Database Correction Page

A very young Kate Jackson had her first (as far as I know) scene in this gothic soap opera. Unfortunately, the scene is notoriously inept. She's loosely gagged w/cloth tied in front which promptly begins to fall out. Ms. Jackson actually has to bite into it to hold it in.

If the episode Sci-Fi aired this morning was 1188, and not 958 as listed on their website-and if the episode guide I consulted is correct, it was-the above description isn't even close.

To begin with, there's no account of how-or even whether- Kate's tied. Rest assured that she is, roped by her wrists and torso into a chair while wearing a long red period dress. And the gag isn't tied in-it's a stuff gag, quite big enough to defy gravity without any help from Kate's incisors. Oh, and while I'm at it, the database entry author was so busy ranting about how bad this scene was, he or she forgot to mention the juicy little handgagged struggle between Kate and her captor at the start of the episode, just before the first of the two chair-tie shots (the second is near the end).

All this is assuming, of course, that the database entry really isn't for another scene by Jackson in a different-perhaps subsequent-episode, which seems plausible, since she was still tied at the end of today's broadcast. I wasn't exactly a Dark Shadows aficionado; in fact, I didn't even remember that Jackson was a cast member until I read it here. I always thought (or at least hoped) that she'd done her "maiden" scene on The Rookies, the show that first made me fall in love with her...but I digress.

So, how about it? Is the database entry an incomplete description of the scene in 1188, or is there more to come, however bad it is? Not that it matters to me-Kate Jackson poorly tied and gagged is still Kate Jackson tied and gagged, and I'll take all of it I can get-especially at the age she was in '71. Either way, though, it seems the database needs a little updating.