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Dark Shadows : Season 5
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Air date: 20 Nov '67 - 93 episodesDark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was unprecedented in daytime television when ghosts were introduced about six months after it began. The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins appeared a year into its run. Dark Shadows also featured werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles; indeed, as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor. Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles. Dark Shadows was distinguished by its vividly melodramatic performances, atmospheric interiors, memorable storylines, numerous dramatic plot twists, unusually...
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List of Episodes (93)
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Dark Shadows (1966)
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26. DS-393
27 Dec '67Grieving widow Josette is terrified when she sees Jeremiah's hand reach out to her from his grave. Angelique happily tells Josette that she is going to marry Barnabas and Josette receives the news with mixed emotions. In the meantime, everyone starts moving into the new house, Collinwood.
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Dark Shadows (1966)
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27. DS-394
28 Dec '67When Abigail Collins begins to suspect Angelique of being a witch, Angelique quickly diverts her rising suspicions back onto Miss Winters. Frightened by the close call and obvious hostility, Angelique convinces Barnabas that they should marry as soon as possible.
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28. DS-395
29 Dec '67Barnabas approaches his father and insists upon marrying Angelique immediately, infuriating Joshua who then disinherits his only son. As Barnabas makes plans to leave Collinsport with Angelique and find a new way to earn a living, his mother, Naomi, pleads with him to stay, offering the deed to The Old House as an early wedding present. Meanwhile, Angelique loses control over Jeremiah's ghost and he attacks her.
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29. DS-396
01 Jan '68The ghost of Jeremiah continues to torment Angelique. As Reverend Trask and Abigail Collins continue to hunt for Miss Winters, Barnabas and Ben Stokes hide her at the Old House. Just before her wedding to Barnabas, Angelique is abducted by Jeremiah's ghost and is then buried alive in his own grave.
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Dark Shadows (1966)
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30. DS-397
02 Jan '68Angelique summons Ben to save her from the grave of Jeremiah. Ben saves her, and they run as Jeremiah's figure walks after them. Naomi has come over by this time, and Angelique tells Naomi what had happened. Naomi gets another dress for Angelique because her dress is now dirt stained. Barnabas and Angelique are then married by the Reverand Bland, and Jeremiah's laughter is heard. The campagne for Ben, Angelique, Naomi, and Barnabas turns to blood.THe ghost of Jeremiah confronts Angelique and tel
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31. DS-398
03 Jan '68Angelique discovers that Barnabas has hidden Victoria Winters in a room in the Old House when she sees Victoria. She talks to Barnabas about Victoria, and Barnabas gets the impression that Angelique may be jealous of Victoria. Angelique has Ben steal a hair ribbon from Abigail to use in a spell that will let Abigail see where Victoria is in a dream. Ben gets caught stealing the ribbon and claims that the witch made him do it and starts to choke.
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Dark Shadows (1966)
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32. DS-399
04 Jan '68Abigail believes that Ben was forced by the witch to steal her hair ribbon. Meanwhile, Angelique is trying to cast more suspicion on Victoria by summoning Sarah to the Old House using the voice of Victoria Winters. Abigail & Joshua find out where she is going and decide to follow her. When they get there, they search the house for Victoria. Sarah finds Victoria and hides her in a secret room. Abigail plans to have Trask perform an exoricisim at the Old House.
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33. DS-400
05 Jan '68Reverand Trask performs the rite of exorcisim at the threshold of the Old House. According to Trask, the witch should run out of the house during the exorcism. Angelique casts a spell that creates the illusion of a fire in Victoria's room. While she is casting the spell, Barnabas overhears her. The spell makes Victoria run out of the house screaming 'FIRE' and into the arms of Trask. Trask kidnaps her without telling Barnabas or Angelique. Barnabas now suspects that someone in the house is a wit
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34. DS-401
08 Jan '68Barnabas bribes one of the servents and enters the New House at Collinwood to interogate Ben. Ben says he doesn't know who the witch is. Ben gets frustrated and hits Barnabas over the head with a bottle. Ben escapes Collinwood. Barnabas is found by a servent and Joshua tells him to leave. Barnabas finds out that Victoria has been jailed after Reverand Trask turned her in. He now believes that Angelique is most likely the witch. Barnabas finds where Ben is hiding and finds out that Ben can not te
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35. DS-402
09 Jan '68Barnabas now knows for sure that Angelique is the witch that has been causing all the terrible things to happen. Barnabas tells Ben how he figured it out when he heard Angelique say the incanation and how Victoria told him that she felt a 'cold fire'...the same cold fire that Angelique had talked about in her incanation. Barnabas now plans on killing Angelique. Barnabas tries to kill Angelique at first by putting poision in her sherry. Naomi enters, and Angelique gives her the sherry. Barnabas q
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36. DS-403
10 Jan '68Angelique is prepared for Barnabas' murder attempt, and puts a pillow in her place. He confronts her and tells her he knows she is a witch. He tries to stab her again, and Angelique says she did everything for his love. She threatens to kill Josette, the woman who Barnabas still loves, if he does not play the part of a loving husband, which would include telling the authorities that Angelique is really the witch. Barnabas goes to Collinwood where he sees Milicent and Nathan kissing. Milicent get
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37. DS-404
11 Jan '68Barnabas gets Millicent to set up a way for him to meet with Josette, by getting Millicent to take a walk with Josette in which Barnabas will stop the two. Victoria is unable to get a respected judge to defend her at the witch trial, because she can not supply enough information. A young law student who works at the jail offers to defend her at the trial. His name is Peter Bradford. Barnabas convinces Josette that she must leave Collinwood and the surrounding Collinsport for her own safety.
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38. DS-405
12 Jan '68Josette starts getting ready to leave for Boston and Natalie sees her. She finds out that Barnabas told her to leave and tells Josette she is leaving too. Natalie tells Abagail to say goodbye to the family, and Abigail is dismayed because Natalie and Josette are two key people in the case against Victoria Winters and will not be able to go against her. Barnanbas says goodbye to Josette with a kiss and gives her the music box, incinuating that Angelique will soon die. Angelique finds out from Abi
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39. DS-406
15 Jan '68After being bitten, Barnabas becomes deathly ill and faints. Ben enters the household and finds Angelique dead and Barnabas hanging on to life. He takes Barnabas upstairs. Barnabas, going and returning from delirium many a time, tells Ben what happened. Ben reasures Barnabas that Angelique is dead. Suddenly, Angelique enters the room, her dress stained with blood. She is afraid of the curse she put upon him, because if he dies, he will become one of the living dead. In an inn, Josette feels that
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40. DS-407
16 Jan '68Angelique tries to clean her blood off the carpet, but is not able to remove it. Naomi comes to the Old House to see Barnabas. Angelique tells her that he left last night on business. We see Barnabas upstairs, appearing very ill and delirious. Naomi enquires about the blood stain, and is told that it was from wine. Naomi tells Angelique that she should stay with her at Collinwood, but Angelique refuses Naomi's hospitality. Naomi hears Barnabas moan, but is told by Angelique that it is just the s
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41. DS-408
17 Jan '68Angelique tells Josette and Natalie that Barnabas has the plague. They ask if he has seen a doctor, and she quickly responds that he hasn't. When asked why, Angelique says that she is afraid that they will take Barnabas away from her and isolate her from everyone. Natalie has a doctor come. He is not sure about it, but agrees that it is most likely the plague due to the marks on Barnabas' neck, which the doctor thinks was caused by an infected rat. At first the doctor wants to have him removed,
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42. DS-409
18 Jan '68Josette is upset about what the book says about how she dies. Natalie tells her it is all lies. Josette wants to see the fate of Barnabas. According to the book, it was Jeremiah who met Josette in Martinique, which is false and never mentions her engagement to Barnabas. It says that her marriage with Jeremiah was an unhappy one, and also mentions Barnabas was in love with Josette, which is of course true. It says that Barnabas left for England. Josette becomes upset because she does not know if
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43. DS-410
19 Jan '68Angelique is furious when Joshua tells her about the lie he will tell concerning the death of his son. What upsets her even more is that his body will be buried in secret. She wants the coffin with Barnabs to remain in the room until morning- time enough to stake him. But Joshua tells her that she has no power anymore. Angelique then summons Ben to come to her. Josette finds Natalie looking through the Collins Family History book. Natalie plans to take Josette with her as soon as possible back t
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44. DS-411
22 Jan '68In an attempt to stop the vampire curse from becoming complete, Angelique attempts to drive a stake through Barnabas Collins' heart at sundown. However, Barnabas stops her and exerts his own revenge upon her by strangling her to death.
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45. DS-412
23 Jan '68Grief-stricken over Barnabas'death and with mis-placed anger, Josette tells Victoria Winters that she will do everything she can to see to it that Miss Winters is hanged for being a witch. Fearing that the Collins Family History book may be used as evidence against her in the trial, she persuades Peter Bradford to let her leave her jail cell so that she can retrieve it from Josette's bedroom.
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46. DS-413
24 Jan '68Victoria warns Naomi Collins that she must keep her daughter, Sarah, from leaving the house until the day after her birthday, otherwise, she is fated to die from exposure on the same day as her birthday. Barnabas makes plans to keep his promise and let Josette know that he has returned from the dead. On his way back to the family mausoleum, Sarah sees Barnabas and eagerly runs after him, only to find that he has disappeared inside the crypt. Saddened to have missed him, Sarah turns to leave t
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47. DS-414
25 Jan '68Sarah Collins is forced to spend the night locked in the family mausoleum, exposing herself to the cold night air. In the meantime, gold-digging Lt. Nathanial Forbes proposes to his naive victim, Millicent Collins. Naomi Collins returns home to discover that Sarah is missing. After drinking the blood of his latest victim, Barnabas returns to the family mausoleum. Sarah calls out to him, but his bloody mouth frightens her and causes her to turn and run away from him.
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48. DS-415
26 Jan '68Little Sarah Collins becomes deathly ill after being out all night during a heavy rain storm. Guilt-ridden, Barnabas secretly visits his beloved little sister and apologizes for having frightened her. Sarah reconciles with him, but then she dies in his arms. Despite the well-meaning attempts to change her destiny, the fate of Sarah Collins has been fulfilled just as it was written in the Collins Family History book.
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Dark Shadows (1966)
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49. DS-416
29 Jan '68A grieving Joshua vows that Victoria will pauy for her part in Sarah's death. As his guilt over his condition grows, Barnabas begs Ben to kill him at dawn with a wooden stake, so that the trail of death will end.
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50. DS-417
30 Jan '68Natalie makes plans to leave Collinsport, fearing for Josette's safety. As Ben prepares to drive a stake through Barnabas' heart, Angélique's spirit arrives to stop him, so that her curse will remain for eternity.
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