So cool that you know who Willie is! Believe it or not, I'm still working my way through some Dark Shadows DVDs that I bought some years back. Right now, Barnabas and Dr. Hoffman are trying to assemble a woman made out of body parts and Willie had to go out to the cemetery and dig up some graves. He was digging away when Joe Haskell wandered by and he threatened to take Willie to the sheriff, but then Joe forgot about Willie and walked away in a trance because he was being summoned by Angelique the witch. Just another day in Collinsport.
I watched a good portion of the series years ago when it was being replayed on the Sci-Fi network. Of course I had been aware of Frid and Barnabas Collins for years before but mainly due to my bro having some Dark Shadows comics. I saw Frid in a stage performance of Arsenic and Old Lace with him as the Karloff character around 1990.
Bro bought the entire run of Dark Shadows dvd's and I've inherited them. Look forward to catching up on them again.