DARK SHADOWS COLLECTION #6
Set 6 of Dark Shadows, continuing on in 1795 about
Barnabas(the only character besides Vicky to keep
their name), Joshua(Roger), Jeremiah(Burke), Millicent
(Carolyn) etc.!
Sadly there are still no closed captions!!
EPISODE # 413: January 24, 1968:
Vicky warns Naomi to keep Sarah indoors!! Meanwhile,
Sarah sees Barnabas and follows him to the mausoleum! A-
EPISODE # 414: January 25, 1968:
Nathan woos Millicent! Naomi discovers that Sarah has
left the house! Meanwhile, Barnabas finds another victim
on the pier! And Sarah sees Barnabas all bloodied!! A-
EPISODE # 415: January 26, 1968:
The continuing search for Sarah!! Of course we alrady
know they find her too late to stop her death! Sharon
Smyth(Sarah) does a phenomenal job of acting here!! A-
EPISODE # 416: January 29, 1968:
Joshua comes home to find that Sarah has died! Naomi
tells him that Vicky had warned her and he immediately
turns the whole blame on her being a witch!! Barnabas
wants to confess but Ben talks him out of it! He
then tries to talk Ben into driving a stake through
his heart!! A-
EPISODE # 417: January 30, 1968:
Angelique returns!! She warns Ben that Barnabas must
walk the Earth forever damned! This has really turned
into a silly plot line!! After many, many episode,
there's still no sign of what's going on in the
present!! A-
EPISODE # 418: January 31, 1968:
Josette meets up with Barnabas and he shoos her away!
Nathan is pushing Millicint into quick marraige! Turns
out he's hiding a pretty big secret!! B
EPISODE # 419: February 01, 1968:
Nathan's "sister" shows up at Collinwood and stirs
up a ton of trouble for Nathan! Barnabas is determined
to see Josette again, and of course does! This has
a disasterous result for Josette!! B
EPISODE # 420: February 02, 1968:
Really just a filler episode!! B+
EPISODE # 421: February 05, 1968:
Another filler - a build-up to Josette's death!! B
EPISODE # 422: February 06, 1968:
The most important part of this episode is Roger -
um - Joshua finds out that Barnabas is no longer
in his coffin!! B+
EPISODE # 423: February 07, 1968:
The family discovers Josette missing and go on an
all-out search for her! Meanwhile, Suki is putting
the screws to Nathan for money and they agree to
a renveuvue at the old house, where Suki runs into
Barnabas! Poor Suki!! B
EPISODE # 424: February 08, 1968:
Milicent tries to help out Nathan by contacting
Suki's reletives about her death and find out the
truth!! Joshua & Naomi discover the bite marks on
Josette! B+
EPISODE # 425: February 09, 1968:
Barnabas is making plans for he and Josette to
be united in death, even having matching coffins!
Ben is very much against it, and Barnabas threatens
him to finish preperations! Angelique steps in to
pull off her own plans! Poor Josette!! The bodies
keep piling up!! B+
EPISODE # 426: February 12, 1968:
Milicent goes off the deep end! She tells Ben
that she wants to be buried in the mausoleum
and that she saw Barnabas! Really just another
filler episode! B
EPISODE # 427: February 13, 1968
And then we go downhill!! The EP is back along with
the Evil Abigail! I've never been a fan of any of
the stories about the witch trials in Salem!! FF
EPISODE # 428: February 14, 1968
Milicent continues her downward spiral! Joshua accuses
Nathan of killing his wife, Suki! And Joshua also finds
Barnabas has suddenly re-appeared in his coffin!! B
EPISODE # 429: February 15, 1968
Barnabas goes into a tirade, vowing to reign terror
on everyone at Collinswood! More joy from the EP
& Abigail!! They reign threats on all those who
appose them!! F+
EPISODE # 430: February 16, 1968
Oh boy!! This is BAD!!! D-
EPISODE # 431: February 19, 1968
The last few seconds of this is all that's worth
watching!! LOL!! C+
EPISODE # 432: February 20, 1968
Another death! And this is the highlight of the
whole evil episode!! B-
EPISODE # 433: February 21, 1968
Courtroom evil!! D
EPISODE # 434: February 22, 1968
Very boring!! Basic main story is that Nathan purjures
himself to get the EP to talk with Joshua to forgive
Nathan! D
EPISODE # 435: February 23, 1968
Finally someone comes to the aid of Vicky - BEN!!
Of course this is with the "urging" of Barnabas!!
Of course Angelique is not going to "lay down"
for this!!! C-
EPISODE # 436: February 26, 1968
Peter is still trying to save Vicky! More silliness! C
EPISODE # 437: February 27, 1968
This is black and white!
Vicky testifies for herself telling where she came
from! Nathan does more lying! Vicky is convicted! B+
EPISODE # 438: February 28, 1968
EP shows up to Collinwood to "cleanse" everything that
had to do with Vicky! What he didn't know is that he
was walking into his own trap!! C+
EPISODE # 439: February 29, 1968
More planning by Barnabas for the EP demise!!!!
Another attack by Barnabas! He screws this one
up and leave evidence!! Nathan hires a dude
to try to find out more about Barnabas!! B
EPISODE # 440: March 01, 1968
Barnabas kills Maude & plants her body on the EPs
bed!!!! And Barnabas has a new target: Nathan!! B+
EPISODE # 441: March 04, 1968
Nathan shows up in time to find Maude's body in
the EP's bed!! He promises to help him out if he
delivers a note to Milicent! B
EPISODE # 442: March 05, 1968
The EP is lured to the old house where Barnabas springs
his trap for him!! A+
EPISODE # 443: March 06, 1968
Milicent is definitely crazy! And Nathan is making
his own plans concerning her and Barnabas!! Not a
really great plan to include Barnabas in his revenge!
Weirdly, Peter goes to Natalie with the EP's letter
of confession to try and get her support! B
EPISODE # 444: March 07, 1968
Nathan's pal "attacks" Millicent and Nathan stops
him! Everything goes swimmingly 'cept Nathan didn't
plan on his partner throwning a kink in the plan!! B
EPISODE # 445: March 08, 1968
Milicent tells Naomi & Joshua that she's going to
marry Nathan! Nathan tells Joshua all about what he
knows about Barnabas! Joshua goes to the old house
to find out for himself about Barnabas and gets a
big shock when he sees Barnabas coming out of his
coffin!!! B+
EPISODE # 446: March 11, 1968
Joshua, now armed with the truth about his son
Barnabas, tries to kill him to put him out of
his misery!! B+
EPISODE # 447: March 12, 1968
Of course we all know that Barnabas survives his
father's attempt to kill him! Since Joshua & Naomi
are concerned that the only reason Nathan wants to
marry Millicent is for her money, she comes up with
a plan to have all her assets turned over to Daniel!! B
EPISODE # 448: March 13, 1968
After the wedding Nathan drops the bomb that he has
resigned his commission in the Navy! He then proceeds
to drive her quite insane!! This is really a devestating
turn for the whole family! B
EPISODE # 449: March 14, 1968
Nathan sends Millicent to the tower where Barnabas
gives her a great big welcome!!! Meanwhile, Joshua
and Natalie are trying to contact another psychic
to help get rid of the curse on Barnabas! Just a
side note, no discussion about what's happening to
Victoria!! B+
EPISODE # 450: March 15, 1968
Bathia continues to try to lift the curse off of Barnabas!!
I have to admit that Nancy Barrett plays a great crazy
woman!!! A-
EPISODE # 451: March 18, 1968
Bathia turns out to be quite hot! B
EPISODE # 452: March 19, 1968
And Joshua tries to help out Victoria! When that
doesn't help, Peter tries to break Vicky out of jail,
with her getting shot! B+
SPECIAL FEATUERS:
There are three specials in this set:
Interview With Roger Davis(Peter Bradford);
Interview with Laura Parker(Angelique);
Interview With Louis Edmonds(Joshua/Roger);
Interview with Sy Tomashoff(Scenic Designer)!
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