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any1 know where i might find some of these episodes? i vaguely remember the show from PBS, but was really young and scared easily...lol

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Dark Shadows premiered on June 27, 1966 not on June 25th.

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Dark Shadows, was the best "soap" I ever had the pleasure of watching, I didn't miss an episode, and also had a few restless nights after some of the eipsodes. I hope they don't ruin it if they make a movie, but they probably will.

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It would be an understatement to stay that I was addicted to the show as a teen-ager. Although I didn't begin watching until about 16 months after its premiere in 1966, I soon became obsessed with DS. I drew and hand-colored family trees of the different generations of Collinses, tape-recorded episodes and cut out every article and printed reference to the show - even the TV Guide listings for it! Beginning in July 1968, I typed a synopsis of every episode for friend Kathy Smith, who couldn't watch regularly. I soon learned that Collinswood itself was a former estate - and now a college - in Newport, RI, and that the exterior shots of the town were filmed in Essex, CT, not far from where I lived in Salem CT. Thanks to all the writing skills I garnered from writing an overview of each episode, I eventually became a newspaper journalist after briefly toying with the idea of becoming a "purple prose" Victorian writer! I eventually rented many VCR episodes of the show, but still haven't caught all the episodes after 20 years! Since I have no TV or video-player now, it may be a while before I watch all 1,225 episodes - NOT the 25,000 episodes initially cited. (A weekday show would have aired roughly 96 years to hit that benchmark!)

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This was the first 'soap' I ever watched. I would run home from school to see it. To this day I love it. NOT the remake short lived show, but only the original. Passions, although campy, was equally fun to watch. Their constant homages to DS was always welcome. Man, I miss Passions, too.

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it's available from MPI Home Video. you can buy them at Amazon.com

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I,too, loved DS and remember watching it in the late 60's, but I was only about 5 or 6 when it was on it's original run. Then in the late 70's, they began showing the reruns in the afternoon & I watched it all again. In the late 80's, early 90's, Sci-fi began the run & I taped almost every show, which I still have. I don't get them out to watch all that often, but they're there if I want to. I just hope the Vhs tapes last, that the problem with that format, it degrades after so many years. But I imagine to buy it all on dvd would be really expensive. Anyway, a great show, I hope the Depp movie does it right.

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There were two versions of DS. One, the newer was recently rerun on a cable station. I think it was with Ben Cross and other fairly well known cast. The other was grittier and campy. It was day time soap. I watched the newer hoping to catch episodes I missed.

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THe early Dark Shadows episodes were the source of some of the best on screen bloopers ever. Forgotten lines, burning props getting out of control, big whopping TV cameras, complete with cameraman, showing up in the background. The glory of live broadcasting. (-:

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I'm a huge Dark Shadows fan! In fact, obsessed is more to the point, LOL:) I'm just looking for other DS junkies like myself to talk to:)

Talk soon,
Toni

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LOVE
dark shadows ABC 1966-1971
house of dark shadows MGM 1970
night of dark shadows MGM 1971
dark shadows NBC 1991
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I wonder if any actors from the above will have cameos ?

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