[HPforGrownups] Dark Shadows/Harry Potter/Dumbledore/Phoenix

[Pen Robinson]

No: HPFGUIDX 46461


On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 00:14 Europe/London, jastrangfeld wrote:

> Ok.  I did a search, and came up with no more than 5 messages
> with "dark shadows"  However, careful reading of those 5 messages
> made it clear that it is not the beloved cult soap opera
> classic . . . DARK SHADOWS.
>
> So, I would say this connection has not been made before.  I think a
> brief history needs to be made before I make my point (for those who
> are *new* to Dark Shadows anyway . . .
>
> The show ran from First Telecast: June 27, 1966 to Last Telecast:
> April 2, 1971, and JKR was born Born: July 31, 1965.  So this means
> she was not brought up watching this show, but it became such a cult
> classic, I'm almost sure she would have seen some of the reruns, or
> perhaps even watched the start up of it again in 1991, with new
> actors.  At any rate, this show has been broadcast and rebroadcast so
> incredibly many times that I would think she may have heard of it or
> even seen it, which brings me to my connection point here . . .
>

I am not now and have never been a devoted telly-watcher, and I don't 
know whether any of those reruns ever happened in the UK.  But I can 
say that until I read your post I had never heard of the show.

Pen