The Yuletide Tag Set Is Open

[calliopes_pen]

The Yuletide tag set is open, so everyone can see what was nominated this year. I am genuinely surprised that someone else remembers Escape To Witch Mountain (1995). And all incarnations of The Tomorrow People (I’ve only seen the 90’s American version) tv shows made it in, too. There are so many things that I need to rewatch or read again before I can confirm what I would love to offer to write or what I want to request. I probably need to locate the Holmes and Watson 1975 tv pilot with Robby the Robot.

These are all the ones that I have a particular interest in after looking—including the ones I nominated, somewhere among them:

The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter (Mostly going to read this soon)
Carmilla - J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles - Kim Newman
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Real Ghostbusters
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Count Dracula (1977)
Crimson Peak (2015)
The Haunting (1963)
Horror of Dracula (1958)
The Innocents (1961)
Laura (1944)
The Mummy Series
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone films)
The Shadow (1994)
Van Helsing (2004)
Dark Shadows (Big Finish Audio)
Dark Shadows (1966)
Dark Shadows (1991)
Dracula (TV 1968)
Dracula: The Series (This is the 1990 version)
She-Wolf of London (TV)

I need to read Nine Coaches Waiting, by Mary Stewart. Tanz der Vampire - Steinman/Kunze is one that Youtube keeps recommending I watch, due to my interest in Dracula musicals. I spotted My Two Dads, which currently airs in reruns on Sunday nights on Antenna TV. Poltergeist: The Legacy is on daily on Comet TV.

I have She-Wolf of London, and the 1991 version of Dark Shadows on DVD, along with Dracula: The Series when it comes to the tv shows section.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I probably need to locate the Holmes and Watson 1975 tv pilot with Robby the Robot.

good luck. my understanding is what survives is a plot summary and a single promo image. :(

[calliopes_pen]

Ah, then all I need to do is read the summary and I'm done. I'll do that in a moment.

Edit: I located footage of it being shot.

[thisbluespirit]

Hmm, if the order you've put them in relates to the categories, it looks as though someone's mistakenly categorised Count Dracula as a movie, instead of TV, and as that may be an actual wrangling issue, it might be worth pointing out?

(I'm pedantic!)

BUt yay! I am spoilt for choice, too, I think. I do love this bit of Yuletide - with the tagset and the letters and so many possibilities...

*is probably going to weaken and wind up requesting Dracula 1968 anyway*

[calliopes_pen]

I had to go double check its location to make sure I didn't mess up when I made my list. Yes, Count Dracula is in the movie section.

I believe technically both could be considered right for Count Dracula (1977). Heh. When it aired in a censored form (the brides going after the baby was edited) on either PBS or KET after it aired in the UK, it was considered a movie, and not tv. Since it's a tv movie, it's probably borderline.

[thisbluespirit]

Probably, although UK-wise, it's straight-forwardly a TV show that was made as a special thing for Christmas 1977: Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Produced by the BBC (in the then standard video/film hybrid format), it first aired on BBC 2 on 22 December 1977.

(But I don't think it matters as a YUle-fandom, true; I suppose I can't help thinking as a wrangler. I might see if it's a canonical fandom and leave a comment or pick it up if so.)

[calliopes_pen]

It is. I've seen at least one fanfic from it, so I'll go look.

Edit: Or I'm wrong, and that was another series of Dracula vignettes, but not that one.

[thisbluespirit]

No, I looked myself and it wasn't. So it only becomes an issue as to what it should be if people are looking for it under TV in the tagset, or if someone writes for it & it becomes canonical.

[calliopes_pen]

You're right. They can easily get it sorted in this yuletide_admin post. I just spotted that's what that particular post is for, since it includes wrongly categorized fandoms.

Edit: I just now spoke up about moving it in that thread.

[thisbluespirit]

Ah, cool. It's as you say, borderline and not my nom, so I wouldn't have wanted to interfere! (Doesn't stop me nitpicking here, of course...)

[calliopes_pen]

I found what I was thinking of. Assimbya wrote a series of vignettes, called Conflicting Realities. They did Nosferatu (1921), Dracula (1931), Horror of Dracula (1958), Nosferatu (1979), Dracula (1979), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and Dracula (2006)

[donutsweeper]

Holmes and Walston was my nom, there is no pilot to watch unfortunately but the premise is adorably cracky. Here's the info on it: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Holmes_and_Walston

[calliopes_pen]

That was all I could find on it, too, when I Googled--it was how I found the Youtube link to when it was being produced. But yes, I would be interested in seeing any fanfic that results from that summary and image.

[twistedchick]

Nine Coaches Waiting is one of my favorite Mary Stewarts -- it takes the classic gothic gently-brought-up-governess-in-distress in some interesting directions. I hope you enjoy it.

[travels_in_time]

I remember the 1995 version of Escape to Witch Mountain, for the same reason that I remember the late-90s or early-2000s version of A Wrinkle in Time. It's hard to forget something that takes that big of a crap all over your cherished childhood books.