In which I respond to people comparing Dark Shadows with Star Trek by recommending Robert Justman and Herb Solow’s book Inside Star Trek, and comparing its portrait of Gene Roddenberry with what we know of Dan Curtis.
Episode 773: The Persecution and Assassination of Minerva Trask as Performed by Tim Shaw Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
Why I think The Manchurian Candidate is better than Episode #773 of Dark Shadows.
Episode 774: What’s Up Dirk
Some imaginary recasting.
Episode 776: Blood Sports
Things I wish we’d seen in the 1897 segment, such as Clarice Blackburn playing a second character and a more imaginative use of Don Briscoe’s W. C. Fields imitation.
Episode 778: Pocket Full of Kryptonite
A wonderful dream sequence.
Episode 780: The Establishment Vampire
In which I try to explain something about how gods, demons, and other supernatural beings figured in the imaginations of pre-modern peoples.
Episode 786: The Blog Post About The Original Music From Dark Shadows with The Robert Cobert Orchestra & Featuring Jonathan (Barnabas) Frid and David (Quentin) Selby
In which I note that Charity Trask has an extraordinary commercial sense.
Episode 791: Sign the Paper
Dracula meets The Fugitive.
Episode 800: Sitting in a Tree
In which I say that I am not the sex police.
Episode 803: What Fresh Hell
David Henesy’s performance.
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