The award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis could do it all--and did. For television, Curtis created the Gothic serial
Dark Shadows
and made horror movies (
The Night Strangler
), crime dramas (
The Great Ice Rip-Off
), trilogies (
Dead of Night
), family dramas (
The Long Days of Summer
), love stories (
The Love Letter
), and more.
The revised second edition of this book provides an overview of all four dozen of Dan Curtis's productions, from
Challenge Golf
(1963) to
Our Fathers
(2005).
Nights of Dan Curtis
takes an even more detailed look at the
auteur
director's influential production of
Dracula
(CBS, 1974); two of his crime dramas,
Melvin Purvis, G-Man
and
The Kansas City Massacre
(ABC, 1974, 1975); his exuberant Western,
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
(NBC, 1979); his pair of epic miniseries,
The Winds of War
War and Remembrance
(ABC, 1983, 1988/1989); and his UFO miniseries,
Intruders: They Are Among Us
(CBS, 1992). Also included are rare photographs, factual "significa," and information about newer events in the world of
Dark Shadows,
such as Tim Burton's 2012 film
and David Gregory's 2019 documentary
Master of Dark Shadows
.
features more than 115 photographs, a foreword by
CHiPs
star Larry Wilcox, a preface by
My Music
producer Jim Pierson, and an afterword by
Loon
Lake
director Ansel Faraj.