I hated to report on Tuesday that Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis had passed away as much as I'm sure many of you hated reading it. But maybe we can take some comfort from Daniel R. Coleridge's Soaps News today — he got Lara Parker (yes, Angelique the witch herself) on the horn to reminisce about the Gothic soap and its legendary creator. Click here to check it out.
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I hated to report on Tuesday that Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis had passed away as much as I'm sure many of you hated reading it. But maybe we can take some comfort from Daniel R. Coleridge's Soaps News today — he got Lara Parker (yes, Angelique the witch herself) on the horn to reminisce about the Gothic soap and its legendary creator. Click here to check it out.
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I hated to report on Tuesday that Dark Shadows creator Dan Curtis had passed away as much as I'm sure many of you hated reading it. But maybe we can take some comfort from Daniel R. Coleridge's Soaps News today — he got Lara Parker (yes, Angelique the witch herself) on the horn to reminisce about the Gothic soap and its legendary creator. Click here to check it out.
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Producer-director Dan Curtis passed away on Monday from brain cancer. He was 78. Although he helmed such acclaimed miniseries as The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Curtis was most beloved for dreaming up Dark Shadows, the cult supernatural sudser that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971.
In a daytime first, DS told soapy tales of vampires, witches, werewolves, ghosts and more. Yeah, this show was famous for its funny gaffes — the harried actors often flubbed their lines on live TV — but fans adored it for its originality, warts and all. My fave Collinwood stories involved Angelique (Lara Parker), the jilted witch who condemned Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) to dwell in misery as a broody vampire.
"When I heard of Dan Curtis'
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When I heard that longtime TV producer Dan Curtis died this week at 78, I kind of felt like a part of my childhood died as well. This showman no doubt was most proud of his epic World War II miniseries of the '80s, Winds of War, and its colossal 30-hour sequel, War and Remembrance. Yet I can't help but think fondly of the supernatural '60s soap opera he created (also for ABC), Dark Shadows, which introduced the world to that fang-tastically brooding vampire hero, Barnabas Collins.
Many was the afternoon I would hurry home from school (or, in the summer, the public pool) to catch the latest creepy installment of this Gothic soap. I had the books; I had the board game; I even sported plastic fangs and could produce a replica of Barnabas' gaudy ring upon demand. I w
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