Barnabas Collins

...into a lovable crank, full of hair-brained schemes and magic potions. Jonathan Frid in "Dark Shadows. " (1966) Frid's vampire, Barnabas Collins, was introduced late in the first season of this supernatural soap as a ratings ploy. It...

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Ron Sproat, a television and stage writer who created the character of Barnabas Collins, the reluctant vampire, on ABC's "Dark Shadows," died of a heart attack in his Manhattan apartment on Nov. 6. Advertisement He is a graduate of...

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...from Dan Curtis' far superior Dark Shadows - and doing a dreadful job of it at that. Indeed, if there were any justice in this land, Barnabas Collins and Lestat de Lioncourt would rise from their own fictional coffins and drain this...

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...to Present (Whitman, 146 pp., $49.95). Boxed in a slipcase, this oversized "Collector's Vault" ranges from Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins, Buffy and the new wave of vampiric teen idols. Included are dozens of pull-out replicas -...

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...to be young, sexy and a member of the undead. Vampires have been pop-culture icons for decades (school kids were running home to watch Barnabas Collins on "Dark Shadows" in the '60s), and now vampire chic is a burgeoning cottage industry,...

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...affair though, Barnabas had one last contact with the spirit of Josette, who finally forgave him and allowed him to move on. Also, Barnabas became enamored of Maggie, who had taken over Vicky's position as governess at Collinwood,...

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...Nosferatu, home to meet Mom and Dad. But a lot has changed in almost a century. </p><p>For the past 50 years or so from Dark Shadows   Barnabas Collins to Interview With the Vampire s Lestat to Twilight s Edward Cullen and True Blood s...

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...the show, excerpted and edited together to encompass long stretches of plot. The Vampire Curse includes a flashback to the origins of Barnabas Collins (played by Jonathan Frid), the vampire character who helped cement Dark Shadows'...

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...film Nosferatu, home to meet Mom and Dad. But a lot has changed in nearly a century. For the past 50 years or so - from Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins through Interview With a Vampire's Lestat to Twilight's Edward Cullen and TrueBlood's Bill...

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...vampire curse - into a movie franchise. The actor says, "I was obsessed with (lead character) Barnabas Collins. I have photographs of me holding Barnabas Collins' posters when I was five or six." And Burton - who worked with Depp on movies...

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