On this day in 1966, the horror soap opera cult classic Dark Shadows premiered on the ABC television network. We are huge fans of this show, which we first encountered on the Sci-Fi Channel in its earliest incarnation, and which -- though it was noted for delivering serious gothic chills -- was also more than a little crummy. How crummy? Crummy as in on an epic scale. Back then daytime soaps were broadcast live, and if a door didn't open or someone forgot their lines or -- no foolin' -- it was so hot in NYC that you needed to run the AC even though the sound of the motors wound up on the air, well, Jonathan Frid and Joan Bennett and Kate Jackson and the many other actors who portrayed or dealt with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and the like... They just ran with it.
Wanna see what we mean? Ten minutes of Dark Shadows bloopers, after the jump.
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