Return to House of Dark Shadows
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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
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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_outlineOn her visit to the UK last month, I caught up with Daisy Tormé, star of Bloodlust and Blood & Fire.
A life - long friend of Kathryn Leigh Scott, Daisy talks of how Kathryn brought her into the Dark Shadows world to be Bloodlust's Melody Devereux, a Victoria Winters for the 1980s. And she tells me how she approached taking on the established role of Abigail Collins in Big Finish Productions' 50th Anniversary Special Blood & Fire.
Along the way we discuss her career, her childhood in both the UK and the US, and growing up with parents famous on both sides of the Atlantic as she runs through the members of a dynasty the equal of the Collins of Collinsport.
This podcast also features the announcement of the winners of the signed copies of Blood & Fire and Echoes of the Past.