I've seen through episode 1189 now, and it looks like Edith is really dead... and Desmond looks set to join her. He was shot in the heart (a nameless guard is to blame) as he and Quentin were breaking out of jail in an attempt to escape to England. But now Quentin has realized Daphne is missing, and he's gone to Collinwood to look for her.
Daphne is missing because she was looking into who killed Edith, and Gabriel didn't want to take a chance that she'd continue to think it was Gerard (whom she clocked with a candlestick), and locked her in the East Wing. Also in the east wing: Parallel Time, where Gabriel hears a secretary getting murdered by an unseen person in Collinwood. In this dimension, it seems like there's something evil about the house itself.
56 episodes to go! In episode 56 of Dark Shadows, way back when, Carolyn discovered that Bill Malloy was dead.
The Baron > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)September 4, 2025 at 6:58pm
I should also add that Gabriel pounds on the door to the PT room in the most awkward way. Probably because banging on the door like a normal human being would make the set walls shake.
I've seen through episode 1191 now. Gabriel was going to strangle Daphne (who'd escaped the room where he'd held her captive), but gets interrupted by the ghost of his dead dad, Daniel. He retreats to Collinwood, and Daniel spooks him off of a balcony, and he falls and dies.
Quentin reunites with Daphne, and at one point they flee into the Parallel Time room... and reality switches, and they're suddenly in another timeline! (Happily, Gabriel had tried fleeing this way, the theroom refused to shift, leaving him to face his fate.)
Yesterday my LCS had a box of magazines for a buck apiece. I picked up a couple Comics Journals, and an Amazing Heroes issue, among some other things. But one of them was the 2000 cataloge for Dark Shadows videos and merch!
It had VHS tapes of the entier series (and the early years) for $10 apiece, plus 4-packs for $40 (so not exactly a deal; maybe it was a better deal pre-discount). My mother-in-law used to have a closet full of VHS tapes of the entire run of MASH -- I can only imagine how much space these babies would take up! And yet for collectors at the time, I'm sure they were treasures. There are also videos of highlights of the show: Barnabas's best moments, etc.
Also included: A Dark Shadows checkbook cover! A Dark Shadows Christmas ornament -- simply a red ball with Dark Shadows and 1998 written on it in sparkles. (I feel like someone at Dark Shadows headquarters had thought, "why don't we put a date on this, and then we can sell a new one every year?" and then was left with a bunch of 1998-dated ornaments left to sell in 2000. I told Kathy if I could get my hands on one, it would definitely be going on our tree.) There was a Barnabas beach towel, a couple different Dark Shadows mugs, and more. Also, the (much cooler) replica of Barnabas's ring. And one other thing I would go for: a book of Dark Shadows sheet music.
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)September 11, 2025 at 4:11pm
I have that exact catalogue (or once did). When MPI started releasing the tapes, volume one began with episode 210 (Barnabas being released from the coffin) and went on from there. Originally, the first eight volumes featured the Barnabas pliot only, then with v9 became five full episodes per tape. Whether by accident or design, the series ran exactly 200 tapes, then they went back to the beginning for the "Collector's Series" which ran for 54 tapes and included the full episodes of the ones edited for the regular series v1-8. So, if you had CS v1-54 and DS #9-200, you had the entire series on 254 VHS tapes. And, yes, they do take up a lot of space because I still have them all (except for the "Collector's Series" which I traded to Bob for his Target Doctor Who paperback collection when I replaced the early episodes on DVD).
That ring is really cheap... I'd give you mine if I could find it. (I just looked where I thought it was and it's not there.) I eventually had one custom made (or Tracy did) by some jeweler in Greece she found on Etsy. "Josette's music box" (if that's in your particular version of the catalogue) is equally cheap, but it has a good mechanism. One day my plan is to transfer it into a real music box (instead of a plastic replica).
I've reached episode 1193, inching ever closer to a permanent shift to Parallel Time. Quentin and Daphne were shunted to PT briefly, and saw a little of the action there (including Catherine accepting Morgan's marriage proposal, perhaps due to Morgan's tight pants), but then they were thrown out of that reality when alt-Daphne entered the room.
Meanwhile, in regular 1840, Joanna and Samantha are arguing; Samantha confesses to pushing Joanna off a cliff, and then pulls out a gun and shoots her. There's no effect, and Samantha is convinced that she didn't miss -- Joanna is a ghost, she's convinced. And she's right!
There's a great, brief scene of Gerard and Samantha digging up Joanna's grave -- there's no body in the casket -- which proves... well, it's hard to say what it proves. Other than that Dark Shadows is willing to go from Zero to Grave Robbing on any day of the week now.
Back in Collinwood, Samantha finds a letter from Gerard saying he's solved the mystery of Joanna, and it's best that they meet on Widow's Hill to discuss it. But the note is a forgery, and Joanna meets her there, turning her face into a skull and frightening Samantha off the cliff. So she IS a ghost!
But with that handled, she just goes back to acting like a human -- walking everywhere, pretending to need a breath of fresh air, and encouraging her sister to run off with her ex-boyfriend.
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)September 16, 2025 at 3:57pm
I've reached episode 1193, inching ever closer to a permanent shift to Parallel Time.
And... for some reason I thought the regular 1840 storyline was ending in episode 1196. So I got to that point, wondering who would wind up traveling to Parallel Time (I really don't know, and am excited to find out)... and then watched episode 1197. And it's still not done!
But what we do get are a few first-rate soap opera scenes, and some great concluding action, too. For all the plodding and dead ends this story has gone to, I've really liked these last few episodes. Particularly:
Gerard squeezing in a forced hypnowedding to Daphne before everything comes to a head. And when he takes her upstairs and pulls the bedspread off the bed? Ugggh. Great villain action there, and a thoroughly horrible guy.
Letitica visiting Desmond in jail before his execution, and telling him she wants to marry him. He refuses, saying the courts will use it against her if she's married to a convicted warlock. But then she says "Can we just say the words?" and they do their wedding vows in the jail cell. Perfect.
Barnabas telling Angelique that he can never love her, because she's too selfish -- and the hurt Angelique feels because of it. I actually misinterpreted this scene: I thought Barnabas was goading her to restore the curse on him, so he could use vampire powers to free Quentin & Desmond. But instead, I underestimated Angelique, and she tries to voodoo murder Gerard, and later (after killing Dawson) finds JZ's head and saves the day...but not before giving away her secret.
And then the action of the execution itself! The headsman's axe! Angelique's interruption, and the evidence she presents! And then Desmond taking matters into his own hands, and killing Gerard -- culminating in the effect it has on the head, and Gerard's final apology to Quentin. It's all great. (Well, except Quentin's somewhat lame attempt at a "far, far better thing" speech.)
Even Barnabas realizing he loves Angelique (somewhat dodgy because he realized it while he was looking at a woman who only looks just like her, but that's our Barnabas: resemblance is everything) and rushing to the jail, only to find out she's been released is great!
So we're at a point where pretty much everyone has either left Collinwood (like Quentin and Daphne) or is dead. And then Trask sneaks up and fires a gun at the now-mortal Angelique, as she's held by the now-mortal Barnabas! CLIFFHANGER!
Jeff of Earth-J > Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod)September 19, 2025 at 1:24pm
...for some reason I thought the regular 1840 storyline was ending in episode 1196.
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I've seen through episode 1189 now, and it looks like Edith is really dead... and Desmond looks set to join her. He was shot in the heart (a nameless guard is to blame) as he and Quentin were breaking out of jail in an attempt to escape to England. But now Quentin has realized Daphne is missing, and he's gone to Collinwood to look for her.
Daphne is missing because she was looking into who killed Edith, and Gabriel didn't want to take a chance that she'd continue to think it was Gerard (whom she clocked with a candlestick), and locked her in the East Wing. Also in the east wing: Parallel Time, where Gabriel hears a secretary getting murdered by an unseen person in Collinwood. In this dimension, it seems like there's something evil about the house itself.
56 episodes to go! In episode 56 of Dark Shadows, way back when, Carolyn discovered that Bill Malloy was dead.
Carolyn discovered that Bill Malloy was dead.
I should also add that Gabriel pounds on the door to the PT room in the most awkward way. Probably because banging on the door like a normal human being would make the set walls shake.
I've seen through episode 1191 now. Gabriel was going to strangle Daphne (who'd escaped the room where he'd held her captive), but gets interrupted by the ghost of his dead dad, Daniel. He retreats to Collinwood, and Daniel spooks him off of a balcony, and he falls and dies.
Quentin reunites with Daphne, and at one point they flee into the Parallel Time room... and reality switches, and they're suddenly in another timeline! (Happily, Gabriel had tried fleeing this way, the theroom refused to shift, leaving him to face his fate.)
Yesterday my LCS had a box of magazines for a buck apiece. I picked up a couple Comics Journals, and an Amazing Heroes issue, among some other things. But one of them was the 2000 cataloge for Dark Shadows videos and merch!
It had VHS tapes of the entier series (and the early years) for $10 apiece, plus 4-packs for $40 (so not exactly a deal; maybe it was a better deal pre-discount). My mother-in-law used to have a closet full of VHS tapes of the entire run of MASH -- I can only imagine how much space these babies would take up! And yet for collectors at the time, I'm sure they were treasures. There are also videos of highlights of the show: Barnabas's best moments, etc.
Also included: A Dark Shadows checkbook cover! A Dark Shadows Christmas ornament -- simply a red ball with Dark Shadows and 1998 written on it in sparkles. (I feel like someone at Dark Shadows headquarters had thought, "why don't we put a date on this, and then we can sell a new one every year?" and then was left with a bunch of 1998-dated ornaments left to sell in 2000. I told Kathy if I could get my hands on one, it would definitely be going on our tree.) There was a Barnabas beach towel, a couple different Dark Shadows mugs, and more. Also, the (much cooler) replica of Barnabas's ring. And one other thing I would go for: a book of Dark Shadows sheet music.
I have that exact catalogue (or once did). When MPI started releasing the tapes, volume one began with episode 210 (Barnabas being released from the coffin) and went on from there. Originally, the first eight volumes featured the Barnabas pliot only, then with v9 became five full episodes per tape. Whether by accident or design, the series ran exactly 200 tapes, then they went back to the beginning for the "Collector's Series" which ran for 54 tapes and included the full episodes of the ones edited for the regular series v1-8. So, if you had CS v1-54 and DS #9-200, you had the entire series on 254 VHS tapes. And, yes, they do take up a lot of space because I still have them all (except for the "Collector's Series" which I traded to Bob for his Target Doctor Who paperback collection when I replaced the early episodes on DVD).
That ring is really cheap... I'd give you mine if I could find it. (I just looked where I thought it was and it's not there.) I eventually had one custom made (or Tracy did) by some jeweler in Greece she found on Etsy. "Josette's music box" (if that's in your particular version of the catalogue) is equally cheap, but it has a good mechanism. One day my plan is to transfer it into a real music box (instead of a plastic replica).
I've reached episode 1193, inching ever closer to a permanent shift to Parallel Time. Quentin and Daphne were shunted to PT briefly, and saw a little of the action there (including Catherine accepting Morgan's marriage proposal, perhaps due to Morgan's tight pants), but then they were thrown out of that reality when alt-Daphne entered the room.
Meanwhile, in regular 1840, Joanna and Samantha are arguing; Samantha confesses to pushing Joanna off a cliff, and then pulls out a gun and shoots her. There's no effect, and Samantha is convinced that she didn't miss -- Joanna is a ghost, she's convinced. And she's right!
There's a great, brief scene of Gerard and Samantha digging up Joanna's grave -- there's no body in the casket -- which proves... well, it's hard to say what it proves. Other than that Dark Shadows is willing to go from Zero to Grave Robbing on any day of the week now.
Back in Collinwood, Samantha finds a letter from Gerard saying he's solved the mystery of Joanna, and it's best that they meet on Widow's Hill to discuss it. But the note is a forgery, and Joanna meets her there, turning her face into a skull and frightening Samantha off the cliff. So she IS a ghost!
But with that handled, she just goes back to acting like a human -- walking everywhere, pretending to need a breath of fresh air, and encouraging her sister to run off with her ex-boyfriend.
I've reached episode 1193, inching ever closer to a permanent shift to Parallel Time.
You ain't kidding.
And... for some reason I thought the regular 1840 storyline was ending in episode 1196. So I got to that point, wondering who would wind up traveling to Parallel Time (I really don't know, and am excited to find out)... and then watched episode 1197. And it's still not done!
But what we do get are a few first-rate soap opera scenes, and some great concluding action, too. For all the plodding and dead ends this story has gone to, I've really liked these last few episodes. Particularly:
Gerard squeezing in a forced hypnowedding to Daphne before everything comes to a head. And when he takes her upstairs and pulls the bedspread off the bed? Ugggh. Great villain action there, and a thoroughly horrible guy.
Letitica visiting Desmond in jail before his execution, and telling him she wants to marry him. He refuses, saying the courts will use it against her if she's married to a convicted warlock. But then she says "Can we just say the words?" and they do their wedding vows in the jail cell. Perfect.
Barnabas telling Angelique that he can never love her, because she's too selfish -- and the hurt Angelique feels because of it. I actually misinterpreted this scene: I thought Barnabas was goading her to restore the curse on him, so he could use vampire powers to free Quentin & Desmond. But instead, I underestimated Angelique, and she tries to voodoo murder Gerard, and later (after killing Dawson) finds JZ's head and saves the day...but not before giving away her secret.
And then the action of the execution itself! The headsman's axe! Angelique's interruption, and the evidence she presents! And then Desmond taking matters into his own hands, and killing Gerard -- culminating in the effect it has on the head, and Gerard's final apology to Quentin. It's all great. (Well, except Quentin's somewhat lame attempt at a "far, far better thing" speech.)
Even Barnabas realizing he loves Angelique (somewhat dodgy because he realized it while he was looking at a woman who only looks just like her, but that's our Barnabas: resemblance is everything) and rushing to the jail, only to find out she's been released is great!
So we're at a point where pretty much everyone has either left Collinwood (like Quentin and Daphne) or is dead. And then Trask sneaks up and fires a gun at the now-mortal Angelique, as she's held by the now-mortal Barnabas! CLIFFHANGER!
...for some reason I thought the regular 1840 storyline was ending in episode 1196.
It transitions for good in 1198.
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