Dark Shadows

I think Jonathan Frid is.

Frid is definitely a cocksucker. So is that old queen Louis Edmonds (Roger).

"Was Barnabas gay?"

Absolutely not! What are you, twelve?

He was in love with Angeligue

Nope he was in love with Josette, Victoria and Angelique. Unfortunately Julia couldn't get him to fall for her.

Didn't someone here claim to have slept with Joel Crothers?

There was a gloryhole in the Collins mausoleum and once I caught a glimpse of Barnabas' signet ring on a wizened finger that slowly, beckoningly circled the outline of the opening, and all the while the old geezer made smacking noises with his lips.

Excuse me, 200 years old and never married. What do you think?

He kissed Willi Lomas on the neck

and yes Frid is gay and a Canadian which makes him doubly Gay.

I wish they'd released "House of Dark Shadows" & "Night of Dark Shadows" by Dan Curtis on dvd. And weht the Johnny Depp remake?

Can Vampires fuck? What about shoot loads? If they're dead, they can't have sperm right?

Not all who suck are homosexual.

No, but Quentin was freaky deaky, he was always trying to get into poor Davids pants.

Oh, those sideburns!! Yum!

Weren't most of the guys on that show gay?

yes, r15. And most of its fans as well.

Soap thread!

He was as gay as Keanu Reeves on a dark and stormy night.

There were SO MANY episodes in which only gay actors appeared.

I wouldn't advise getting anywhere near a glory hole with those canines on the other end.

I dare anyone to name more than 3 straight male actors on that show?

There was this one scene btwn Frid and the second actor to play Burke Devlin who was also gay. It was a very intimate scene in the local pub. There was a lot of erotic subtext to their conversation, at least the way the actors played it. They were supposed to be enemies, and the scene came off as though the characters were negotiating some sexual relationship. Part of the fun of DS, besides the obvious campiness, was watching the mostly gay theatre actors on the show pretending to be in love with a woman. It was hysterical.

Just when you think Luis Edmonds can't be beaten for sheer campiness, along comes Humbert Allen Alstredo (Nicholas Blair) and Michael Stroka (Aristede/Bruno).

And you can't beat Thayer David as Count Petofi for sheer gay silliness.

Gayest show on television! I think the guys who played Willie and Sam were the only two who were straight.

...and you really shouldn't say Barnabas ever loved Angelique... Deadly enemies for most of the run, at least on his part. She's a woman scorned.

Surprise...Michael Stroka was straight in real life. I know it means nothing on DL, but he was married to a woman. Roger Davis and David Ford were also straight. Everyone else was gay, gay, gay. Joan Bennett was Louis Edmonds' fag hag IRL.

Barnabus admitting to loving Angelique at the end of the parallel time storyline.

Don't forget Chris Berneau in the Leviathan storyline. He was married to this breathy, sexy, buxomy woman and was the biggest queen in Collinsport. You know he wasn't fucking her.

Chris Bernau played Philip Todd. He seemed more interested in Chris Pennock, the handsome actor who played his surrogate demon-seed son, than the beautiful Marie Wallace, who played his wife.

David Collins was the biggest queen in Collinsport. He had jazz hands, for heavens sake. I'm shocked that the actor who played him, David Henesy, grew up to be straight.

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My name is Victoria Winters.

Never missed an episode of this show when I was 12

Fuck you, Victoria Winters! Too bad the kindly Rev. Trask's plan to kill you went up in flames.

A man who wears a cape, carries a fabulous cane and cannot LIVE without giving a good suck? Yeah i'd say that's gay :-)

[quote]Thayer David

Also straight. Was married then divorced, and just before his death was planning to remarry the woman he divorced

I think the handsome young man who played the 1st werewolf was gay. Or at least he seemed gay.

My cousin's Mormon mom wouldn't let her watch it, so we had to sneak it! I had the comics, the album, the wig, loved Lara Parker.

One of the most dramatic days of adolescent life was when my mother refused to let me stay home from afternoon Hebrew School to see the final episode of DARK SHADOWS. I hated her so much for that and I can still remember sitting in Hebrew School, staring at the clock, drowning in my torturous self-pity regarding this cruelty to this day, 35 years later!

The sound you hear is me puttin' on my mandals as I head down to St. Marks to buy the original logo tee on black & white 100% cotton(S, M, L, XL).

Let it go, r37, at least she let you watch it. It was on after my grandmother's fave, "Another World" on NBC. It started that summer of '68? on ABC and it was B&W and it was on around 11 a.m. as I recall?

The guy who played to first werewolf went crazy, but he was so fucking hot. I wanted him to attack me. What about that hot guy in the 1841 parallel time storyline.

Don Briscoe, the guy who played the werewolf Chris Jennings, apparantly took some LSD or other psychodel and had a breakdown after that. He went home to live with his parents, and just died last year. He was so hot. I had a major crush on Christopher Pennock.

Chris Pennock had a huge cock.

Wasn't David Selby on Dark Shadows? What is the story on him?

Selby is straight. His son wrote some radio play based on DS and had a bunch of the cast re-enact their roles at a recent fan gathering. He was beyond beautiful during his DS days.

Lesbian icon Ada on "Another World" actress Constance Ford ("A Summer Place", "Parrish") used to hang with Jonathan Frid & Joel Carothers at Upper West at gay bars.

do they really carry those shirt on St. Marks? Which store? Blue & Cream?

The films were shot at a mansion that's still standing in Dobbs Ferry, NY. I think some of the original series had location shooting?

Lara Parker lives in Northern California and looks great, loved her with Loretta Swit in "Shout At The Devil".

Dan Curtis was genius, he did a werewolf one with Angie Dickinson in tight sweaters called "The Norliss Tapes" shot at Laguna Beach. That one is camp. I even liked the early 90s NBC primetime series with Ben Cross.

"Race with the Devil"

the one with Karen Black playing all 3 parts. Actually 4.

Watched it at NYU with a bunch of stoned queens, one of whom had taken acid and freaked out smashed a mirror, made Karen Black seem tame. "Trilogy of Terror", it was a Barry Diller "ABC Movie of the Week".

r45, a majority of the NYC daytime actors in the 60s/70s were gay. Back then, many of them came from the theatre, not from an underwear catalog. I'm sure a lot of them hung out together. Must've been a hoot.

Now we know how old AdamBlast is. I'm guessing 77?

The series had location shooting at various places around Newport, Rhode Island. The Collins mansion is still there, part of Salve Regina College.

On one of the special Dark Shadows DVDs that's out (not the ones part of the original series), the actress who played Carolyn takes a tour of the various locations as they stand today (or at least as of 1996).

The Barnabas/Burke Devlin flirtation scene

"The way we intimate things without actually coming out..."

"Two swordsman ... you thrust... I parry"

thanks r55.

"thank you for playing the game"

Ada hanging out with Joe haskell and Barnabus Collins? I bet that was fun. You gays in the 70s had all the fun.

oh my god, some of these dialogue "bloopers" are really hysterical.

And thank you r55, I can't believe I never thought to YouTube "Dark Shadows"!! I am now disappearing into my computer for a week or two to relive my adolescence (why would I want to do that?).

Maybe they have the final episode and I can finally let go of the hatred for my mother due to that fucking day of torture when she made me miss it to go to Hebrew School.

whoops, forgot the link to the bloopers (I can't believe I am actually using the word bloopers)

Jerry Lacey was Rev. Trask - married to Julia Duffy.

Trivia notes: Roger Davis, one of the major players on Shadows, was married to Jaclyn Smith at the time. She was thisclose to being the actress to replace the departing Alexandra Moltke as Vicki Winters. The role wound up going to Betsy Durkin, who last a month.

Nancy Barrett (Carolyn) and David Ford (Sam) married after meeting on DS. He was twice her age. She said later on that she fell in love with him because she thought he was so damn talented.

Clarice Blackburn, who played vinegary Mrs. Johnson, went onto a successful soap writing career, writing for AMC for many years.

"Vinegary" is a great adjective!

I just bought some of the DVDs

Ada a/k/a Constance Ford used to live in HK and also hung with Margaret Colin at Mike's 10th Bar & Grill, now an Egyptian restaurant. Bring back a Mike's type actor, musician hangout! Somebody. I'm begging you! That would be tremendous!

Joan Bennett visibly drunk in many scenes. Luved the parallel time story arc which gave the actors PLENTY to do. What drugs was the cast on?

what is HK?

The backstory of all these gay West Village actors and "Edge of Night", "Like an Eagle" star Dennis Parker, Joel Carothers would make a great play. Imagine going from the soap set to The Mineshaft or The Spike.

They also summered in The Pines & P-town in the 70s, those could be shooting locations. What're they going for in the film, total campiness I hope. And I hope it's a boomer director like Joel Schumacher or Dick Donner, not Tim Burton.

I used to see Joel Crothers at the bars. Nice guy. Very good looking in person

Hell's Kitsch, duh...how Cher Horowitz of you.

Amy Heckerling signed to do "Dark Shadows" comedy.

Wearing my new "DS"-logo tee, I got it in white & black. It's very snug but I luv luv luv it.

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"The backstory of all these gay West Village actors and "Edge of Night", "Like an Eagle" star Dennis Parker, Joel Carothers would make a great play. Imagine going from the soap set to The Mineshaft or The Spike."

It's sad that life didn't work out too well for Crothers or Parker (nee' Dennis Posa, aka Wade Nichols).

I think that the behind the scenes stuff of Dark Shadows would make a great TV Show. ABC would be the perfect network, since they aired the original. Of course, you'd probably have to get the consent of all the living actors to air it and protray them accurately. I'm not sure how Frid would take to being revealed as gay-but then again he's gotta be in his 80's and living in Canada, so maybe he wouldn't give a rat's ass. There were some candid shots of DS cast members on a website I saw a couple of years ago, and there is one with Jonahthan Frid and Louis Edmonds at Fire Island and Frid is sporting a Speedo, and looking quite hot!

Dennis Cooney, David O'Brien and Michael Lipton used to hang with Connie, Jon and Joel at that same bar.

R75, I think Frid is more or less out

I know a guy who used to be a rent boy in the 70s and claimed Frid was one of his clients

David O'Brien was gay? Who knew.

Sure, he died from Aids too. Does anyone know weht Michael Lipton? He seems to have vanished from the planet.

Tell me, was Val Dufour part of the crowd. He was very gay and very handsome in his youth.

I saw him right before he passed away. I couldn't believe it was the same guy.

Micheal Lipton is retired and living in upstate New York.

Someone on here said they went to Frid's West Village pad for dinner. And the first thing you see when you walk in is the infamous Barnabas portrait. Then further in is a framed shot of Frid nude from the 70s.

this thread is great fun.

Tell us more about the old days. They must have been wild. Wild sex, wild parties..yada

They were all gay. Even little David queened it up every time he turned evil (which was a frequent occurance).

I love how all of these old soap actors were gay. Did the housefraus who watched these shows know? I love it!

Did anyone here know Joel Crothers? I had a huge crush on him when I was a kid

I always knew these ppl were gay, but never cared. They were some of the most talented folks around.

Does anyone remember Gene Lindsey? He was also on the doctors. I met him once. He was so stoned he could hardly stand

Dark Shadows has a very active fan base, the convention is annual.

I wanna have a "DS" party! Show the dvds, have some kind of contest, play music from 1966-1971!

I'm playing Hermans Hermits, The Cyrkle, Paul Revere & The Raiders, The Monkees, The Beach Boys, The Hollies and more.

A DS party would be fun

Did anyone catch "Night of Dark Shadows" on cable Friday night? Grayson Hall was such a torment! How could they make a DS movie without Barnabas???

Loved the Lyndhurst location (which is in Tarrytown, not Dobbs Ferry, btw) but what a nightmare that they filmed with "live" sound!

Damn, I missed it

I loved Grayson Hall. She was like a grag queen in a woman'd body

When I watch it today all I notice is how the boommike is always coming into the frame and the special effects were anything but - like when Barnabas was in "bat" mode - a plastic bat on a string being jerked around? - Of course when I was 7 it was a different story - racing home from school so I could park it in front of the console TV exactly at 4:30 - I thought it was the scariest show - I still have the soundtrack. Dark Shadows and Gilbert O'Sullivan - two of my childhood guilty pleasures.