Julia walks in on Quentin and Gerard disappears; Quentin avoids questions about his recent strange behavior. Sebastian warns Elizabeth never to go into Daphne’s room. Sebastian tells Roxanne that he wants nothing more to do with the Collins’. Elizabeth decides to the room anyway. Later Elizabeth runs down the stairs warning that they must get the children out of the house, she goes into the drawing room and finds Gerard.

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Jonathan Frid

Grayson Hall

Nancy Barrett

David Selby

Joan Bennett

Lara Parker

David Henesy

Kathryn Leigh Scott

Thayer David

Roger Davis

Louis Edmonds

Jerry Lacy

John Karlen

Clarice Blackburn

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Barnabas and Julia find that the time they have returned to Collinwood is in ruins. Barnabas and Julia find that they have returned to their own timeline but to 1995. Julia and Barnabas find Mrs. Johnson, now an old woman, and find that David died in 1970. Mrs. Johnson tells them to go to a shack and find many things that once were in Collinwood.

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Julia and Barnabas find Carolyn, half insane and refusing to answer any of their questions. Julia goes to the records office who suspiciously claims that all records about the Collins family have been destroyed. Julia meets Stokes and he warns Julia to leave. Barnabas and Julia talk to a Victor Flagler, who’s wife was mysteriously killed at Collinwood. Julia and Barnabas return to the Collins mausoleum to find that someone is there.

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Barnabas and Julia find Carolyn in the mausoleum, she warns them to leave (again). Carolyn speaks to the Sheriff; later the Sheriff warns Julia and Barnabas to leave town. Julia is almost killed by a falling statue, and strange ghostly man can be seen staring out the window of Collinwood.

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Barnabas and Julia again question Carolyn and are unable to find anything out. They later find out from Mrs. Johnson that something happened at the playroom in Collinwood; Mrs. Johnson is stopped from continuing by the ghost of Gerard Stiles. Later Julia and Barnabas find Mrs. Johnson dead. Barnabas and Julia follow Carolyn to the playroom in Collinwood where they hear music.

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Again Carolyn provides Julia and Barnabas with no information and kick them out of Collinwood. Julia and Barnabas find out from Stokes that Quentin recently escaped from a mental institution. Stokes tells them that he was out of the country in 1970 when everything happened, and agrees to help them find out. Barnabas and Julia find Quentin, he claims he could have stopped what happened in 1970. Quentin, Barnabas and Julia go to the playroom and they see David Collins.

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The ghost of David disappears. The ghost of Gerard torments Quentin. Julia and Barnabas see the ghost of David and a strange girl. Quentin later tells them that the ghost was Tad. Barnabas and Julia overhear Quentin trying to talk to a ghost named Daphne. Julia follows a ghost of a young girl to the playroom at Collinwood.

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Julia finds the ghost of Gerard at the playroom, she comes under his power. Quentin claims that Stokes’ attempted exorcism in 1970, caused Gerard’s anger and the destruction of Collinwood. The ghost of Daphne appears to Barnabas with a note stating “she will die.”

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Barnabas continues to search for clues and Julia helps Gerard keep him from learning anything. Carolyn agrees to tell everything that happened, however, she is found dead at Collinwood.

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After going to get Julia, Carolyn’s body disappears. Barnabas finds a note Carolyn was writing before she died, that contains some incoherent clues to what happened. Later they find Carolyn’s body in the playroom. Under Gerard's control, Julia agrees to help the sheriff. The sheriff opens Barnabas’ coffin.

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Carrie Stokes’ ghost distracts the sheriff, Barnabas is able to overpower and kill him. Barnabas realizes that Julia is under Gerard’s power. Barnabas, Julia and Stokes hold a seance to contact Carolyn; the seance is interrupted and stokes dies. Gerard tries to force Julia to kill herself. The ghost of Carrie leads Julia and Barnabas to a staircase which leads them out of the playroom. They find a girl who does not know who they are.

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Barnabas and Julia find that there is now a girl name Hallie Stokes (niece of Professor Stokes) living at Collinwood. Elizabeth and Quentin are surprised to find Julia and Barnabas have returned. Barnabas finds that Daphne and Gerard lived in 1840. Barnabas finds that the playroom does not exist and is currently a closet.

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Barnabas questions various family members about a place called “Rose Cottage,” which was something that Carolyn warned him about in 1995. Carolyn and Hallie both feel that some sort of presence is threatening them. David has a dream in which Hallie is wearing a strange old-fashion dress; later Hallie finds that dress laying on her bed.

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Hallie is disturbed by the presence of the dress in her room, especially after David tell her about his dream. Elizabeth goes to see psychic/astrologer, Sebastian Shaw, after becoming concerned that some great tragedy is coming to the Collins family. David finds a note telling him to go to the gazebo; David finds Hallie wearing the dress.

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Hallie does not know how she ended up wearing the dress. Carolyn is still upset about the death of her husband Jeb Hawkes. Daphne appears to Hallie in a dream, and later appears to David. Carolyn is shocked when she meets Sebastian Shaw, who looks like Jeb Hawkes. Sebastian gives Elizabeth her horoscope for the rest of 1970. David and Hallie hear music coming from the closet (that is occasionally a playroom), they also see the Daphne.

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Barnabas and Julia find that there is going to be an eclipse, which is another clue that Carolyn told them of the impending doom in 1995. Barnabas finds out that Elizabeth has had her horoscope charted, yet another clue that Carolyn warn about. As the peak of the eclipse David and Hallie hear music and are able to enter the playroom.

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In the playroom Hallie appears to be temporarily possessed. Hallie becomes concerned and plans to dispose of the dress. Julia tries to find out more about Gerard Stiles. Hallie is compelled to go to the playroom where Daphne is waiting with the dress. Quentin has a dream about Daphne, when he awakes there are powers in the room, and he calls out for her.

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Daphne appears to Quentin, then later to David and gives him a model boat. Daphne leads Quentin to a room which has a unfinished letter that is incoherent. Carolyn is still upset about her husband’s death. Carolyn, Maggie, Quentin and David go on a picnic and David takes photos. When David develops the photos he feels there is a strange figure in one of the pictures; Gerard Stiles watches Carolyn and David looking at the photograph.

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Julia feels that Gerard is in the house. Julia and Barnabas ask Quentin about the ghosts at Collinwood, however he is unable to help them at the sight of Daphne. David finds old-fashioned clothing on his bed; Daphne appears to David again. Daphne leads Quentin to her grave and is about to stab him in the back.

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Quentin’s concern for her appears to cause Daphne to change her mind about killing him. Daphne appears to David and Hallie. Quentin performs an exorcism but he is interrupted by Daphne’s spirit. Hallie falls and hurts her arm while Quentin performed the exorcism. David and Hallie hold a seance in the playroom and hear a voice stating “let us live.”

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David passes out after the seance. David and Hallie decide to tell Elizabeth everything that has happened to them, however they are too frightened when the boat that Daphne gave David shows up in the drawing room. Carolyn has Sebastian Shaw prepare a horoscope for her, and asks him many personal questions. Hallie sees the ghost of Tad Collins in the playroom thinking it is David, she later sees David when she leaves.

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Sebastian decides not to complete Carolyn’s horoscope, as the only reason she asked him to do it, was because he looked like Jeb Hawkes. Barnabas realizes that an “unfinished horoscope” is another clue from 1995. David and Hallie agree not to go back into the playroom, however David later returns to the playroom and becomes possessed by Tad. “Tad” tells Hallie that they have to find “Rose Cottage”. After leaving the playroom David returns to normal. Barnabas goes to Sebastian and begs him to finish Carolyn’s horoscope, however he refuses. While at Sebastian’s house, Barnabas sees Roxanne.

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Roxanne does not know Barnabas, he asks to see her again. Hallie and David continue to occasionally become possessed by Carrie and Tad; they are concerned they could become permanently possessed. Roxanne tells Barnabas that she cannot see him. David and Hallie have the same dream in which they are having a part in “Rose Cottage;” later they find they were inside a dollhouse that is in the playroom.

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Stokes visits Sebastian, he looks into the future and is disturbed but does not tell Stokes what disturbed him. Sebastian reveals to Roxanne that in his vision the children (David and Hallie) were dead. David and Hallie burn the dolls from the dollhouse. Roxanne stops Sebastian from telling anyone about the dangers he has seen for the Collins family. Later David and Hallie find the dolls have returned.

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Davie and Hallie decide to write down everything that has happened to them in a notebook. Julia tells Sebastian everything about her trip to 1995 and the predicted destruction of Collinwood. Julia suspects Sebastian is not telling everything he has learned from the visions he has been having. David and Hallie find the notebook missing, later they see the ghosts of Tad and Carrie reading their notebook.

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Tad and Carrie possess David and Hallie. Julia finds plans by a Quentin Collins in 1840 for a stairway into time. Daphne forces “Tad” and “Carrie” to burn the notebook. Julia searches for the playroom however only finds a closet. Daphne appears to Quentin and gives him a book written by his namesake from 1840. David and Hallie are beckoned by Tad and Carrie to follow them up a staircase.

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Hallie and David don’t go up the stairs, later they get locked in David’s room; David climbs out the window. Elizabeth finds Hallie locked in David’s room and she blames David. David and Hallie find a pirate flag on the model boat. David and Hallie have a dream in they see Flora and Quentin of 1840, the also see Carrie and Tad dead. When the children awake they find Gerard watching them.

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David is upset and Julia questions him, however he is evasive. Quentin meets with Daphne and Gerard watches. Julia is again unsuccessful getting Sebastian to help her. Daphne summons Quentin. When he goes to her, Gerard plans to strangle him.

Gerard takes Elizabeth under his power. David and Hallie go to Gerard’s grave Julia learns that it was prophesied that a ship’s crew would return to kill again. After reading a note from Gerard, David goes to the tower room and waives a green flag three times; graves of dead start to open.

Julia catches David in the tower with the green flag; he refuses to tell her anything. Julia stops Barnabas from biting Maggie. Sebastian decides to tell Elizabeth all he knows about the impending tragedy. Sebastian asks Maggie out on a date, Roxanne is upset when she finds this out. Julia finds bite marks on Maggie’s neck.

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Julia confronts Barnabas after seeing the bite marks on Maggie; Barnabas swears that he didn’t bite Maggie. David and Hallie are afraid that something they did caused Maggie’s injury. After seeing Maggie’s re-action to Barnabas, Julia realizes that he is not responsible. Julia watches over Maggie and follows her when she is summoned.

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Julia follows Maggie but loses her in the woods. Later Barnabas finds Maggie lying in the woods after having been attacked again. Barnabas and Julia speculate how to deal with the “other” vampire in Collinsport. David and Hallie see themselves inside the dollhouse in the playroom.

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Hallie is compelled to make a doll of Leticia who is going to live her and David in Rose Cottage. Carolyn tells Sebastian that an animal has attacked Maggie. David and Hallie put the doll in the dollhouse. Carolyn is surprised to find the playroom where the closet should exist.

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Carolyn comes under the power of Gerard . Elizabeth talks with Julia about one of the clues which predicts that Carolyn will sign a song; Elizabeth says that Carolyn cannot sing. Carolyn starts to believe she has second sight, and tells Sebastian that she knows he has been lying in Elizabeth’s horoscopes. Carolyn insists on giving a concert; she sings a song.

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Julia tells Barnabas that Carolyn sang a song. Barnabas questions Carolyn about the song and she is unable to tell him anything. David and Hallie put a doll of Barnabas in the dollhouse, hoping that it will allow him to help them. Later they find the Barnabas doll destroyed. Julia and Barnabas decide that they must take the children out of the house. David is summoned from the house.

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Despite the precautions of Julia and Barnabas, the ghost of Gerard Stiles prevails. Gerard lures the children, David and Hallie, into the real Rose Cottage. Meanwhile, another spirit, that of Daphne Harridge, makes an appearance.

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Carrie and Tad now possess David and Hallie; they plans to take their places. Barnabas, Julia and Quentin search for the children. Carolyn insists she is Leticia Faye. Barnabas finds the children back in their rooms. Barnabas overhears Carolyn calling the children Tad and Carrie and they call her Leticia.

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Julia and Barnabas decide what to do now that the children are possessed. Barnabas and Julia suspect that Quentin has helped the spirits posse the children; Quentin later admits it. The children decide to bring Daphne and Gerard alive with a ceremony; later they hear a knock at the door.

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The children open the door and find Daphne, alive. The children try to keep Daphne hidden. Carolyn senses there is a stranger in the house. Quentin finds that Daphne is alive. Daphne, David and Hallie perform a ceremony to bring Gerard to life.

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The ceremony is interrupted by Willie and fails. Maggie continues to be summoned by a vampire. Quentin and Julia plan to send the children to Windcliff. Daphne decides to send the children away to protect them from Gerard. Gerard sets the dollhouse on fire, Daphne is surrounded by flames in the real Rose Cottage.

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Carolyn distracts Gerard, the flames die out allowing Daphne to leave. Maggie is summoned by the vampire again. Barnabas follows Carolyn and finds the location of Rose Cottage. Julia watches Maggie; the vampire causes Julia to fall asleep.

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Quentin walks in on the vampire and it disappears before getting to Maggie. The children become sick. Quentin distracts Julia while Daphne and David attempt to perform the ceremony again to bring Gerard back to life. Julia walks in on the ceremony.

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Julia finds that Daphne is alive; Daphne refuses to tell her anything. The children plan to run away from Windcliff. Julia and Quentin find that Stokes went to Europe inexplicably, just as it was predicted in 1995. The children find a coffin and see a figure rising from it and leave, later they find a man attacked; the children remember a similar thing happened in 1840. Julia hypnotizes Daphne to make her cooperate; Julia finds that Rose Cottage will be destroyed this night.

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Roxanne tells Barnabas that she believes there is a bond between them. Gerard appears to Barnabas at Rose Cottage. Gerard puts Mrs. Johnson under his power; she later tricks Julia to go to Barnabas and both are trapped at Rose Cottage in flames. Roxanne help Barnabas and Julia escape. Maggie escapes and goes to the vampire.

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Carolyn tells Willie a riddle that can lead him to Maggie Evans. Willie goes to the graveyard and is able to find the vampire’s coffin and Maggie. Julia gives Maggie a transfusion. Julia and Willie go to destroy the vampire, they open the coffin.

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Julia and Willie find that Roxanne is the vampire, they decide to chain the coffin instead of destroy her. Sebastian goes to Roxanne’s coffin, but finds it missing; Willie and Julia has moved it to the Old House. Julia tells Barnabas that Roxanne is the vampire. Barnabas releases Roxanne, she attempts to attack him, Willie chains the coffin again. Later Sebastian opens the coffin and prepares to shoot Roxanne.

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Gerard stops Sebastian before destroying Roxanne. Barnabas finds that there was a Roxanne Drew who lived in 1840. Gerard poisons Daphne and Quentin. Gerard makes Quentin dig up Quentin Collins’(1840) grave. Daphne is dying and Carolyn make her prepare to rejoin Gerard. Gerard buries Quentin alive.

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Barnabas and Julia find that the Quentin Collins of 1840 died on this day. Sebastian has a vision in which he predicts the destruction of Collinwood this night. Sebastian drives Maggie to Windcliff to get her away from Roxanne and the impending tragedy. Barnabas and Julia hear a heart beat coming from Quentin’s portrait, and realize that Quentin must be buried alive.

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Julia and Barnabas find out where Quentin is buried from the children; they dig him up. Quentin tries to save children with a ceremony, however Gerard stops him and waves a green flag. The zombies come to back to life to destroy Collinwood. Gerard kills Daphne and the children. Julia and Barnabas run from the zombies. Julia is able to escape through the stairway in time, however, Barnabas is captured by the zombies.

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Dark 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.

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