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Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows : The Original Series - A Synopsis

Format:  Due to the extreme number of episodes and plot lines
this synopsis will not go into full detail.  Those aspects of the show
which follow its supernatural nature will be concentrated on.  The
Dark Shadows Companion has been a great help in creating this.  Any
comments on something I have forgotten or left out will be greatly
appreciated.  Please forgive any spelling or punctuation problems.

Background:    Dark Shadows aired on June 27, 1966.  It
was on the air through 1971 and comprised over 1200 episodes and two
full length movies.  While on the air the series was continually at the
mercy of the ratings.  As a result it constantly tested the bounds of
what had been done before on T.V. and what was considered acceptable.

== Episodes 1 - 300 ==

     Dark Shadows began with the arrival of Victoria Winters to the
Collinwood estate, hired as the new governess for the Collins family.
Having been raised as an orphan she is convinced that a key to her
past lies with this family in Collinsport, Maine.  She soon finds that
the Collins family is far from normal.  Her ward, David, is a constant
trouble and has a developing interest in the occult.  For the first
couple of months the plot centers around attacks on Victoria's life
and the grudge between the Collins family and businessman Burke Devin.
Things remain pretty much like any other soap.  Nothing happens out of
the ordinary until episode 70.  With failing ratings Dan Curtis
decides to go out with a bang.  While playing in the Old House David
discovers Josette's portrait, and subsequently her ghost.  In
addition, after being locked (by David) in the closed off section of
Collinwood Vicki encounters the ghost of Mallory, a recently murdered
character.

     The plot proceeds with the hunt for Mallory's killer and Vicki's
past. The murderer, Matthew, takes Vicki captive and hides her in the
Old House.  David is convinced by Mallory's ghost to help her.
Josette's ghost appears and protects Vicki when Matthew tries to kill
her.  He soon dies from fright after being visited by Mallory's ghost.

     Now that the murder has been solved the plot shifts.  Laura
Collins, Roger's wife and David's mother, has returned to Collinwood
to get a divorce and custody of David.  This is bewildering to all, as
Laura supposedly died in a fire in Phoenix, AR.  Even more so when it
is discovered that her body was positively identified in the remains.
It is then revealed that Laura is a phoenix, but the family doesn't
know this yet.  The Collins family gradually gather clues.  After
tracing Laura's maiden names through women who appear to die every
hundred years a psychic investigator, Guthrie, is called in.  Guthrie
discovers that Laura has some sort of powers but is unsure what she
is.  He decides to conduct a seance to contact Josette and expose
Laura.  Guthrie is killed by Laura.  The seance goes ahead as planned.
Laura makes her move to destroy David and herself in flames.  However,
Vicki has been warned by Josette's ghost and she saves David.

     Having survived more trials, Dark Shadows is again plagued by
ratings problems.  The supernatural was called on again to save the
show, this time with a vampire.  Willie Loomis, a drifter, had been
introduced briefly already in the series.  Willie was fascinated with
the portrait of Barnabas Collins and the legend about a secret family
treasure.  While searching for the treasure in the family crypt he
discovers a chained coffin, the perfect place to hide jewels.
Unfortunately when he opens the lid a hand emerges, grasping Willie
firmly about the neck.  Thus is introduced Barnabas Collins.

     Barnabas assumes the identity of a cousin from England and
"arrives" at Collinwood.  A weakened Willie is found at the Blue
Whale, with puncture wounds on his wrists.  He is diagnosed as
suffering from blood loss.  Barnabas gains permission to move into the
Old House, with Willie as his servant.  Barnabas sees a resemblance in
Maggie to his lost love Josette.  He devises a plan intended to
recreate Josette.  After several night meetings with Barnabas Maggie
becomes weaker and is hospitalized.  Everyone thinks she dies, until
her body disappears.  She is in fact being held captive by Barnabas.
To protect himself, Barnabas switches the blood samples Dr. Woodard
took from Willie.  Maggie eventually escapes through the aid of Sarah,
the ghost of Barnabas' nine-year-old sister.  Maggie suffers from a
memory loss and has reverted to her childhood.  She is found by Sam
and Joe and secretly sent to the Windcliff Sanitarium.  Her doctor
there is Julia Hoffman.  Barnabas has now switched his intentions to
Vicki, hosting a costume ball to get Vicki in Josette's dress.  At the
party a seance is held and Vicki goes into a trance.  Josette speaks
though her.

     Meanwhile, Julie Hoffman has been probing into Maggie's mind.
She finds, under hypnosis, that Maggie is deathly afraid of the name
Barnabas.  Julia decides to go the Collinwood to find the answers,
posing as a visiting historian.  While at the Old House she notices
that Barnabas casts no reflection.  She returns to find Barnabas in
his coffin and offers to help him find a cure.  Dr. Woodard and Burke
start to become curious about Barnabas.  At the same time Sarah helps
Maggie escape.  She stumbles into the Blue Whale and collapses.  Julia
is then forced to hypnotize Maggie to cover her memory of Barnabas.
However, Barnabas has come to the conclusion Maggie must be killed.
When he attempts to do this he is stopped by Sarah's ghost.  Barnabas'
plans are in  doubt when Vicki decides to marry Burke.  Therefore,
Barnabas  decides that Burke must be destroyed.

== Episodes 301 - 600 ==

     Anxious to be with Vicki/Josette Barnabas urges Julia to hurry
with the cure.  Julia has however become highly enamored of Barnabas.
Meanwhile Burke continues to investigate Barnabas, to Vicki's
disapproval.  Sarah starts to show up often.  She shows David the
secret room in the crypt and leaves her shoe in Maggie's room.  All
attempts by Barnabas to talk to her prove fruitless.  He becomes
afraid that she will expose him.  David is locked in the secret room
when he hides there from Barnabas and Willie.  Barnabas knows Sarah
talks to him and is afraid that he knows the truth.  Sarah helps David
out of the room and Burke arrives before Barnabas can do anything.
David does, however, start to have nightmares about Barnabas.

     With Maggie's memory returning she is once again a threat.  The
police shoot an intruder outside her bedroom, only to discover it is
Willie.  Barnabas has decided to frame him for Maggie's kidnapping.
Dr. Woodard diagnoses Willie as mentally unsound.

     Barnabas has now switched to scare tactics with David.  However,
the boy sneaks into the Old House and finds the open coffin.  Julia
manages to stop Barnabas from killing him.  David's story has caused a
search to be conducted of the Old House by Burke and Dr. Woodard, it
turns up nothing.  Unfortunately, Sarah has been talking to Dr.
Woodard.  He confronts Barnabas and later steals Julia's notebook,
containing the specifics of Barnabas' condition.  Julia is forced by
Barnabas to help kill Woodard.  The death is made to look like a heart
attack.

     Vicki becomes distraught when she learns that Burke's plane has
crashed without survivors.  Barnabas takes this opportunity to get
closer to her.  However, Julia is jealous and hypnotizes Vicki so that
she finds Barnabas very unattractive.  Growing impatient Barnabas
forces Julia to hurry the cure.  As a result he ages to his true age
of 200 years.  Carolyn coming to check on David's story sneaks into
the Old House.  The aged Barnabas catches her and puts the bite on
her, which causes him to return to normal, and with a new slave.
Carolyn catches Julia hypnotizing Vicki and Barnabas is furious.  He
swears to kill her.  Julia saves her life by blackmailing Barnabas
with her notebook, which she has given to Tony Peterson for
safekeeping.  Carolyn attempts to steal it but is caught.  Barnabas
starts to play mind games with Julia.  Sarah visits her but will not
help her.  Sarah tells Barnabas that he must be "good".  A seance is
held to determine if David is telling the truth.  While it is going on
Vicki disappears.

     Vicki has been transported to 1795.  She meets Barnabas before he
became a vampire.  There is a striking resemblance between the old and
new Collins families.  Jeremiah, Barnabas' uncle, agrees to help Vicki
get hired as the new governess.  Josette's maid, Angelique, arrives.
She has her own plans for Barnabas.  When his fiancee arrives
(Josette) Angelique uses witchcraft to cause Barnabas to nearly choke
to death.  She then uses her witchcraft to turn the Collins servant,
Ben Stokes, into her slave.  She casts a spell causing Jeremiah and
Josette to fall in love.

     Millicent Collins, a family heiress, arrives.  When Jeremiah
tries to leave town, Angelique turns Barnabas' father Joshua into a
cat.  Natalie suspects there is a witch but believes it is Vicki.  She
urges Barnabas to hurry with the wedding.  Before it can occur
Jeremiah and Josette run off together.  Unfortunately, it does not
change Barnabas' mind.  Natalie and Joshua's sister Abigail find
Vicki's charm bracelet and are convinced she is a witch.  Jeremiah and
Josette return.  Barnabas challenges Jeremiah to a duel, which he wins
by mortally wounding Jeremiah.  Abigail has meanwhile solicited the
aid of Rev. Trask, a fanatic who supposedly reveals witches.  Barnabas
and Nathan hide Vicki in Collinwood, which is under construction.
Upset by events Angelique takes it out on Sarah.  She promises to cure
her if Barnabas will marry her.  Jeremiah, who has been in a coma,
dies.

     Barnabas now agrees to marry Angelique.  As an added incentive,
she has enlisted the aid of Jeremiah's ghost.  Barnabas is
disinherited for his wedding plans, but is given the Old House as a
wedding gift.  Vicki tells Barnabas she is from the future.  Ben is
caught by Abigail and confesses his part.  Thinking Vicki is in the
Old House Rev. Trask exorcises it.  Angelique causes Vicki to run out
of hiding into the Rev's waiting arms.  She is put in jail.  Ben is
forced by Barnabas to reveal Angelique.  Barnabas tries to kill her
but she threatens to kill Josette.  When Barnabas shoots Angelique she
believes she is dying and puts a curse on Barnabas.  A giant bat is
sent to him.  When she doesn't die she regrets this and tries to save
Barnabas.  Josette believes Vicki is the witch and implores her to
help Barnabas.  Unfortunately, Barnabas dies anyway.  Angelique does
not want him to revive as a vampire so she goes to stake him.  He
rises and kills Angelique.

     Sarah sees Barnabas and follows.  When he finds his first victim
she is terrified and runs away.  Ben later finds her in the cemetery.
She has contracted pneumonia and dies in Barnabas' arms.  Feeling
remorse Barnabas tells Ben to put a stake through his heart.  The
spirit of Angelique returns and prevents this.  She then summons
Josette and Barnabas nearly bites her.  In a short time he can no
longer hold back and bites Josette, the subsequent strange behavior of
Josette does not go unnoticed.  Joshua discovers that Barnabas' coffin
is empty.

     To stop Barnabas' plans at having a vampire bride, Angelique
calls Josette to Widow's Hill and causes her to fall to her doom.  The
witchcraft trial of Vicki begins.  Barnabas decides to revive Josette
but is shocked by her disfigured face.  She wishes to return to death.
Barnabas moves his coffin to the Old House basement but is caught by
Abigail, who dies from fright.  Vicki is accused of being responsible.
     During Vicki's trial Ben tries to tell the truth, but Angelique
shows up to testify.  Vicki is sentenced to hang.  Barnabas knows that
Trask is responsible for this.  He kills a woman and puts her in
Trask's bed.  He later forces Trask to write a declaration of Vicki's
innocence.  After which he bricks Trask up in the Old House basement
to die.

     Meanwhile, Joshua has discovered Barnabas' coffin and decides he
must destroy Barnabas.  Millicent is bitten by Barnabas.  Joshua
brings in a good witch, Buthia Mapes, to help Barnabas.
Unfortunately, she goes up in flames with a little help from
Angelique.  Vicki escapes from jail but is wounded.  Nathan tells
Naomi that Barnabas is a vampire.  She takes poison and dies as she
tells Barnabas that she forgives him.  When Barnabas finds out it was
Nathan who told her he plans to kill him, and does.  Joshua finds he
is unable to destroy Barnabas so he chains his son in the coffin to
protect the Collins name.  Vicki is hung.  Peter vows to someday find
her.  When the hood is removed Vicki is gone, replaced by Phyllis
With.  Vicki has returned to the present.

     Barnabas is now afraid that Vicki learnt of his condition in the
past, so he bites her.  He is terrified to learn she has bought a
portrait of Angelique.  Barnabas convinces Vicki to marry him.  Before
this can happen though Vicki wrecks the car they are in, when she sees
a Peter look-alike.  In the hospital, Barnabas is exposed to sunlight
and learns he is partially cured due to a blood transfusion.  The
hospital doctor, Lang, has an assistant who looks just like Peter
Bradford, Jeff.  Vicki believes he is in some way Peter and calls off
the wedding.  Dr. Lang plans to finish the cure and give Barnabas
Jeff's physical features, by transferring him to a body made of human
parts.

     Roger arrives with a new bride, Cassandra.  It becomes obvious to
Vicki that she is actually Angelique.  Angelique renews Barnabas'
curse with a dream curse, passed on to whoever it is told to.
Cassandra kills Lang.  Julia plans to finish his experiment but when
she does the results are not right.  Barnabas is still alive, but the
creature comes to life, as Adam.  Adam gradually matures and learns to
talk.  Barnabas has Sam age the portrait of Angelique, and Cassandra
ages as well.  Cassandra has it stopped by blinding Sam.  Willie
taunts Adam and he escapes.  After he tries to kill Barnabas, Barnabas
decides to kill Adam.  Adam kidnaps Carolyn but is later captured.  He
is put in jail but escapes.  He saves Carolyn from leaping off Widow's
Hill, and then jumps himself.  He is not killed however.  Julia and
several others hold a seance to contact Trask in the hopes he can stop
Angelique. Trask is set on revenge with Barnabas however.  He holds a
mock trial with Barnabas' 1795 victims and finds Barnabas guilty.
When Julia sees Josette's ghost she realizes what has happened to
Barnabas.  He has been walled up in the Old House basement.  Julia and
Willie save him.

     Meanwhile the dream curse has ended, because Sam dies before he
can relate it to anyone.  Trask is finally successful in exorcising
Angelique.  However, Warlord Nicholas Blair arrives, posing as
Cassandra's brother.  He searches for her and eventually brings her
back.  Cassandra raises Sam so that he can tell the dream to Vicki.
Barnabas tries to help her by listening to the dream.  He survives it
but is then attacked by a bat and is believed to be dead.  Julia
discovers that Adam is alive and knows Barnabas is because of the link
they have.  Stokes and Julia save Barnabas, who is still human.

     Nicholas learns that Julia brought Adam to life.  He befriends
Adam.  When Cassandra tries to kill Adam, Nicholas is upset and takes
her powers away.  Cassandra confesses to Barnabas but he refuses to
forgive her.  Adam is upset that Carolyn doesn't like him and demands
a mate for him be made.  Vicki decides to marry Jeff but Adam kidnaps
her.  Nicholas brings Angelique back as a vampire under his control.
When Adam starts to get testy, Julia agrees to make him a mate.  Tom
is killed by Angelique, and returns as a vampire.  He attacks Julia
who then stops the experiment.  Barnabas comes to the rescue and
stakes Tom, although the coffin is later missing.  Willie tells
Nicholas how Adam was made and Angelique overhears.  She bites Jeff
and uses him to start the experiment, intending to resurrect herself.
Vicki calls off her wedding because of Jeff's strange behavior.
Barnabas manages to stop the experiment but is beaten around by Adam
for it.  Maggie's memory of Barnabas starts to return.

     Carolyn now volunteers to be the life-force for the next
experiment and Julia begins.  However, something goes wrong and
Carolyn dies, but the body disappears.  She later reappears in full
health.  Danielle Roge is summoned by Nicholas to serve as a life
force for his own experiment.  As it happens she was a very nasty
person from the 18th century.  Danielle's body, Adam, and the new Eve
all disappear afterwards.  Eve appears to tell Nicholas about her
hatred for Adam.

== Episodes 601 - 900 ==

     Barnabas plans to kill Eve, so Adam hides her in Nicholas'
basement.  When Barnabas goes there he finds Angelique waiting.  He is
bitten by her and is put under her spell.  However, Nicholas forbids
her from seeing Barnabas without his permission.  Joe is rejected by
Angelique and tries to kill himself.  When Barnabas takes him to Julia
they discover bite marks on his neck.  Nicholas sends Eve on a trip to
the past to meet Peter Bradford, who she is in love with via Jeff.
Unfortunately, Peter does not feel the same way.  Nicholas proposes to
Maggie but is turned down.

     Barnabas is ordered to poison Joe by Angelique.  Joe in turn
tries to strangle Barnabas.  Julia discovers that Peter has been
bitten and tries to lock him up, but he escapes.  Angelique tries to
run off with Barnabas, but he escapes and is found by Vicki.  It
appears that Angelique has been getting around when Julia finds that
Adam too has been bitten.  Nicholas decides to destroy Angelique, but
he cannot find her, the coffin is empty.  It appears that Angelique
got wise and moved it.  She sends Eve back in time to 1796 to find
Peter.  Peter is in jail, waiting to be hung.  He refuses aid from Eve
but gives her a note just before he dies.  Eve returns and gives the
note to Jeff, who then calls off the wedding with Vicki and goes to
Peter's grave.  When he digs it up he finds it empty.  Adam kills Eve.
Chris Jennings arrives, mistaken by some for his brother Tom.
Angelique takes a field trip to the Netherworld to discuss some things
with Diablos (a.k.a. Satan).  She tells him of Nicholas' love for
Maggie.  Subsequently, Diablos orders Nicholas to sacrifice Maggie in
a Black Mass.  Vicki learns of these plans so Nicholas calls up Tom
Jennings to stop her.  He is destroyed by Barnabas.

     Adam tries to revive Eve but is stopped by Barnabas.  Around this
time Nicholas is believed destroyed by a fireball.  Adam kidnaps Vicki
in order to try once more at the experiment, but he fails.  Jeff
discovers that he is indeed Peter Bradford.  Jeff and Vicki are
married but Jeff fades back to the past.  Amy, Chris' sister, moves
into Collinwood.  David shows her a phone (disconnected) where she
talks to Quentin Collins.  David and Amy then hold a seance to contact
Quentin.  Meanwhile, another seance is held so that Vicki can contact
Jeff.  David and Amy are possessed by the ghosts of Quentin and Beth
Chavey.  They then try to kill Roger.  As a result, a psychic medium,
Janet Findley, is brought in to investigate.  Unfortunately, the
children trap her and she dies of fright when Quentin pays a visit to
her.  Jeff stops by the present one more time and takes Vicki to the
past with him (in reality the actress was pregnant).  Maggie takes
over as governess.

     Following several shadowy appearances, Chris transforms into a
werewolf and attacks Joe.  With many strange things occurring Barnabas
decides to take the children to Boston for awhile, for safety.  Joe
starts having vampire and werewolf dreams and is put in Windcliff
Sanitarium.  There is evidence that Vicki wants to return to the
present and that she dies in the past.  Barnabas decides to time
travel to save her.  Angelique offers to help in the past, but changes
her mind.  Vicki is saved when Barnabas torches Angelique.  Barnabas
has himself chained up in his coffin and is revived in the present by
Julia and Willie.

     All this while Liz was believed to be dead; actually she was
paralyzed in her coffin (the actress was doing a play).  After she
senses Carolyn is in danger, attacked by the werewolf, she revives.
One of Carolyn's friends visits Chris and is killed by the werewolf.
Chris is jailed for the murder, but is released when Barnabas provides
an alibi.  Chris confides in Barnabas.  The ghost of Quentin
recognizes Chris as his descendant and tries to poison him.  David is
punished by Maggie and gets very upset, he vows revenge.  When
Barnabas finds a child's coffin with a pentagram in it he calls in
Ezra Raithwaite for  assistance.  Ezra realizes who Quentin is but
dies of fright.  Chris is protected on the next full moon by Barnabas.
David is punished for not following Quentin's orders.  Quentin starts
to be a very annoying ghost and the family abandons Collinwood.  David
sneaks back in and ends up in a coma.  Barnabas attempts an I Ching
trance, to contact Quentin, but ends up in 1897.

     Barnabas uses the same line of being a cousin from England, but
Quentin is suspicious.  Quentin has been trying to get his
grandmother, Edith, to reveal the family secret.  She realizes that
Barnabas is the secret.  Edith dies and Quentin has her will stolen.
Barnabas finds another Josette look alike in Rachel.  Quentin and Evan
Hanley hold a ritual in order to obtain aid in dealing with Barnabas.
They get Angelique.  She puts Rachel under a spell and Barnabas must
then get a amulet from the gypsy Magda to protect her.  Everyone is
shocked when they learn Judith, the house mistress, is Edith's only
beneficiary.

     Previously Quentin had married Jenny, but his eyes roamed.  He
ran off with his brother's wife, Laura.  Leaving his pregnant wife at
home.  She has twins, a son and a daughter.  Since Jenny is considered
to be insane the children are taken away and Jenny is locked in the
tower room.  Quentin returned later.

     Now Jenny escapes and attacks Rachel.  Judith tries to hide
Jenny, but she escapes when she hears Quentin's music.  Jenny stabs
Quentin and leaves him to die.  Angelique is summoned by Barnabas to
help.  He is resurrected as a zombie, possessing Jamison.  When he
starts misbehaving a ceremony is performed to try and bring things
back to normal (or Collinwood's equivalent).  Rev. Gregory Trask
attempts to exorcise Quentin from Jamison's body.  When things work
out, Trask thinks he is responsible.  Barnabas bites his daughter
Charity.  Laura Collins now returns to Collinwood.  Much to Quentin's
anger, since he saw he burnt on a pyre in Egypt (the phoenix returns).
He tries to kill her and is injured.  Angelique offers to help, but
only if Barnabas marries her.  Laura is warned by Rachel about her
children's treatment at Rev. Trask's school.  When he refuses to
return the children to her the school catches fire.

     Quentin tries to destroy Laura's source of supernatural power.
Laura calls on the god Ra for aid.  Clues gather for the rest of the
family about Laura's true nature.  She admits to returning for the
children.  It has decided by Quentin and Barnabas that they must
destroy Laura.  However, she has already sent Jenny to stop them.
During a struggle, Quentin kills Jenny.

     It turns out the Jenny was the daughter of Magda, a gypsy witch.
She places the werewolf curse on Quentin and his descendants.  Not
realizing that she had grandchildren by him, who are also cursed now.

     A character names Dirk, who works for Laura, finds a diary in the
grave of Ben Stokes.  Laura learns from it that Barnabas is a vampire
and plans to destroy him.  Quentin attempts another ceremony intended
to destroy Laura.  Ra is again called on by Laura in order to destroy
Angelique.  Laura has written a letter to Judith describing Barnabas'
condition.  Barnabas manages to destroy it after attacking Dirk.
Laura attempts to take the children into the fire with her, but she is
destroyed by a spell Angelique's casts.

     Quentin now devotes his time to the werewolf curse.  When
Barnabas cannot get any straight answers he bites Beth, she becomes
his slave.  Barnabas is told by Magda about a possible cure for
Quentin, but Barnabas has his own problems.  When Dirk reveals his
secret Barnabas attacks him, he later rises as a vampire.  Dirk tries
to get Barnabas to bring Angelique back to life, but then Edward
stakes Dirk.

     Enter Count Petofi.  A powerful, yet eccentric, sorcerer.  Petofi
had suffered as a werewolf and had killed the last unicorn in grief.
In addition, for killing one of them, the gypsies severed his hand,
where his power was centered.  It now travels the earth in its own
box.  Magda returns after a long trip with a mysterious, bearing the
box.  Carl sees Barnabas enter the mausoleum and is trapped there by
Quentin.  Barnabas rises and kills him Carl.  Barnabas later finds his
coffin chained up and with a cross on it.  Trask is now on Barnabas'
trail and attempts to use Charity to trap him.  Trask marries Judith
and reveals to her Barnabas' secret.  Magda uses the hand of Petofi in
an attempt to cure Quentin.

     However, the werewolf is caught in an animal trap and the hand
stolen by Evan.  Judith has now come to the opinion that she is
Minerva, Trask's recently deceased wife.  Minerva's ghost is raised by
Trask and Evan.  Judith is "persuaded" to commit herself.  Aristede, a
new character addition, forces Quentin to relinquish the hand to him.
Quentin then goes to Angelique for help.  Unfortunately, Angelique
attempts a cure but fails.  A gypsy, Julianha?, persuades Barnabas
that she can cure Quentin, if the hand is returned to the gypsies.
Aristede captures Quentin and threatens his life if he doesn't give
Aristede the hand.  Julianha is found dead.  When she is contacted
through a seance she refuses to help Quentin and curses Magda.  When
Magda's loved ones start to die she tries to destroy the hand.

     A new character appears, Victor Fenn-Gillons.  Magda and Quentin
soon discover that he is in fact Count Petofi, come for his hand.
Petofi devises a cure for Quentin.  Charles Delaware Tate arrives to
paint Quentin's portrait.  He has been given a power by Petofi.
Instead of Quentin turning into a wolf his portrait does, it also
gives the effect of immortality.  Through a few plot manipulations
Petofi is reunited with his hand.  Count Petofi tries to extort the
secret of time travel from Barnabas.  He chains Barnabas in his
coffin.  Quentin manages to release Barnabas.  Magda is placed on
trial by the gypsies.  Quentin now appears to be fully cured, but
Petofi has made a deal with Edward to trap Barnabas.

     Back in the present, Beth's ghost appears and explains to Julia
how Quentin dies.  Julia travels back to 1897.  Julia agrees to stay
and cure Barnabas, but she is taken hostage by Petofi who wants the I
Ching wands used in time travel.  Barnabas manages to rescue her.  He
and Angelique make a deal to destroy Petofi.  Lady Kitty Soames
arrives, and surprise, she looks just like Josette.  Before this can
be expanded on, Barnabas is staked by a possessed Charity.  His coffin
is sealed in a cave.  Petofi discovers that he needs a body in the
future to time travel, so he begin manipulations to possess Quentin.
Julia is called back to the present.  Angelique is warned about the
mind switch.

     Now it is revealed that Barnabas was not killed (he actually took
a vacation).  It was only a double created by Angelique.  In fact, he
is human again (Julia's cure worked).  Kitty is becoming aware that
she is Josette and goes to Barnabas.  Angelique is forced to tell
Petofi how she created the double.  Petofi attempts to time travel but
is called back.  Quentin manages to reverse the mind switch and orders
Aristede to kill Petofi.  Judith has returned, fairly sane, with the
knowledge that Trask is after the family wealth.  She has him bricked
up in Quentin's room.  Though the effects of several sub plots, Petofi
is destroyed in the burning studio of Tate.  Kitty fades into the past
and Barnabas does likewise.  Josette believes that he has betrayed her
and kills herself.

     Barnabas is captured by the Leviathans, a Lovecraftian race of
ancient beings.  Barnabas is returned to the present with the task of
finding a suitable couple to raise a Leviathan child.  There are two
new inhabitants of Collinsport, Philip and Megan Todd.  They run a
local antique shop.  Megan is given the box containing the essence of
the Leviathan leader and the Leviathan comes to live with them.  Paul
Stoddard now appears, Carolyn's father.  The book on the Leviathans is
stolen by David.  Paul realizes that the Leviathan's want Carolyn, due
to a deal he had made with them years ago.

== Episodes 901 - 1245 ==

     Evidence of the Leviathan child comes when Carolyn hears loud,
and strange breathing coming from the baby's room.  Due to his success
before in the series, Quentin is brought back.  While taking a drive
Barnabas hits a man who mysteriously looks just like Quentin.  The man
claims to be Grant Douglas, but Julia believes him to be Quentin.
Meanwhile the Leviathan child has aged rapidly into a little boy, and
is introduced as Alexander.  The Leviathan's gain control of Liz and
Paul realizes who Alexander is.  Julia attempts to restore Grant's
memory as Quentin, but to no avail.  Julia discovers that Harrison
Monroe is in fact Charles Delaware Tate.  Alexander ages further and
is now introduced as Michael.  Barnabas is ordered by the Leviathans
to kill Julia, but tries to bring her into the group instead.  Paul
escapes from Collinwood and goes to the police.  Chris goes to Tate in
the hopes that he can cure him by painting his portrait.  Olivia Corey
reveals that she is actually Amanda Harris and tells of a pact she
made in 1897.  In order to survive she must get Quentin to remember.
Julia discovers that Angelique is back.   She is married to Sky Rumson
and wants nothing to do with the Collins anymore.

     Michael traps Maggie in a secret passage and orders Megan to kill
Philip, but Barnabas stops her.  Michael is ready to transform into
the next stage but he is having second thoughts.  Barnabas decides to
help Paul and saves him when he is attacked.  When Julia shows Quentin
his 1897 portrait his memory returns.  It was gone due to damage to
the portrait.  Amanda and Quentin try to escape the mysterious Mr.
Best but their plans go awry and Amanda is buried alive.  The sheriff
investigates the antique shop but only finds Jeb Hawkes, the fully
grown Leviathan child.  Jeb believes it is Barnabas who has betrayed
him.  Julia realizes who Jeb is and confronts Barnabas.  To Barnabas'
rage Jeb proposes to Carolyn.  Barnabas then goes to Angelique and
begs her for help.

     Jeb hides Maggie in a crypt, with Sheriff Davenport (who he has
raised from the dead).  A Leviathan follower arrives in town, Bruno.
Sabrina attempts to cure Chris with a special flower.  As it turns out
the only thing which can harm a Leviathan is a werewolf.  Jeb gets
edgy when he finds out there is one near.  Bruno tells Jeb that
Sabrina can identify the werewolf.  Jeb's true nature is revealed to
Carolyn in a dream.  The werewolf attacks, but doesn't kill, Jeb.
Barnabas prevents Jeb from learning who the werewolf is and conducts a
seance to contact Josette.  Philip attempts to steal the Leviathan
box, but is caught by Jeb.  Due to Barnabas' treason against the
Leviathans, Jeb decides to punish him.  Barnabas is bitten by a
vampire bat, a becomes once more a vampire.  As revenge, Barnabas sets
fire to the antique shop.  Julia agrees to try and cure him again.
Nicholas Blair returns to town to help the Leviathans, whose plans
seem to be going wrong.  Barnabas makes Megan his servant.  Angelique
discovers that her husband is a Leviathan.  Quentin saves Maggie from
Barnabas.

     Without a husband, and just a little bit peeved, Angelique
returns her sights to Barnabas.  She casts a spell causing Quentin and
Maggie to fall in love.  Jeb decides he actually loves Carolyn and
renounces his Leviathan ties.  Because of this Blair punished him with
a shadow which follows him everywhere, growing larger.  A hanging man
is seen in David's room.  Bruno learns that Chris is the werewolf and
orders Davenport to destroy him during the next full moon.  He changes
his mind and decides to get in good with the Leviathans by destroying
Jeb.  He tricks Jeb into getting trapped with Chris just before the
full moon.  Megan is attacked by Barnabas.

     Jeb learns that Julia cured Barnabas once and has her kidnapped
by an army of zombies, in the hopes that she can make him human.
Nicholas warns Julia not to interfere.  Zombies bury Quentin alive.
Carolyn has a dream and learns that Jeb killed her father.  Peter
Bradford's ghost appears and threatens to destroy Jeb.  Philip falls
off Widow's Hill to his death.  Angelique vows to destroy Jeb.
Carolyn and Jeb are married.

     With failing ratings a new twist to time travel is tried, this
time sideways in time.  Barnabas discovers a room in the closed off
east wing which looks into a parallel universe.  Julia informs
Barnabas of Stokes' theory of parallel time.  Carolyn learns about the
shadow which is stalking Jeb.  To protect Chris, Sabrina tries to kill
Bruno.  Bruno takes her hostage and sets a trap for Carolyn, trapping
her with the werewolf.  Angelique finally agrees to help Jeb, if he
kills Nicholas.  The shadow curse is transferred to Nicholas and he is
killed by it. Sky vows revenge and pushes Jeb off Widows Hill,
unfortunately he was human enough to die.  Barnabas observes the
parallel universe for a time and decides to enter, in the hopes that
he will be cured of vampirism.

     In the parallel universe things are different.  Julia is a
housekeeper in league with Angelique and Barnabas never became a
vampire.  When he enters he is still a vampire though and attacks
Willie Loomis' wife Carolyn.  Willie, who is an author (of the history
of Barnabas Collins no less), traps Barnabas and learns everything.
He chains Barnabas in a coffin.  The newlyweds Quentin and Maggie
return to Collinwood.  Quentin's first wife, Angelique, is dead and
his son is David.  David decides to drive Maggie away, he believes his
mother is going to return.  Angelique's twin sister Alexis arrives.
Scientist Cyrus Longworth is experimenting with the good and evil
sides of people.  Maggie leaves Collinwood out of jealousy of Alexis.
Bruno thinks Alexis is Angelique and tries to dig up her grave but is
stopped by Quentin. Cyrus tests his formula with Jeckyll/Hyde effects.
A seance is held to contact Angelique.  As a result Sabrina believes
Angelique was murdered.  Hannah Stokes informs Bruno that Angelique's
spirit is at Collinwood.  Quentin and Alexis come to the opinion that
Angelique isn't at rest.  Collinwood is haunted by the ghost of Damion
Edwards.  Under the influence of his potion, Cyrus becomes John Yaeger
and flirts heavily with Buffie Harrington, the Blue Whale barmaid.
Bruno tries to kill Alexis, believing she is Angelique.

     Angelique comes to life and kills Alexis, taking her place.
Damion's ghost warns Quentin he'll die by hanging.  Angelique tries to
get rid of Damion's ghost.  Gladstone finds out about Cyrus/Yaeger and
blackmails him.  Daniel becomes mesmerized by Barnabas' portrait.
Joshua Collins spirit warns there is an evil spirit at Collinwood.
Yaeger discovers a passageway to the Old House basement and finds
Barnabas' coffin.  Will stops him from opening it but is bitten by
Barnabas, who "arrives" posing as an English cousin.  Quentin is
suspicious of him.  Angelique reveals to Hoffman who she is and
performs voodoo on Quentin.  Angelique brings Maggie back to
Collinwood hoping to dissolve her marriage with Quentin.  Angelique
kills lawyer Larry Chase, using his body heat to survive.  Buffie is
bitten by Barnabas and become becomes his spy.  Maggie is driven to
suicide but Liz stops her from killing herself.  Barnabas confronts
Angelique.  She goes to her father Timothy Stokes for help.  Yaeger
kidnaps Maggie.

     Barnabas returns briefly to normal time.  He talks to Julia then
returns to parallel time to save Maggie.  Yaeger kills Sabrina and
tries to kill Maggie but Barnabas saves her, killing Yaeger/Cyrus in
the process.  Julia arrives just in time to stop Hoffman from staking
Barnabas.  She kills Hoffman and takes her place.  Julia discovers how
Angelique is staying alive.  Barnabas and Julia find Stokes secret
lab.  Quentin is framed for Angelique's and Bruno's deaths.  Angelique
panics when Barnabas takes a life force from the secret lab.
Angelique tries to get Barnabas' secret out of Will, but he jumps from
the tower room to his death.  Barnabas manages to partially revive the
life force (a.k.a. Roxanne Drew).

     After various events Angelique finds out who Julia is.  Roxanne
comes fully to life, killing Angelique as a result.  Barnabas bites
Roxanne and later rescues Julia.  However, Roxanne dies.  Barnabas is
distraught over Roxanne's death.  Collinwood is set on fire by Stokes.
Julia and Barnabas return to normal time, but the year 1995.  They
find Collinwood deserted.  Carolyn is insane and living in a beach
shack.  She is convinced that the family will return.  The sheriff
warns Barnabas and Julia to leave.   Barnabas and Julia see David's
ghost.  They are warned of danger by Quentin.  Gerard's ghost appears
to Quentin and Julia.  Quentin believes Prof. Stokes is responsible
for Collinwood's disaster.  Barnabas finds out Carolyn is dead and
discovers her description of the destruction of Collinwood.  The
sheriff is killed by Barnabas.

     Julia and Barnabas manage to return to the present by using a
stairway through time.  It is learned the Daphne (who appeared as a
ghost in the future) was the 1840 governess.  Her and Gerard's graves
are found.  Liz consults an astrologer after learning about the
future.  Stokes niece, Hallie, is found dressed in 19th century
clothing.  A west wing playroom is discovered by David and Hallie.
Daphne's ghost appears to Quentin and he discovers her diary.  Daphne
tries to kill Quentin but he convinces her not to.  The spirit of Tad
Collins speaks through David.  Barnabas meets Roxanne Drew, who is
identical to the parallel time Roxanne.  A dollhouse is found by David
and Hallie.  The dolls look like them in 19th century clothes.  They
destroy the dolls but discover them back in the dollhouse.  Their 1840
counterparts are seen in the playroom.  It is learned that the
stairway used by Julia and Barnabas was made by Quentin.  David and
Hallie's 1840 counterparts motion them toward the staircase but it
disappears.  Gerard's ghost menaces David.  Liz is warned by Sebastion
that the stranger in her future may not be alive.  Gerard possesses
Liz and appears to David and Hallie.

     Maggie collapses and Julia discovers bite marks on her neck.
Barnabas convinces her that he was not responsible.  Julia prepares to
give Maggie a blood transfusion.  After Carolyn sees Gerard she is
possessed by Letricia Faye.  Barnabas and Julia decide they must get
David and Hallie out of Collinwood.  However, Gerard leads David to
the real Rose Cottage (a.k.a. the dollhouse).  David and Hallie are
possessed by Tad and Carrie.  They conduct a ceremony to bring Daphne
and Gerard back to life.  The newly risen Daphne talks to Quentin.
She refuses to help Gerard come back so he sets fire to the Cottage
with her in it.  Carolyn (a.k.a. Letricia) stops him.  Julia finds
that Daphne is alive.  Barnabas confronts Gerard.  Willie discovers
Maggie next to an empty coffin.  The other vampire is Roxanne.
Barnabas stops Sebastion from killing her and chains her in the
coffin.  Maggie is taken to Windcliffe.  Sebastian announces Gerard
will take control of Collinwood.  Gerard kills the children.  Julia
travels back in time to 1840 by using the stairway.

     Julia hides from the current inhabitants.  She is saved from an
insane Daniel Collins by Ben.  Ben and Julia set Barnabas free, but
he doesn't recognize her.  Julia poses as Barnabas Collins sister from
England.  Barnabas and Roxanne decide to spend eternity together.
Julia tries to stop him and Barnabas attacks her.  The 1970 Barnabas
possesses his 1840 body and saves her.  Daniel gives Barnabas the Old
House.  Ben is shown the mystical head of Judah Zachery.  Judah's
powers kill Ben.  The head also affects Desmond.  Samantha is
surprised when her dead husband Quentin arrives.  He tells her that
Tad is also alive.  Daphne meets Quentin and decides that he is the
man she is going to kill.

     Lamar Trask uses Letricia's powers to discover  what happened to
his father, the Rev Trask.  Desmond discovers the vault containing the
body of Judah.  Lamar's father warns of evil.  Judah's escapes and
kills Tim Blaikwater.  Samantha tells Quentin that Tad is not his son
and that she will stay married to Gerard.  Julia tries to warn Daphne.
Angelique discovers that Barnabas is free.  Julia and Letricia try to
rejoin Judah's head.  Angelique warns Barnabas that she will turn
Roxanne into a vampire.  The jeweled mask of Judah is needed to
reunite the head and body.  The mask is found and the body revived but
in a coma.  A fire burns the body but the head lives.  Angelique
remembers Judah's original threats of revenge in 1692.  Gerard hides
Judah's head.  With Charles Dawson's help Judah possesses Gerard.
Barnabas meets Roxanne's brother.  Angelique hides Julia in a
abandoned lighthouse.  Quentin reveals to Gerard his time travel
theories.  Gerard (a.k.a. Judah) tries to bring Edith and Daphne into
the coven.  Daphne admits she is the sister of Joanne.  Barnabas
rescues Julie and Roxanne rises as a vampire.  Quentin is accused of
being a warlock.  Randall is killed after finding Judah's mask.
Quentin is arrested for the murder.  Gerard and Charles talk David
into changing his will.  Gerard convinces Angelique that Judah had
possessed Quentin.

     David suffers a stroke and dies.  His sole beneficiary is Gerard.
The constable's wife dies in Quentin's cell and he is now on trial for
witchcraft.  Samantha testifies that Quentin brought a spirit to
Collinwood.  Ben's diary is found and subsequently Trask's skeleton.
Lamar bricks up Barnabas in the basement.  Angelique realizes that
Gerard may be Judah.  Desmond is arrested and admits to having Judah's
head.  Prof. Stokes arrives from the future with information.
Barnabas shows up mysteriously as Quentin's lawyer.  Gerard has
Mordenia Grimes killed to prevent testimony for Quentin.  Daphne sees
paralleled time in the east wing.  Quentin is convicted but he and
Desmond escape.  Daniel's ghost killed Gabriel.  Quentin and Daphne
are trapped in the parallel time room but escape.  Joanna forces
Samantha off Widows' Hill.  Daphne is put under a spell and marries
Gerard.  Quentin is sent back to jail and Barnabas goes to Angelique
for help.  Gerard takes away Angelique's powers.  But she still stops
the execution by arriving with Judah's head, freeing Gerard.  Lamar
shoots Angelique and she dies in Barnabas' arms.  Julia and Barnabas
return to the present to find everything back to normal, history had
been changed.

     That ends the normal story line and characters for Dark Shadows.
The  last plot line took place in the parallel time of 1841.  Bramwell
Collins (played by Jonathan Frid) tries to convince Catherine to marry
him instead of Morgan Collins.  Before Justin Collins dies he gives
Morgan a letter describing the curse on the family.  Morgan is put in
charge of the lottery.  A drawing to determine which of the family is
to spend the night in the cursed room.  If they come out sane the
curse is broken.  Bramwell abducts Catherine.  It is discovered
Melanie Collins has a mental disorder.  She discovers Stella Young
being held captive in the tower room, but Stella is stabbed and dies.
With a memory loss Melanie is not for sure if maybe she killed Stella.
Morgan and Catherine prepare to marry.

     Bramwell loses his duel with Morgan, wounded in the process (he
didn't fire his gun).  Gerard Stiles and Kendrick Young find the
secret grave of Stella.  The family is warned during a seance that the
lottery must take place.  Melanie gets the plague.  Gabriel Collins is
chosen to stay in the room but escapes from Collinwood.  Quentin comes
down with the plague.  Morgan returns Gabriel and he spends the night
in the room.  The next morning Morgan discovers a villagers dead body
in the room in place of Gabriel.  Justin's spirit warns the curse
isn't over.  Having gone insane in the room Gabriel attacks Kendrick.
Bramwell tries to marry Catherine's sister Daphne but Catherine tries
to stop them, to no avail.  Catherine is pregnant with Bramwell's
child.  Catherine gets the next turn in the room but Morgan takes her
place.  He comes out insane, possessed by James Forsythe, the man who
placed the curse on the family.  The ghost of Brutus Collins haunts
Morgan. Kendrick discovers Melanie has a split personality.  Catherine
admits she loves Bramwell and Daphne becomes suicidal.  Julia is saved
from Morgan by Quentin.  Forsythe's spirit reveals why he cursed the
family.

     Daphne gets an undiagnosable illness.  Brutis ghost traps Morgan
and Julia in a secret corridor with two bodies.  Morgan kills Gabriel.
Josette Collins, Bramwell's mother, reveals to Melanie that she and
Barnabas are her parents.  Daphne dies.  Melanie marries Kendrick but
goes insane.  The lottery is held again and Kendrick draws the slip.
Morgan learns Catherine is pregnant.  He traps Bramwell in the room
and adds Catherine when he finds out the child is Bramwell's.  She is
temporarily possessed by Amanda Forsythe.  Bramwell and Catherine
banish the Brutus' ghost and break the curse.  Morgan wounds Bramwell
and tries to kill Catherine but Kendrick stops him.  Melanie recovers.
Two bite marks are found on Melanie's neck.  Ben comments there may
be a vampire around.  However, the final voice over reveals that it
was merely a wild animal loss on the estate.  So ends the original
Dark Shadows series.