For the next nine years, Passions offered up a delicious brew of wildly comic supernatural storylines. When no one else was around, Timmy (Josh Ryan Evans) came to life. Tabitha was often seen with her best friend, a doll named Timmy. By the time that first week ended, eccentric Bennett neighbor Tabitha (Juliet Mills) was revealed to be a 300-year-old witch who was determined to bring “pain and suffering” down upon the residents of Harmony, Maine. A few days later, wealthy heiress Sheridan Crane (McKenzie Westmore) had a friendly chat with the ghost of her late friend Diana, Princess of Wales (the Royal Family wasn't very happy about that, according to press reports at the time). Before the week had finished airing, the series attracted quite a bit of attention.Īs its premiere episode concluded, Grace Bennett (Dana Sparks) was visited by an angel sent by God. When NBC premiered Passions on July 5, 1999, it seemed as though it was going to be a fairly innocuous daytime drama. Welcome to the latest installment of Bay of the Living Dead, a monthly column dedicated to horror films and scary TV shows.

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