Big Finish Audio Dramas
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[edit] Series One
The first series of Big Finish Dark Shadows plays consisted of four stories: The House of Despair, The Book of Temptation, The Christmas Presence, and The Rage Beneath. Each starred David Selby (Quentin Collins), Lara Parker (Angelique), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie Evans) and John Karlen (Willie Loomis).
Although Jonathan Frid had retired, the pivotal character of Barnabas Collins was recast along with a clever in-story explanation for Barnabas' change of appearance and voice. Another character to be recast was Professor Stokes (originally played by the late Thayer David).
[edit] Series Two
Plans for a second series of full-cast Dark Shadows audio dramas is in pre-production, due for release in August 2009. The first new story is tentatively titled The Banished Creatures.
[edit] Other Releases
Summer 2008 brought the first of six new audio releases, comprising dramatic readings of original stories featuring two performers, with original music, sound effects and dramatized segments. Kathryn Leigh Scott reprised her role as Maggie Evans in the first two stories (Clothes of Sand and The Ghost Watcher) accompanied in both by Alec Newman, who starred as Barnabas in the rarely-seen 2004 Dark Shadows pilot produced by Warner Bros.
The next two stories--The Skin Walkers and The Path of Fate, starring David Selby as Quentin Collins and Lara Parker as Angelique, were released in November and December of 2008. "The Wicked and the Dead", starring Jerry Lacy as Reverend Gregory Trask and John Karlen as Carl Collins, is due out in January 2009. July 2009 sees the release of Echoes of Insanity, starring John Karlen as Willie Loomis and Lara Parker as Angelique, August sees the release of Curse of the Pharaoh, starring Nancy Barrett and Marie Wallace.
