In the influential Dark Shadows, a 1960s ABC soap opera with a gothic and supernatural bent, Jonathan Frid played Barnabas Collins, a vampire who returned to claim his coastal Maine manor. Vampires' ...

Dark Shadows was a daytime drama like no other. From June 27, 1966 until April 2, 1971, it brought tales of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts and time travel to daytime-TV audiences. For three of ...

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Emmy-winning character actor John Karlen, known for his roles on the television series “Dark Shadows” and “Cagney & Lacey,” has died. Karlen died Wednesday of congestive heart ...

Long before Twilight, Interview with the Vampire, or even Passions turned sympathetic vampires and melodramatic horror into trends, there was Dark Shadows — an audacious 1960s soap opera drenched in ...

Most wannabe actors know that there’s a ghost of a chance that they’ll ever make it in showbiz — but for Kate Jackson, future star of Charlie’s Angels and Scarecrow and Mrs. King, it was a ghost that ...