I don't have the collection but remember the original run of the show!    I didn't start watching until 68.   So I missed when Barnabas came to Collinwood.   Heard about it at school and decided to watch when summer came.  I liked the Turn of the Screw based plot with Quentin and Daphne the best. although I enjoyed the special friendship of Barnabas and Julia throughout the run.    Didn't care for the Leviathan storyline.   Too sci fi.  Preferred the ghost storylines and the Picture of Dorian Gray based plot with Quentin's portrait showing the werewolf effects instead of him!    I liked the time travel stuff and the changing of time in the East Wing or was it the West wing?

I'm glad I bought the whole series so I can see it from beginning to end. It was pricey but worth every penny. I'm up to the Lara Collins and the pheonix s/l now. I don't really care for that. It's too sci fi too. I'm looking forward to when Angelique makes the scene. I remember she made such a good bad witch. I also have fond memories of Quentin the  ghost. I had a crush on that ghost. :D Loved Quentin's Theme. I liked the time travel best, too.

When you do get to Angelique, and Josette arrives, there's a great scene where they speak Francais.

And then, they never do it again.

What!!!????

Can't wait for that scene. I remember how Angelique stuck pins in dolls and it looked more effective than outright shooting somebody. lol.

It's their arrival at the Old House in 1795.

In color, still looks great.

Only problem with that period is casting Anthony George as Jeremiah Collins....Mitchell Ryan should have come back.

Anthony George was pretty okay at the beginning of his Burke Devlin.....for some reason, he started hamming it up, And never stopped, for the rest of the series. Yuck.

How awful he would have been as Jeremiah's Ghost, too.

I agree.

I read that Michell Ryan was fired because of his alcholism. 

Yeah, Dan Curtis said, one time at least, Ryan went up, and just walked out of the shot.

In reference to the comment made 4 years ago, I had heard something when I first got into the series back in the 90s, and I thought read something in one of Kathryn Leigh Scott's books since that pretty much said the same thing.  What I had heard was that the idea about making 1795 supposedly entered Dan Curtis' head prior to Mitch Ryan's departure.  At the time, he wanted someone more convincing to play the eventual character of Jeremiah Collins.  Tony George tested and did well enough so he was hired.  Around the time Mitch was eventually fired, Dan was thinking of his idea that became known as "kill (his actors) off in this storyline, bring them back in another as someone altogether different".  When Mitch did eventually get the axe, it is believed that Dan already was working on the script "that killed him off".  Rather tham go fishing for a replacement for the few weeks the character "had left to live" only to kill him off never to return, Dan allegedly approached Tony about taking the role and gave him notice that "he would soon be killed off but don't worry his 1795 role was safe, and he would be back then".  To which one would guesstimate, Tony agreed to do the episodes that called for Burke and then wait for his storyline to start.  In the summer of 2013, I attended the first event (of so far only 2 to have happened) put together by some fans who call themselves "the Friends of the 1991 series" although they are also deep admirers of the Classic series.  Among those who attended (not officially on the "guest list") were the authors of the 2002 book "A View of Collinsport", Shelly Weiss Losty and Richard Boissoneau  which I purchased and they signed.  Rich had seen many episodes in person, and was very knowledgable about the locations.  So much so, the book lliterally serves as a tour guide, not only to where the external shots of the series are locaed but how to get there. But I digress.  When I asked Rich the story I heard about Mitch's firing and Tony's hiring to replace him, "get killed off" and then come back (as described above), he pretty much confirmed it.  He said there were some more details that a typical lay fan might not understand involved, but the story as I related it basically summed it up.  It is a shame that Tony George left the series after Jeremiah "was killed off".  We can only imagine some of some of the characters he might have been given in either of the storylines of the 1800s (1840 or 1897) and done well.

And been a ham in them, too.

Actually I could see him in a serious role in the 1800s, and when Barnabas I-Chinged back to either year, he pulls a Vicki and thinks that Jeremiah isn't dead.   Or that Angelique changed history after he rescued Vicki in the 1790s the second time.