DARN SHADOWS

DARK SHADOWS
1966-1971 ABC

DARN SHADOWS
Spoof #1, October 1970
w: Roy Thomas
a: Marie Severin

Daily afternoon soap opera about the Collins family of Collinsport took place in the nineteenth century. It became particularly popular when family member Barnabas (Jonathan Frid), a vampire came in, making the series a horror show.

Barnabas' young cousins were David (David Henesy) and Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott)

The show started being like Wuthering Heights, but the monsters soon came to the forefront, such as cousin Quentin (David Selby)

There was cousin Elizabeth (Joan Bennett)

The show started waning in popularity as more realistic soaps in the same time-slot such as As the World Turns and Guiding Light were beating it in the ratings but monsters were becoming teen idols so they went the latter route.

But nothing could be scarier than the news (at that time the most famous anchor was Walter Cronkite).