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Episode 861: Complete control of my faculties

Judith Collins Trask, owner of the estate of Collinwood and all the Collins family businesses, has returned home after more than thirteen weeks confined to a sanitarium. Her return is supposed to be a big shock, but they spoil it by having Joan Bennett do the opening voiceover. They really should have paid more attention to that sort of thing. Judith’s husband, the odious Gregory Trask,…

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Episode 854: Substitute for will

Ever since she came to the estate of Collinwood in #844, Kitty Soames, the dowager Countess of Hampshire, has been having psychotic breaks. Regular viewers know that these are supernatural in origin. The late Josette DuPrés Collins is taking possession of Kitty. As Kitty continues turning into Josette, so rakish libertine Quentin Collins has begun turning into sorcerer Count Petofi. Josette has…

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Episode 248: The bride of Barnabas Collins

At the end of yesterday’s installment, artist Sam Evans looked out the window of his house and saw his daughter, missing local girl Maggie. Today, the sheriff shows up and reports that he and his men couldn’t find anything to substantiate Sam’s report. The sheriff then tries to convince Sam that he didn’t really see Maggie at all. When last we see Sam, he is telling himself that it was only his…

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Episode 241: What other name?

Much of the first 39 weeks of Dark Shadows consisted of characters telling each other that strange and troubled boy David Collins was a “very imaginative child.” In fact, David showed remarkably little imagination. He simply gave accurate reports concerning ghosts and other topics the adults around him didn’t want to think about. Today, David Collins sneaks into the Old House on the grounds of…

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Episode 239: The lover of her

Vampire Barnabas Collins is taking a page from the 1932 Universal Pictures film The Mummy. Boris Karloff plays Imhotep, who rises from the dead and decides that a young lady named Helen Grosvenor is actually the reincarnation of his lost love, Princess Ankh-esen-amun. He abducts Helen, tells her she is Ankh-esen-amun, and tries to kill her so that she can come back to life as that lady. Likewise,…

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Episode 255: Job Interview with the Vampire

“I just want to get out of this room! I’ll go insane if I have to stay in here any longer.” Let’s look into the future, just for a moment. We’ll jump ahead to June 196…

The endgame of Barnabas’ Josettifying project.