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Reviewer: crystalPegasus - - May 22, Subject: Whoops I downloaded five of the books and they were all the same book. I tried in mobi and epub. I'm reviewing the archivist's work, not the novels themselves. These books are fairly controversial in Dark Shadows fandom. Perhaps one of ABC's first truly popular daytime series, along with the game show Let's Make a Deal which had moved from original home NBC in , Dark Shadows found its demographic niche in teenagers coming home from school in time to watch the show at 4 p.
Central, where it aired for almost all of its network run, the exception being a month stretch between April and July , when it aired a half-hour earlier. Originally, it was aired in black-and-white, but the show went into color starting with the August 11, installment transmission.
Dark Shadows began with a 4. The audience figures only improved slightly, to 4. By that time, six months had passed, and for Dark Shadows , the news was not good; the soap had failed to gain major traction. In June, it ranked 13 out of 18 soaps, and by December, the lower-rated offerings were gone and the show officially ranked 13 out of 13 soaps. Unless you pick up in 26 weeks, you're finished. Barnabas was introduced in April and the fan response was swift and immediate.
By May , the series was still in last place out of 12 offerings , but rose to a 7. Dark Shadows would return to its 4 p. Central time slot in July , without losing much of its audience at all. One Life to Live , which was launched by ABC in July in the slot, also sought to reach the newfound young demographic. The series reached its peak in popularity during a storyline set in the year , broadcast from March By the end of May, Dark Shadows was ABC's most popular soap opera, and by late it was reaching between 7 and 9 million viewers on any given day, and ranking 11th out of a total 15 daytime dramas in that time period.
In November , after nine months of some of Dark Shadows ' most intricate, intelligent storylines, the storyline came to an end. With ratings at an all-time high, the writers were under pressure to hold the audience. Fans tended to dislike the portrayal of Barnabas as the pawn of some greater power. They were more interested in the archetypes of classic horror—the vampire, the witch, the werewolf—than in off-camera suggestion. The release of the film House of Dark Shadows in September of that year is also thought to have caused TV ratings to fall, perhaps because of parents who attended the film with their children, and seeing the amount of blood spilled across the screen, discouraged their children's choice of television viewing material.
Within six months, ratings dropped from 7. Ironically, Nielsen ratings for March , the last full month that Dark Shadows was on the air, revealed that viewership had risen in its final weeks. By early , though, ABC was trying to cut costs in the face of harsh new economic realities including a national economic recession, a sharp dip in advertising revenue following the discontinuance of cigarette commercials, and a record-high number of competing soap operas—which were more expensive to produce than game or talk shows—on the networks' daytime schedules.
Thus, the network began weeding out supposedly unproductive programming. Despite its relatively high station clearances for its timeslot and low production costs, Dark Shadows fell victim to the purge mainly because of its young audience, who usually did not make decisions about the purchasing of household goods and food products for the family, which were the two chief industries that bought airtime on daytime television in that era.
Practically no other daytime show skewed so much under the 18—35 demographic threshold as Dark Shadows did.
Furthermore, prime-time shows and movies with horror or science fiction themes e. In addition and probably more decisively, the program experienced a precipitous drop in its ratings during its last two years on the air, falling from a peak of 8. I couldn't squeeze my brain any harder to come up with just one more story.
I just wanted to move on and out. Despite many letters of protest from outraged fans, ABC canceled the five-year-old show on April 2, , and replaced it with a new version of the hit s game show Password.
The rather abrupt ending of the series left some plotlines such as Victoria Winters' parentage, and the story of the Jennings family unfinished, although most of the plot threads came to a happy conclusion, via a voice-over explaining future events in the final minute of the last episode. The original cast reunited in for a special reunion play recorded for MPI, and in resumed production of Dark Shadows audio dramas for Big Finish see below.
These dramas have been ongoing for 10 seasons. Dark Shadows has the distinction of being one of the few classic television soap operas to have all of its episodes survive intact except one, although a handful of early episodes are available only in 16 mm kinescope format. For the one lost episode , only a home audio recording exists. The home video version and cable reruns of this episode were reconstructed from a combination of this soundtrack, video still frames sourced from other episodes, and the closing and opening scenes from episodes and respectively.
However, delays kept the show from entering syndication, mainly because the FCC imposed Financial Interest and Syndication Rules, forcing the networks to sell off their syndication companies. Over the years, more episodes were released in varying quantities until the show finished its syndicated run in However, the first shows and roughly the last year's worth of shows were never seen in syndication.
Dark Shadows was lucky to be in reruns at all; most daytime programs at the time were being destroyed in an effort to recycle the videotape, and those programs that survived were usually locked away without being seen again. For many years the show was rerun on Sci-Fi Channel, now known as Syfy.
Unlike previous networks, Syfy had the entire run of 1, episodes to show. The network stopped airing Dark Shadows in December , only two weeks short of completing the series. All 1, episodes in the series were shown at various times between and A total of 1, episodes were produced but, during the course of its run, the show was preempted 20 times.
ABC would compensate by occasionally skipping, double-numbering and, in one case, triple-numbering episodes in order to keep a show ending in a 5 or 0 airing on Fridays.
This is why the last episode produced has when, in actuality, it was only the 1,th episode produced. The exteriors for the 'Old House' original Collinwood mansion were filmed at Spratt Mansion, which was also located on the Lyndhurst estate; this mansion was destroyed by fire in Some outdoors shots for the series were filmed in the famous Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, not far from the Lyndhurst Mansion.
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