The Dark Shadows Daybook with Patrick McCray
The Collinsport Historical Society
Release Date: 08/21/2019
Return to House of Dark Shadows
The Collinsport Historical Society
Will McKinley loves House of Dark Shadows. Nancy Kersey, a creative collaborator with Frid in those days, does not love House of Dark Shadows. On Oct. 19, they made a pilgrimage to Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York — the film's shooting location — to debate the merits of the big screen version of Barnabas Collins.
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Kathryn Leigh Scott and Daisy Tormé
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Kathryn Leigh Scott and David Selby recently reunited to play Maggie Evans and Quentin Collins once more for Big Finish Productions in a four-story boxset "Maggie and Quentin: The Lovers' Refrain." Set after "Return to Collinwood","The Lovers' Refrain" catches up with a very-much-in-love 21st Century Maggie and Quentin who find that as they get older - or at least as one of them does - life doesn't get any easier. Kathryn's recording sessions for this boxset took her to Los Angeles, New York and London. I snuck into the studio after she wrapped on her final day to grab a few...
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The Dark Shadows Daybook: On Barnabas Collins ...
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Diabolical Daybook diarist Patrick McCray is joined by the Fabulous Alexis Latshaw to resurrect Barnabas Collins and argue that TV’s greatest villain is its greatest hero in a bizarre act of unnatural fan love.
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Penny Dreadful and the Vampire of Collinsport
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Penny Dreadful's alter ego Danielle Gelehrter discusses her favorite vampire, Barnabas Collins, and her memories of growing up a "second generation" Dark Shadows fan.
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The House by the Sea with Jessica Dwyer
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Jessica Dwyer explains why the sins of Collinsport's royal family aren't always that sinful.
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Big Finish's Welcome to Collinsport
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The producers of Big Finish's line of "Dark Shadows" audio dramas talk about why extending the show's storyline has always been about extending the Collins family.
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The Dark Shadows Daybook with Patrick McCray
The Collinsport Historical Society
Patrick McCray and Justin Partridge have a drink at The Blue Whale and talk about Master of Dark Shadows, how the show speaks to the lonely and why the 1897 storyline is like an episode of "Fantasy Island" for Barnabas Collins.
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My Drawing Room with Alice Collins
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Alice Collins talks about discovering "Dark Shadows" on The Sci-Fi Channel while home sick from school at age 11, and seeing something familiar in the show's themes and characters.
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The Clunes Reunion
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On the seventh anniversary of Jonathan Frid's death, his production staff and creative collaborators reunite in New York City.
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Evolving in the Shadows with Ella Minnope
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Ella Minnope talks about how the romantic aesthetic of the deep South compares to the dysfunctional Collins family.
info_outlinePatrick McCray and Justin Partridge have a drink at The Blue Whale and talk about Master of Dark Shadows, how the show speaks to the lonely and why the 1897 storyline is like an episode of "Fantasy Island" for Barnabas Collins.