavez a very brief but nonetheless miraculous (and completely unintended) recovery.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 13:21:37 GMT
878 Evan Hanley
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2016 13:54:05 GMT
879 Brilliant - Tim and Judith prove they were the quiet badasses of 1897 all along Funny to think The Wicked And The Dead picks up right after this ep. I'll miss Jerry Lacy's Gregory - he's much, much worse than Isiah Mk. I. How wonderful we've had a whole Trask mini-series on audio.
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Post by Rob Morris on Jan 28, 2016 15:02:34 GMT
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