haha, no problem! i haven't watched dark shadows but i have watched strange paradise which, you probably know, was also a canadian supernatural soap opera that came out in the late 1960s (why i watched that but never dark shadows idk)

but thanks for replying and recommending kolchak! idk if it'll be relevant to what i'm looking for here but who knows! maybe it'll inspire something else. and maybe i should get around to finally watching dark shadows. it can't be that much worse and offensive than jean paul's increasingly boneheaded decisions