DARK SHADOWS BEGINNING COLLECTION #2
Set 2 of the early days of Dark Shadows,
continuing on about Victoria, Elizibeth,
David, Maggie, Carolyn, Roger & co.!
Sadly there are still no closed captions!!
EPISODE # 36: August 15, 1966:
Victoria talks to Elizabeth about her leaving
Collinwood! She discusses her thoughts about
David's threat! Elizbeth tries hard to talk
her into staying. On another front, Roger
insists on Sam not doing the portrait of
Burke! A-
EPISODE # 37: August 16, 1966:
Victoria Winters hears crying down in the
basement and goes to down to investigate!
Roger finds her down there and has a tizzy
fit! Sam writes a letter to his daughter and
asks her not to open it unless something
should happen to him! A-
EPISODE # 38: August 17, 1966:
Matthew(a new actor here) warns Victoria to
stay out of the basement! Carolyn drops by to
see Burke and "accidently" leaves her ring
behind for him to find! Matthew threatens
Burke, not realizing that he didn't cause
Roger's accident! A
EPISODE # 39: August 18, 1966:
Bill tells Elizabeth about Burke making inquiries
about her business affairs! Bill also tells Burke
if he'll get out of town that he'll try to clear
his name! Roger continues to apply pressure to
Sam to not paint Burke's painting! A-
EPISODE # 40: August 19, 1966:
Bill confronts Sam at his house with Roger there!
Roger leaves and Bill plys Sam with alcohol to
try to get information about what happened ten
prior! Meanwhile Roger runs into Burke and sees
Carolyn's ring, takes it from him and tells him
he will return it! This does not set well with
Carolyn! A
EPISODE # 41: August 22, 1966:
Maggie tries to get her father(Sam) to tell her
what's wrong! Sam decides to go to Collinwood to
confront Elizabeth with what he knows(which at
this point we don't know what that is, but it is
pretty obvious!)! A
EPISODE # 42: August 23, 1966:
Carolyn follows Burke to Bangor! Sam is still at
Collinwood talking with Elizabeth and trying to get
up the nerve to tell her what he knows! Burke is
finding out if he can take over the fortunes of
the Collins'! A
EPISODE # 43: August 24, 1966:
Bill approaches Maggie about her father and
tries to find out what information he may have! A
EPISODE # 44: August 25, 1966:
Bill is wrestling with telling Elizabeth what his
suspicions are! Elizabeth's banker, John Harris,
arrives at Colinwood to give her some bad news! A
EPISODE # 45: August 26, 1966:
Bill is pushing hard on Sam and Roger! He has
set up a meeting at Roger's office with Sam,
Roger, Burke and himself to try to get everthing
out in the open! A
EPISODE # 46: August 29, 1966:
The group meets at Rogers office, sans Bill!! A
EPISODE # 47: August 30, 1966:
As expected by every viewer watching this show,
Bill never shows up to Rogers office! Elizabeth
has a preminition of impending doom! Roger threatens
Sam saying he's not the only one who's good name
on the line! A
EPISODE # 48: August 31, 1966
Vicky tells David that she showed Roger his
drawing and he goes ballistic! David gets a
gift from Burke, a crystal ball! The picture
David drew was for Burke, and he tells him
that he'll make another one for him! And the
mystery continues about what happened to Bill!! A
EPISODE # 49(September 01, 1966)
Everyone's wondering what happened to Bill!
I guess no one thought of asking the audience! A
EPISODE # 50: September 02, 1966
A missing watch and a found body!! A
EPISODE # 51: September 03, 1966
The girls come back to Collinwood and inform
Roger and Elizabeth that they had found a body
floating in the water below the cliffs! After
investigating, Matthew says that there's nothing
along the shore! Hmmmmmmmm!!! A
EPISODE # 52: September 04, 1966
The girls are up in Vicky's room and hear noises!
They go to investigate! This is the first episode
where there's a hint of what's to come!! A
EPISODE # 53: September 05, 1966
David keeps pestering Vicky about what she and
Caroline saw in the water! And Mattew finally comes
clean about seeing Bill's body in the water! A
EPISODE # 54: September 08, 1966
With this episode Dana Elcar begins his stint
as Sheriff Patterson! Finally someone who can
act!!
Elizabeth calls the police and all that is
known is confessed by her and Matthew! Burke
is grilling Roger about not only his past
but the mystery about Bill! A
EPISODE # 55: September 09, 1966
The sheriff questions Roger! Roger is his normal
sweet cooperating lovely self!! How they allowed
this character to last for over 300 episodes is
beyond me! Bill's body is found by the Coast Guard! A
EPISODE # 56: September 10, 1966
News about the finding of Bill's body is spreading
fast! A
EPISODE # 57: September 13, 1966
Burke is trying to find out what happened to
Bill! A
EPISODE # 58: September 14, 1966
The sheriff is making the rounds to try and
make sense out of what happened to Bill! David
is unnervingly curious to find out just where
Bill fell from down to his death! A
EPISODE # 59: September 15, 1966
The sheriff is grilling Roger about the death!
David overhears his father confessing to all the
bad deeds that he's suspected him of! A
EPISODE # 60: September 16, 1966
Vicky shows up for dinner at Sam and his daughter's
place! She finds a painting that looks like herself!
Burke and the sheriff have a long talk about what
happened to Bill! And Vicky finds out an aweful lot
about her possible past! A
EPISODE # 61: September 19, 1966
Burke shows up at Sam's place and tries to ask
questions about what Sam knows about his manslaughter
case!! He tries to tell all his side of the story! A
EPISODE # 62: September 20, 1966
Everyone trying to cover their asses! Roger and
Sam in particular! A
EPISODE # 63: September 21, 1966
Maggie comes to Collinwood to confont Roger
and winds up facing Elizabeth instead!
Meanwhile, Matthew comes to the Blue Whale
hunting down Burke! A
EPISODE # 64: September 22, 1966
Matthew confronts Burke and all Hell breaks
loose!! A
EPISODE # 65: September 23, 1966
Burke shows up at Collinwood demanding to see
Roger! He winds up having a confontation with
Elizabeth instead! Sam and Roger get into it
at the Blue Whale! A
EPISODE # 66: September 26, 1966
Burke confronts Roger at Collinwood and Vicky
lies and says she's not sure his what time
he left the night of Bill's deatch, much to
the disappointment of Burke!! A
EPISODE # 67: September 27, 1966
The sheriff is back on the track of who killed
Bill and starts off with Sam then proceeds on
to Bill's housekeeper!!! Carolyn and Maggie
have a discussion with Burke! A
EPISODE # 68: September 28, 1966
This is a strange episode in several ways!(I
know, they're all strange!!)! Anyway, Roger
is well under way on his quest to destroy Burke
and turn everyone in his scope against him! He
then turns his sight on Vicky, trying to turn his
son, David, against her trying to save his own
skin!! Course it doesn't take much with the brat!!
Another weird part is that they show daylight
outside!!! A
EPISODE # 69: September 29, 1966
Burke joins forces with Mrs. Johnson, Bill's
housekeeper! Carolyn and Joe have a long
discussion about all that's going on in
Collinsport!! A
EPISODE # 70: September 30, 1966
Drama at Collinwood! David is insistant that
there are ghosts and has drawn a picturs of
on of the ladies that he's seen! Moves are
afoot to get Mrs. Johnson a job at Collinwood!
David takes Vicky to the old house where the
ghosts are!! And while there believe it or
not they acutally see, wait for it...... A
SPECIAL FEATUERS:
There are three specials in this set:
Collinsport & Collinwood History;
Interview With Alexandra Moltke;
Interview With Michael Brockman
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