The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

6/3/2026

**_How can you go wrong with Jack Palance as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?_** As Dan Curtis was rising to fame with daytime’s Dark Shadows, he produced this television version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella. Few fictions have been told so many times as this tale. What makes this one stand out is Palance’s enthusiastic portrayal and the fact that it runs two full hours, which is much longer than other renditions. While this isn’t as entertaining as Hammer’s “The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll” from eight years prior IMHO, it’s at least as good as Christopher Lee’s “I, Monster,” which came out three years later. But this runs a whole forty minutes longer and so there’s more drama as it takes its time to flesh out the characters. There are similarities to Curtis’ later “The Night Strangle