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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