Depending on how you look at it. A tip of the deerstalker goes to the fabulous — and fabulously named — Christine “CeeCee” Chappell! Many fine answers, but this tops it for imagination and series-love. […]
Tag: Barnabas Collins
An Embarrassment of Riches: 1897 #dsxp #darkshadows
Stunts are wonderful and All-American institutions. The Dark Shadows Experiment always has had a healthy streak of stunt wrapped within it. The richness of the experience is as unforgettable as you’d expect, and that’s no […]

Curses! But not necessarily foiled. #dsxp #darkshadows
Where am I? On episode 769, I believe. (And Roger Davis is REALLY going for a Daytime Emmy on this one. Dwight Frye is subdued by comparison.) Yes, as Faithful Readers have observed, it’s been […]
They’ve probably said it before, but it’s still gold! #dsxp #darkshadows
“You can’t kill a man who’s already dead.” — Barnabas Collins, ep.662
560. Willie under pressure!
The show arguably has an edge. Barnabas and Julia have just demanded that Willie get dead bodies or be confined to a mental institution. And they’re the heroes! And welcome back, Joe Haskell! Out of the hospital!
The Victoria Winters School of Temporal Mechanics
So, the issue of why and how Vicky traveled through time is on her mind. She went back, she says in 470, “to save one person and to meet another.” The former is Daniel. By […]
Ummmmm… 463. #dsxp #darkshadows
Um, so Carolyn and Barnabas are fooling around. I forgot about that. So, ah, okay.
Ummmmm… 463. #dsxp #darkshadows
Um, so Carolyn and Barnabas are fooling around. I forgot about that. So, ah, okay.
Rosetta Stone ep 426
So Barnabas, realizing that Angelique’s curse is tied to punishing those you love, swears to never love again. Just to spite her. So who wins? It certainly explains his ruthlessness in the 1960s. The feeling […]
The writers had baggage. All the best ones do. #dsxp #darkshadows
“What’s human in me wants her to go away. But there’s not much human left.” Barnabas Collins, ep. 418 Yeah, that sums up far, far too much.