DARK SHADOWS COLLECTION #02
Set 2 of Dark Shadows, after the introduction
of Barnabas!! There are no more clappers in this
which means that there's no more telling us what
episode number or date they are!
Sadly there are still no closed captions!!
An introduction to the series
up to this point!!:
EPISODE # 251: June 12, 1967:
There's quick recap of the previous weeks episodes!
Still just an episode with the three, Maggie,
Barnabas & Willie(with Victoria having a short
scene with Barnabas)!! Barnabas is a little pissed
that Maggie was going to kill him! He threatens
to kill her, but surprisingly Willie intervenes
so settles to just lock her up in the basement of
the old house! A-
EPISODE # 252: June 13, 1967:
This one's all about Elizabeth's decision to
marry Jason! It makes no sense to anyone!
Carolyn decides to call her bluff and go after
her own quickie marriage!! A-
EPISODE # 253: June 14, 1967:
Back to Maggie, Barnabas and Willie, with David
thrown in for good measure! And Maggie's ring!! A-
EPISODE # 254: June 15, 1967:
This one ties both the Maggie story and the Elizabeth/
Jason story together! A-
EPISODE # 255: June 16, 1967:
This one is centered around Maggie pretty much alone, of
course with Willie and Barnabas, and a mysterious little
girl!! A-
EPISODE # 256: June 19, 1967:
Picking up where the last episode ended! Sarah shows
up at Collinwood and talks with David! Will she tell
him about Maggie?? A-
EPISODE # 257: June 20, 1967:
Buzz shows up to the big house and Liz is less
than happy, not letting him inside! Carolyn is not
having any of it and takes him inside to have it
out with her mother! Jason promises to get rid of
Buzz, trying to buy him off, but it doesn't works! A-
EPISODE # 258: June 21, 1967:
Back to Maggie! And Sarah! And somehow they're in
the room together!! Turns out she's the little sister
of Barnabas!! When Willie goes down to visit with
Maggie, she tells him about her secret friend! He,
as crazy as he seems, thinks SHE'S crazy!! LOL!! A-
EPISODE # 259: June 22, 1967:
Elizabeth finds out that Carolyn has had a bad accident,
hurts herself and almost kills another woman! BUT, the
real meat of the episode is Elizabeth telling Victoria
about "killing" her husband! A
EPISODE # 260: June 23, 1967:
Willie wants to help Maggie but he's afraid for his
own life so he leaves her locked up! Sarah, on the
other hand, tells Maggie a riddle and perhas a hope
of escape!! A
EPISODE # 261: June 26, 1967:
Maggie tries to escape with Barnabas right behind her!!
A door suddenly opens and out she goes! A-
EPISODE # 262: June 27, 1967:
Maggie's dead!! Well, that's the story the doctor,
Sam and Joe are telling people! In reality, she has
regressed to her childhood and doesn't communicate in
the present terms, meaning that she can't tell people
chat happened to her!!
A new Burke!(sadly)!! Elizabeth asks Vicky to be her
maid of honor!! A-
EPISODE # 263: June 28, 1967
Joe and Sam are confronted by Carolyn and Vicky and
find it hard not to tell the truth to them! Carolyn
is still carrying on her hate-on for her mother's
plans about marrying Jason! A-
EPISODE # 264: June 29, 1967
Roger goes to Barnabas to enlist his aid against
Jason! Willie finds Sarah outside the house and
she insists that she live in the old house!! A-
EPISODE # 265: June 30, 1967
Sam and Joe go to the sanitarium where Maggie is
and find that she's just not the same girl she
used to be!! B+
EPISODE # 266: July 03, 1967
Elizabeth's in a depressed state! B
EPISODE # 267: July 04, 1967
Barnabas comes upon Elizabeth at the favorite
cliff of those who decide to jump and stops her!
Or does he really? Was she really going to jump?
Burke talks with Vicky and she almost spills the
beans about what Elizabeth's problem is! B+
EPISODE # 268: July 05, 1967
Elizabeth is insistant on trying to kill herself,
feeling like it's the only way out, and that it's
her pre-ordained fate! The girls are concerned
about what she may do! A
EPISODE # 269: July 06, 1967
Vicky stops Elizabeth from jumping! Burke is still
doing some research on Jason!! And it appears that
Elizabeth has finally come up with her solution, as
does Carolyn!!! A
EPISODE # 270: July 07, 1967
This may be as famous as the "Who Shot JR" episode
of Dallas! The wedding, or at least the start of
said wedding, of Elizabeth and Jason! Not going to
spoil it just in case you've never seen it, but it
is great fun!!! A
EPISODE # 271: July 10, 1967
Elizabeth recounts the whole sordid story of how
she killed her husband Paul! A
EPISODE # 272: July 11, 1967
After Eliizabeth finally lets the cat out of the
bag, it's time for "THE REST OF THE STORY"!! Of
course Carolyn handles it as one would expect!! A
EPISODE # 273: July 12, 1967
And we finally get to find out just what's in
the basement! And Jason has to come clean!! A
EPISODE # 274: July 13, 1967
Slick talks his way into sticking around for just
one more day while he makes preperations to leave!
His preperations?: Going to Willie and trying to
get him to steal some of Barnabas' jewells! And
of course taking parting shots at just about
everyone!
Meanwhile, Barnabas, who's been absent for several
episodes, is making his own plans for a new Josette!
And who would that be? - Unknown for the time being! A
EPISODE # 275: July 14, 1967
Welp, Jason breaks into the old house, and after
much arguing with Willie goes down to the basement
after jewells! What he gets is anything but!! A-
EPISODE # 276: July 17, 1967
Jason's last episode!!(Thank God!)!!
Sarah's back! And we find out that she's Barnabas'
little sister! Maggie seems to recognize the drawing
of Sarah! A-
EPISODE # 277: July 18, 1967
We find out Barnabas' new target for Josette: Vicky!
Barnabas plans a costume party for the family! A-
EPISODE # 278: July 19, 1967
Outfits are picked out and a little girl finds hers!!! A-
EPISODE # 279: July 20, 1967
Vicky requests that Burke be invited to the party!
This shakes Barnabas as Burke(Jeremiah Collins) was
the rival for Josette's affection in a previous life! A-
EPISODE # 280: July 21, 1967
It's party time!! Not your usual party fare here!
Not many parties end in a seance!! Ghosts, why'd it
have to be ghosts?!! A-
EPISODE # 281: July 24, 1967
The seance goes as expected, with Barnabas there to
ruin what's happening! Vicky is taken over by the
spirit of Josette!! A-
EPISODE # 282: July 25, 1967
Maggie shows up after several episodes with the doctor
trying to jog her memory about what happened to her!
Vicky is now dealing with the same music box that ensnared
Maggie! A-
EPISODE # 283: July 26, 1967
The doctor takes Maggie to the cemetary trying to
jog her memory! While there, Vicky is there with
Burke and Vicky gets a quick glimps of her! Pretty
stupid work on the doctor's part!! B+
EPISODE # 284: July 27, 1967
The doctor wants to go to the Collins' house to do
some sluething on her own incognito! A-
EPISODE # 285: July 28, 1967
After a disagreement between her and Burke, Vicky
goes to the old house to appologize to Barnabas!
A storm rolls in and she winds up stuck there! She
is invited to stay there and she does, sleeping in
Josette's room! B+
EPISODE # 286: July 29, 1967
Vicky is quickly being drawn into Barnabas' trap!
She goes to his place for some dumb reason and a
storm flares up! Barnabas says it's too stormy to
go out and back to Collinwood, so she decided to
spend the night in Josette's room! Really kind of
a weak episode to me!!! B+
EPISODE # 287: Juul 30, 1967
The morning after! But did he or didn't he?? Welp,
you'll have to watch the episode to find out! Vickie
shows up back at the house where the worried Elizabeth
has been concerned about her safety! Anyway, the good(?)
doctor is trying to talk Elizabeth into helping with
her "research" into the family's past! A-
EPISODE # 288: July 31, 1967
Burke tries to persuade Vicky to stay away from the
old house! The doctor goes to the old house to show
some pictures to Barnabase, and for other reasons!! A
EPISODE # 289: August 03, 1967
Barnabas is skulking around Collinwood! He visists
Vicky's room to, well, you know! Again, does he or
doesn't he?!! Julia takes another trek to the old
house and peers into Barnabas' coffin! Pretty
determined woman, eh?!! A-
EPISODE # 290: August 04, 1967
Now armed with enough knowldge about Barnabas and
the rest of the Collins clan, Julia goes back to the
house! Vicky is questioning whether her infatuation
with the past is good for her! A
SPECIAL FEATUERS:
There are a few specials in this set:
Interview with Dan Curtis
Interview with Alexandra Moltke
Interview with Nancy Barrett
Interview with Dennis Patrick
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