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Dark Shadows

  • TV Series
  • 1966–19711966–1971
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 30m
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8.1/10
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Dark Shadows (1966)
Dark Shadows
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The rich Collins family of Collinsport, Maine is tormented by strange occurrences.The rich Collins family of Collinsport, Maine is tormented by strange occurrences.The rich Collins family of Collinsport, Maine is tormented by strange occurrences.
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POPULARITY
1,420
198
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    • Creator
      • Dan Curtis
    • Stars
      • Jonathan Frid
      • Grayson Hall
      • Alexandra Isles
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    • Creator
      • Dan Curtis
    • Stars
      • Jonathan Frid
      • Grayson Hall
      • Alexandra Isles
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    • 65User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 nomination total

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    David Ford and Jonathan Frid in Dark Shadows (1966)
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    Jonathan Frid
    Jonathan Frid
    • Barnabas Collins…
    594 episodes594 eps • 1967–1971
    Grayson Hall
    Grayson Hall
    • Dr. Julia Hoffman…
    475 episodes475 eps • 1967–1971
    Alexandra Isles
    Alexandra Isles
    • Victoria Winters…
    424 episodes424 eps • 1966–1968
    Nancy Barrett
    Nancy Barrett
    • Carolyn Stoddard…
    402 episodes402 eps • 1966–1971
    Joan Bennett
    Joan Bennett
    • Elizabeth Collins Stoddard…
    390 episodes390 eps • 1966–1971
    Louis Edmonds
    Louis Edmonds
    • Roger Collins…
    322 episodes322 eps • 1966–1971
    David Selby
    David Selby
    • Quentin Collins…
    312 episodes312 eps • 1968–1971
    Kathryn Leigh Scott
    Kathryn Leigh Scott
    • Maggie Evans…
    309 episodes309 eps • 1966–1970
    David Henesy
    David Henesy
    • David Collins…
    277 episodes277 eps • 1966–1970
    Lara Parker
    Lara Parker
    • Angelique…
    269 episodes269 eps • 1967–1971
    Thayer David
    Thayer David
    • Ben Stokes…
    225 episodes225 eps • 1966–1971
    John Karlen
    John Karlen
    • Willie Loomis…
    179 episodes179 eps • 1967–1971
    Joel Crothers
    Joel Crothers
    • Joe Haskell…
    166 episodes166 eps • 1966–1969
    Roger Davis
    Roger Davis
    • Jeff Clark…
    128 episodes128 eps • 1968–1970
    Christopher Pennock
    Christopher Pennock
    • Gabriel Collins…
    126 episodes126 eps • 1970–1971
    Jerry Lacy
    Jerry Lacy
    • Gregory Trask…
    109 episodes109 eps • 1967–1971
    David Ford
    David Ford
    • Sam Evans…
    108 episodes108 eps • 1966–1968
    Mitchell Ryan
    Mitchell Ryan
    • Burke Devlin
    107 episodes107 eps • 1966–1967
    • Creator
      • Dan Curtis
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    • Trivia
      In an interview with writer Ron Sproat, he and fellow writer Gordon Russell had just met with the show's creator, Dan Curtis, where they were given the news that a vampire would be added to the show. After the meeting, the two writers were on an elevator and it was at that moment that they decided that Barnabas would be "a reluctant vampire" with a conscience. It was the right decision, as Barnabas saved the show from the axe. They kept him on as the lead when he was only supposed to be around for a few episodes. This incidentally made Barnabas Collins the first example of a sympathetic vampire seen on-screen.
    • Goofs
      Jeremiah Collins's headstone is misspelled "Jerimiah Collins."
    • Quotes

      Barnabas Collins: I didn't say she was dead, I said I killed her.

    • Connections
      Featured in Now and Then (1995)

    User reviews65

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    A legend never dies!
    To its fans, Dark Shadows was and remains the best fantasy television series ever produced for an American network. Its status as the best resulted from the chance interaction of a team of brilliant actors, writers, directors and producers who together made magic every afternoon at 4 pm out of what were often very unpromising materials. As the comment from a new teenaged viewer on this page shows, the show's appeal continues to draw in a new audience 30 years after its original broadcast.

    Barnabas Collins, the pivotal character of the "vulnerable vampire," has become a part of postmodern folklore. The influence of Barnabas as a character and a concept has been widely seen, from Anne Rice's vampire novels to such recent cult series as Forever Knight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The central drama of Dark Shadows--a doctor in unrequited love with her vampire patient, whom she was trying to cure--was intriguingly reprised in the Canadian series Forever Knight, with Geraint Wyn-Davies and Catherine Disher taking on the roles originally played by Jonathan Frid and Grayson Hall.

    Dark Shadows boasted perhaps the most impressive cast (in terms of sheer ability) ever assembled for an American daytime series. Actress Joan Bennett who played the matriarch provided a link with the world of film noir and Forties Gothic cinema upon which the style and mood of the series so clearly played. Jonathan Frid, Thayer David, the extraordinary Grayson Hall (probably the first instance of an Oscar nominated thesp taking a role in a soap opera), Nancy Barrett, Louis Edmonds, and John Karlen, all of whom had distinguished themselves both on and off Broadway, routinely turned in sterling performances with a minimum of rehearsal time. The show's initial realism gave way after a year or so to the "Dark Shadows school of acting"--a highly theatrical, dramatically stylised manner of putting the mood of a scene across with stunning effect. Among the newcomers who shone most strongly were Lara Parker (who enacted another variant of vindictive unrequited love as the witch Angelique), Alexandra Moltke as perennially clueless governess Victoria Winters, Don Briscoe as doomed werewolf Chris Jennings, and David Selby as roguish cousin Quentin Collins. One striking feature of the production was the use of multiple time periods and, ultimately, parallel time streams which allowed the actors to portray a wide variety of roles (Nancy Barrett and Thayer David each ended up playing some half a dozen sharply differentiated characters).

    The New York production setting favored the occasional introduction of such veteran character actors as Anita Bolster, Cavada Humphrey, Abe Vigoda, and others in cameo spots. Young actors just starting out such as Harvey Keitel, David Groh, Kate Jackson, Virginia Vestoff, and Marsha Mason found brief or steady work on the series. Vestoff did a tour de force as the ruthless Samantha Collins at the same time (1970) as she was performing nightly in the hit musical 1776.

    Derided by some, misunderstood by many, beloved by its legions of fans, Dark Shadows will never die!
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    • Release date
      • June 27, 1966 (United States)
    • Also known as
      • Shadows on the Wall
    • Filming locations
      • Seaview Terrace, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
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    • Runtime
      30 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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