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The gothic soap opera that took the attraction because of creating a new dimension of television opera and got huge popularity is the Dark Shadows. It was broadcasted by the ABC television network and ran from June 27, 1966 to April 2, 1971. The creator of the show was Dan Curtis, he told a dream that he had. It was about a girl who started a long train journey to reach a big mansion. One of the stories of this show is the “bible”. It was written by Art Wallace. He didn’t mention any kind of supernatural element in the story but it became bold because after six months of this episode the concept of ghost was occurred.

The director was inspired by the 1961’s film “The Pit and the Pendulum” and which was written and directed by Roger Corman. In the series Dark Shadows the stories were taken from the usual day by day occurrences. Then the writer added some extra supernatural characters and additional stories to make it more attractive. The most common stories were taken from the Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw, and Wuthering Heights etc.

Suddenly in the run of Dark Shadows, a role of vampire Barnabas Collins was played by played by Jonathan Frid and it made the TV show huge popular among the young people. The Dark Shadows not only featured the vampire but also some additional like werewolves, ghosts, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and the story of parallel universe etc were also described in this series. In most of the episodes the set of actors were same and for the not-availability of the actors the same role was played by other characters too. Art Wallace was the prime writer but Malcolm Marmorstein also created the characters like Barnabas Collins, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles etc.

Dark Shadow was different from others and the main reason of attraction was the atmospheric interior, histrionic performances, excellent storylines, and an unusually adventurous music score. Nowadays the music is said to be camp classic. The popular director Tim Burton and pop icon Madonna was fan of this series. Child Johnny Depp was inspired by the character Barnabas Collins and teamed with Tim Burton to make a theatrical film adaptation.