Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows aired on ABC from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. He created the show. The Art Wallace tale bible has no supernatural aspects. When ghosts were introduced six months into daytime TV, it was a first. A year into the series' run, vampire Barnabas Collins appeared. There were werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel dimension in Dark Shadows. Some characters were played by more than one actor as actors came and went. Other writers include Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles. Dark Shadows had passionate performances, atmospheric interiors, compelling tales, dramatic plot twists, an experimental music score, and an immense galaxy of characters and heroic quests. Now a classic, it has a large cult following. Although the original series ran for only five years, its scheduling as a daily daytime drama allowed it to accrue more single episodes than most science-fiction/fantasy genre series on English-language television, including Doctor Who and the Star Trek franchise. Only Passions (2,231 episodes) has more.
Released: 1966-06-27