Known for its eerie opening music, Dark Shadows aired on ABC’s daytime schedule, sandwiched between General Hospital and The Dating Game by its final season. By daytime TV standards in the 1960s, the series was downright terrifying for many viewers.
“They were such crowd-pleasers, and they got the ratings up, but I never understood the reason for that,” the actor once said in an interview published by Woman’s World. ”I don’t know why they scared anybody. What scared me was Barnabas’ lie; that he was pretending to be something he wasn’t. He got the lust for blood every once in a while, but always what preyed on his mind was the lie. … Barnabas was lying that he was the calm and comfortable cousin from England. He wasn’t at all. He was a sick, unbelievable creep that the world didn’t know about.”
'Dark Shadows' poster.Photo by LMPC on Getty Images
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A future “Angel" was on the cast
“Dark Shadows was the first job that I ever had," the actress said during an appearance on the Donny & Marie talk show. The first, I think, six weeks, I didn't speak. I was a ghost,” “And was a good thing too, because I had just gotten out of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and I couldn't speak, I was much too scared. But I beckoned, and then finally, after six weeks, I spoke and read the teleprompter.”
“We had teleprompters, but it was called tape live, and you didn't want to stop tape because if you stop tape, you had to wait 18 hours to get it back,” Jackson added.
James Storm (Gerard), Kate Jackson (Daphne) on 'Dark Shadows,' 1970.(Photo by ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)
A feature film was the nail in the coffin
According to The Saturday Evening Post, viewership for Dark Shadows began to dramatically taper off by late 1970s, and some local stations dropped the show before it was officially canceled.
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