Well, here it is after all! It was saved in the Drafts folder, thankfully! *sigh*
Another rainy day so far... A bit less than yesterday, but it's barely stopped raining since Sunday evening... I was hoping it was done when we had a dry spell of maybe 90 minutes earlier this morning... Oh, well!
I would have posted earlier, but I've been tinkering around a lot on Facebook & Twitter (via yfrog). Other than that, about all I've accomplished is straightening up the livingroom and getting the dogs watered/walked during that short dry spell around 9 am.
Yesterday I listed many movie favorites of mine, but barely scratched the surface...
Today I will mention a few tv shows of the present and past that I have enjoyed...
I am a BIG fan of the original series of Dark Shadows that ran on ABC from 1966 till 1971. It was originally a gothic romance soap opera that featured young Victoria Winters on her journey of discovery to Collinsport, Maine from the only home she'd ever known in a foundling home in New York City. She became the governess of David Collins, a child with many problems. She was employed by David's aunt, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. David's father, Roger Collins felt there was no help for the boy and wanted to send him away to a boarding school. Elizabeth's daughter Carolyn Collins Stoddard rounded out the occupants of the huge mansion Collinwood in those early days. The show was in danger of cancellation early, but then after having success with the ghosts of Josette Collins, Bill Malloy and finally Laura Collins' return to try to take her son away with her in flames which revealed her as being The Phoenix, the show became even more supernatural when a vampire was introduced...
Willie Loomis was a violent young man and caused lots of disturbances and trouble from the time he had come to Collinsport and began staying at Collinwood with his friend Jason McGuire who was blackmailing Elizabeth Collins Stoddard.
Willie had a love for jewels and he heard and read of a legend that Naomi Collins had been buried with jewelry given to her by a pirate.
He asked questions of the family and of Mrs. Johnson, the housekeeper who had come to Collinwood after her former employer Bill Malloy had been murdered.
Willie also looked through family books and began to study the portrait of Barnabas Collins who had lived in the late 1700s.
Barnabas wore a large, onyx ring, a piece of jewelry resembling a medal or medals and a pendant of some sort, so Willie was fascinated by that portrait. Finally, he began hearing a heartbeat as he stared at the painting...
This would change Willie's life forever and would give a shot in the arm to the show...
Willie decided to break into the Collins mausoleum and open Naomi Collins' coffin to steal the jewels he'd been hearing and reading so much about...
When he was trying to figure out a way to open the coffin, he attached a block & tackle's hook to a ring in the mouth of a lion's head over the section of the back wall of the mausoleum where the plaque telling the birth and death dates of Naomi Collins...
Suddenly, the heartbeat he'd heard before began pounding as the ring began to pull from the mouth of the lion and the wall opened, revealing it to be a false wall, hiding a room at the back of the tomb...
Willie found a chained coffin inside that room and proceeded to open it with the tools he'd stolen from Collinwood.
Once the chains were off, Willie lifted the lid and...
A large hand with an old-fashioned lace-edged sleeve and a large, black onyx ring on it's finger reached up and grabbed him by the throat!
Willie Loomis, Dark Shadows, television & we who have been Dark Shadows fans nearly all our lives would never be the same, again!
More tomorrow!
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