With all the excitement surrounding Tim Burton's movie, Dark Shadows ... Jackson left the show to pursue other acting opportunities. Over the next few years, she made more films and TV movies ...

Who Was the First Cast Member on Dark Shadows to Play Multiple Roles? The show eventually went supernatural ... John Karlen (who died in 2021), and Alabama-born Kate Jackson.

But Jackson had a long career before her unofficial retirement in 2009 — one that involved roles on three iconic shows ...

Years later, she wrote four novels based on the show ... John Karlen, Kate Jackson, David Selby and Grayson Hall appeared in the poorly received MGM film Night of Dark Shadows (1971).

Though it’s not a tentpole of the magnitude of $200 million-plus films like Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” or Peter Jackson ... the “Dark Shadows” TV show lacks worldwide ...