Probably something like these! But that KFC commercial -- yikes -- maybe a bit too disturbing for daytime TV. Housewives were jittery from Folger's coffee jags and Tupperware parties back then. Was that directed by Fritz Lang?
Tim Burton.
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Probably something like these! But that KFC commercial -- yikes -- maybe a bit too disturbing for daytime TV. Housewives were jittery from Folger's coffee jags and Tupperware parties back then. Was that directed by Fritz Lang?
It was definitely marketed to appeal to the soap fans. No doubt about that.
Well Young Mister White, how was it "definitely marketed to appeal to the soap fans. No doubt about that"? As much as I truly love a statement that demands, "This is for certain, no rational person could think otherwise," I gots my doubts. Were there any commercials with Barnabas Collins soaking in Ivory liquid? It began as a gothic. By the time Fangs McGee appeared, children were running home from school (as Johnny Depp & others have attested) to try and catch it. It broke out of the box. Dan Curtis liked to tell the story (enviously, you could tell) how Frid was suddenly bombarded by fanmail, often with topless polaroids of females ranging from teenagers to grandmas. It has nothing to do with the post, it's just as fun story. The writing, production and acting talent was beyond anything else ever done on daytime TV to this day. It was marketed as 'Dark Shadows'. Nothing else. There's no doubt about that! And there's the hierocracy. You win this round. Ever see an 'Edge of Night' board game? The kids would have loved it!
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It's how I remember it when I was a kid. It was on after the soaps and my mother and her friends watched it. I'm not here to debate and fight. I'm just here to have a good time and chat. Please don't take any of what I said the wrong way. Thanks.
And no, there is no Edge of Night board game but there is this.
And no, there is no Edge of Night board game but there is this.
Isn't that just Sorry in a 'General Hospital' box? Good job! Did you print the whole thing out, or draw it with a sharpie & color it in? Yes, you used the game's Sweet Revenge. Like in the title.
Chill out. There are worse things to get all riled up about in the world.Isn't that just Sorry in a 'General Hospital' box? Good job! Did you print the whole thing out, or draw it with a sharpie & color it in? Yes, you used the game's Sweet Revenge. Like in the title.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Stephen had wrote about Dark Shadows in Danse Macabre, heres some of that ...
" Dan Curtis became associated with the horror field as producer of what must have been the strangest Soap Opera ever to run on the tube, it was called Dark Shadows. Originally conceived as a soft focus ladie's gothic of the type so popular in paperbacks, it eventually mutated into something quite different from what had first been intended.
Dark Shadows under Curtis inspired hand became a kind of supernatural mad hatters' tea party, even served at the traditional tea party time at four in the afternoon, and hypnotized viewers were treated to a seriocomic panorama of hell. One tuned in to Dark Shadows every day convinced that things could become no more lunatic ... and yet somehow they did."
I had always wondered about any influence it may have had on his writing, as where it takes place in Collinsport is a fictional town in Maine about 50 miles from Bangor, which Stephen has also created a few, and was in his early 20s at that time which i imagine was pretty cool to be living amidst on the very grounds a part of something so phenomenal!
" Dan Curtis became associated with the horror field as producer of what must have been the strangest Soap Opera ever to run on the tube, it was called Dark Shadows. Originally conceived as a soft focus ladie's gothic of the type so popular in paperbacks, it eventually mutated into something quite different from what had first been intended.
Dark Shadows under Curtis inspired hand became a kind of supernatural mad hatters' tea party, even served at the traditional tea party time at four in the afternoon, and hypnotized viewers were treated to a seriocomic panorama of hell. One tuned in to Dark Shadows every day convinced that things could become no more lunatic ... and yet somehow they did."
I had always wondered about any influence it may have had on his writing, as where it takes place in Collinsport is a fictional town in Maine about 50 miles from Bangor, which Stephen has also created a few, and was in his early 20s at that time which i imagine was pretty cool to be living amidst on the very grounds a part of something so phenomenal!
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Love the lost audio with footage!!! About her being cold none was there ever a voice more filled with chills and trembles , subtly shivering Miss Winters given her wintery name for the snow on her blanket.
I have no idea what you he is talking about. Anybody help me out?Isn't that just Sorry in a 'General Hospital' box? Good job! Did you print the whole thing out, or draw it with a sharpie & color it in? Yes, you used the game's Sweet Revenge. Like in the title.
Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Im not sure about that one, but I meant to quote yours and mals soap opera posts on mine and i just forgot to but i still get messed up on that.
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Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
....he's just being his usual obtuse "comedic" self, but the layer of snark is unbecoming to him and unfair to you.....
Love the lost audio with footage!!! About her being cold none was there ever a voice more filled with chills and trembles , subtly shivering Miss Winters given her wintery name for the snow on her blanket.
Go to 06:11 or so. Her headlights are on high beam! Before you deride me for being a horndog, I noticed this several years ago. When I was a horndog.
Hey 'long tall Sally', don't hit me with snark, I'm still working on obtuse! Why'd you have to comment? You could have just kept him in suspenders. (See what I did there?) I truly am sorry. The cheesy looking game just threw me. I saw a van & a nurse! The kids must have been quivering with pre-med excitement when they saw that thing in the Sears catalog. And as far as being obtuse (still not sure what that is) Why must the witty always be persecuted? Oscar Wilde, Robert Benchley, me, Dick Cavett, Sarah Palin, Junior Samples, this guy
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Maddie
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
I KNEW you were gonna go there!
the old cold comment had to be nipinspired! However, they dont call her Miss Winters for nothing!
I KNEW you were gonna go there!
However, they dont call her Miss Winters for nothing!
She got some notice in the 80's because she was Claus Von Bulow's girlfriend at the time he was charged with killing his wife. If I'd been him, I'd have been lowering that thermostat like crazy!
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Okay, kids. Let's keep the nipular pics somewhere else please. Thank you.
...you're welcome kind sir....Thanks friend.
Neesy
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Nipular pics!
I'm glad to see that grin willard is getting in some hot water - that used to happen to me in the beginning before it was pounded into my thick skull that this is a "family site"
