DARK SHADOWS BEGINNING COLLECTION #01
The grand-daddy of all the thriller TV shows
to ever grace the television screen(Buffy, Charmed,
The Vampire Diaries, etc.) for years hence! This
was actually a daytime soap, just really different
from the usual fair! Episodes are not named, just
a date!
These early episodes are pretty much straight
up soaps!!! But they set up what's to come! &
something else to be ware of, this, like all
soaps of the time, were live!! So this presents
the shows complete, errors and all!!
And the music is very mood setting!!
Sadly there are no closed captions!!
EPISODE # 1: June 27, 1966:
This introduces us to Carolyn Stoddard, Burke
Develin, Roger Collins, Elisabeth Collins Stoddard,
Maggie Evens & Victoria Winters!!
The cruxt here is that Victoria Winters has been
hired as a Governess to David, a very troubled
boy! A-
EPISODE # 2: June 28, 1966:
Victoria Winters meets some of the family and
they become aware of Devlin showing up in town! A-
EPISODE # 3: June 29, 1966:
Carolyn show Victoria the house while Devlin
is still trying to gather information about the
family! A
EPISODE # 4: June 30, 1966:
A family row about Mr. Devlin! Also, Victoria
meets David!
EPISODE # 5: July 01, 1966:
Victoria decides to leave but Carolyn tries to
talk her out of it! More about David's eccentricies! A
EPISODE # 6: July 04, 1966:
Victoria decides to stick it out at Collinwood
and try to find out answers about her past! A
EPISODE # 7: July 05, 1966:
More questions about why Devlin is in town!
Burke's asking about George Collins! And Victoria
is still slueting about her past! A
EPISODE # 8: July 06, 1966:
Deeper mysteries about pasts! A
EPISODE # 9: July 07, 1966:
We find out here that Devlin was in prison
for ten years! A
EPISODE # 10: July 08, 1966:
Carolyn meets up with Devlin! David hears a
conversation between his dad and Elizabeth
where his dad says David should be intsitutionalized! A
EPISODE # 11: July 11, 1966:
Burke shows up at Collinwood to have a
meeting with the family! A
EPISODE # 12: July 12, 1966:
More set up! A
EPISODE # 13: July 13, 1966
Vicky talks with Matthew and Burke talks
with Roger! A
EPISODE # 14: July 14, 1966
More with David and Vicky! And Burke and
Joe have another talk at the Blue Whale! Oh,
and Roger has an accident on his way to meet
up with Devlin, which David predicted! A
EPISODE # 15: July 15, 1966
Welp, what happened to Roger? And how is his
son David handling it? And who sabbotaged his
car? A
EPISODE # 16: July 18, 1966
Roger's out of the hospital and after answers!
He's pretty sure Devlin's the responsible party!
But is he really? A
EPISODE # 17: July 19, 1966
Roger goes up to Victoria's room to find out
just how much she knows about his accident, and
David is keeping a close eye on all the happenings! A
EPISODE # 18: July 20, 1966
Roger's out of the hospital and after answers!
He's pretty sure Devlin's the responsible party!
But is he really? A
EPISODE # 19: July 21, 1966
More mystery about the brakes! A
EPISODE # 20: July 22, 1966
Roger confronts Burke about the brakes! A
EPISODE # 21: July 25, 1966
Information about Burke hiring a private
detective comes out! A
EPISODE # 22: July 26, 1966
Burke hires Sam to do a portait of him! A
EPISODE # 23: July 27, 1966
Roger gets the police involved with the whole
brake thing! A
EPISODE # 24: July 28, 1966
The continuing saga about the brakes! A
EPISODE # 25: July 29, 1966
David steals Victoria's letter from the home
thinkng it was about him! A
EPISODE # 26: Aug. 01, 1966
More drama about the brakes, with a lot of truth
coming out! A
EPISODE # 27: Aug. 02, 1966
After being found out by Vicki, David takes off
with the brake valve to try and place the blame
on Burke! A
EPISODE # 28: Aug. 03, 1966
David gets tracked down by Maggie and Burke
is upset about the search of his room! A
EPISODE # 29: Aug. 04, 1966
David spends a lot of time with Burke and
changes his mind about trying to frame him! A
EPISODE # 30: Aug. 05, 1966
Burke gives David a ride home and all Hell
breaks loose!! A
EPISODE # 31: Aug. 08, 1966
Burke is trying to protect David, but things
don't go swimmingly for the duo! A
EPISODE # 32: Aug. 09, 1966
The police finally put two and two together
and realise that David's the culprit! Jonas
shows up at the Collin's place to inform them
of the findings and Elizabeth talks him into
dropping the case, much to the chagrin of Roger! A
EPISODE # 33: Aug. 10, 1966
Back to Victoria trying to find answers to
her past! More drama about Carolyn and Joe! A
EPISODE # 34: Aug. 11, 1966
Victoria goes to Burke to find out more
about her past, and he shows her the report
from the PI! Carolyn and Joe discuss his
actions from the night before! A
EPISODE # 35: Aug. 12, 1966
Sam is just not himself here!! Some jealousy
over Burke! Sam tries to back out of doing
the portrait of Burke! A
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
Like many people I used to rush home from grammar
school to see this Gothic soap opera. I distinctly
remember being petrified of the werewolf and running
out of the room when Barnabas bit somebody.
Seeing it now it's still sort of creepy. It moves
very slow (of course) and the black & white seasons
are extremely dull with really pathetic special
effects and threadbare settings. But when the
series switched to color and started to really
be popular (in 1967) it really got going. The
special effects improved, the settings and
costumes got more elaborate and the plot lines
went barreling out of control. Also they had
a good cast who played all their roles seriously.
That's good, because if they had camped it up
or winked at the audience it would have fallen
apart.
A good, fun horror soap. It's a good thing
it's available on video and DVD now. - preppy-3