Dark Shadows is a gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on 
the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The
series depicted the lives of the Collins family of Collinsport, Maine.

The show became extremely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins,
played by Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, appeared a year into its run.

Dark Shadows featured an array of characters including ghosts, witches,
werewolves, zombies, and warlocks. Time travel and a parallel universe 
were also featured. Some characters were played by more than one actor.

The introduction of Vampire Barnabas Collins in 1967.

John Herbert "Jonathan" Frid
(December 2, 1924 – April 14, 2012)

Linda Denise Blair was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Blair played the possessed Regan in The Exorcist (1973). The role earned
her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an Academy
Award nomination. In 1977, she reprised her role in Exorcist II: The Heretic. She
became a child model at age six. In 1970, at the age of ten, she made her big
screen debut in The Way We Live Now (1970).

The Technicolor adventure film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was the first
science fiction film shot in CinemaScope. The film was personally produced
by Walt Disney through Walt Disney Productions. It was also the first feature-
length Disney film to be distributed by Buena Vista Distribution.

Boris Karloff hosted a weekly children’s radio program over New York’s
WNEW during the early 1950s. He played children’s music and read stories
and riddles. The program,“Karloff’s Treasure Chest”, also became popular
with adults. 

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974)

Moorehead played the mother, Endora, on the ABC- TV series Bewitched
(1964-1972). She won Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress for
her roles in the 1945 movie Mrs. Tarkington and the 1965 film Hush…Hush,
Sweet Charlotte. She received four Academy Award nominations for Best
Supporting Actress from 1943 to 1965, but never became a winner. The 
actress graduated with a degree in Biology from Muskingum College in
Ohio.

 
Agnes Moorehead in a Twilight Zone episode, The Invaders (1961).

Moorehead performing in "Sorry, Wrong
Number" on a CBS-radio progam.