VCR alert

[Dave A]

This weekend the recently new Decades sub-channel on lots of your cable and off-air systems will be running episodes of Dark Shadows from the 60's. They ran them in BW last weekend from Saturday at 1pm to Monday morning at 7am in a marathon. This weekend they move to the color versions. Same time frame. Check your local listing for times.

These weekends only barely touched the 1250 or so episodes of the soap. What great fun to have them back. Many episodes were directed by one of the first female directors in television. One Lela Swift under the tutelage of Worthington Minor, the producer of all of the great CBS live shows of the 50's. Lela passed just a month ago at the age of 96. As a longtime television director, I have the greatest respect for female directors. They see things differently than male directors and they should be celebrated and studied for their vision.

The show was recorded at ABC 16 on W53rd St in NYC. The show recorded ahead for two weeks while ABC refitted the studio for color. Not sure of the color compliment at that studio. It was recently the home of the Wendy Williams syndicated talker.