Dark Shadows (1966)
1966 – 1971 · TV show · 9 seasons · 2458 episodes · 30 min
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
Written byDan Curtis
Where to watch
United States
Free
Availability: JustWatch · TMDB
In the United States, Dark Shadows is streaming on Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Tubi TV and Hoopla. It can also be rented or bought on Google Play Movies, Apple TV Store, Amazon Video and Fandango At Home. It is available in 5 countries, for example on Amazon MX Player, Amazon Prime Video Free and Hoopla. Created by Dan Curtis. Starring Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Alexandra Isles and Nancy Barrett. Rated 8.1 on IMDb from 6,094 votes.
- Streams in
- 5 countries · Amazon MX Player (3), Amazon Prime Video Free (3)
- Rank in its year
- #5 · of 26 TV shows from 1966
- Rated higher than
- 85% · of the catalogue's TV shows (Drama)
- IMDb rating
- 8.1/10 · 6,094 votes
Cast
Jonathan FridBarnabas Collins / Bramwell Collins / Opening Voiceover
Grayson HallDr. Julia Hoffman / Opening Voiceover / Magda
Alexandra IslesVictoria Winters / Opening Voiceover
Nancy BarrettCarolyn Stoddard / Opening VoiceoverEpisodes
Season 197164 episodes · 1971Episode guide →
1. DS-11814 January 1971 · 30 min<p>a very alive joanna asks the court to let her testify, and she does. the court disallows all of trasks testimony. </p>2. DS-11825 January 1971 · 30 min<p>samantha tells gerard that she knows she killed joanna, throwing her off the cliff into the sea. daphne sees joanna in the foyer of collinwood and is terrified thinking she is a ghost. </p>3. DS-11836 January 1971 · 30 min<p>gerard proposes to daphne. </p>4. DS-11847 January 1971 · 30 min<p>carrie and jeremy share a long kiss. in his jail cell, quentin tells gerard he does not trust him. </p>5. DS-11858 January 1971 · 30 min<p>carrie discovers mordecai who says quentins name just before he dies. carrie leaves jeremy when he says he hopes quentin is soon executed.</p>6. DS-118611 January 1971 · 30 min<p>the judges announce quentin is guilty and execution will be carried out in a week. edith catches gabriel actually walking and is then killed by him. daphne finds evidence that she thinks shows gerard killed edith. </p…7. DS-118712 January 1971 · 30 min<p>stokes happens on the pt room but can only observe, not enter the room. daphne discovers ediths body. daphne shows the evidence to gabriel which he then reveals to daphne is his cufflink, not gerards.</p>8. DS-118813 January 1971 · 30 min<p>gabriel takes daphne hostage in a collinwood room. he admits daphne that he killed randall and edith. joanna hears a noise behind a door and enters the room as gabriel waits to strangle her. </p>9. DS-118914 January 1971 · 30 min<p>quentin breaks out of jail, frees desmond who is then shot by the guard. </p>10. DS-119015 January 1971 · 30 min<p>daphne tries to trick gabriel into believing she is interested in him. daphne escapes her ropes and finds a secret passage.</p>11. DS-119118 January 1971 · 30 min<p>gabriel attacks daphne and the ghost of daniel comes to her rescue. quentin and daphne visit the pt room at the wrong time.</p>12. DS-119219 January 1971 · 30 min<p>samantha shoots joanna at close range but is unharmed. samantha finds a note from gerard asking her to meet him at widows hill. she is surprised there by joanna.</p>13. DS-119320 January 1971 · 30 min<p>joanna disposes of samantha, then arranges for quentin and joanna to leave town early in the morning via carriage. </p>14. DS-119421 January 1971 · 30 min<p>before quentin and daphne can escape collinsport to be married, gerard uses his powers to force daphne to marry him.</p>15. DS-119522 January 1971 · 30 min<p>quentin is captured by trask after being lured to collinwood to stop gerard from marrying gerard. valerie vows to barnabas portrait to help get rid of judah zachery. </p>16. DS-119625 January 1971 · 30 min<p>angelique uses her powers with a voodoo doll to try to kill gerard (judah). quentin puts his head on the chopping block.</p>17. DS-119726 January 1971 · 30 min<p>the executioners blade is stopped by angelique/valerie/miranda and she shows the judge the case with the head of judah zachery. </p>18. DS-119827 January 1971 · 30 min<p>barnabas is unable to profess his love for her to angelique as trask takes revenge. </p>19. DS-119928 January 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine rejects bramwells intentions upon his return after a five year absence. </p>20. DS-120029 January 1971 · 30 min<p>justin goes to the locked room and suddenly falls on the floor, dead.</p>21. DS-12011 February 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan decides to marry catherine tonight before the lottery. bramwell kidnaps and locks up catherine at the old house to prevent the marriage.</p>22. DS-12022 February 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine and bramwell seem to reconcile and are shown straightening their clothes implying passionate relations. morgan arrives and takes catherine away.</p>23. DS-12033 February 1971 · 30 min<p>a sleeping catherine is awakened in her bed by a crazed knife stabbing melanie. daphne tells catherine she should not marry into the collins family.</p>24. DS-12044 February 1971 · 30 min<p>melanie discovers a locked room where stella is being held against her will by julia and flora. </p>25. DS-12055 February 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan arranges for stellas body to be buried secretly. kendrick kisses melanie, unaware she is likely to have killed his sister, </p>26. DS-12068 February 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan slaps bramwells face with gloves calling for a duel and bramwell accepts.</p>27. DS-1207/120810 February 1971 · 30 min<p>kendrick arranges for a meeting with the psychic gerald stiles in order to try to find his his sister, stella. morgan and catherine arrive at collinwood announcing they were just married.</p>28. DS-120911 February 1971 · 30 min<p>flora reveals the imprisonment of stella and that she died and the police are on the way. quentin decides to use a seance to try to communicate with brutus collins. </p>29. DS-121012 February 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan shows his anger to catherine when he reads the letter from bramwell.</p>30. DS-121115 February 1971 · 30 min<p>with the plague happening as told in the seance, flora announces the lottery will be held tonight so a full night is spent by the person chosen beginning tomorrow night.</p>31. DS-121216 February 1971 · 30 min<p>gabriel draws the slip with the x and runs away, he is captured and locked in a room awaiting his night in the locked room of the lottery. he escapes.</p>32. DS-121317 February 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan does not agree with julia that a second lottery is needed to replace gabriel. </p>33. DS-121418 February 1971 · 30 min<p>gabriel apparently finds the courage to bravely enter the locked room. no sound is heard after he is locked in. quentin and melanie instantly recover from the plague. </p>34. DS-121519 February 1971 · 30 min<p>the next morning morgan enters the locked room and finds a dead body that is not gabriel. he has a check written to him by gabriel on the body. melanie sees the ghost of justin collins who delivers a message.</p>35. DS-121622 February 1971 · 30 min<p>melanie tells quentin that someone is outside waiting for him. kendrick gets a surprise while reading in the drawing room.</p>36. DS-121723 February 1971 · 30 min<p>gabriel stabs kendrick, burns a portrait of brutus and locks morgan in a room. daphne announces she and bramwell are going to marry.</p>37. DS-121824 February 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine and josette chastise barnabas for his intention to marry daphne. carrie does a reading for daphne of her future. </p>38. DS-121925 February 1971 · 30 min<p>this is a missing episode and is a group of still pictures and narration by lara parker. a fan recorded this episodes audio and it is used to reproduce the episode. carrie sees but does not reveal all to daphne of her…39. DS-122026 February 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine privately reveals to bramwell she is pregnant with his child. bramwell tries to convince her to run away overseas from collinsport. a new lottery is held.</p>40. DS-12211 March 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine goes to the locked room but the key does not open. morgan announces he is in the room and the locks are changed. </p>41. DS-12222 March 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan is looking around the locked room and finds a padlock on a hidden doorway. he breaks it open and enters that room. when he emerges from the locked room the next morning, he acts as if he is confused.</p>42. DS-12233 March 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan states he is not morgan. melanie continues trying to find out about her real parents. </p>43. DS-12244 March 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan discovers the skeleton of his sister sarah. morgan states he is james forsythe. </p>44. DS-12255 March 1971 · 30 min<p>the spirit of brutus appears to morgan/forsythe. kendrick reveals to catherine that he has searched for her records for the last three days and that she was never in the orphanage that had been stated to be where she …45. DS-12268 March 1971 · 30 min<p>while searching in the woods for kendrick, melanie comes across gabriel who gives her a sealed note to give to flora asking her to meet with him secretly. </p>46. DS-12279 March 1971 · 30 min<p>kendrick fights with gabriel as gabriel goes in and out of his own mind. quentin tells kendrick to leave and takes gabriel to collinwood. flora tells quentin that gabriel did not kill stella but she does not know who …47. DS-122810 March 1971 · 30 min<p>kendrick tells melanie that he wants to marry her as soon as possible. bramwell depresses daphne leaving late in the evening saying only that he is going to the village. she follows him and sees him kiss catherine.</p…48. DS-122911 March 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan/forsythe believes julia is his sister constance. he is shown choking julia with a rope in the drawing room. catherine is talked to by julia about her continuing relationship with bramwell. </p>49. DS-123012 March 1971 · 30 min<p>quentin courageously stops morgan/forsythe from killing julia. a family member deceives morgan/forsythe to enable an attempt to remove the possession of forsythe from morgan.</p>50. DS-123115 March 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan/forsythe tells julia the complete story of the curse from brutus on the collins family. brutus was skimming the profits due forsythe. brutus then kills forsythe and morgans wife, amanda.</p>51. DS-123216 March 1971 · 30 min<p>daphne shows signs of being weak and dizzy. the doctor tells julia that daphne has a terminal illness, there is no hope, and she does not have long to live. julia does not inform bramwell of the condition right away.<…52. DS-123317 March 1971 · 30 min<p>kendrick asks carrie to try to get a vision of melanies real parents. </p>53. DS-123418 March 1971 · 30 min<p>julia gruffly interrupts carries vision of melanies parents, and later threatens her if she reveals information.</p><p> </p>54. DS-123519 March 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan discovers an unconscious julia in the locked room where gabriel was being held. daphne tells bramwell that she is slipping away quickly, then falls into a coma. julia and morgan go to the locked room in the day…55. DS-123622 March 1971 · 30 min<p>morgan and julia discover the perfectly preserved bodies of james forsythe and amanda collins. the door slams and they are locked in that room with no way to open the door. gabriel attacks catherine to force her to gi…56. DS-123723 March 1971 · 30 min<p>kendrick runs in tackling gabriel preventing melanie from being murdered. morgan gives chase in the secret passages of collinwood and starts fighting gabriel.</p>57. DS-123824 March 1971 · 30 min<p>melanie meets her mother. daphne passes away. </p>58. DS-123925 March 1971 · 30 min<p>melanie and kendrick arrive at collinwood announcing they have just been married. bramwell refuses julias request to leave collinwood. the ghost of brutus causes melanie to be possessed by amandas ghost forcing the fa…59. DS-124026 March 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine nearly passes out again. kendrick demands to participate in the lottery, and is chosen. </p>60. DS-124129 March 1971 · 30 min<p>kendrick believes he can break the curse for the collins family. bramwell and catherine meet at the gazebo and discuss the baby. someone is in the bushes listening in on their conversation.</p>61. DS-124230 March 1971 · 30 min<p>after the funeral for daphne, morgan tricks bramwell and then knocks him unconscious, then locks him in the lottery room. </p>62. DS-124331 March 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine tells bramwell she will stay with him on the other side of the door. he reads the letter to her that he received from morgan. in front of the family, morgan refers to catherine as the little mother. morgan i…63. DS-12441 April 1971 · 30 min<p>catherine gets possessed by amanda while locked in the lottery room. </p>64. DS-12452 April 1971 · 30 min<p>bramwell and catherine fight for their dream of a happily ever after.</p>
