‘Dark Shadows’ Debuted in 1966: A TV Flashback
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Dark Shadows, poster, Jonathan Frid, 1966-. (Photo by LMPC via Getty Images) LMPC via Getty Images Dark Shadows took a “bite,” so to speak, out of the network daytime drama landscape. And it was the beginning of a franchise that has returned numerous times in subsequent decades. Flashback to June 27, 1966, and Dark Shadows began its five-season run on ABC. At first thought, Jonathan Frid as the vampire Barnabas Collins comes to mind. But Frid’s iconic role was not introduced until 10 months into the run of Dark Shadows. From the onset, the show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place. Residents at the Collinswood Mansion included brother and sister Roger Collins (Louis Edmonds) and Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Joan Bennett), their children, and the governess Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke). Actors who rose to fame in primetime in later years who got their starts on Dark Shadows included David Selby (Falcon Crest), John Karlen (Cagney & Lacey), Kate Jackson (The Rookies, Charlie’s Angels, Scarecrow and Mrs. King), Conrad Bain (Maude, Diff’rent Strokes) and Abe Vigoda (Barney Miller, Fish). UNITED STATES – Circa 1969: DARK SHADOWS – gallery – Circa 1969, David Selby stars in this Gothic … More horror soap opera as several characters from various time periods, all named Quentin Collins. , (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images) Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images UNITED STATES – Circa 1968: DARK SHADOWS – 1968 cast gallery – pictured, clockwise top right: … More Humbert Allen Astredo, Lara Parker, Louis Edmonds, Grayson Hall, John Karlen, Nancy Barrett, Robert Rodan, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Thayer David, Jonathan Frid (cast color from photo), (Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via…
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