Dark Shadows
by Dan Curtis
If you were a cool kid in the 60s, you ran home from school to watch Dark Shadows,
a vampiresque soap opera that presaged Twilight by about four decades. I wasn’t
that cool myself, but my sister Lynda was, and from time to time I overheard her and the
cool kids talking about the inhabitants of Collinwood trekking to the late 1700s (in
episodes from late 1967 through early 1969) and the late 1800s (in the March 1969
episodes). There may well be other time-travel escapades that have escaped me.
I’m afraid you must forgive me, miss. If we have met before, I’m sorry to say that I
don’t remember it.
Dark Shadows by Dan Curtis (17 November
1967).