Dark Shadows
"Necking in the afternoon."
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.
Season 8 Episodes
Barnabas follows Kitty/Josette and finds himself once again in 1796, a vampire, shortly before Josette’s suicide. Barnab…
Natalie stops Josette from jumping. Barnabas and Josette plan to go back to 1897 together. Barnabas is abducted by two s…
Oberon and Haza perform a ceremony over Barnabas, they give him the Leviathan Box which he is to give to the chosen ones…
Julia stops the strange man, however he runs away. Julia purchases a painting by Charles Tate from antique dealers Phili…
Barnabas returns to 1969 with the Leviathan box. Julia shows Stokes the Charles Tate painting. Sabrina Stuart warns Caro…
Julia is unable to open the box; Barnabas gets angry with Julia’s questions. Julia finds that someone is willing to purc…
Philip and Megan show up at the Old House; Barnabas knows they are the chosen ones. The strange man calls Collinwood ask…
Megan and Philip find a book inside the box. Barnabas tells Megan that a room must be prepared. Philip and Megan put a c…
Paul Stoddard talks with Carolyn, “explaining” why he was away for twenty years. The Todds care for a mysterious new inf…
The “baby” becomes ill. Carolyn and Barnabas question David about the missing book. Barnabas takes Philip to the Leviath…
the baby has an unusual birthmark. David starts to become obsessed with the Leviathan book. Olivia Corey shows up at Col…
Chris tries to convince Carolyn that she would be better off without him. Barnabas releases Philip after “making him und…
Philip tries to strangle Megan, David stops him. David, now under the influence of the Leviathans, gives Philip and Mega…
Elizabeth follows Carolyn and finds her with Paul. Elizabeth demands that Paul leave town. A sailor recognizes the Levia…
Carolyn finds Paul acting paranoid and asks Julia to check on him. Barnabas reminds Paul of an agreement he made twenty …
Paul tries to get Carolyn to leave Collinsport with him. Roger tries to get Carolyn to stay away from her father. Roger …
Megan convinces Carolyn the strange noise was just a radiator. A unknown man watches Carolyn at the antique shop; later …
Olivia has the painting that Julia purchased photographed. Elizabeth questions David about his visit to the antique shop…
Elizabeth again grills David about his recent strange behavior. Carolyn meets a strange man and becomes very interested …
The stranger’s name is Grant Douglas, however Julia is convinced he is Quentin. Barnabas tells Megan in dream that thing…
Carolyn !nds that the Todds are now caring for a boy named Alexander who is apparently their nephew. Alexander is very i…
Barnabas resists the urge to kill Grant (Quentin). Paul moves into Collinwood and finds that Elizabeth does not believe …
Alexander visits Collinwood to play with David; Paul becomes convinced that Alexander is part of the plot against him. M…
Paul sees Carolyn as a little girl, she runs away from him. Julia tries to hypnotize Grant to help him remember his past…
Olivia is upset to find that Grant (Quentin) does not recognize who her. Julia has an expert remove the top layer of pai…
Grant is unable to remember anything. David sees Grant and is confused because he looks like Quentin. Julia notices a bi…
Alexander lets Amy into his room, Amy is terrified and unable to speak. Stokes tells Julia that he believes Harrison Mon…
Julia asks Tate to help Chris by painting a portrait of him; he refuses. David and Elizabeth go to the antique shop to f…
Michael tells Barnabas that he must kill Julia; Barnabas refuses. Barnabas is warned that the Leviathans will turn him b…
Julia tells Elizabeth that she suspects that the baby, Alexander and Michael are one in the same. Julia is afraid Grant …
Paul becomes extremely paranoid and wants to leave Collinwood. Elizabeth and Mrs. Johnson attempt to drug Paul, however …
Elizabeth plans to kill Julia, but she is unable to bring herself to do it. Julia finds that Grant (Quentin) is not a we…
Chris finds that Tate is really a very old man. Carolyn becomes uncomfortable with the way Michael pays attention to her…
The werewolf attacks Tate; Quentin fights off the werewolf, however Tate dies. Olivia admits to Julia that she really is…
Mr. Best gives Amanda/Olivia seven days to live unless she can win Quentin’s love. Sabrina tries to warn Carolyn about C…
Angelique tells Julia that she has given up her powers and loves Sky. Julia asks Angelique to barrow the Tate painting s…
Maggie is lead into the secret passages of Collinwood. Philip is unhappy with being a servant for the Leviathans and is …
Barnabas stops Megan from killing Philip. Barnabas and Philip plan to keep Michael locked up until he is ready to “emerg…
Philip finds Maggie; Maggie thinks Philip is the person who was tormenting her and she knocks him out. Megan tells Micha…
Julia is unable to revive Michael and pronounces him dead. Julia checks up on Michael’s history and finds a woman who kn…
Megan and Philip force Michael to stay in his room. Barnabas gives Paul money and encourages him to leave town. Paul sne…
Barnabas resists the urge to tell Julia everything. Barnabas rescues Paul and puts him in the basement of the antique sh…
Barnabas again rescues Paul; Paul runs off. Julia !nds Paul unable to speak and takes him to Stokes. Olivia desperately …
After seeing the painting Grant realizes that he is Quentin and remembers Amanda. Mr. Best catches up with Amanda and te…
Philip finds that the Leviathan has escaped from the room. Paul is attacked by the Leviathan creature again and dies. Am…
Quentin touches Amanda while trying to help her after she slips; Amanda is killed by falling rocks. The sheriff investig…
The sheriff opens the room and finds a man named Jeb Hawkes, he claims the Todds are renting the room to him. The sherif…
Jeb tells Barnabas that he does not trust him. The family attends Paul’s funeral. Jeb sets his sites on Carolyn; Barnaba…
David gets a broken leg due to Jeb. Julia notices the birthmark on Jeb which was the same as the children who previously…
Barnabas explains everything to Julia; how the Leviathans are holding Josette hostage, and have threatened to make Barna…
Jeb tells Carolyn that they are going to be married; she does not take him seriously. Jeb tells the sheriff that he has …
The poison has no effect on Jeb. Barnabas asks Angelique to help hide Carolyn for a while. Barnabas, Quentin, and Julia …
Quentin beats up Jeb and takes Carolyn back to Collinwood. Barnabas tells Elizabeth that she and Carolyn should go away …
A man named Bruno appears at the antique shop and pledges his loyal obedience to Jeb. Bruno questions Maggie about Barna…
After making Maggie look in the box, Jeb releases her. Sabrina brings Chris a flower which might cure him if he eats it …
Once Chris is the werewolf he cannot make himself eat the flower. Jeb fears the howling of the werewolf; Bruno goes to h…
Jeb calls Elizabeth away from the Rumson estate. Carolyn is left alone and is terrorized by several unseen forces. Carol…
Carolyn is terrified after seeing Jeb in his true form. Jeb decides he wants Carolyn to come to him willingly, he does n…
The werewolf knocks Jeb unconscious but changes back to Chris before killing him. Barnabas takes credit for saving Jeb, …
Barnabas, Maggie and Julia hold a seance and find that Josette is not being held hostage by the Leviathans. Barnabas ask…
Jeb threatens to kill Philip, however he warns him not to cross him again otherwise he will kill Megan. Philip tricks La…
Barnabas warns Jeb that he will always !ght the Leviathans. Carolyn again has a disturbing dream in which Jeb tells her …
Barnabas, now a vampire again, kills Nelle Gunston a devoted Leviathan who has come to town in search of Jeb. Julia and …
Jeb has survived the fire. Julia starts new treatments to cure Barnabas. Barnabas and Julia make plans to bring Willie b…
Nicholas Blair arrives to make sure that his plan for the Leviathans will not fail. Nicholas consecrates a new room in w…
Barnabas bites Megan and she tells him that Sky Rumson is one of the Leviathans. Barnabas tells Angelique that Sky is a …
Angelique uses her powers to choke Sky and escapes. Barnabas tries to bite Maggie, Quentin interrupts him. Sky begs Ange…
Amy overhears Quentin and Maggie talking how they must fight the Leviathans. Amy tells Elizabeth about Maggie’s betrayal…
Jeb is frightened off by something, then the door mysteriously unlocks allowing Maggie and Willie to escape. Willie tell…
Amy suspects that Quentin is the same Quentin that terrorized her the year before. As David reads the Leviathan book it …
Bruno arrives, and the figure haunting David disappears. Later an unseen force chokes Bruno with a noose. Sabrina and Ch…
Bruno locks up Chris and tells Sheriff Davenport to kill him when he changes to the werewolf. Jeb warns Roger that every…
Bruno stops Davenport from killing the werewolf, then locks him in with it. Bruno discovers bite marks on Megan’s neck. …
Jeb is able to subdue the werewolf with some silver. Bruno talks his way out of Jeb killing him, by casting suspicion on…
Julia continues the treatments for Barnabas, however he feels they are not working. Barnabas bites Megan again and she d…
Sky forces Julia into the room where Jeb is in his true form. Jeb asks Julia to cure him, so he will not have to change …
Nicholas catches Julia working on a cure for Jeb; Nicholas destroys her equipment. Nicholas tells Jeb that the “ceremony…
Jeb recovers, but Nicholas tells him that he will only survive for a short amount of time. Barnabas finds that everyone …
Peter Bradford’s ghost threatens to kill Jeb because in 1797 he caused the death of Victoria Winters. Megan bites Philip…
After a struggle, Philip leaps to his own death. Angelique sends Peter back to his grave and plans to destroy Jeb hersel…
Jeb and Carolyn are married and make plans to leave Collinsport. Sky asks Barnabas for help as he is now under Megan’s p…
Barnabas explains the strange things he saw in the East wing of Collinwood. Julia explains Stokes’ theory of Parallel Ti…
Roger guards Megan; Willie knocks Roger out and destroys Megan. Barnabas again sees parallel time; Julia and William Loo…
Jeb becomes increasingly paranoid about the shadow that is following him, he and Carolyn decide to return to Collinwood.…
Jeb tells Carolyn about the shadow that has been following him. Sabrina tells Quentin that she wants to marry Chris. Jeb…
Bruno locks up Sabrina. Bruno and Nicholas plan to use Chris against Jeb. Sky offers to help Chris get Sabrina away from…
Jeb plans to hold Chris until there is a full moon. Barnabas tells Roger about the room in the East wing. Barnabas sees …
Roger saves Carolyn from Bruno, just before Chris changes. Later Bruno attempts to strangle Carolyn, however the werewol…
Roger tells Barnabas what he saw in parallel time. Julia tells Barnabas that she has given him the last treatment that s…
Jeb asks Barnabas for help. Quentin sees the bite marks on Sabrina’s neck and confronts Barnabas. Barnabas asks Angeliqu…
Jeb puts the shadow on Nicholas, it attacks and kills him. Nicholas’ ghost tells Sky that he must kill Jeb. Jeb and Caro…
Sky tries to kill Carolyn, but Jeb arrives and struggles with Sky, who pushes Jeb off of Widow's hill. Sky escapes, and …
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