Dark Shadows Gets Dolled Up

As reported in the recent Shadowgram email update, Majestic Studios will begin shipping their new series of Dark Shadows 12-inch figures in February 2006. Three figures will be offered: a 1960s Barnabas Collins, a 1795 Barnabas Collins, and an 1897 Quentin Collins.

The 1960s Barnabas Collins and the 1795 Barnabas Collins each comes with three interchangeable heads: regular, vampire, and aged. The 1897 Quentin Collins comes with two interchangeable heads and matching hands for his human and werewolf forms.

The figures are available online from Monsters in Motion. They currently sell for $39.99 each.

Criseyde's David Selby Site Updates

Over the course of the past few weeks, I've added several news items to my David Selby site. Some of the information has also appeared here, but here it is again in a single post. Updates include:

• Information about the DVD release of the first season of Police Woman. David Selby appears as Nate Fesler in the episode "No Place to Hide." Screen captures are available on the site. (Lara Parker also appears in an episode in this collection.)

• Information about the first Region 1 (U.S./Canada) DVD release of Raise the Titanic, the 1980 film based on the Clive Cussler novel starring Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby, Anne Archer, and Alec Guinness. Screen captures and production stills are available on the site.

• Information about the DVD release of the third season of The Waltons. David Selby appears as art teacher Joshua Williams in the episode "The Romance." A link to screen captures from this episode is included. (Kathy Cody appeared in the following week's episode.)

• A link to the official Spin web site. David Selby appears in this film as record company owner Rob Polan. Filming wrapped in December, and the final product should be ready by the spring. The site features images and a preliminary version of a trailer. David can be seen in both the images and the trailer.

• Information about a couple of David Selby movies that are available for free online viewing from CinemaNow. One of these, King of the Olympics, is a rather hard to find title.
  

All new material is accessible via the "What's New" page of the site:

http://www.ldrweb.com/davidselby

The Waltons: The Complete Third Season on DVD

In October 1974, David Selby (Quentin Collins) guest starred in an episode of the third season of The Waltons. In "The Romance," he portrays Joshua Williams, Olivia Walton's art teacher. Joshua Williams holds the dubious distinction of being the only character other than Olivia Walton's husband to have kissed her during the entire run of the series.

Images from this episode are located in the Photo Gallery of my David Selby web site.

David Selby would team up with Waltons creator Earl Hamner again in the 1980s when he appeared as Richard Channing in Falcon Crest, another Hamner series.

Kathy Cody (Hallie Stokes) made an appearance as Audrey Butler in "The Ring," the episode that aired the week following Selby's appearance.

The Waltons: The Complete Third Season will be released on DVD on April 25, 2006. To order this DVD from Amazon and support this site via your purchase, please use this link.

Raise the Titanic Surfaces on DVD

Raise the Titanic, which made its theatrical debut in 1980, will finally be released on DVD in the United States on January 24, 2006. The film has been out of print on VHS for some time, but it has been available on DVD outside the United States.

Raise the Titanic stars Richard Jordan, Jason Robards, David Selby (Quentin Collins), Anne Archer, and Alec Guinness. It is based on the bestselling novel by Clive Cussler. The American military races to raise the Titanic believing that the ship contains a rare material that could be critical to the Cold War.

Photos and screen grabs from Raise the Titanic are posted in the Photo Gallery of my David Selby site.

The new DVD release will be a double feature that includes Man Friday, a reworking of Robinson Crusoe starring Richard Roundtree and Peter O'Toole. To order this DVD from Amazon and support this site via your purchase, please use this link.

Donna McKechnie Cabaret Performance in NYC

Donna McKechnie (Amanda Harris) will appear alongside Brian Stokes Mitchell and Penny Fuller at the Rainbow Room in New York on Monday, January 23. Their cabaret-style program is titled An Intimate Night and is part of the Manhattan Theatre Club's annual Winter Benefit. For more details and a recent photo of McKechnie, see the complete article from Playbill Online.

New Dark Shadows Novel from Lara Parker

Lara Parker (Angelique) has written a new Dark Shadows novel, The Salem Branch, which will be released in July 2006. Here's the text from the back cover as posted on LaraParker.com:

As the original Dark Shadows storyline ended, Barnabas Collins had escaped the curse of the witch Angelique and found his way back to humanity after two hundred years as a ravenous vampire. Now actress Lara Parker, Angelique herself, reveals the next dark twist in this saga of love and cruelty.

Barnabas Collins is ready to embark on a new life and marriage with his savior, the virtuous Dr. Julia Hoffman. But when Antoinette, a beautiful '60s flower child with a shocking resemblance to the immortal witch Angelique, rebuilds the Old House, his past returns to haunt him. Discovering a grisly corpse in the basement -- where his own casket once lay -- Barnabas realizes another vampire has invaded his domain.

Did Antionette summon the vampire or is she as innocent as she is beautiful? And what of her daughter, Jacqueline, confined for delusions of witchcraft, to the local sanitarium?

The roots of the Collins family's power and wealth go deep.... Back to the corrupt witch trials of of Salem itself...

Barnabas's fight to protect his family from this new threat will take him back through time to an evil moment in America's history. Two hundred years ago, Jacqueline's previous incarnation was tried and condemned to hang as a witch in Salem. Desperate, she spilled the blood of her newborn babe to curse the greedy and corrupt judges --including a Collins. How powerful is her malevolent curse, and how much of her fate and her witchcraft does present-day Jacqueline remember?

After a wait of thirty years, the next chapter in the Dark Shadows saga finally unfolds with the full measure of eroticism and spellbinding suspense, and gripping storytelling that made the original television series a timeless hit.

To order Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch by Lara Parker and support this site and Criseyde's David Selby Site with your purchase, click here or use the link below.

Lara Parker and David Selby in Police Woman on DVD

Police Woman - The Complete First Season will be released on DVD in March 2006. The series starred Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson of the Los Angeles Police Department and originally aired from 1974-1978.

David Selby (Quentin Collins) made a guest appearance as Nate Fesler during the first season of the series in an episode titled "No Place to Hide." I have some screen grabs from this episode on my David Selby site. Lara Parker (Angelique) appeared as Charlene in the episode titled "Sidewinder."

To pre-order this DVD set from Amazon and support the site through your purchase, click here.

Donna McKechnie to Participate in "A Dancer's Life" Discussion

Donna McKechnie (Amanda Harris) is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion titled "A Dancer's Life" as part of the New York Times' Fifth Annual Arts and Leisure Weekend to be held January 6-8 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Bebe Neuwirth and Kathleen Marshall will also participate. The event will be held January 8 between 12:00 pm and 1:15 pm.

For additional details, please read the news item from Playbill Online.

News on David Selby in End Game

I've just added some information about David Selby's (Quentin Collins) appearance in the movie End Game to my David Selby site. Included is a review of the film from the Hollywood Reporter that refers specifically to David's performance as Shakey.

Check it out:

http://www.ldrweb.com/davidselby

New David Selby Film Project: Spin

Reports on various web sites, including the California Film Industry site, indicate that David Selby (Quentin Collins) is currently filming Spin, an independent feature film about the Latin music industry in America.