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Nearly 50 years after its debut, there?s still never been a television
series quite like Dark Shadows. The ABC daytime soap opera, which
aired from 1966 to 1971, was a charmingly under-budgeted Gothic
melodrama about a spooky seaside town in Maine that blended the
supernatural (werewolves, witchcraft, and zombies) with parallel
universes and time travel; angst-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins
(Jonathan Frid) emerged as the show?s breakout star. General
Hospital it wasn?t.
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