Where I wish Cavada Humphrey had played Barnabas’ bossy big sister in the 1795 flashback, and say that there is no real reason why that sister couldn’t have been Sarah.
Tag: imaginary recasting
Episode 748: The Misunderstanding
I remark on the bossy big sister/ bratty little brother relationships that power so much of Dark Shadows.
Episode 769: Crazy Ex-Boyfriend
All the actors they passed over to cast Roger Davis in a part so good even he couldn’t make it painful to watch.
Episode 774: What’s Up Dirk
Some imaginary recasting.
Episode 960: Time and Temperature
In which I say that the episode needed to be more depressing, and suggest a change that might have accomplished that.
Episode 987: Truly Two
I explain my favorite imaginary recastings, and add to them an imaginary writing staff that might have been able to keep the show going at a high level for several years.
Episode 992: Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t
In which I say that the 1795 storyline (a.k.a. ”Meet Angelique”) would have been better if Cavada Humphrey had played a grown-up Sarah Collins who was a bossy big sister to her bratty little brother Barnabas.
Episode 1041: Westworld
In which I wish we’d seen more of Philip R. Allen on the show.
Episode 1056: The Parallel Sky
I praise another commenter’s suggestion that 1970 Parallel Time (the segment I call “Meet Another Angelique”) would have been better with Alexandra Isles as an evil version of Vicki and Lara Parker as her innocent victim, the second Mrs Quentin Collins. That would make it an inversion of the 1795 storyline (which I call “Meet Angelique.”)
Episode 1066: This Is How We Do It
In which I wonder what it might have been like if Dan Curtis had had his way and Bert Convy, rather than Jonathan Frid, had played Barnabas Collins. I then try to imagine Jonathan Frid in Convy’s place as host of Tattletales.
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