Episode Do No Harm The new masters of Earth are rattled by a standard Dark Shadows haunted-house sequence, including darkness, a candle blowing out, and a chill. Life is full of surprises. Episode The Golden Key Barnabas feels a sudden and inexplicable desire for blood, which can only be sated by turning the show into a comic book and never letting it turn back.
Julia Hoffman examines an ailing storyline, and says, yeah, I could do something with this. Episode Wedding Crashers Jeb Hawkes struggles to find a way to survive the disastrous end of his disastrous storyline. Episode The Only Weakness Jeb Hawkes is on the run, besieged by a long line of villains just itching to take advantage of any of his three only weaknesses. Episode A Less Rational Explanation Barnabas and Julia walk into an empty room, and start tossing postulates around.
Episode The Cleanup Crew Roger wakes up on the floor, and finds Julia standing nearby, admiring the architecture. Episode Gold-Hatted Lover Barnabas is standing at the threshold, watching trailers for the upcoming storyline, when someone chucks him a copy of the novelization. Episode Your Declining Days The Leviathan story is almost over, so Angelique walks around and tells everyone to go to hell, which they will. Episode Another Another World On the day that Barnabas changes the channel and enters Parallel Time, another story begins, with familiar faces making different choices, like what show to be on.
Episode Jeb Hawkes Must Die The Leviathan storyline reaches a conclusion with a dream, a threat and a big, wet thud. Episode The Clone Wars Barnabas has washed up on a foreign shore, where everyone has better clothes and lighting and dialogue. Episode Bad Marriages A new literary crime wave breaks out, as the Dark Shadows writers walk into the library and help themselves to some plot points.
Episode Down in the Science Dungeon Dr. Cyrus Longworth has a few things to say about good and evil and rabbits and apparatuses, and how many people a man is. Episode The Staggering Weirdness of Bruno Bruno calls the shipping office, and reopens a lot of the past. Episode Parsing Sabrina Sabrina invites herself over for a mandatory late-night party game at Collinwood, and then she just stands around and talks about how evil everybody else is.
Episode Polterguest The show interrupts its murder mystery to introduce a different murder mystery, featuring another misbehaving ghost. Episode Love Potion No. Episode The Dead Wife Quentin tries to figure out whether his dead wife is dead or not, and then something about Twin Peaks. Episode Wife Swap The sinister witch switches with her twin sister. Episode People Trying to Talk Sense to Dameon Edwards They can bring you here because they have control over life, and they can send you away again because they have control over death.
Episode Too Big to Do Anything But Fail Cyrus Longworth drinks some juice, puts on a false mustache, and tries to open a bank account, which brings up the question: Why is Jekyll and Hyde supposed to be scary?
Episode This Terrible Truth Dark Shadows is saved from the scaffold, thanks to hard-working fans, a bunch of audiotapes and the amazing power of Star Trek slash fiction. Episode The Great Train Robbery Quentin and Angelique touch fingers and fire up the candles, hoping to get a shred of useful intel out of the dead. Episode The Larry Parts Another doomed investigator takes full responsibility. Episode The Cast Came Back Will releases Barnabas from his coffin all over again, which is bad for his book, but good for the show.
Also, she talks to candles. Episode The Struggle Barnabas tries to act like a mature human being, for just one night. Episode Diagnosis Murder Dr. Episode Peer at a Prop Angelique and Hoffman take another step in their diabolical plan to annoy and puzzle Quentin and Maggie.
Episode To Serve Man Let us prey. Episode Five Things Dan Curtis is back at work, so Barnabas gets bitey as the show begins a week-long Dark Shadows quality improvement program.
Episode Suddenly Shipping Another character falls under the spell of the beguiling Parallel Maggie. Episode Rebecca to the Rescue The week-long Dark Shadows quality improvement program concludes by turning into the weirdest possible version of Rebecca. Episode The Seventh Level of Witchcraft Angelique challenges the gods, and faces a nemesis she never knew she had.
Hurry, Barnabas! Episode Barnabas, Julia and the Lady in the Back Parlor Julia stands by, as Barnabas finds another ingenue to project his needs and desires onto. Episode Westworld Quentin partially-strangles another victim, which gets him in trouble with the Cylon police.
Episode Still Another Murderer Carolyn tries to forget about all the terrible things that have happened, to no avail. Episode Woke Barnabas manages to get the lady in the back parlor up on her feet, but after that, she refuses to participate. Episode The Invention of Feelings Barnabas tells Carolyn that her husband is dead, and her fury burns down the show. Episode Claw North Barnabas delves into the mystery of Claude North, and comes up with a handful of loose props. Episode All the Secrets Carolyn drinks her way across the great mansions of the Eastern seaboard.
Episode The Fault in Our Stars Three characters, an unconscious lady and a pair of mystery feet keep themselves occupied for the afternoon. Episode Ouroboros Angelique tells Julia to follow Barnabas, and Barnabas tells Julia to follow Angelique, and we all go round in circles. Episode Famous Last Words But the man who murdered Angelique deserves a very special punishment!
Episode The Parallel Sky Angelique falls, and this world falls with her. Episode Infinite Jest In which we consider the consequences of parallel universes, with specific attention to how many characters is too many characters. Episode World Beyond the Doors Barnabas and Maggie shutter the windows, lock up the hatpins, and close down Collinwood forever, as we learn what parallel universes are for.
Episode You Oughta Know Barnabas and Julia need to learn the secrets of , before destroys soap operas forever. Episode Future So Bright Barnabas takes another flash-forward time trip into the future, searching for the monster that stole his soil. Episode The Night of the Sun and the Moon Everyone worries about the moon, the playroom and the astrologist. Episode The Scent of Lilacs For the second time in a month, a romantic lead falls in love with a pale, mute woman with no personality, just because he likes the way that a flower smells.
Episode Everyone Must Leave This House at Once The ghost of Daphne Harridge scatters journals and toy boats and hypnoclothes around the house, enchanting everyone but me.
Episode Your Dark Shadows Horoscope Astrology is for chumps; the only way to truly understand yourself and your destiny is to watch the episodes of Dark Shadows that aired on your birthday. Episode A Sense of Something The ghosts make a pretty compelling case for why we should just let them take the kids, and move onto something else.
Episode Stranger Things Gerard returns, and does what a good villain always does: he makes the show better. Episode The Shrinking Shares Two kids trapped in a playroom, doing a master class on giving the hell up. Episode The Lie Lock Barnabas discovers that the children have been possessed by utterly incompetent ghosts.
Episode Damsel of the Damned Heaven must be missing an angel, because here she comes: Daphne Harridge, going undercover as an alive person. Episode The Super Determined A lesson in quantum physics, as represented by a dollhouse, a fire, a letter and a bunch of ghosts. Episode The Center of the Light Julia fights for control of the show, armed with a hypnotic medallion and a series of impertinent questions. Episode The Burning Barnabas squares off against Gerard in a thrilling anticlimax that breaks the ancient truce, once and for all.
Episode The Burning Question As we head into the final turn, we ask the question: how does a soap opera run out of ideas? Episode The Last Straw Gerard wins, as we close this timeline down and hope for better days.
Episode The Healer Julia emerges into the world of , where she finds an insane patriarch, a silly novelist, and the destroyer of Collinwood: the Healer, himself. Episode The Unshakeable In which we meet the third Roxanne in four months.
Episode The Gun Runner Gerard enters the room, and demonstrates the value of a road not taken. Episode Meanwhile, Again Barnabas Collins races to save his best friend, three days from now and a hundred and thirty years ago. Episode The Lost World Everybody refuses to tell Quentin anything about the multiple mysteries hiding just behind the curtain. Episode Jay-Z Desmond is contacted by a mysterious disembodied head lurking in his living room, and he absolutely refuses to do anything sensible about it.
Episode We Had Faces Trask speaks urgently to Roxanne, as we pull in for an extreme close-up that takes us a full minute to extricate ourselves from. Episode To Your Head Desmond goes underground and finds another mystery box, filled with Incan gold for some reason. Episode The Unexplainable Happenings Desmond switches sides, and asks Quentin how they can put right what he just did wrong. Episode Windmills, and How to Tilt at Them Barnabas and Quentin go out to hunt for a headless creature in the woods, until they get bored and go back inside to do something else.
Episode Time and Tantrums Angelique spends forty-five years walking in circles, looping back to Collinwood every year for another anniversary. Episode Low Clearance Quentin struggles to cope with his most cunning enemies: props, dialogue and doorframes.
Episode Waiting for the Storm Julia pulls the threads, and brings something terrible to life. Episode The Trouble with Tulips The spell wears off and everything goes back to normal, which is great for everybody except the 17th century florists. Episode Nothing on Earth Barnabas and Julia talk about their problems, Angelique expresses herself in voodoo and fire, and the Quentin substitute yells at the props, just like always.
Episode 13 Reasons Why The playroom, the zombies, the unfinished horoscope, the diary, the bust, the model ship and seven more clues that never showed up. Episode The Unearned Curse Quentin shows his new time machine to an evil warlock, who nods and smiles, and thinks about something else. Episode A Dark Horse Gerard explains the sum of the substance, and other matters of importance. Episode The Strain We finally see Daphne in a schoolroom with Tad and Carrie, and the path is not paved with love.
Episode Wicked Barnabas, Flora, Randall and Trask walk in and out of rooms until everybody believes in vampires, and then they go and kill Roxanne. Lovecraft, a couple podcasts, the Tappan Zee Bridge and a very haunted horse.
Episode The Framing Randall is finally dead, and all anybody can do is complain. Episode The Last Sheriff Collinsport law enforcement tries one last time to successfully make an arrest. Episode This First Unhappy Experience While the Quentin is locked up for witchcraft, we take a look at a Paperback Library novel about Quentin starting a black magic cult at Collinwood and then not really doing very much with it.
Episode Love in the Afternoon A boy follows Carrie home from a funeral, which on Dark Shadows counts as a meet-cute. Episode Almost Helping Barnabas finally shows up for work, and comes dangerously close to doing something productive. Episode The Proceedings Quentin sits quietly in the dock while five other people spend the day shouting at each other on his behalf.
Episode The One Where Everybody Finds Out More characters discover that there might be something suspicious about Gerard, moving us ever closer to the possibility of plot development. Time Travel, part Total Blood Volume For a Christmas Day pre-emption special, we cast an eye over the unsalvageable WB pilot, which begins the terrible cycle all over again. The strategy: surprise returns of characters you thought were gone, and explaining the storyline again.
Episode The Unfinished Dream Julia generates new cover stories, as Professor Stokes contemplates a crossword puzzle that he is not destined to solve. Episode I Feel Ya Samantha breaks into a mental hospital to confront a doomed leading lady, on loan from the Globe Theatre. Things just got personal. Julian Hoffman and the eleven women from Fort Wayne, and we finally decipher what They is really up to.
Episode The Weissman Theory Quentin and Daphne elude the police, and then get stuck in another situation that they need to elude. Episode Already Dead Joanna Mills reveals her true face, and conceals it again, as we keep on sprinting toward the finish line.
Episode The Trask Parts A bloodthirsty creature of the supernatural! Burn, witch, burn! Give me the power to step upon the serpents and scorpions which inhabit her! The Devil is at work here, and he has deceived you, as he has so many others! Victoria Winters, your name is now known to fire! He will learn otherwise. Episode The Night I Sang My Song Angelique stops the execution by running in with a stolen head, and confessing to everything she can think of.
Episode Goodbye to All That Dark Shadows winds down nine weeks early, offering happy endings to anyone left standing. Episode The Woman in What? Hinton that demonstrates what happens when people encounter Dark Shadows unexpectedly. Episode Frocks and Violence Melanie goes on the attack, charging at Catherine with the cutlery, and nobody can think of anything more helpful to do than offer her some hot cocoa. Episode Minimum Security The Collins family crime syndicate notches up another felony. Episode Birdland The Collins gang hangs around the hideout, wearing outrageous clothes and saying ridiculous things.
Episode Violent Femmes Gabriel goes out the window. Episode Begun Again Bramwell and Catherine discuss how it feels to be part of all that, what Morgan will think when he sees us, and would he know that you want me to touch you now.
Episode The Not Gabriel In which Gabriel Collins asks the ghosts who are killing him to hold on for a minute, while he lets his friend in and takes off all of his clothes.
Episode The Great Unwinding Daphne asks Carrie to look into the future, and they make a new friend. This is probably the strangest thing that I have ever written. Episode The Missing Step There are 1, steps to complete the ritual. One of the steps is missing. The ritual has only been completed once. Episode The Forsythe Saga The Collins brothers take a rummage through the basement, searching for clues and talking utter nonsense.
Episode The Snatch Barnabas and Quentin team up for a science-fiction adventure, battling three incredibly unskilled alien adversaries. Episode Strong to the Finish James Forsythe finally confronts Brutus Collins face-to-face, and if either of them was a character on Dark Shadows , then that would be an exciting development.
Episode Eternal Invisible Barnabas Collins is dragooned into joining a crew of immortal pirates and brought to an invisible tropical island, where he destroys everything and leaves no survivors. Episode Bar the Shouting Anger, despair, guilt and confusion, all delivered at top volume. Episode My Coffin World Barnabas and Quentin investigate the mysterious disappearance of two local teens in another Gold Key epic featuring marionettes, a birdcage, a very sharp pencil, and tuna casserole.
Episode Last Call Carrie Stokes has one more vision, of plans that went awry and posts that remain undone. Episode Dan With the show coming to a close, we take a look at Dan Curtis: the kind of man that he was, and what he did for us. Episode The Dark Shadows Parts The basis of your problem is the destructive nature of your blood cells.
Episode Empire of the Loud Barnabas and Angelique are locked up in a spooky room, to face whatever terrors this dumb storyline has left. They include episodes 1 — ….. Love your blog! Your commentaries are hilarious and it makes watching each episode even more enjoyable. Hope to see more of your reviews of the remaining episodes. I wrote about New Jersey Network cancelling Dark Shadows in the post for episode , but that was thirty years ago, when I was in high school.
The only subscription streaming is on Hulu, and they only carry eps at a time. Enjoyed your recaps! Hmmm, wondering if starting up an exchange program with diehard fans would work and reduce costs?
The reason why Dark Shadows is still available in the world is because fans have been financially supporting the people who make it available. From public TV networks to video and DVD to streaming — we need to support the continued availability of the show. I saw the first post-Barnabas episodes on Netflix during Then, collections on Hulu in Collections were dvds courtesy of the St Paul Public library. I really enjoy reading this blog aftet watching the episodes. You must answer my question!
You must! I fear you have been transported to another time and plot, and I will never have the answer I seek. Come back! Oh, please, come back! I wonder if I dozed during a late night binge-watch. David Henesy was a dang good actor, the best of them all. Some bloopers I have noticed. In the painted portrait sometimes the ring is white. In the episode where Dr. Woodard changed actors, Burke Devlin inadvertently called him Dr. I love this blog and sincerely hope you finish off all episodes.
I loved the show, actually went to NY and had a studio tour and met Jonathan Frid when i was Great blog! Thank you for doing it, we greatly enjoy it. We found the complete DVD set half price because someone had busted into or out of the cardboard coffin case.
I just stumbled across your blog. At the age of 10 I would run home from school like the Devil Himself was chasing me so as not to miss a minute of DS.
I loved it the first time around and your blog has rekindled that excitement. All the funny extras you toss in have me ROFL and you point out all the little things I missed as a child which makes it even funnier.
Thank you for taking the time to do this. I used to get my information on the episodes from darkshadows. Somebody managed to save it to the WayBack Machine before it went away. Glad to see somebody pick up the torch since it was one of my favorite shows as a child.
As the youngest of four children, the only time I had control of the TV was 1 when nobody else was home; 2 if nobody else wanted to watch whatever the limited choices were. I briefly owned the complete DVD set, but decided eating was more important than keeping it so I sold it for a fraction of what I paid for it.
The wife and I have been making one more attempt at watching all episodes and recently discovered your blog. We collected the complete DVD series years ago, but now we are closer than ever to completing our quest. Your blog has soothed the pain enough to help us going! Seeing how these actors managed to keep their cool and recover from forgotten lines, mangled cues, and noisy crew members makes me think they deserve way more respect than most film actors today.
When the show came to an end in , it was a sad day. The show resurfaced in the early 's. As an adult, I could see all the flaws, all the signals that told us, this was live television, done on a very low budget.
But, all in all, it was fun. A thrill. It's always great to see this old soap opera once and a while. FAQ 1. Was this show broadcast live? Details Edit. Release date June 27, United States. Shadows on the Wall. Dan Curtis Productions. Technical specs Edit.
Runtime 30 minutes. Related news. Apr 13 WeAreMovieGeeks. Dec 20 We Got This Covered. January 20, pm. Cheryl Davis. January 19, pm. April 11, pm. July 1, am. Thanks, Sam. Compared to many of it contemporaries of the time the show was densely plotted and relatively quick moving.
This made it harder for casual viewers, who may only watch a couple of episode a week, to follow what was going on.
The introduction of guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins a year into the shows run had made it hugely popular and a ratings success. The character was to many of the audience the central appeal of the show. During the show's final year on air Jonathan Frid was getting fed up with playing Barnabas and made it known to the production team that if he was to remain with the show he would need to be given another character that had different motivations to play.
With the absence of Barnabas the show lacked the very thing that had given it its mass appeal in the first place. As such many viewers may have lost interest, arguably hastening its cancellation some three months later.
By the end of the shows run it had gone through every major Gothic trope, ghosts , vampires , witches , werewolves , Frankenstein-like creatures and apart from repeating these elements there was seemingly few other directions to take the show in.
A biography on actress Grayson Hall written by R. The character of Julia Hoffman was highly popular with viewers and Dan Curtis felt it would have been a mistake to replace her. This storyline played out much the same way as it had done the first time the text was used for inspiration except this time with the character of Gerard Stiles in place of Quentin Collins.
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