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This Halloween season, take a deep dive into the story of daytime TV’s favorite vampire, Barbarnas Collins. Coming this October, Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story, focuses on Jonathan Frid who portrayed the famous daytime TV vampire. Check out more on the documentary and see the trailer below!
Dark Shadows originally aired in 1966 showing the eerie happenings of the haunted Collinwood Estate in Maine. The show broke the normal rules of a traditional soap opera by bringing elements of gothic romance, horror, and the supernatural. The breakout star of the show was Barnabas Collins, a 175-year-old vampire who starts his new life at the Collinwood Estate. Frid’s portrayal of Collins is one of the main reasons why the series became must-see TV for its 20 million daily viewers.
The documentary is from producer Mary O’Leary, a multi Daytime Emmy winner for General Hospital and The Young and the Restless. O’Leary says,
“Jonathan’s years on Dark Shadows have been well covered in print interviews. To gain insight, I chose to interview people who were close to him, ranging from his years at Yale, to his work in regional theater, to those involved in his one-man shows, which he toured across the country in his later years.”
The documentary contains interviews from Dick Cavett, Marion Ross, Christina Pickles, Anthony Zerbe, and Dark Shadows co-stars David Selby, Lara Parker, Nancy Barrett, Marie Wallace, Kathryn Leigh Scott, and James Storm.
Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story will be arriving on digital, Blu-ray, and DVD on October 5, 2021. Check it out this Halloween season!
