This week, it's a 1982 TV Guide advertisement for Dark Shadows, promoting Barnabas' new lease of life in syndication. Throughout the 1980s, distributors Worldvision scored a hit with the show's huge back catalogue and Dark Shadows soon became a fixture on many PBS stations, as The Los Angeles Times reported in 1987:
"'It has really made our late night,' said Larry White of KFME-TV Channel 13 in Fargo, N.D." Others were in agreement. "'It's our top membership program,' said Neal Hecker of public television station WNYC Channel 31 in New York."
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3 comments:
Fun! I love old ads like this! I think I clipped out all of the ones for the NBC series when it ran and pasted them in a scrapbook. Thanks for sharing this!
Awesome vintage DS's ad..'so frightening this episode of DARK SHADOWS when Willie played by John KARLEN opens up Barnabas casket played by Jonathin FRID. Brilliant!!
It's a shame, NBC pulled the series after only a few short months. It aired right after ABC cancelled the series. I was so disappointed.
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