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Dark Shadows: The Christmas Presence

Meanwhile, as children are reported missing across Collinsport, the festive season brings Collinwood new terrors, when a persuasive spirit seeks to divide and conquer...


Angelique Bouchard Collins

In the 2012 Dark Shadows film, Angelique is portrayed by French actress Eva Green, and in a single brief childhood scene establishing Angelique's early interest in Barnabas, by Raffey Cassidy.

Blackmoor

Blackmoor evolved from Arneson's wargaming sessions, after he began to expand them to include ideas from The Lord of the Rings and Dark Shadows.

Carolyn Stoddard

Jessica Chastain portrayed Carolyn in the 2004 pilot of the new Dark Shadows for the WB.

Craig Slocum

He was best known for his roles of Noah Gifford and Harry Johnson on the cult television series Dark Shadows, which was broadcast on ABC.

Dark Shadows: The Rage Beneath

As a storm rages across Collinsport, ancient forces are stirring throughout the town.

Four original series cast members reprise their roles -- David Selby as Quentin Collins, Lara Parker as Angelique, John Karlen as Willie Loomis, and Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans.

David and the Phoenix

Some Dark Shadows fans have speculated as to the surface similarity between Ormondroyd's whimsical novel, and the 1967 subplot featuring Laura Murdoch Collins, who reveals her true sinister nature as Laura the Phoenix, as she tries to claim her estranged nine year old boy—named David.

Henry Kaplan

Henry Kaplan (September 13, 1926 – September 14, 2005) was a television director known for his works on Dark Shadows, Ryan's Hope, The Doctors and All My Children.

I Ching's influence

The ABC soap opera Dark Shadows featured yarrow sticks and a copy of the I Ching that allowed characters meditating on the hexagrams to astral travel.

Joel Crothers

In 1966, Crothers returned to Broadway in a starring role opposite Joan Van Ark in Barefoot in the Park, which he worked on simultaneously with his stint on Dark Shadows.

Joel Fabiani

He has guest starred in many other television shows, including Columbo: How to Dial a Murder, Dark Shadows, Starsky and Hutch, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote and Law & Order.

Josette du Pres

The character then returned in the 2009 audio drama Final Judgement released by Big Finish Productions.

Kathryn Leigh Scott

In 2013, Kathryn was reunited with her Dark Shadows co-stars Jerry Lacy and Lara Parker in the feature film Doctor Mabuse, written and directed by Ansel Faraj.

Maggie Evans

The character (as played by Kathryn Leigh Scott) has more recently appeared in a number of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions.

Malcolm Marmorstein

Peyton Place, Love Bites, Dead Men Don't Die, ABC Weekend Specials, The Witching of Ben Wagner, Konrad, Rose Petal Place: Real Friends, Poochie, Return from Witch Mountain, Pete's Dragon, Whiffs, Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary, S*P*Y*S, Night Gallery, Dark Shadows and The Doctors.

Ohrbach's

Ohrbach's supplied clothing for the television soap operas: All My Children, Dark Shadows, The Doctors, the short lived weekly drama Coronet Blue, the comedy Mister Ed, and others.

Robert Gerringer

Robert Gerringer (May 12, 1926-November 8, 1989) was an American character actor perhaps best known as Dr. Dave Woodard on the soap opera cum cult TV series Dark Shadows, a role he played during 1967.

Robert Rodan

In 2007, he guest starred in the Dark Shadows audio drama, The Rage Beneath.

Seaview Terrace

From 1966 to 1971, the Gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows used Burnham-by-the-Sea as the exterior set for the fictional Collinwood Mansion.

Strange Paradise

The production was the brainchild of producer Steve Krantz, in an attempt to capitalize on the phenomenal success of ABC's daytime serial Dark Shadows.

Willie Loomis

The character (portrayed by John Karlen) has more recently appeared in a number of audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions.


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