The Mark B Perry Interview
Mark B Perry is the writer and producer of the new Dark Shadows Reincarnation series currently in preproduction.
Mark B. Perry grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia, where his childhood love of Carl Reiner's The Dick Van Dyke Show inspired him to pursue a writing career-after all, doing what Rob, Buddy, and Sally did all day sure looked like a great way to make a living. Because the University of Georgia lacked a prestigious film school at the time, Mark cobbled his own degree together from film and TV classes in the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism, supplemented by studies in play-writing, acting, directing, and cinema in the theater department. Before graduating with a bachelor's in broadcast journalism, Mark won the Claude P. Callison Award (or "Claudie" as it was known back in the day) for excellence in filmmaking by a student. After a brief sojourn writing and producing industrials for the local newspapers and a variety of companies including Southern Bell, General Motors, and Oral-B, Mark moved to Los Angeles in 1986 where he worked as an office temp by day while churning out sample feature screenplays and television scripts by night. Two years later, a chance viewing of a new series called The Wonder Years changed his trajectory forever. Mark's spec script for that top-ten show led to a freelance episode and a staff writer gig where the highlight of his first day in the room was the announcement that his spec script, "Summer Song," was to be purchased and produced as the premiere of the 1989-90 season. After racking up eighteen writing credits on The Wonder Years, a Humanitas nomination for his Thanksgiving episode, "The Ties That Bind," and his first producer title, Mark went on to write, produce, and sometimes serve as show-runner on such diverse series as Northern Exposure, Picket Fences, Moon Over Miami, Law & Order (which still sometimes gets him excused from jury duty), Party of Five, Push (to this day a sensitive subject), Time of Your Life, Pasadena, First Years, That Was Then, One Tree Hill, Windfall, and What About Brian. After helping to successfully launch the second season of ABC's Brothers & Sisters in 2007, Mark was a co-executive producer on CBS's Ghost Whisperer, then an executive producer on the first two (and arguably best) seasons of ABC's Revenge, followed by a stint as executive producer on NBC's Heartbeat. In 2018-19, Mark wrote the first season finale of Netflix's Dolly Parton's Heartstrings, "Two Doors Down," an LGBTQ-themed episode starring Academy Award-winners Melissa Leo and Ray McKinnon and directed by Wendy Stanzler.
As a writer-producer on the first season on David E. Kelley's Picket Fences, Mark shared an Emmy Award for Outstanding Dramatic Series.
For his "Falsies" episode of Party of Five, Mark was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Achievement in Dramatic Writing.
And for his writing and producing services on that same series, Mark shared a Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.
Opening Credits – Dark Shadows Theme – by Robert Cobert
Music Cues by Robert Cobert from Dark Shadows Catalogue
Closing Credits – Sorry For Writing All the Songs About You – by Clara Mae. Taken from the EP Sorry For Writing All The Songs About You. Copyright 2018 Big Beat Records
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All Songs Available on Amazon
Season 7: Episode 365 - ONCE UPON A TIME: The Witches (R Dahl/Film: 1990)
Season 7: Episode 364 - ANTHOLOGY The House That Dripped Blood/Asylum
Season 7: Episode 363 - DARK FAMILIES: Dark Crystal/Labyrinth
Season 7: Episode 362 - BATMAN: The Lion and The Unicorn/Showdown/Riddler's Reform/Second Chance
Season 7: Episode 361 - ONCE UPON A TIME: Where The Wild Things Are (M Sendak/Film 2006)
Season 7: Episode 360 - MAKE/REMAKE: Pete's Dragon (1977/2016)
Season 7: Episode 359 - ANTHOLOGY: Dr Terror's House of Horror/Torture Garden
Doctor Who - A Retrospective Review of 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth, 2150 AD'
Season 7: Episode 357 - DARK FAMILIES: Bedknobs and Broomsticks/Enchanted
Season 7: Episode 356 - BATMAN: Two Out Of Joint/Catwalk/Bane/BabyDoll
Season 7: Episode 355 - ONCE UPON A TIME: Who Censored Roger Rabbit/Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Season 7: Episode 353 - ANTHOLOGY: Night Gallery/Twilight Zone The Movie
Season 7: Episode 353 - DOCTOR WHO: Interview with Ian Britten Hull
Season 7: Episode 352 - DARK FAMILIES: Return to Oz/Oz The Great and Powerful
Season 7: Episode 351 -BATMAN: Avatar/House and Garden/The Terrible Trio/Harlequinade
Season 7: Episode 350 - ONCE UPON A TIME: Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)/(Film: 1939)
Season 7: Episode 349 - DOCTOR WHO: The Dalek's Master Plan/The Massacre/The Ark
Season 7: Episode 348 - ANTHOLOGY: Sin City (2005)/Southbound (2015)
Iron Giant, Monster House & A Tribute to David J. Skal
Season 7: Episode 346 - BATMAN: The Worry Men/Sideshow/A Bullet for Bullock/The Trial
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