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  457   “Mr. Barnabas, he ain’t dead.”   “But I was with him when he died.”   “It’s little Daniel you’re after now, ain’t it?”     Nancy B. 1795. The name Victoria Winters is used in the narration. Also “as that journey nears its end…”    reprise. Naomi opens the coffin and shuts it. We do not see Frid. Ben comes in and takes her out. She seems to be in shock. New stuff before the theme. Filler: a pan from the portrait of Barnabas to the foyer to the drawing room. In the drawing room, there’s something on the ceiling: not sure if it is a light fixture or…wires that we should not see.     Ben tells Naomi some info: it is a curse like a sleeping sickness. This, too, reminds me of a Poe story. Perhaps TOMB OF LIGEIA?   Ben tells her that Angelique was the witch and she seems surprised but should not be: Joshua already told her that. Was she drunk at that time and forgot? Joshua is in Boston to find a way to bre...

  456 “This house is filled with people who are not what they seem.”   Vicki. Girl. 1795. The whole fugitive thing was a big thing in the 1960s and why not? The show THE FUGITIVE was one of the best shows in the history of TV and still is. No reprise at all.     The narration makes a big deal of Vicki being a fugitive from the law. Daniel is at Collinwood’s drawing room looking in through the windows from outside. He pries the window open and sneaks in and goes to the door and lets Vicki in the front.     Huh? Why not just have both of them sneak in that way? No reprise. They go to the study where Daniel tells her if he knocks three times to let him in and to lock it after he goes. Vicki locks the door. As they talk briefly, we hear a squeaking drawer or door?     Daniel runs for Naomi but runs right into the insane Millicent, who is constantly befuddling plans. Daniel tells her that he was talking to himself. She laments t...

  455 “Mr. Bradford, terrible things have been happening and I haven’t been able to do anything about them. Now, I’m glad I can help.”   “I’m not going to let anything happen to you!”     Vicki. Girl is the term used. Also: the Collinwood still is decidedly black and white! I thought for a moment this was one of those color lost episodes. The narration states that Noah has been paid to kill Daniel but that isn’t really true. He hasn’t been paid yet.     Reprise is different. Noah is now wearing a hat! AND unless I’m very wrong, I think Noah is wearing a different outfit! The dialog between Daniel and Vicki is wonky---someone here is forgetting their reprise lines when they didn’t before. Vicki says, “Tell me what’s happened,”   and Daniel says, “I don’t know who he is.”   This dialog made more sense last time. Daniel ends up with his head on Vicki’s chest and he doesn’t seem to mind.     Daniel tells her that Nath...

  DOCTOR WHO-HIDE   “There’s something in the mist.”   Continuing the brave rewatch of the Moffat/Smith era, we get a full half hour or so of brilliant scares. I mean it. At least that’s what I thought when I first watched it, alone, in a big house by myself on a dark stormy night. I seem to recall it going south after the first 30 minutes or so or maybe 20. Let’s dig in…   ….   It helps that, for once, there’s atmosphere and ambience at the haunted Caliburn house but what’s more important is that even though it is 1974 at a deserted moor (btw do not miss the same year’s---2012---THE WOMAN IN BLACK, which has genuine scares and a real creepy atmosphere superior to this and despite what others might say is a real improvement over the tepid, dismal 1989 UK TV   movie, though a shocking ending happens in THAT one)…   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black_(1989_film)   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_in_Black...