Dark Shadows

...of Darkness, in which the undead aristocrat is resurrected by his loyal servant Klove. That same year, ABC debuted the spooky soap opera Dark Shadows and quickly brought in a vampire character named Barnabas Collins to boost ratings. After...

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...and I waited out the Keanu Reeves scenes in Bram Stoker's Dracula until Gary Oldman came on screen again. From Dusk Till Dawn, Dark Shadows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer - I've seen them all, at least in parts, and I love me some True Blood...

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..."Angel" has an Angel-Spike bromance. And if romance isn't your thing... the shows are damn funny. "Dark Shadows" One of the first vampire romances, "Dark Shadows" debut on ABC in 1966 and ran for five seasons. It told the tale of the...

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...Grandpa Munster, Lewis turned the vampire 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...

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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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...before the first of his 133 "3rd Rock" episodes -- with recurring roles on "Roseanne," "The Powers That Be" and the early-'90s "Dark Shadows" reboot -- and he damn sure hasn't let that role define his subsequent career. Gordon-Levitt's...

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...the supernatural, we'd have something more solid. As it stands, Meyers is just mimicking the lovelorn shtick from Dan Curtis' far superior Dark Shadows - and doing a dreadful job of it at that. Indeed, if there were any justice in this...

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...or even admirable. Long before she began the series, there was the character of "Barnabas Collins" in the gothic American soap opera Dark Shadows - Tim Burton is said to be preparing a feature film based on the series, with Johnny Depp in the...

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...and, undoubtedly, causing consternation for their parents, raised on the double-crossing vampires of Anne Rice novels and shows like "Dark Shadows." And the new CW show "The Vampire Diaries" revolves around a teen being pursued by two...

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...characters could wander down a shadowy corridor and end up in a parallel universe. The DVD collections Dark Shadows: The Vampire Curse and Dark Shadows: The Haunting Of Collinwood each offer three hours of scenes from the show, excerpted and...

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