My name is Victoria winters. My journey has begun. I hope this trip can open the door to my life and connect my past with my future. This trip will take me to a strange and dark place on the top of the widow's hill, the seaside. A house called collingwood, a world I never knew, with people I never met. The people tonight are just shadows in my heart, but they will soon fill my days and nights tomorrow.
So the Gothic soap opera began, which caused a great sensation in contemporary pop culture.
The program begins with the story of Victoria Winters, a young woman who grew up in an orphanage in new york. Thanks to the anonymous money order sent to her, she is better off than other orphans. The draft is from Port Collins, Maine. Later, Victoria or Vicky had the opportunity to go to college, thanks to a scholarship managed by a law firm in Port Collins, Maine. After graduation, Vicky was employed as a teacher and tutor for a little boy in Port Collins, Maine.
Vicky found that the boy was brought up by her sister Elizabeth (30-year-old movie star joan bennett). Elizabeth is a fake husband. For various reasons, she won't leave her manor. It has been 19 years. She manages a lot of family property in the elegant living room. Elizabeth has a daughter herself, Caroline. She is a beautiful blonde. She dated a small range hood, and the man wanted to hurt her family. The boy who entrusted Vicky was deeply disturbed and especially hated his father. His mother is not in the photo. The boy's father Roger is a gambler and a playboy. He is seldom around unless he needs money.
Vicky dealt with this strange classification and found a boyfriend, the mysterious Burke Devlin, whom Roger hated and feared. Burke hates the whole family. Vicky got the support of her best friend Maggie Evans. Maggie, played by Katherine Leigh Scott, is one of the earliest Playboy rabbits and is famous for her unforgettable Star Trek role. She is now a writer and has published many books and articles in Shadow and Playboy. Not such a famous artist? When Maggie was dating Vicky and Burke, he defected. Sam seems to be afraid of Burke, too
The lovely and naive Wiki is played by actress Alexandra Motek.
Mao Qi, the daughter of a Danish nobleman, later resigned as his wife and mother. She married a lawyer, Philip Ayers, who was a member of the wealthy Lehman family. She later became the mistress of Klaus von Bulow and testified in a sensational trial, when Klaus was accused of murdering Sang Ni, the wife of a minor vegetable. The Media Circus was made into the Oscar-winning film The Reversal of Wealth, with Julie Hagarty as Mao Qi Island.
Dark Shadow, occasionally borrowed from Wuthering Heights, is the child of producer Dan Curtis, who later became a TV tycoon and film director. He likes this program, because the ratings are low and it will be cancelled soon, and he is very depressed.
Curtis had nothing, so the writer decided to "have some fun". Vicky was kidnapped by prolific film actress and indulgent manor manager Thayer David. The story is long and unpopular. Matt put Vicky in an abandoned old house. Decided to kill her, Matt was frightened by the ghost in an old portrait. He's dead.
The ratings soared. Therefore, Curtis, who actually just wants to focus on his "normal storyline", recognizes more "fun". The ghost got a name through marriage, called Yue Se, and he was a distant ancestor of Corinth. David, who was in trouble, established a close relationship with her. Then David's mother appeared and asked for custody. When we learned that his mother Laura was the Phoenix who was determined to set fire to David and her, it seemed to be a standard soap opera guardianship case. He was saved by Yue Se.
Now the ratings are on the rise. Curtis decided to go one step further and introduce a vampire.
Elizabeth is dealing with the blackmailer Jason Maguire (perennial TV actor Dennis Patrick). Jason got help from the hoodie and bully john callen.
Willie has just heard about barnabas Collins, the ancestor of this family. He is a hero of the War of Independence and a friend of Thomas Jefferson. Barnabas was scolded by his Puritan parents because they wasted money on fancy men's jewels, rings, pins, walking sticks and so on. Barnabas was engaged to Josette, but after his death, he went to England and never came home. Willie investigates and realizes that the family history is incorrect. Barnabas actually died at home and was buried in a hidden tomb. I believe that barnabas may have been buried by his jewels. Willie opened the coffin and held out a hand!
Later, a cousin from England visited Elizabeth and her family. They don't know they exist. The elegant gentleman explained that his name was barnabas, and he was descended from barnabas who went to England. He said he studied history and asked if he could live in the abandoned old mansion where Barnabas grew up. He promised to repair it himself. Elizabeth took a photo with this elegant gentleman, and everyone noticed how their new friend looked like the original portrait of barnabas. The whole family missed the obvious things by the real TV and never understood them.
Producer Dan Curtis believes that these characters will appear for several weeks, and if they bet, they will move on. Son, he's wrong!
Barnabas became so popular that the network exercised its right to hire the actor as an official actor.
The actor played by Jonathan Fried never intended to be a soap opera star. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is a master's student in the Theatre Academy of Yale University. He has been busy with low-income stage performances in new york and London for many years. He had intended to quit the show business and teach. He often recalls that when his agent called Shadow, he hardly answered the phone and just agreed to show up because he was told that the character would be killed in a few weeks. Frid saw the role.