Dark Shadows (TV Series) Episode #1.45 (1966) User Reviews

Malloy seeks justice, but as a price!

[mark.waltz · 6/10 · 29 October 2019]

Leave everybody but Roger Collins alone!

What is Bill up to? He's obviously got a grudge of some sort against the uppity Roger, but will he live to regret it? As he meets with Burke Devlin, Bill expresses the desire to completely clear Burke, but Burke must then promise to leave the rest of the family alone. But Bill storms into Roger's office at the cannery while Roger is having a friendly visit with his "kitten" niece, Carolyn. Bill is adamant about speaking to Roger about the past, but their conversation is very vague. This puts some weakness in the impact of the episode as it doesn't really resolve anything or create a believable twist.

"We'll See Who's Insane"

[wes-connors · 4/10 · 27 August 2011]

Recapping yesterday's episode, Malloy (Frank Schofield) is at the Blue Whale, waiting to confront Roger with the fact that he believes Roger, not Burke, was behind the wheel for the fatal 1956 car accident. Burke (Mitchell Ryan) enters. Malloy hints he may be able to prove Burke was innocent of the manslaughter charge which sent him to prison, but he wants Burke to leave Liz and the Collins family alone. In his office on the waterfront, Roger (Louis Edmonds) is playing darts when Carolyn (Nancy Barrett) arrives for a visit. She leaves when Malloy enters. He lets Roger know Sam drunkenly confessed, "I am the only thing that stands between Roger Collins and a prison sentence..."

Carolyn reads from a Collins family history book, "Jeremiah Collins, sixth generation descendant of the founder of Collinsport, in 1830 married Josette La Freniere of Paris, France. The construction of Collinwood, the family mansion, was begun that same year." That can be squeezed in to a couple of places in the Collins family tree, but obviously not with the Jeremiah who lived in the latter 1700s. And Collinwood was built in 1795 in this timeline. Of course, in Parallel Time, it was different...

The name "Hanley" is mentioned as a worker in the Collins' marketing department; he could be descended from the 1700s judge and/or the 1800s lawyer and devil-worshiper Evan Hanley...

Keep your eye on the fountain pen...

**** Dark Shadows 1966 ABC #45 (8/26/66) Lela Swift ~ Frank Schofield, Mitchell Ryan, Louis Edmonds, Nancy Barrett...

Staid

[Leofwine_draca · 5/10 · 10 April 2018]

Episode 45 is another talk-based one that further develops some of the back story between Roger and Burke. In something of an anticlimax, it's revealed that Roger was behind the wheel when the accident happened, the accident that Burke spent a decade in jail for. Meanwhile, Carolyn does some local history research and discovers a few old facts. It's pretty staid.