I can't get my head around the fact that Dark Shadows only ran for five years but had well over a thousand episodes! I suppose it was pretty much daily?
Yup! Five days a week. It started off as a gothic soap opera (with suggestions of ghosts)*, so think of the scheduling a bit like that of a British soap. It stuck with the same scheduling when it became more supernatural.
It also had a shoestring budget and wasn't filmed far in advance of transmission, which meant it went out with flubs - costs time and money to reshoot things! You had to be very good at learning lines, with 5 episodes a week, especially if you were a main character.
*Literally here is the original premise/plot points laid down from the beginning: A woman called Victoria Winters moves to a great estate at Collinwood to be a governess to a troubled young boy, who has just moved back there (his aunt's house) with his father, who clearly loathes him. It's later when it got crazy. :D
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Yup! Five days a week. It started off as a gothic soap opera (with suggestions of ghosts)*, so think of the scheduling a bit like that of a British soap. It stuck with the same scheduling when it became more supernatural.
It also had a shoestring budget and wasn't filmed far in advance of transmission, which meant it went out with flubs - costs time and money to reshoot things! You had to be very good at learning lines, with 5 episodes a week, especially if you were a main character.
*Literally here is the original premise/plot points laid down from the beginning: A woman called Victoria Winters moves to a great estate at Collinwood to be a governess to a troubled young boy, who has just moved back there (his aunt's house) with his father, who clearly loathes him. It's later when it got crazy. :D