Weren’t we lucky? For five marvelous years we were scared five days a week and loved every moment of it. When my son was seven and having trouble waking up for school I found out that a particular station was showing Dark Shadows at 7:00 a.m. At first I just told him about starting to watch the show when I was his age. Within a week he got up on his own to watch the show that scared me as a kid. He was hooked after two episodes. All these years later we love watching and talking about DS. How many shows have that kind of appeal from one generation to another? I wouldn’t be surprised if my grandchildren will one day watch DS with their dad.
"There. I've signed it. I've confessed. She is innocent. I've signed my name." "Excellent. A trifle incoherent but it will suffice." "Now, may I go?" "Soon. Very soon." "Why... why not now?" "Because your final resting place is not yet ready." "No, you can't kill me! I've signed my confession!" "You confessed voluntarily. I never said I would free you. YOU WANTED VICTORIA WINTERS TO DIE IN PRISON AND SO SHALL YOU! A PRISON OF YOUR OWN MAKING!"
"Why not now?" "Because your final resting place is not yet ready." "But I've confessed! You can't kill me!" "You confessed voluntarily. I never said I would free you."
@@LordZontar That was kinda cool but ultimately Barnabas should've let Trask live. Not for the purpose of being a nice guy but if you watched all the episodes you'll remember the trial of Victoria didn't go so well because people began to question Trask's confession. And not only the corrupt ones, but some honest folks too. Trask was gone so he wasn't around to vouch for the validity of his confession.
All of the villains on "Dark Shadows" -- Angelique, Reverend Trask, Count Petofi, Nicholas Blair -- were played by performers who overflowed with presence and personality. Sometimes it was hard not to root for them, even though you knew how wicked they were.
i met lara parker several times at dark shadow festivals and what a sweet heart she was she was just as nice as she was beautiful. may the good lord rest her soul.
BCollins/JFrid really knew how to bust them, didn't he. He was the reason why I watched the show in the first place, and why I still watch the reruns, 50+ years later. Ms. L. Churchill
I remember reading Edgar Allan Poe for the first time at age 14 and pictured this scene when I saw it on Dark Shadows at an earlier age...not sure when this scene aired!!!
This episode just aired on the Decades network. Trask finally got his reward. Hell behind a wall. And I just love the music they played while Barnabas bricked him up.
And he proved to still be as vindictive 170 years later when he put Barnabas through a mock trial of his victims and sealed him up behind the same wall.
He DID deserve it but Victoria would've been better served if Barnabas let Trask live. So he'd be around to vouch for the authenticity of his confession. You'll recall the court didn't accept the confession because they thought it was forged and Trask (for obvious reasons) wasn't around to say otherwise.
Funny how Trask was more powerful as a ghost than he was in life. He overpowered Angelique to the point where Nicholas had to save her from destruction. Trask also frightened Nicholas away by raising a cross to him. There were not too many people who could say they defeated Angelique and Nicholas in one on one confrontations!
my favorite scene from the series. The actor who played Trask (forget his name) did a great job making the audience hate his guts. You can't wait till this asshole gets what's coming to him. Great stuff.
Last time that I saw this episode was the first time it aired way back in March of 1968...when I was 14 years old. And now 52 years later I have just seen it for the 2nd time. About time.
I love the Collins' shared passion for "walls" if they weren't building secret rooms behind them they were sealing people up in them (Barnabas and Judith) isn't it a shame they didn't have open floor plans back then although I would love that type of house in this century. lol
Jonathan Frid could really growl, couldn't he? All the actors in Dark Shadows were wonderful! I absolutely enjoyed watching this scene! Trask was a nasty character, and Barnabas was sick of him persecuting innocent Victoria Winters, so he walled him up! What a deserved fate! ~Janet in Canada
Inspired by the Edgar Allen Poe short story "The Cask of Amontillado ". In it, the narrator has been somehow wronged by a man named Fortunato, who is a wine connoisseur, so he lures Fortunato into a wine cellar with a promise of a very rare vintage of Amontillado. Once there, he imprisons him in much the same manner as Barnabas does to Trask here. Poe at his finest!
now it's already a Robert Cobert's last as an everlasting soundtrack background composition music as an aaaaaaah, ah-ah, telling us that that's the end of that Trash.
Barnabas Collins had enough power to do all of that, causing, sumoning Trask to go the old house, especially that is, to cause him to have all these horrible nightmares about it, then causing all the living dead ghost to lead him by sumoning him into the old house and until finally, Trask was lead into the basement.
I wonder how this would work on Pat Robertson. You know, there aren't any Barnabas Collinses walking the earth. But we have far too many Reverend Traskes!
It would have been great on “The Sopranos” if we could have seen Carmella and her friends watching “Dark Shadows” on the Sopranos’ state-of-the-art tv system at their expensive house or Tony and the boys watching DS in the back room of Satriale’s Meat Store in beautiful Kearny, NJ.
What I found laughable was the way Rev. Trask was subjected to "accepting an offer he couldn't refuse"-- from Lt. Forbes, in regards to Maude Browning. What goes around-- comes around...
If the Rev. Trask grew a pencil-thin moustache, he’d look just like tv pitchman Art Fern from the Tea Time Movie Skit on “The Tonight Show,”starring the late, great Johnny Carson. The Rev. Trask and Art Fern already sound alike, with that same high-pitched voice.
Dark Shadows had the best villains. Really evil people with developed characters. But Jerry Lacy's Trask is the stuff of Hall of Fame. He never got the recognition he deserved outside of DS fans. And as others have said, this is the best moment in DS history!
@@harperstacey9604 Actress Diana Davila, who portrayed Juiianka, the grandiloquent gypsy during the 1887 stotyline on DS, also appeared in that same Woody Allen film, “Play It Again, Sam.” Woody Allen sees her in a SF museum and boldly asks her for a date on Saturday night. Diana replies, “I can’t I’m committing suicide on Saturday night.” To which the desperate Woody Allen counters with, “ Well then, how about Friday night instead?”
Trask was a Cruel man and didn't care if he was hurting people but he turned scared when his fate was seal.....typical of all bad guys in their mind it's ok to hurt others but when done to them they suddenly think it's wrong.
Barnabas Collins was no one to play with, was he? Trask? Well, he's just kinda tied up... and well-hidden behind a wall. No one will ever have any more trouble out of him ever again!
@@harperstacey9604 Those that falsely accuse someone of a crime that they did not commit, have their punishment coming. Trask and his co-hort found that out-The hard way!
Barnabas Collins, Vampire w/expert Masonry skills, perhap a power Angelique gave him in her curse we shall never know, somehow call Lara Parker and ask her plz?
What an idiot he was! A disembodied voice calls to him and he follows it. A beating heart is heard in the background (Shades of Willie Loomis!) and he continues in the direction the voice leads.
As Jerry Lacy said, this version of Trask was "genuine," meaning he really believed that was he was doing was right. He wanted to fight the devil. The other Trasks were more corrupt.
I appreciate your posting such an extensive version of this clip :) On a side note: What the hell?! Trask fits the stereotypical vampire paradigm more than Barnabas- He looks like Christopher Lee as Count Dracula!
Barnabas was originally written to be the villain, but the writers weren't expecting the audience to like him so much so they made him evolve into more of a hero.
Have to admit, Jerry Lacy was actually pretty damn creepy as Trask. He should have been a Hammer Studio regular. His pious reverend character would have fit perfectly in those films! Funny, in this classic footage, a scared Trask sounds a bit like a scared Willie Loomis! 🇵🇷🇺🇸😊
I HATED TRASK I KNEW IT WAS JUST A TV SHOW BUT I ALWAYS THOUGHT IF SOMEONE WAS A WITCH HOW COME THEY JUST DIDN'T USE THEIR POWERS TO GET RID OF YOU RON STEPHENS
there was the time Abigail had a heart attack after discovering Barnabas (Abigail! What are you doing here?"), and then he killed Nathan Forbes. The 1795 storyline was awesome.
Love Dark Shadows very much but, the writers did have a nasty habit of turning the tables back around in a very unsatisfactory manner. Barnabas seals Trask in this wall, Trask will seal Barnabas in a wall while reminding Barnabas of how he had done so. Barnabas had great reasons for what he did to Trask. It wasn't only Victoria Winters, but also for all the others Trask had condemned. So, of course the writing team thought it was neato for Trask to get revenge against Barnabas ?. Scenarios like that riddled this series unfortunately.
@@ronnyeoff407 bert convy was the host of super password and tattletales. I agree with you. Bert convy would not be good in the role of Barnabas. Just as we're texting, I am looking at a rerun of dark shadows right now. I love dark shadows. I hated Reverend Trask and Nathan Forbes.
@@harperstacey9604 Bert Convy was one of the actors being considered for the role but his background was in musical theater whereas Frid's background was as a classically trained serious actor or more serious. Photographs and resumes of both Frid and Convy were sent to Dan Curtis who was overseas at the time. Curtis preferred Frid's training, background, and Curtis said that Frid had that villainous look he wanted for his, then temporary role as the, vampire. Curtis did not know at the time that Frid happened to have been Gay. Curtis was Homophobic who had originally wanted to fire DS orig actor Louis Edmonds when he found out that Edmonds happened to have been Gay. The writers talked him out of it. I truly can not not imagine the show without either Edmonds nor Frid. Convy certainly could not have pulled off being the villain , he was too charming. This information all comes from the Official Dark Shadows Facebook grp and from DS writer Joe Caldwell .
@@ronnyeoff407 Back then at the time, Bert Convy was a known stage musical actor and was in the original play and cast album for Fiddler on the Roof among other plays but he did not have the serious classical training that Jonathan Frid had nor that villainous look that Curtis said he wanted. Convy was the second runner up for the part of Barnabas. He certainly would not have been able to pull it off imo.
The Rev. Gregory Trask was much worse than his 18th century ancestor. At least, the original Rev. Trask was able to control his carnal desires unlike the satyric-like Gregory.
@@kensellers4082 And what Judith does to Gregory is worse: not only walling him up in a room in the East Wing but also rigging up a private telephone line so she can call and taunt him. "You always said, Gregory, that you wanted to spend the rest of your life in this house. Well now that is possible. I have arranged it."
@@LordZontar I thought it was condign punishment for the truly loathsome “Rev.” Gregory Trask. Although, I found it hard to believe that such a cynical and miserly person as Judith Trask would fall for a shyster like Gregory Trask in the first place.
@@kensellers4082 From what I read off the Dark Shadows wiki, Judith married Gregory Trask out of gratitude for exorcising Quentin's spirit from young Jameson. Of course, Gregory didn't bother telling Judith he'd murdered his first wife and then of course had her clapped up in the madhouse after summoning Minerva's ghost to drive her insane. Four months later, though, Judith got out with the help of Evan Hanley the family lawyer who had at first helped Gregory but then switched sides, presumably through blackmail. The tipping point was when Gregory had proposed to another rich widow while Judith was in the bin who subsequently committed suicide when she found out Judith was alive. That's when she and Tim Shaw took a very quick brick masonry home study course and of course made Gregory's fate the central part of their study project.
@@LordZontar Yes, Master Carpenter Norm Abram and the guys on “This Old House” would be very impressed by the great job Judith and Tim did on Gregory Trask’s “final” room. Although, many DS fans were disappointed after spending about nine months watching all of the events at 1897 Collinwood, the writers just abruptly ended the storyline. We never got to find out what happened to Magda, Judith, Edward, Charity/Pansy and Tim Shaw..
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great show I am still addicted to this show after more than 50 years
It comes on ....Movies! channel (5.5)..mon-fri 12am....ny
My grandmother use to love DarkShadows, watched it religiously tho she ain't know a lick of English...
Same. I can't get enough of it.
I am to
So àm I absolutely love this show
They all were such great actors. No one in the Dark Shadows cast can never ever be replaced. Period.
What I would give to have been on set watching them all....
Incredible tv for the time. I was in elementary school we would all rush home to watch. Rip all who have left us from the best soap ever.
Weren’t we lucky? For five marvelous years we were scared five days a week and loved every moment of it. When my son was seven and having trouble waking up for school I found out that a particular station was showing Dark Shadows at 7:00 a.m. At first I just told him about starting to watch the show when I was his age. Within a week he got up on his own to watch the show that scared me as a kid. He was hooked after two episodes. All these years later we love watching and talking about DS. How many shows have that kind of appeal from one generation to another? I wouldn’t be surprised if my grandchildren will one day watch DS with their dad.
"There. I've signed it. I've confessed. She is innocent. I've signed my name."
"Excellent. A trifle incoherent but it will suffice."
"Now, may I go?"
"Soon. Very soon."
"Why... why not now?"
"Because your final resting place is not yet ready."
"No, you can't kill me! I've signed my confession!"
"You confessed voluntarily. I never said I would free you. YOU WANTED VICTORIA WINTERS TO DIE IN PRISON AND SO SHALL YOU! A PRISON OF YOUR OWN MAKING!"
R.i.P.
Jonathan Frid.
I will always remember you as The Vampire Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows.
And the One and Only.
But one day I found out Johnathan was gay. So heartbreaking.
@@QuartzDiamond86Many of the male Dark Shadows actors were gay. Maybe half. Society accepts this now, so try not to be upset.
Yes.
So what?
I was not aware of it as a child and not surprised as an adult.
Love him.
And Roger. Haha.
This was the most memorable scene for me from that series. I've forgotten most everything else about it but I never forgot this.
The perfect representation of KARMA .
The whole ...vampire curse ....storyline is gold....this scene is even more historic✌️🖖🏃🏃
Ha! It seemed such a long time coming. I had more patience back in the 60s. Great to see it again . . good to the last brick!
Like Maxwell House Coffee!🙏🤣🤣
You could say that Trask is now a prisoner of his own.."dark shadows"? Lol!
The first time Barnabas went after somebody who really, really had it coming. There would be others! All of them were fun!
Nathan Forbes was another character that wasn't very nice.
This is my favorite episode
Jason McGuire was probably Barnabas’s first victim on the show who deserved it. Though Jason came to Barnabas, not the other way around.
Trask : "Now May I Go?". Barnabas: "Soon, Very Soon". Gotta love it!
"Why not now?"
"Because your final resting place is not yet ready."
"But I've confessed! You can't kill me!"
"You confessed voluntarily. I never said I would free you."
@@LordZontar That was kinda cool but ultimately Barnabas should've let Trask live. Not for the purpose of being a nice guy but if you watched all the episodes you'll remember the trial of Victoria didn't go so well because people began to question Trask's confession. And not only the corrupt ones, but some honest folks too. Trask was gone so he wasn't around to vouch for the validity of his confession.
@@stephaniegormley9982 barnabas couldn't let him go because he knew that he was still alive and was probably super natural
This scene never gets old. It's legendary.
My favorite scene! I love the interaction between Barnabas and Trask, who is shocked beyond belief. A richly deserved reward indeed!
All of the villains on "Dark Shadows" -- Angelique, Reverend Trask, Count Petofi, Nicholas Blair -- were played by performers who overflowed with presence and personality. Sometimes it was hard not to root for them, even though you knew how wicked they were.
Even as a kid, on some level, I always thought Angelique was hot.
i met lara parker several times at dark shadow festivals and what a sweet heart she was she was just as nice as she was beautiful. may the good lord rest her soul.
The best ten minutes in all of Dark Shadows.
BCollins/JFrid really knew how to bust them, didn't he. He was the reason why I watched the show in the first place, and why I still watch the reruns, 50+ years later.
Ms. L. Churchill
Howtallistraskfromdarkshadows
How gratifying. I remember watching the first time as a kid and being thrilled - he certainly had it coming.
Watching Dark Shadows is part of my daily routine. The show presents vivid drama that doesn't age, like a vampire.
So satisfying to see this wicked man finally getting the justice he deserves!
I remember reading Edgar Allan Poe for the first time at age 14 and pictured this scene when I saw it on Dark Shadows at an earlier age...not sure when this scene aired!!!
The Trask of Amontillado.
ho, ho ho!! so true! the telltale heart, perhaps??
This episode just aired on the Decades network. Trask finally got his reward. Hell behind a wall. And I just love the music they played while Barnabas bricked him up.
Actor Jerry Lacy who played Reverend Trask, played humphrey bogart in a movie. He did a great imitation of him.
Rev. Trask’s descendant, mortician Lamar Trask, returned the walked-up “favor” to Barnabas in 1840.
A most memorable and Good scene of Jonathan playing the Villain and getting revenge on Trask.
BEN LEONARD Trask's reaction at 3:40 was perfect. This entire scene is wonderful !!
Quite agreed with you Holly.Trask was Terrified and Suprise seeing Barnabas.
Wow, still a damn good scene after 53 years.
And he proved to still be as vindictive 170 years later when he put Barnabas through a mock trial of his victims and sealed him up behind the same wall.
Another GREAT scene! Haven't seen that one in many years.
Jerry Lacy is wonderful as Trask! A great character!
Jerry Lacy is married to actress Julia Duffy who played on the TV show, newhart.
Made a pretty good Bogart too, in "Play it again, Sam".
That was so satisfying to watch when I first saw it. Still is!
I so agree!
Barnabas Collins 😂😂😂 classic
Definitely it has been a real piece of Tv masterpiece ever...Dark Shadows .
Looking back, I realize I was a Barnabas groupie before groupies even existed 😍
Love this scene never did a character deserve it more.
He DID deserve it but Victoria would've been better served if Barnabas let Trask live. So he'd be around to vouch for the authenticity of his confession. You'll recall the court didn't accept the confession because they thought it was forged and Trask (for obvious reasons) wasn't around to say otherwise.
use to come home at 330 and dark shadows and turn it on and me and my mom would watch it , what a good time period 1968
Best Soap Opera Series ever made
If only Trask had gone after Angelique. He does later. Funny! On that occasion you root for Trask against the evil Nicolas Blair.
Funny how Trask was more powerful as a ghost than he was in life. He overpowered Angelique to the point where Nicholas had to save her from destruction. Trask also frightened Nicholas away by raising a cross to him. There were not too many people who could say they defeated Angelique and Nicholas in one on one confrontations!
+atlantic1119 In death he also seemed to show compassion. Julia seemed to be able to reason with vampires, ghosts, demons and witches.
+@Sue Taft I can,t believe it.
If only Trump had gone after Hillary.
I like when Nicolas Blair tells the ghost 👻 of Trask that, all along he had been doing "their work".
Another brick in the wall!
That song should have been playing in the background when Trask was being bricked up.
I knew it!!! Barnabas was a freemason, that explains the family's wealth.....🤣🤣🤣
I LOVED TRASK GETTING HIS JUST DESSERTS I USED TO RUN HOME FROM SCHOOL EVERYDAY TO SEE DARK SHADOWS WHEN I WAS IN 6TH GRADE RON STEPHENS
I remember running home from school in junior high to watch this Victorian Camp at it’s best❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍
my favorite scene from the series. The actor who played Trask (forget his name) did a great job making the audience hate his guts. You can't wait till this asshole gets what's coming to him. Great stuff.
Jerry Lacy was the actor. One of the best villains on DS.
His name is Jerry Lacy. And he does a great job being Trask. The guy we love to hate.
The sign of a great actor
That female ghost calling of her voice sounds more evil, creepier and more scarier than Angelique.
Old trashy trask
Best Soap Opera ever .even if i was not able to watch it in the first run .
Yes! Best soap!!
OMG... One of my favorite scenes, other than when Barnabas kills Lt Forbes. LOL. 🧛🧛🧛
Lt. Forbes was going to kill little Daniel for the inheritance.
Last time that I saw this episode was the first time it aired way back in March of 1968...when I was 14 years old. And now 52 years later I have just seen it for the 2nd time. About time.
I remember that day. I was 10. My father was home, cleaning the kitchen floor. He was not a fan but he watched this scene and loved it.
I was just a baby when dark shadows premiered. I look at it now in reruns and I am hooked.
My Mom loved Jerry Lacy too!! He was on As The World Turns at one time and I said,"Hey, that's Rev.Trask"!!!! We thought he was great.
He was said to be the spitting image of Humphrey Bogart. Even played Bogie in a play during the run of Dark Shadows.
Love the string pulling the book open!
Also loved when u could see the string on the bat in other episodes 😀
In the 90's revival, Ben helps brick him up. But Barnabas puts in the last brick. "Goodbye, "Reverend".
Loved both! >home for 4:00 in the "60's.
Only it was Ben Loomis, Willie's ancestor, and Trask was played by the actor who played Roger Collins.
Barnabas had more enjoyment in killing Trask than any other character in the entire series.
I loved Jerry Lacey, as Lamar Trask. He was as amusing, as he was a charlatan. Then he got bricked into the cellar walls. Priceless!👍🏽👏🏾👏🏾
I love the Collins' shared passion for "walls" if they weren't building secret rooms behind them they were sealing people up in them (Barnabas and Judith) isn't it a shame they didn't have open floor plans back then although I would love that type of house in this century. lol
I always had an affection for the Old House.
Jonathan Frid could really growl, couldn't he? All the actors in Dark Shadows were wonderful! I absolutely enjoyed watching this scene! Trask was a nasty character, and Barnabas was sick of him persecuting innocent Victoria Winters, so he walled him up! What a deserved fate! ~Janet in Canada
May I Go? Soon, very soon. Loved that!
This was when I started watching this show back in the day, then every day after school.
Always awesome to see a Trask get his just reward lol
Yes Trask I would say dreaming of Abigail would effect your imagination
Still one of my favorite scenes. I find it funny too.
That ghostly voice, as sent by Barnabas Collins in summoning Trask to the old house basement, sounds evil and very immoral.
The parallel time episodes would have been more fun if Victoria winters was a vampire
best moment in dark shadows history
I agree. I also liked the one in which Barnabas killed Forbes, especially the part in which Forbes was waiting for him with a crossbow.
larry falter Yes, in top 5. My favorite scene is when Abigal finds Barnabas raising out of his coffin and then her eventually death from fright.
Inspired by the Edgar Allen Poe short story "The Cask of Amontillado ". In it, the narrator has been somehow wronged by a man named Fortunato, who is a wine connoisseur, so he lures Fortunato into a wine cellar with a promise of a very rare vintage of Amontillado. Once there, he imprisons him in much the same manner as Barnabas does to Trask here. Poe at his finest!
Many of DS's storylines and climaxes were taken from the great horror writers of long ago Poe, Lovecraft, etc etc
now it's already a Robert Cobert's last as an everlasting soundtrack background composition music as an aaaaaaah, ah-ah, telling us that that's the end of that Trash.
This was so creepy and I did not discover Dark Shadows until 1977. Best soap opera ever.
Barnabas Collins had enough power to do all of that, causing, sumoning Trask to go the old house, especially that is, to cause him to have all these horrible nightmares about it, then causing all the living dead ghost to lead him by sumoning him into the old house and until finally, Trask was lead into the basement.
And got buried like the trash he was
My all time favorite episode!
And all it all, he deserves to be plaster because of as of the same category, as in fact, is because he deserves to be call trash, not the Rev. Trask.
I just love this show as long as it on I will always watch it
Barnabas Collins, the original "plaster caster"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Them night classes in bricklaying paid off!LOL!
Love seeing these two top notch actors going full tilt. They probably had fun doing it.
And Barnabas a good bricklayer in the bargain!
I very clearly remember watching this scene when it was first aired!!
Such a great moment in Dark Shadows history. 🤗💯👍
To be able to 'Barnabize' the Vivisectors and Poachers et al. would be paradise.
Trask had it comming deserved it all the way.
He was just misunderstood. All he wanted was power and was willing to sacrifice an innocent for that purpose. Was that so bad?
Unfortunately a lot of witch hunters like him were like this
Comming = C-O-M-I-N-G-
@@marlanaedwards5296 it doesn't matter how i spelled it everyone knew what I meant.
Damn right he did!!!!
I wonder how this would work on Pat Robertson.
You know, there aren't any Barnabas Collinses walking the earth. But we have far too many Reverend Traskes!
Ain't it the truth! The same goes for scumbags like Lt. Forbes as well.
eternal darkness
The way Barnabus Collins went after Reverend Trask-- always reminded me of the way Tony Soprano would punish those who got outta line.😈😈😈😈
Barnabas Collins also went after Nathan Forbes.
It would have been great on “The Sopranos” if we could have seen Carmella and her friends watching “Dark Shadows” on the Sopranos’ state-of-the-art tv system at their expensive house or Tony and the boys watching DS in the back room of Satriale’s Meat Store in beautiful Kearny, NJ.
What I found laughable was the way Rev. Trask was subjected to "accepting an offer he couldn't refuse"-- from Lt. Forbes, in regards to Maude Browning. What goes around-- comes around...
If the Rev. Trask grew a pencil-thin moustache, he’d look just like tv pitchman Art Fern from the Tea Time Movie Skit on “The Tonight Show,”starring the late, great Johnny Carson.
The Rev. Trask and Art Fern already sound alike, with that same high-pitched voice.
Dark Shadows had the best villains. Really evil people with developed characters. But Jerry Lacy's Trask is the stuff of Hall of Fame. He never got the recognition he deserved outside of DS fans. And as others have said, this is the best moment in DS history!
Jerry Lacy played humphrey bogart in a Woody Allen movie, called play it again, Sam.
@@harperstacey9604
Actress Diana Davila, who portrayed Juiianka, the grandiloquent gypsy during the 1887 stotyline on DS, also appeared in that same Woody Allen film, “Play It Again, Sam.”
Woody Allen sees her in a SF museum and boldly asks her for a date on Saturday night.
Diana replies, “I can’t I’m committing suicide on Saturday night.”
To which the desperate Woody Allen counters with, “ Well then, how about Friday night instead?”
I watched it from the beggining and bought the whole series
Imagine having him chase you around
Love the dialogue, so dramatic!!!
Trask was a Cruel man and didn't care if he was hurting people but he turned scared when his fate was seal.....typical of all bad guys in their mind it's ok to hurt others but when done to them they suddenly think it's wrong.
I admit
Back in the 60s,... This was Horrifing
there was a LOT of violence on this show...strangulations...stabbings, shootings. All things we love.
That was terrifying.
Hmmm, an ideal ending for a megalomaniac who abuses his power for selfish purposes without a thought for others. A lesson for our time
One of the most satisfying moments of Dark Shadows--especially when there are so many like him running around the country unwalled up!
Barnabas Collins was no one to play with, was he? Trask? Well, he's just kinda tied up... and well-hidden behind a wall. No one will ever have any more trouble out of him ever again!
Barnabas also got rid of Nathan Forbes.
@@harperstacey9604 Those that falsely accuse someone of a crime that they did not commit, have their punishment coming. Trask and his co-hort found that out-The hard way!
Barnabas Collins, Vampire w/expert Masonry skills, perhap a power Angelique gave him in her curse we shall never know, somehow call Lara Parker and ask her plz?
Perhaps it was one of the powers gained when the warlock in Barbados taught him the Secret Magic Number of the Universe.
Now in Trask by labeling Victoria Winters as a witch, is no longer valid.
Barnabas took out the trash.....
ONE OF THE BEST EPISODES EVER!
This is my favorite scene
Trask found out what Hell is.
Boy. Barnabas must have been in love with Victoria. He was so getting on Trask.
Traaask ! Traaask! Traaask!
The female ghost scared the heck out of Trask.
What an idiot he was! A disembodied voice calls to him and he follows it. A beating heart is heard in the background (Shades of Willie Loomis!) and he continues in the direction the voice leads.
As Jerry Lacy said, this version of Trask was "genuine," meaning he really believed that was he was doing was right. He wanted to fight the devil. The other Trasks were more corrupt.
Writers for this episode were influenced by Poe'S Telltale Heart
I appreciate your posting such an extensive version of this clip :)
On a side note:
What the hell?! Trask fits the stereotypical vampire paradigm more than Barnabas- He looks like Christopher Lee as Count Dracula!
Barnabas was originally written to be the villain, but the writers weren't expecting the audience to like him so much so they made him evolve into more of a hero.
Isobel Duncan Jonathan Frid plays a wonderful villainous vampire. Very forceful and frightening
Have to admit, Jerry Lacy was actually pretty damn creepy as Trask. He should have been a Hammer Studio regular. His pious reverend character would have fit perfectly in those films! Funny, in this classic footage, a scared Trask sounds a bit like a scared Willie Loomis! 🇵🇷🇺🇸😊
@@isobelduncan He was the villain in "House of Dark Shadows."
I HATED TRASK I KNEW IT WAS JUST A TV SHOW BUT I ALWAYS THOUGHT IF SOMEONE WAS A WITCH HOW COME THEY JUST DIDN'T USE THEIR POWERS TO GET RID OF YOU RON STEPHENS
So what if Victoria was a witch. It was definitely none of Trask's business.
Seems to have been Barnabas' most powerful moment! What other scene compares? Seems to me, he (at times) outpowered Angelique!
there was the time Abigail had a heart attack after discovering Barnabas (Abigail! What are you doing here?"), and then he killed Nathan Forbes. The 1795 storyline was awesome.
‘Barnabas is a living dead’ vampire, ‘thy victim of thee witch’. He must seek ‘help from thee witches of Salem’
thts wut u get...
Love Dark Shadows very much but, the writers did have a nasty habit of turning the tables back around in a very unsatisfactory manner. Barnabas seals Trask in this wall, Trask will seal Barnabas in a wall while reminding Barnabas of how he had done so. Barnabas had great reasons for what he did to Trask. It wasn't only Victoria Winters, but also for all the others Trask had condemned. So, of course the writing team thought it was neato for Trask to get revenge against Barnabas ?. Scenarios like that riddled this series unfortunately.
There was on one Barnabas COLLINS...JONATHAN Frid....he was awesome...🙌❤️❤️❤️
It was rumored that game show bert cony convy was supposed to play Barnabas Collins, but he had other commitments.
@@harperstacey9604 wasn’t Bert Convey a game show host? Lol...well I’m so glad he had other obligations..🤪
@@ronnyeoff407 bert convy was the host of super password and tattletales. I agree with you. Bert convy would not be good in the role of Barnabas. Just as we're texting, I am looking at a rerun of dark shadows right now. I love dark shadows. I hated Reverend Trask and Nathan Forbes.
@@harperstacey9604 Bert Convy was one of the actors being considered for the role but his background was in musical theater whereas Frid's background was as a classically trained serious actor or more serious. Photographs and resumes of both Frid and Convy were sent to Dan Curtis who was overseas at the time. Curtis preferred Frid's training, background, and Curtis said that Frid had that villainous look he wanted for his, then temporary role as the, vampire. Curtis did not know at the time that Frid happened to have been Gay. Curtis was Homophobic who had originally wanted to fire DS orig actor Louis Edmonds when he found out that Edmonds happened to have been Gay. The writers talked him out of it. I truly can not not imagine the show without either Edmonds nor Frid. Convy certainly could not have pulled off being the villain , he was too charming. This information all comes from the Official Dark Shadows Facebook grp and from DS writer Joe Caldwell .
@@ronnyeoff407 Back then at the time, Bert Convy was a known stage musical actor and was in the original play and cast album for Fiddler on the Roof among other plays but he did not have the serious classical training that Jonathan Frid had nor that villainous look that Curtis said he wanted. Convy was the second runner up for the part of Barnabas. He certainly would not have been able to pull it off imo.
Trask earned his fate more than any other character on the show.
The Rev. Gregory Trask was much worse than his 18th century ancestor. At least, the original Rev. Trask was able to control his carnal desires unlike the satyric-like Gregory.
@@kensellers4082 And what Judith does to Gregory is worse: not only walling him up in a room in the East Wing but also rigging up a private telephone line so she can call and taunt him. "You always said, Gregory, that you wanted to spend the rest of your life in this house. Well now that is possible. I have arranged it."
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I thought it was condign punishment for the truly loathsome “Rev.” Gregory Trask.
Although, I found it hard to believe that such a cynical and miserly person as Judith Trask would fall for a shyster like Gregory Trask in the first place.
@@kensellers4082 From what I read off the Dark Shadows wiki, Judith married Gregory Trask out of gratitude for exorcising Quentin's spirit from young Jameson. Of course, Gregory didn't bother telling Judith he'd murdered his first wife and then of course had her clapped up in the madhouse after summoning Minerva's ghost to drive her insane. Four months later, though, Judith got out with the help of Evan Hanley the family lawyer who had at first helped Gregory but then switched sides, presumably through blackmail. The tipping point was when Gregory had proposed to another rich widow while Judith was in the bin who subsequently committed suicide when she found out Judith was alive. That's when she and Tim Shaw took a very quick brick masonry home study course and of course made Gregory's fate the central part of their study project.
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Yes, Master Carpenter Norm Abram and the guys on “This Old House” would be very impressed by the great job Judith and Tim did on Gregory Trask’s “final” room.
Although, many DS fans were disappointed after spending about nine months watching all of the events at 1897 Collinwood, the writers just abruptly ended the storyline. We never got to find out what happened to Magda, Judith, Edward, Charity/Pansy and Tim Shaw..