A DVD was waiting for me at the post office today.
It was Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story. It comprised of Frid's life and career before, during and after Dark Shadows.
The DVD was interesting. One tidbit of information it contained was that Frid was a heavy smoker and around 1980, he had to have an angioplasty procedure done (been there, done that myself). Following that, he quit smoking cold turkey.
Another was that actor Anthony Zerbe knew Frid well in the stage theatre circuit.
When Dark Shadows was dubbed in Spanish and released in South America years after the show was cancelled in the U.S., Frid went down to help promote it. It became so popular that when Frid appeared during his first trip, he wasn't made up as Barnabas Collins, causing disappointment to the fans there. In a subsequent trip, he came with the cane and ring.
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| Above, Jonathan Frid, circa 1983. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It has several extras. Unfortunately, about 3 of them wouldn't work. One extra that worked was "The Best of Barnabas", which was released on VHS about 30 years ago.
Other than the problems with some of the extras, the DVD was worth getting.
My grade: A-.
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