Has anyone ever noticed that sometimes people mess up their lines? I did!!!!!! lol er just today Barnabas called Carolyn Vickie and a while ago Dr. Lang (EWWWWW) messed up his lines. There might have been others but I didn't notice. lol :crazy:

MWAHAHAHA some of them are HILLYARIOUS. Since they taped 5 episodes a week and they barely and rarely edited or reshot stuff, there are a lot of bloopers. In one of the early earlyo nes from August 1966 Alexandra Moltke (Victoria W) is talking to Joan Bennett (Elizabeth Collins Stoddard) or Louis Edmonds (Roger Collins) and starts smiling and looks like she's gonna laugh but contains herself. Alexandra herself admits she would get giggle fits at times.

In the Dr. Lang episodes Barnabas (Joanthan Frid) messedu p his lines and couldn't remember the name 'Dr. Woodard'. Dr. Lang (Addison Powell) told him the name, but there is no way Dr. Lang would've known 'Dr. Woodard' on screen since Dr. Woodard met his demise in November 1967 and Dr. Lang came on the show in April 1968.

THey messed up names at times especially when they went back in time and they got new names..in a 1795 episode Sharon Smythe (Sarah Collins) calls Josette 'Jeremiah' then 'Joshua' before she gets it right.

This probably happened on other soaps of the time. Only problem is only a few episodes of these soaps from the 60s surivve.

Barnabus and Elizabeth have to be the worse of the worse. These 2 always forgot their lines and you could see it in their faces how they seem to struggle for the words. :lol: :happyface :lol: :crazy: :lol:

On Joan Bennett..the first week I saw Dark Shadows was the week Burke was killed in a plane crash in Belem, Brazil. Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is dialing a number after she called an airport about which plane crashed in Brazil (the airport wasn't sure so she called Brazil). Sarah Johnson (played by Clarice Blackburn) asked her where the plane was coming from. Joan Bennett forget where, so she started stomping her fit and said 'somewhere in Brazil'.There was al ong silence and then she remembered the city and then calmly said 'Belem'. Either Joanie made a mistake, or she was some actress by making herself look all frustrated :lol:

This was the reason I always thought those early episodes were done live as they sure flubbed their lines a great deal. Dr. Hoffman never seemed to know what the heck she supposed to be saying in virtually every scene she was in!!! It's funny watching the actors fumble and stammer around! :happyface

Originally posted by 80sTrivia
This was the reason I always thought those early episodes were done live as they sure flubbed their lines a great deal. Dr. Hoffman never seemed to know what the heck she supposed to be saying in virtually every scene she was in!!! It's funny watching the actors fumble and stammer around! :happyface

I think they started to flub a lot more after Barnabas arrived. The 207 episodes that were on before that were pretty much uncomplicated, but when the entire supernatural thing started going the characters were given strange lines at times and if I was them I would've been confused by those lines too LOL.

I didn't realize that the series started without the character of Barnabas! I always just assumed he was the main character from the very beginning! :) Again, Burke, you are a fountain of information on Dark Shadows. :)

I've seen them flub a few times and I haven't seen many episodes.

Well get ready cause you will be seeing alot of flubbing and a whole lot of Bloopers. :lol:

This is the most fake thing I've seen on the sohw:

LOL! The bat that got Barnabas. Yep I soooo agree. I was laughing when that showed up. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Tomorrow there's a big blooper in the end credits for the 10:30 AM episode. Jonathan Frid accidently walks in during the middle of them with his street clothes and walks across the set LOL. Thayer David also did that once way back in the Dream Curse storyline.

Originally posted by Sean Snow
Thayer David also did that once way back in the Dream Curse storyline.

I remember that episode! I was wondering what he was doing there! Thanks for letting me know about tomarrows blooper. :wave:

LOL! The bat that got Barnabas. Yep I soooo agree. I was laughing when that showed up. :lol: :lol: :lol:

That one was just on this past Sunday, that scene was hilarious.

There's all kinds of bloopers--the camera sometimes picks up stage hands, Jonathan Frid or Joan Bennett forget their lines, etc.

There's a blooper video on Youtube

I think they started to flub a lot more after Barnabas arrived. The 207 episodes that were on before that were pretty much uncomplicated, but when the entire supernatural thing started going the characters were given strange lines at times and if I was them I would've been confused by those lines too LOL.

Yes, most of the black and white episodes were a sort of routine soap, with just a touch of the supernatural. IIRC the show went to color shortly after Barnabas' introduction.

Not a blooper or messed up line , but when Angelique turned Joshua into a cat, was over the top hilarious .:lol: And Jeremiah coming back from the dead as a spirit with his head all bandaged up, which didn't make sense being he was shot, injured in the chest. And that morbid laughing he was doing, that was more funny than scary! :D

Yes, most of the black and white episodes were a sort of routine soap, with just a touch of the supernatural. IIRC the show went to color shortly after Barnabas' introduction.

When I first came upon Dark Shadows on METV + a couple months ago , it was weird. Of the 6 episides they would show per Sunday, some were in black and white, some were in color. For a couple of weeks they were like this. Now they are all in color. :)

When I first came upon Dark Shadows on METV + a couple months ago , it was weird. Of the 6 episides they would show per Sunday, some were in black and white, some were in color. For a couple of weeks they were like this. Now they are all in color. :)

Occasionally, you'll still see a b/w here and there. Lost tapes, you know (it's amazing most were retained, because some soap tapes were reused). Maybe Dan Curtis kept them.

There is one episode late in the series that is almost totally lost. They reconstructed a little from a preview scene in the preceding episode, plus some audio they got from somewhere.