Witches, werewolves and ghosts were intertwined with traditional soap plots like romance and family drama, and attempts to pull off “special effects” - like “a prop man holding a fishing pole with a string with a bat hanging on the end and we’d shake the stick,” Scott recalls - only grew a young audience’s affection for and devotion to the show.Both Burton and Depp have counted themselves among the kids who ran home to catch the show every day.
The show came on at four oclock, and that’s when little kids were waking up from naps. It was when mothers already had the dinner in the oven, and they were welcoming the other kids home from school Scott says. “It was a time to sit around the television set. Very often I get letters now ‘Thanks to “Dark Shadows.” You saw me through a terrible, terrible childhood. My best memory is sitting with my grandmother watching Dark Shadows when I got home from school.’ The show was pure escapism.”
As for the Dark Shadows movie, the tone is decidedly a little more humorous than the TV series, or, as Scott says, a little more intentionally humorous.
Its humiliating to watch now, but it part of the charm of that show says Scott of the oopsies, like actors forgetting their lines, camera equipment visible in scenes and sets falling apart. Because the show was produced live with no retakes, the bloopers aired, and became another aspect that endeared the cult Gothic series to viewers.
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